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[Ron Pulliam]

And now for page 3....

[bk]

Back from a very good breakfast meeting - about the possibility of bringing Pure Imagination to NY this summer.  Fingers crossed.

[elmore3003]

DR Elmore:  What (and when) was the Danbury concert?  And the Book of the Month Club?

The Danbury Concert was a Rodgers & Hart, Gershwin concert with Meg Bussert, and a couple of other singers I no longer remember from about 1987; John and I rode to and from Danbury with the bass player whose name i forget, and it was a good concert, and it was one of the few times that I ever saw John relax or put on airs. I think that's the concert for which I orchestrated the verse to "You're Nearer" that ended up on the vonStade recording "My Funny Valentine.

The Book of the Month Club recording "Songs of New York" was my fist union jb and McGlinn's first album where he conducted the whole shebang.  He'd conducted a couple of tracks for Ben Bagley's Jerome Kern Revisited.

[ryacko]

Happy Valentine's Day, All!!

Lemme tell you, I feel like a glazed nut after the snow and rain dump we got yesterday. A foot of snow followed by rain. Dear Diary... oy!

AND, it was on a  two show day. I walked home after the matinee in a whiteout and needed a dogsled to get back. We had maybe 25 people show out of the sold out show, and the evening only 18 plus two staffers.

HOWEVER... there was a silver lining in the evening's performance. By some miracle, Ira Gershwin's nephew Mike, at a very spry 80 years young, made it up to see the show with Arnold Mittleman (sp?), one of the show's promoters. They had met up in NYC, as Mike is in San Fran and Arnold in Miami, and took a bus and a train through the crazy storm. They loved the show and stayed to meet us after. The Gershwin estate, of which Mike is a big part, has adopted this show as one of their own. It will be interesting to see how this pans out, but there are future productions being planned, one perhaps in L.A.

With more snow due tomorrow, I can't wait to get home on Monday! Enough of this wintering:

And, I can't wait to hear about my songs for the upcoming Kritzerland show. (I keep praying for some Sweeney)   

Okay, off to frozen errands and another show. Happy Heart Day to all!!

[George]

Good morning, all! I stayed up way too late, and I will leave around 9:30 to visit Joshie at City Center.

When i get home, I will work on my orchestration. I need to finish it tomorrow.

Five years ago today, John McGlinn's body was discovered when the police broke into his apartment. He had died from a heart attack several days earlier, but the actual time of death is unknown. By a lucky coincidence, his sister Lorin, her husband, and son had come to Manhattan from Colorado on vacation and were leaving on the 14th.

The police called several numbers in John's address book, including Russell Warner and Dan Langan, who called me with the news of John's death. I believe it was Dan who connected the police with a cousin of John's and she contacted Lorin in Manhattan. On Saturday afternoon, Lorin identified her brother's body and her husband and son flew back to Colorado. On Sunday evening, I met Lorin, and we both got very drunk reminiscing about John and his horrible treatment of family and friends.

Since then, I doubt there's not a day that passes without my mentioning or thinking of John; I cataloged his estate, and I work in an office surrounded by his scores, books, orchestra parts, and would swear that, when I'm alone, I occasionally hear him walk through another room of the suite, I hear doors open and close, and I yell out, Is that you, John? I hope he never answers.

Still, in the 1980s, working on SHOWBOAT, the Danbury Concert, the Book of the Month Club, dealing with diva Kiri Te Kanawa, and sitting in the Carnegie recital Hall and letting him know when the band was too loud are some of my most cherished memories.  Thank you, John!

RIP, my friend and, too much of the time, my enemy. I will listen to one of your CDs today and mourn you.

Here at work, I have MP3s of his (and your!) Songs of New York.  I'm listening to those right now.

[singdaw]

I am reticent.  Oh yes, I am reticent.

[elmore3003]

I am reticent.  Oh yes, I am reticent.

Never!

[Jrand74]

Must be something in Firefox.....I don't seem to get the popups in COMODO Dragon....

[John G.]

Back from a very good breakfast meeting - about the possibility of bringing Pure Imagination to NY this summer.  Fingers crossed.

Wonderful news. vibes it happens.

[John G.]

Happy Valentine's Day, All!!

Lemme tell you, I feel like a glazed nut after the snow and rain dump we got yesterday. A foot of snow followed by rain. Dear Diary... oy!

