Topic: BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE TIRED (Read 7799 times)

ChasSmith · « **Reply #30 on:** June 12, 2014, 10:50:33 AM »

Hell's bells! That took us all the way to

PAGE 2. Finally!!!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #31 on:** June 12, 2014, 10:51:09 AM »

Let's hope that means our long national nightmare is over.

John G. · « **Reply #32 on:** June 12, 2014, 11:05:56 AM »

Good afternoon, all.

Enjoy the Mahler, Singdaw. THe symphony here just did No. 5 over the weekend, but I was out of town. They always wait until I leave to do the good stuff.

bk · « **Reply #33 on:** June 12, 2014, 11:06:00 AM »

I will now check on what the problem was this morning.

bk · « **Reply #34 on:** June 12, 2014, 11:07:21 AM »

I got almost ten and a half hours of blessed sleep - and one of the few times I did not get up once during the night. Boy did I need that.

John G. · « **Reply #35 on:** June 12, 2014, 11:10:58 AM »

TOD:

Big fan of Flaherty and Ahrens, especially Ragtime, Once on This Island and the Glorious Ones.

I like some of Jeanne Tesori, including Fun Home and Violet. (Not Shrek, Caroline or Change, or too many of her songs for Millie)

George · « **Reply #36 on:** June 12, 2014, 11:18:52 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on June 12, 2014, 02:56:26 AM

~ ~ ~ CONTINUED INTERVIEW VIBES ~ ~ ~ for DR George and colleagues!! I hope you find just the right appli-CAN!

Thanks, Singdaw!

Kate · « **Reply #37 on:** June 12, 2014, 12:13:53 PM »

Good Day all:

TOD:

BOUBLIL, SCHOUBERG, AND KRETZMER for LES MIS

FAVORITE SCORES:

Almost all of them from LES MIS!

John G. · « **Reply #38 on:** June 12, 2014, 12:45:54 PM »

BK, have you ever done an evening of songs from jukebox musicals? You could have fun with songs used in Beautiful, Jersey Boys, Mamma Mia, All Shook Up, Good Vibrations, Movin' On, Motown, Baby, It's You, even shows that use older material like Play On, Happy New Year, Crazy for You, My One and Only, etc.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #39 on:** June 12, 2014, 12:46:11 PM »

And I am home from the NYPL. I may be heading back in the next couple of days to do some digging on Historic Newspapers On Line.

My postman just told me the young lady delivering the post yesterday epically screwed up the mail on his route and he was doing some damage control today.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #40 on:** June 12, 2014, 12:48:34 PM »

We have that here, sometimes, where a substitute carrier will deliver mail to my house number but the one on the wrong street. The fact that this has happened not once, but on several occasions over the past few years, rather blows my mind.

singdaw · « **Reply #41 on:** June 12, 2014, 01:14:03 PM »

Quote from: John G. on June 12, 2014, 11:05:56 AM

Enjoy the Mahler, Singdaw.

Thanks - I did! It was marvelous!!!!

The Symphony No. 4 on the first half was also spectacular. Kevin Puts. He won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2012 for his opera Silent Night.

singdaw · « **Reply #42 on:** June 12, 2014, 01:15:07 PM »

Quote from: George on June 12, 2014, 10:44:30 AM

it'll only be about $325.

Aren't you sorry you purchased West Side Story now?

singdaw · « **Reply #43 on:** June 12, 2014, 01:19:25 PM »

This Saturday is a milestone day in mass transit here in the Twin Cities. The opening of the Green Line light rail, which will take you from downtown St. Paul to downtown Minneapolis in about 40 minutes. You can drive this distance in about 20 minutes, but at rush hour the traffic can be tremendous - not by LA standards, but still... Plus the cost and time of finding parking. With the light rail, no need to worry about those things.

The nearest stop is about an 8 block walk from our home, so it will be quite convenient.

Also, there is a stop right in front of the downtown church where I am working. We are hosting a drum circle outside on the front steps on opening day, and I'll be participating. We will be encouraging passersby to stop and join in. Should be interesting!

John G. · « **Reply #44 on:** June 12, 2014, 01:22:24 PM »

ChasSmith, do you know when the next Criterion sale at Barnes and Noble will be?

Jrand74 · « **Reply #45 on:** June 12, 2014, 01:24:55 PM »

Tonight is show 4 of 7.....so we shall see what we shall see.

Hopefully the audience will be in a jollier mood. We are having glorious and beautiful weather which certainly helps.

