Topic: BACK TO WORK (Read 12227 times)

JMK · « **Reply #90 on:** May 26, 2009, 11:30:37 AM »

Quote from: bk on May 26, 2009, 11:10:24 AM

The good part of Finale, and why I now insist this stuff be done in the computer, is the ease of changing the keys without having to recopy everything by hand.

Well I use software, just not Finale.

I use Finale when my clients absolutely insist on it, but I just find it a very tiresome program. Just my two cents.

JMK · « **Reply #91 on:** May 26, 2009, 11:31:27 AM »

Larry, it's the Covent Garden performance with Alina Cojocaru. I pretty much agree with your assessment.

DAW · « **Reply #92 on:** May 26, 2009, 11:33:52 AM »

Quote from: JMK on May 26, 2009, 11:31:27 AM

it's the Covent Garden performance with Alina Cojocaru.

I prefer the 1953 bootleg with Ethel Merman.

DAW · « **Reply #93 on:** May 26, 2009, 11:35:11 AM »

And thanks for all the DRs for the marriage support!

I am filled with mixed emotions today. $:-\$

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #94 on:** May 26, 2009, 11:36:46 AM »

Quote from: JMK on May 26, 2009, 11:30:37 AM

Quote from: bk on May 26, 2009, 11:10:24 AM
The good part of Finale, and why I now insist this stuff be done in the computer, is the ease of changing the keys without having to recopy everything by hand.

Well I use software, just not Finale. I use Finale when my clients absolutely insist on it, but I just find it a very tiresome program. Just my two cents.

DR JMK - I'm pretty sure we've discussed this before, but...

Which program(s) do you use? Sibelius? Encore?

JMK · « **Reply #95 on:** May 26, 2009, 11:37:20 AM »

Quote from: DAW on May 26, 2009, 11:33:52 AM

Quote from: JMK on May 26, 2009, 11:31:27 AM
it's the Covent Garden performance with Alina Cojocaru.

I prefer the 1953 bootleg with Ethel Merman.

...as Count Albrecht.

JMK · « **Reply #96 on:** May 26, 2009, 11:37:50 AM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on May 26, 2009, 11:36:46 AM

Quote from: JMK on May 26, 2009, 11:30:37 AM
Quote from: bk on May 26, 2009, 11:10:24 AM
The good part of Finale, and why I now insist this stuff be done in the computer, is the ease of changing the keys without having to recopy everything by hand.

Well I use software, just not Finale. I use Finale when my clients absolutely insist on it, but I just find it a very tiresome program. Just my two cents.

DR JMK - I'm pretty sure we've discussed this before, but...

Which program(s) do you use? Sibelius? Encore?

Yes. And Yes.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #97 on:** May 26, 2009, 11:40:14 AM »

Quote from: DAW on May 26, 2009, 11:35:11 AM

And thanks for all the DRs for the marriage support! I am filled with mixed emotions today. $:-\$

I'm still processing all of it right now too... And the reactions and responses and "feelings" flying all over Facebook and Twitter... WOW! In the meantime...

DR DAW - I wish you and Jayson many more years of married bliss. Legal or otherwise. Hopefully, both.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #98 on:** May 26, 2009, 11:45:48 AM »

DR JMK - OK. And OK.

JMK · « **Reply #99 on:** May 26, 2009, 11:47:33 AM »

There are actually a slew of other notation programs I've used through the years when clients have had them themselves and wanted something in that particular s/w--Erato, Magix, etc. Even the bargain basement ones are more intuitive than Finale, as far as I'm concerned.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #100 on:** May 26, 2009, 12:03:12 PM »

Quote from: JMK on May 26, 2009, 11:31:27 AM

Larry, it's the Covent Garden performance with Alina Cojocaru. I pretty much agree with your assessment.

I've seen that one. It's very old-fashioned. A major part of the problem with the ballet is that it's essentially a ghost story that isn't particularly scary. I just realized that the term for the ghosts, "willis," are probably derived etymologically from the same word as Lehar's "Vilia" in THE MERRY WIDOW, where a vilia is a female spirit haunting the Balkan forests to prey on young men, only they don't die. It's also related to Keats' "La Belle Dame sans merci," but there she's a vampire, I think. All these misogynist myths!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #101 on:** May 26, 2009, 12:10:45 PM »

And speaking of Finale...

DR elmore - Are you still taking Finale lessons?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #102 on:** May 26, 2009, 12:12:23 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on May 26, 2009, 12:10:45 PM

And speaking of Finale...

DR elmore - Are you still taking Finale lessons?

Technically, yes, but setting a date with Josh Clayton can be very difficult at times.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #103 on:** May 26, 2009, 12:16:58 PM »

I just added the CREOLE GISELLE from Dance Theatre of Harlem to my Netflix queue. I saw some of the costumes at the Lincoln Center NYPL Dance theare of Harlem exhibit. It's got to be better than the Royal Ballet version.

The old American Ballet Theatre production from the 1970s with Carla Fracci was filmed with bizarre photography and images which gives the piece a more ghostly and hallucinatory image.

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #104 on:** May 26, 2009, 12:49:19 PM »

Wow--Dorothy Malone was certainly the original cougar, wasn't she?

