Topic: THE BEST OF TIMES (Read 9769 times)

bk · « **on:** February 18, 2011, 10:42:25 PM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes had the best of times, and now it is time for you to post until the best cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** February 18, 2011, 10:44:12 PM »

And the word of the day is: GUERDON!

Matthew · « **Reply #2 on:** February 18, 2011, 11:47:04 PM »

Chest issue update --- everything seems fine, I believe the strained muscle has passed.

Tonight was opening night for Working. It was a great show, but with a young cast. There are some "older" folks in the show, but the majority are younger people. I'm amazed that the orchestra parts are still a mess and haven't been "Finale-ized" since there are changes made all the time to this show. But we're having fun nonetheless!!

Sam · « **Reply #3 on:** February 18, 2011, 11:59:03 PM »

Sam · « **Reply #4 on:** February 18, 2011, 11:59:32 PM »

Weekend.

Sam · « **Reply #5 on:** February 19, 2011, 12:01:07 AM »

Hi.

I'm tired.

Goodnight.

Vibes and vibes and more vibes.

Happy vibes too.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 19, 2011, 04:59:00 AM »

Feel better vibes for DR BEN, DR TCB, and FR RICHARD.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 19, 2011, 04:59:20 AM »

Saturday is another work day. Will it EVER end?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 19, 2011, 05:00:25 AM »

I too enjoyed Mr Robert Downey Jr as CHAPLIN.....

TOD: LIMELIGHT

I have seen some of the short films, but I do not know their titles. I am not a great fan of GOLD RUSH or MODERN TIMES, but I do also like THE GREAT DICTATOR.

Michael · « **Reply #9 on:** February 19, 2011, 05:18:52 AM »

tod

too many shorts to mention, but my fav chaplin film is City Lights. The final shot always has me in tears.

For me its up there in the top five.

Others are:

Gone With The Wind: The pull back crane shot of Scarlett moving through the trainyard with all the wounded soldiers. The further it goes the more wounded you see until it finally stops on the tattered confederate flag.

Sound of Music. The camera moving into Julie Andrews on the top of the hill and her twirl.

ET: ET's lit finger pointing to Elliot's head

Touch of Evil. The opening tracking shot. Repeated and stolen many times since. But the first is always the best

any others?

Laura · « **Reply #10 on:** February 19, 2011, 05:38:16 AM »

Day Four of our multi-day rainstorm, and nothing yet .... but it's coming.

Ben · « **Reply #11 on:** February 19, 2011, 05:50:43 AM »

Morning all.

That is all.

Time for breakfast.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 19, 2011, 05:57:08 AM »

Off to work. Oh well.

vixmom · « **Reply #13 on:** February 19, 2011, 05:58:43 AM »

matthew - this mother would be so much happier if you would go get that chest pain checked out - even if it has passed......

vixmom · « **Reply #14 on:** February 19, 2011, 05:59:14 AM »

Have fun Jack!

vixmom · « **Reply #15 on:** February 19, 2011, 06:04:40 AM »

America Grafitti is on the tv

Cillaliz · « **Reply #16 on:** February 19, 2011, 06:13:40 AM »

Thanks for the good wishes. Having a good time but this posting from my blackberry is for the birds. Will catch up then read notes Tommorro

elmore3003 · « **Reply #17 on:** February 19, 2011, 06:15:13 AM »

Good morning, all! I am tired, but I wil continue to be so until next weekend, after the Encores! orchestra reading. Today and tomorrow are Toyland days since this week and next are mostly about finishing the orchestra parts for Thursday.