I shall return.

bk · « **Reply #46 on:** June 12, 2014, 01:27:35 PM »

A Kritzerland jukebox show is a GREAT idea - perhaps that will be our August show.

bk · « **Reply #47 on:** June 12, 2014, 01:28:28 PM »

Had a cup of soup and a sandwich, neither of which was as good as usual, got the attorney-adjusted letter, went through it and made notes, and we've now finalized it and I'll have it to send in about ten minutes and send it I will.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #48 on:** June 12, 2014, 01:30:42 PM »

Quote from: John G. on June 12, 2014, 01:22:24 PM

ChasSmith, do you know when the next Criterion sale at Barnes and Noble will be?

Oh yeah, baby, I always know that.

Someone grabbed a picture the other day of a sign that was ready to go up, reading July1st -28th.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #49 on:** June 12, 2014, 01:42:12 PM »

Quote from: singdaw on June 12, 2014, 01:14:03 PM

Quote from: John G. on June 12, 2014, 11:05:56 AM
Enjoy the Mahler, Singdaw.

Thanks - I did! It was marvelous!!!!

The Symphony No. 4 on the first half was also spectacular. Kevin Puts. He won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2012 for his opera Silent Night.

I liked Silent Night very much. Cincinnati Opera is doing it this summer.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #50 on:** June 12, 2014, 01:43:04 PM »

Quote from: Jrand63 on June 12, 2014, 01:24:55 PM

Tonight is show 4 of 7.....so we shall see what we shall see.

Hopefully the audience will be in a jollier mood. We are having glorious and beautiful weather which certainly helps.

I shall return.

Break a leg, DR JRand63!

Elan · « **Reply #51 on:** June 12, 2014, 01:45:29 PM »

Hi, all!

Sorry about the errantness & truancy; life has been... busy.

TOD: I haven't followed much of the last decade, so my definition of "contemporary" might be a bit out of date, but Violet was one of my favorite scores from the first listen. It took me a while to warm up to Floyd Collins, but that's probably on my desert island list too. I've probably nitpicked every song of his to death, but I really do love a lot of Jason Robert Brown's work.

singdaw · « **Reply #52 on:** June 12, 2014, 02:00:18 PM »

This would have been more appropriate yesterday, but here is an article discussing the 5 most notorious performances of the Dance of the Seven Veils in conjunction with Strauss's opera:
http://goo.gl/2spfe9

bk · « **Reply #53 on:** June 12, 2014, 02:06:05 PM »

Just before I sent The Second Letter, I got an e-mail from the president of the college - clearly trying to distance the college itself from what went on (that won't work) and basically saying now that I've been able to respond that everything was on track to wrap things up. I'm sure once it's officially wrapped up I will get a subsequent official letter, but I immediately sent The Second Letter, because it is so damning in so many ways, that they will definitely want to take note, because I'm getting the feeling they are going to offer an official wrap up letter that will not acknowledge any of their wrongdoing - if that's what we get, the next letter will be from the attorney, after which we will decide if it's time to escalate this further.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #54 on:** June 12, 2014, 02:11:50 PM »

Quote from: singdaw on June 12, 2014, 02:00:18 PM

This would have been more appropriate yesterday, but here is an article discussing the 5 most notorious performances of the Dance of the Seven Veils in conjunction with Strauss's opera:
http://goo.gl/2spfe9

I saw Maria Ewing do it in L.A. and knew that had to be one of the five. But I just looked at the video they link to, and that's even more explicit than what I remember.

singdaw · « **Reply #55 on:** June 12, 2014, 02:23:29 PM »

bk: curiouser and curiouser!

singdaw · « **Reply #56 on:** June 12, 2014, 02:24:25 PM »

How many lightbulbs does it take to...

John G. · « **Reply #57 on:** June 12, 2014, 02:48:34 PM »

Quote from: Jrand63 on June 12, 2014, 01:24:55 PM

Tonight is show 4 of 7.....so we shall see what we shall see.

Hopefully the audience will be in a jollier mood. We are having glorious and beautiful weather which certainly helps.

I shall return.

So happy your production is a success, JRand.

John G. · « **Reply #58 on:** June 12, 2014, 02:50:25 PM »

Quote from: bk on June 12, 2014, 01:27:35 PM

A Kritzerland jukebox show is a GREAT idea - perhaps that will be our August show.

Summer fun.

John G. · « **Reply #59 on:** June 12, 2014, 02:51:22 PM »

I love this photo. And the caption's not half-bad either.

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