AND, it was on a  two show day. I walked home after the matinee in a whiteout and needed a dogsled to get back. We had maybe 25 people show out of the sold out show, and the evening only 18 plus two staffers.

HOWEVER... there was a silver lining in the evening's performance. By some miracle, Ira Gershwin's nephew Mike, at a very spry 80 years young, made it up to see the show with Arnold Mittleman (sp?), one of the show's promoters. They had met up in NYC, as Mike is in San Fran and Arnold in Miami, and took a bus and a train through the crazy storm. They loved the show and stayed to meet us after. The Gershwin estate, of which Mike is a big part, has adopted this show as one of their own. It will be interesting to see how this pans out, but there are future productions being planned, one perhaps in L.A.

With more snow due tomorrow, I can't wait to get home on Monday! Enough of this wintering:

And, I can't wait to hear about my songs for the upcoming Kritzerland show. (I keep praying for some Sweeney)   

Okay, off to frozen errands and another show. Happy Heart Day to all!!

Great story. Vibes your LA production happens. I'm sure there'll be less snow for that one.

[George]

Christina Bianco sings Frozen's "Let It Go" as multiple divas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1us197eB6gQ#t=177

I'll see your Christina Bianco, and raise you a Christine Pedi 12 Days of Divas

Morning, all!

TOD:
On ye olde iPod: Barbara Cook, Live at Carnegie Hall
In the DVD drive: Psych
Youtube playlist: Whole @#$!load of chess analyses (getting tired of my 8-year old beating me)
Nothing on the nightstand (nothing new of interest in the Little Free Library kiosk this week)

Elan, the Christine Pedi link is wonky.  Here's a fixed link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk4MDilZMEQ

And here's part two (just because it needs to be seen, too):  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YhnkI4VzPM

Otherwise, she's great!

[George]

Dr George.....  I've been emptying litter boxes for years and have yet to see a pee heart.  You should have tried to sell it on eBay, lol

That thought actually crossed my mind...for just a very fleeting moment.  Then reality set in.  This kind of litter does not clump very firmly.  It barely held together when I moved it to that corner to take the picture and it broke apart when I took it out of the litter box.  But I really did wonder about that. 

[George]

I'm up, I'm up - having a really interesting dream when the alarm went off.

I just wrote down the basic idea of the dream. 

Not an unusual dream for me, but the twist on it was.

Idea for a new book, perhaps??

[George]

Received in the mail yesterday.

He signed 4 photos for me. The two that I sent him and 2 of his own choosing! What a nice man!

That's great, Mike!  And it's a very nice picture.

[George]

I can't believe he took a picture of his cat's pee...and then posted it here!

And your point is...??

[TCB]

to all Dear Readers!

[ChasSmith]

DR Elmore:  What (and when) was the Danbury concert?  And the Book of the Month Club?

The Danbury Concert was a Rodgers & Hart, Gershwin concert with Meg Bussert, and a couple of other singers I no longer remember from about 1987; John and I rode to and from Danbury with the bass player whose name i forget, and it was a good concert, and it was one of the few times that I ever saw John relax or put on airs. I think that's the concert for which I orchestrated the verse to "You're Nearer" that ended up on the vonStade recording "My Funny Valentine.

The Book of the Month Club recording "Songs of New York" was my fist union jb and McGlinn's first album where he conducted the whole shebang.  He'd conducted a couple of tracks for Ben Bagley's Jerome Kern Revisited.

I moved here in 1989, so at least I didn't miss that concert out of incompetence.  But I'm not sure I would have known the name McGlinn in 1987.  The SHOW BOAT recording was my introduction to him.  When was that released?  It was a big damned deal, I remember that much, and I scarfed up that LP box set.  Which I think I've kept (must check), even though I also got the CD set some years later.

[elmore3003]

DR Elmore:  What (and when) was the Danbury concert?  And the Book of the Month Club?

The Danbury Concert was a Rodgers & Hart, Gershwin concert with Meg Bussert, and a couple of other singers I no longer remember from about 1987; John and I rode to and from Danbury with the bass player whose name i forget, and it was a good concert, and it was one of the few times that I ever saw John relax or put on airs. I think that's the concert for which I orchestrated the verse to "You're Nearer" that ended up on the vonStade recording "My Funny Valentine.