BATTLE CRY clip

Matt H. · « **Reply #105 on:** May 26, 2009, 01:13:45 PM »

Had a really enjoyable lunch and visit with best friend John. He and his wife went to see the national tour of THE COLOR PURPLE last night. He liked but didn't love it.

Matt H. · « **Reply #106 on:** May 26, 2009, 01:18:37 PM »

When I got in from lunch, I immediately set about watching today's work project - DRIVEN TO KILL.

Though almost every Steven Seagal movie I've ever seen was really terrible (UNDER SIEGE was the exception), this one is really the pits. A simple revenge story with a bunch of Russian mobsters after him (who used to be Russian mob himself; imagine him doing a Russian accent), the plot to this movie could have written on the back of a postage stamp. Just 98 minutes of shootings, knifings, and beatdowns. I guess there are still people who enjoy this simplistic kind of stalk and kill movie, but it was pure torture for me to sit through it.

Matt H. · « **Reply #107 on:** May 26, 2009, 01:19:29 PM »

I was right about the bonus features. There weren't any (unless you count a few trailers for other films as bonuses).

Anyway, glad to have that one behind me.

Matt H. · « **Reply #108 on:** May 26, 2009, 01:20:37 PM »

Next, I scanned through two days' worth of AS THE WORLD TURNS. The boys were on either day, but they are in the previews for tomorrow.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #109 on:** May 26, 2009, 01:20:38 PM »

I really LOVED last night's "Medium".

Allyce Beasley isn't used nearly enough in roles perfect for her...and this one suited her to a "tee"!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #110 on:** May 26, 2009, 01:21:36 PM »

Quote from: DAW on May 26, 2009, 11:33:52 AM

Quote from: JMK on May 26, 2009, 11:31:27 AM
it's the Covent Garden performance with Alina Cojocaru.

I prefer the 1953 bootleg with Ethel Merman.

"Well....don't ivryone?" -- Lina Lamont

Matt H. · « **Reply #111 on:** May 26, 2009, 01:23:28 PM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on May 26, 2009, 01:20:38 PM

I really LOVED last night's "Medium".

Allyce Beasley isn't used nearly enough in roles perfect for her...and this one suited her to a "tee"!

You liked all that intrusive stuff with Lee and Lyn's baby? I found it very irritating, but then I've always disliked INTENSELY the non-actress who plays Lyn, so that may have colored my judgment.

Matt H. · « **Reply #112 on:** May 26, 2009, 01:25:08 PM »

Next, I finished watching the BONES episode I only got part of the way through last night. This was the second one set in London, and also the one where Angela and Hodgins broke up (in a very unconvincing way).

Matt H. · « **Reply #113 on:** May 26, 2009, 01:26:29 PM »

And I completed my afternoon starting on another NCIS episode from Season 3. This is the one where Tony is set up as the murderer of a young girl. I remembered immediately who the real culprit was, but I'll finish watching it to see Michael Weatherly's performance as the noose tightens around his neck.

Matt H. · « **Reply #114 on:** May 26, 2009, 01:27:46 PM »

I guess tonight I'll likely watch the second in the series of PLANET OF THE APES movies though that's subject to change after I go downstairs. We'll see. Other than RESCUE ME, there's nothing I want to see on TV tonight, and I'll save watching it for tomorrow's lunch.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #115 on:** May 26, 2009, 01:31:58 PM »

Some semi-out-of-the-blue quotes for today:

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." MLK, Jr.

"He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust." St. Thomas Aquinas

Matt H. · « **Reply #116 on:** May 26, 2009, 01:51:35 PM »

I need to jump off-line now and do some writing. Then back downstairs to enjoy an evening of film/TV on Blu-ray and DVD with no notepad in my lap.

WBBL.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #117 on:** May 26, 2009, 01:59:15 PM »

Quote from: Matt H. on May 26, 2009, 01:23:28 PM

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on May 26, 2009, 01:20:38 PM
I really LOVED last night's "Medium".

Allyce Beasley isn't used nearly enough in roles perfect for her...and this one suited her to a "tee"!

You liked all that intrusive stuff with Lee and Lyn's baby? I found it very irritating, but then I've always disliked INTENSELY the non-actress who plays Lyn, so that may have colored my judgment.

I'd forgotten your disdain for her. No, I thought it was good to see Lee outside of his work. I felt sorry for his girlfriend/mother-of-his-baby because she seemed to be doing everything on her own and he needed to be part of it.

I enjoyed the whole bit with Bridget and her trying to impress Marie while disliking having to obey her older sister. She regards Ariel as her peer, Each of them one of the children of Joe and Allison...and suddenly Ariel is acting like an adult and treating Bridget like a child. Bridgit didn't like it, and I've known a lot of kids to react that way. I knew kids who did the very same thing she did, and it had a great deal of veracity to it.

Conversely, I'd rather choke on a chicken bone that re-watch that "Bones"-in-London episode again. I consider it one of the low points in that excellent show's body of work.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #118 on:** May 26, 2009, 02:11:18 PM »

Getting ready to head down to Sheridan Square...

Laters...

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #119 on:** May 26, 2009, 02:14:08 PM »

Give my regards to...oh, never mind.

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