When I return from downtown, I have to do more work on "Once In Love With Amy." The orchestra parts for the show are a mess. When Frank Loesser began Msic Theatre International in the early 1950s, he put Don Walker and Mathilde Pincus in charge of the music. In 1954, Walker notified Loesser that the WHERE'S CHARLEY? materials were in terrible shape and getting lots of complaints. This is because they were sending out the original parts, which had been through a tryout, two Broadway runs, which may have affected further orchestra changes, a tour, and a few stock productions. The parts, if they're like other original orchestra parts from the 1930s and 1940s, were most likely a mess of pasted and taped over cuts, pencil corrections and changes, and not easily legible. So, Walker and Pincus redid everything. They didn't work from the original full scores because those have vanished - I think they're buried in some Warner Brothers archive for the film version -so they worked from photostat copies of the materials from the Feuer and Martin (producers) office. And they simplified things. There are no doubles at all in the score now, although Jonathan Tunick remembers seeing the show for his birthday in 1949 and watching the bassoon player switch to a clarinet.

Mathilde did a piano-vocal score based on the parts, wherein she refers to Clarinet 3 and Harp, although there are no harp and clarinet 3 parts in the current rental materials. Also, in 1948, the show had vocal arrangements by Gerry Dolan, but on its Broadway return in 1951, the vocal arrangements were new and by Herb Greene. So the issue of chorus parts becomes another can of worms.

In 1998, I put the score back together from the orchestra parts and, working quickly, noted a lot of errors and suggestions. In "Once In Love With Amy," the flute part is clearly the old clarinet, so at Thursday's reading we'll hear the number played with flute and then the number again with my suggested clarinet fixes.
So, I have to write the clarinet part this weekend.

I need a day to myself to sleep late, do nothing and regenerate.

TOD: Monsieur Verdoux

FJL · « **Reply #18 on:** February 19, 2011, 06:29:40 AM »

Regeneration vibes to elmore

ArnoldMBrockman · « **Reply #19 on:** February 19, 2011, 06:36:05 AM »

Quote from: bk on February 18, 2011, 10:44:12 PM

And the word of the day is: GUERDON!

And The Song Of The Day Is: MORGENLICH LEUCHTEND ( THE PRIZE SONG)

(From Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger)

elmore3003 · « **Reply #20 on:** February 19, 2011, 06:38:03 AM »

Quote from: ArnoldMBrockman on February 19, 2011, 06:36:05 AM

Quote from: bk on February 18, 2011, 10:44:12 PM
And the word of the day is: GUERDON!

And The Song Of The Day Is: MORGENLICH LEUCHTEND ( THE PRIZE SONG)

(From Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger)

That's heavy!

vixmom · « **Reply #21 on:** February 19, 2011, 07:48:15 AM »

lots o stuff to do - laters

Druxy · « **Reply #22 on:** February 19, 2011, 07:51:00 AM »

TOD:

CITY LIGHTS

Druxy · « **Reply #23 on:** February 19, 2011, 07:51:06 AM »

CITY LIGHTS

Druxy · « **Reply #24 on:** February 19, 2011, 07:51:12 AM »

CITY LIGHTS

Druxy · « **Reply #25 on:** February 19, 2011, 07:51:31 AM »

Did I mention that I love:

CITY LIGHTS?

John G. · « **Reply #26 on:** February 19, 2011, 07:54:11 AM »

Good morning, all.

John G. · « **Reply #27 on:** February 19, 2011, 07:55:20 AM »

Matthew, is this the revised "Working" or the old show? Despite a couple of nice songs, I never felt the original worked, if you'll pardon the pun.

John G. · « **Reply #28 on:** February 19, 2011, 07:57:19 AM »

TOD: Count me in as a "City Lights" fan. First saw it when I was about 13 or 14 and will never forget the ending. Among the shorts, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" stands out, though so many of the shorts blend in my mind.

John G. · « **Reply #29 on:** February 19, 2011, 07:58:54 AM »

Out of the blue, I received a package from my sister yesterday that included the second volume of Busby Berkeley movies. That coupled with DR Elmore's "One Touch of Venus" and sundry other musical goodies really has made it seem like Christmas all over again.

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Author Topic: THE BEST OF TIMES (Read 9769 times)

Ben

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FJL