The Book of the Month Club recording "Songs of New York" was my fist union jb and McGlinn's first album where he conducted the whole shebang.  He'd conducted a couple of tracks for Ben Bagley's Jerome Kern Revisited.

I moved here in 1989, so at least I didn't miss that concert out of incompetence.  But I'm not sure I would have known the name McGlinn in 1987.  The SHOW BOAT recording was my introduction to him.  When was that released?  It was a big damned deal, I remember that much, and I scarfed up that LP box set.  Which I think I've kept (must check), even though I also got the CD set some years later.

SBOW BOAT was recorded in 1988 to 1987.

[ChasSmith]

Back from a very good breakfast meeting - about the possibility of bringing Pure Imagination to NY this summer.  Fingers crossed.

YES!  Make it happen!     

[John G.]

DR Elmore:  What (and when) was the Danbury concert?  And the Book of the Month Club?

The Danbury Concert was a Rodgers & Hart, Gershwin concert with Meg Bussert, and a couple of other singers I no longer remember from about 1987; John and I rode to and from Danbury with the bass player whose name i forget, and it was a good concert, and it was one of the few times that I ever saw John relax or put on airs. I think that's the concert for which I orchestrated the verse to "You're Nearer" that ended up on the vonStade recording "My Funny Valentine.

The Book of the Month Club recording "Songs of New York" was my fist union jb and McGlinn's first album where he conducted the whole shebang.  He'd conducted a couple of tracks for Ben Bagley's Jerome Kern Revisited.

I moved here in 1989, so at least I didn't miss that concert out of incompetence.  But I'm not sure I would have known the name McGlinn in 1987.  The SHOW BOAT recording was my introduction to him.  When was that released?  It was a big damned deal, I remember that much, and I scarfed up that LP box set.  Which I think I've kept (must check), even though I also got the CD set some years later.

SBOW BOAT was recorded in 1988 to 1987.

Was it recorded in reverse?

[ChasSmith]

Oy!  DR Jrand63!  Not again!

I've got my fix for that kind of nonsense down to a science now.  I use Chrome on Win7, and as soon as I discover some bastard extension that won't go away, or price deals, or the random links appearing, I know what to do and I don't waste any time about it.

Uninstall Chrome.  Launch IE (which I only use for this; Microsoft must love me) and download/install Chrome, making it the default browser.  Sign in with my Google password.  Wait a minute for all of my settings to fall into place.  At this point only three or four minutes have elapsed, and all that remains is signing back into HHW and a few other sites.

It is the only way to get rid of that CRAP.

[Dan M]

It's far from pluvial out here.  We could use a smidge of pluv.

Oh, and HAPPY V-D!

[John G.]

I just learned the term "prog metal" and apparently it's happening to Sweeney Todd:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/small-landless-theatre-receives-unexpected-buzz-over-plan-to-stage-sweeney-todd/2014/02/14/73f37d6c-94f3-11e3-83b9-1f024193bb84_story.html?tid=hpModule_5fb4f58a-8a7a-11e2-98d9-3012c1cd8d1e&hpid=z11

Might be fun.

[John G.]

page three?

[singdaw]

Increasingly, I am encountering the word "cosplay" on the Interwebs. I really hadn't a clue, so I just looked it up.


It is short for costume play, apparently; essentially dressing up and pretending to be a fictional character. Who knew?       

[singdaw]

Glazed nuts, anyone?

[singdaw]

Well, it's a post.

[George]

I just learned the term "prog metal" and apparently it's happening to Sweeney Todd:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/small-landless-theatre-receives-unexpected-buzz-over-plan-to-stage-sweeney-todd/2014/02/14/73f37d6c-94f3-11e3-83b9-1f024193bb84_story.html?tid=hpModule_5fb4f58a-8a7a-11e2-98d9-3012c1cd8d1e&hpid=z11

Might be fun.

Interesting...that's only two and a half hours north of me.  Maybe I should take a road trip in the fall.

[Dan M]

Increasingly, I am encountering the word "cosplay" on the Interwebs. I really hadn't a clue, so I just looked it up.


It is short for costume play, apparently; essentially dressing up and pretending to be a fictional character. Who knew?       

I was thinking a cosplay would be the technical term for those demonstrations that are at Costco, or one written by The Cos.

[Jane]

This is not a negative comment on the day, but this is a photo of an actual pee-ball that my cat Ebonie left me on February 13, 2009:



Happy Valentine's Day!