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[vixmom]

and some crying

[Cillaliz]

I think we're going to have about 1/2 inch of snow and it won't start until about 5:00 PM tomorrow.  I'm fine with that.  I haven't gotten the leaves taken care of, but I can still hire someone to do that.  I really needed to get the plastic on those windows today.  I didn't do the stretch kind with the hair dryer this year,  It looks crystal clear, but has blown off the past two years in a row.  So I just got clear plastic and really strong tape and put it up.  Hoping it will work.  It's amazing how much warmer it is in here

[Cillaliz]

I wouldn't have done that much today, but it was in the lower 50s and starting tomorrow the highs are going to be in the 20s for the foreseeable future.  I'd much rather do the outside work when it's in the 50s.

[Cillaliz]

Unfortunately, in between each thing I did I managed to eat something....soup, pie, fruit, twizzlers.....I'm feeling very full

[vixmom]

it was also a full day of eating for me

dinner was a the rest stop in Milford CT

 http://cheeseboy.com/

[vixmom]

I had the Gobbler and it was wonderful

[vixmom]

https://www.backstageeatdrinklive.com/

and this was lunch (well brunch, we didn't have breakfast)

[Cillaliz]

it was also a full day of eating for me

dinner was a the rest stop in Milford CT

 http://cheeseboy.com/

That looks yummy!

[ChasSmith]

How does DR vixmom just drive somewhere and find all of this great food?

Or maybe it's, like ..... the food finds her???

[Cillaliz]

I'm feeling sleepy.  I have a busy day at work tomorrow.  Time to go.

[vixmom]

How does DR vixmom just drive somewhere and find all of this great food?

Or maybe it's, like ..... the food finds her???

Just lucky I guess!  We stopped at the service station as we were running low on gasoline and then decided to use the facilities and were intrigued by the name Cheesy Boy as we never heard of it before-  I highly recommend it --- they also had a homemade tomato soup I now regret not buying

[vixmom]

Torrington's main street looked immensely interesting   we wish we had more hours to explore it

[John G.]

and some crying

Ragtime does that to me, too.

[John G.]

Thanks for the photos, Vixmom.

Looking snazzy, Chassy.

[John G.]

Just finished a book on Rouben Mamoulian's role in shaping Porgy and Bess, so I've been listening to some of my jazz versions of the score. Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne up first, then Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.

[vixmom]

well I have got to get some sleep   good night all

[John G.]

TOD:

I came to this sight through Elmore, who had been an acquaintance ever since I did a story about him for the Middletown Journal. We met again in upstate New York (Cohoes, which I mentioned recently, to be precise) and my admiration for his work grew through the years. I became more acquainted with BK when someone gave me "A Broadway Christmas," which I proceeded to play for the entire year after that. I began collecting more of the Varese Sarabande recordings, so I got to hear a lot of Elmore's work for BK, too. Then Elmore brought me to this site, and it has really been a blessing. You all were here for me after I lost my last journalism job and during the time it took for me to realize that that, too, was a blessing, albeit one in a thick, heavy, freaking disguise. And it has been nice to be able to share the good stuff with you as well, from getting my new job to the two books, the school work and even the daily gifts.

[George]

Today, I worked concessions for the Olympia Symphony Orchestra.  I got a lot of reading in during the show.

[George]

Actually, I could hear the orchestra from the lobby and they were pretty good.  They performed music based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."

Bellini: Overture to I Capuleti e I Montecchi
Prokofiev: Suite No. 2 from the ballet Romeo and Juliet
Lars-Erik Larsson: Conciertino for Double Bass, Op. 45 soloist: Logan Coale, double-bass
Bernstein: Symphonic dances from West Side Story

As 2014 marks the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, I feel it was a must to do a concert based on the Bard—and his indelible inspiration to generations of composers.  This program focuses on the play Romeo and Juliet (completed in 1595), and the young “star-crossed lovers” from feuding Italian families.  The Overture to Bellini’s rarely-produced opera I Capuleti and Montecchi opens this concert, and a Suite from the amazing ballet-score by Serge Prokofiev will also be performed—one of the most stirring Russian works in the repertoire.  Romeo and Juliet inspired West Side Story, and the “Symphonic Dances” concert-hall work that Leonard Bernstein crafted from the full Broadway has become one of the most treasured pieces of American orchestral music.  A short Concerto for Double Bass by the Swedish composer, Lars-Erik Larsson, rounds out this program—note how the solo works go from bottom to top throughout our “Fact or Fiction” season!

[George]

Oops, I meant:  We're here!

And here's the proof!



 

[George]

The pure white short-haired cat that walks around the neighborhood must have been celebrating Halloween.

When he came yesterday, he looked like this.

Oh, my goodness!  I think that that cat has had some "work" done.

[George]

We decided to play the OBC of Ragtime on our way to the show -- it took exactly the length of the cast recording to get from church to the theatre

one funny coincidence (which we could not have planned if we tried) as we drove up  US 95 North as we approached the exit for Mamaroneck the train conductor on the recording shouted  "Next stop Mamaroneck!"

That's pretty cool!  I love this score!  Someday, I'll actually get to see it.

[George]

About joining HHW, I was a fan of BK's when he was on the website that he started (and was ended by the bad stuff).  I don't remember exactly how I found HHW, but I started lurking and eventually joined in June of 2002.

[bk]

Had a nice dinner at the Daily Grill, then watched stuff.

[George]

Well...

[George]

...since...

[George]

...we...

[George]

...are...

[George]

...so...

[George]

...close...