Topic: THREE SECONDS (Read 4603 times)

bk · « **on:** October 18, 2016, 12:47:41 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes took longer to read than three seconds, and now it is time for you to post until the three cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** October 18, 2016, 12:48:36 AM »

And the word of the day is: APOTHEOSIS!

George · « **Reply #2 on:** October 18, 2016, 12:52:43 AM »

Quote from: bk on October 18, 2016, 12:48:36 AM

And the word of the day is: APOTHEOSIS!

What a coinkydink! That word is mentioned in the last short play of "An Improbable Peck of Plays 5."

Just had to share.

George · « **Reply #3 on:** October 18, 2016, 12:52:54 AM »

First and second posts after BK!

TCB · « **Reply #4 on:** October 18, 2016, 01:29:15 AM »

Good morning!

TCB · « **Reply #5 on:** October 18, 2016, 01:32:22 AM »

Eggplant purple!

TCB · « **Reply #6 on:** October 18, 2016, 01:38:08 AM »

This makes Three Second posts

TCB · « **Reply #7 on:** October 18, 2016, 01:42:34 AM »

Good night!

Michael · « **Reply #8 on:** October 18, 2016, 03:11:24 AM »

Good morning to all

Druxy · « **Reply #9 on:** October 18, 2016, 04:46:00 AM »

My friend, filmmaker Ted V. Mikels, has passed away.

Ted shot and edited my first movie that I directed and, later, I did publicity for a couple of the movies he directed.

Ted was the "king" of "schlock horror" movies and I doubt that many of you have seen his pictures (e.g. THE ASTRO-ZOMBIES).

They were not my cup of tea, either.

But, he was a fascinating person and he did know how to make a film...cheap.

Druxy · « **Reply #10 on:** October 18, 2016, 04:48:47 AM »

RE: BK's story about Claus Ogerman -

Reminds me of the time that I was buying/selling autographs on ebay.

I'd "won" an autographed photo of John Gielgud. The package arrived and just as I was opening it, I heard on TV that Gielgud had died.

Druxy · « **Reply #11 on:** October 18, 2016, 04:51:07 AM »

TOD:

I don't know if they were life changing, but three songs that have certainly stuck with me from my youth:

Moments to Remember
The Wayward Wind
Thunder Road

ChasSmith · « **Reply #12 on:** October 18, 2016, 05:11:34 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #13 on:** October 18, 2016, 05:12:55 AM »

Day Two of our three-day "unseasonable" heat.

Which I'm enjoying, thankyouverymuch, and I'll be sad to see it go.

FJL · « **Reply #14 on:** October 18, 2016, 05:36:58 AM »

Druxy - so sorry to hear about the loss of your friend.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #15 on:** October 18, 2016, 05:42:48 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #16 on:** October 18, 2016, 05:44:40 AM »

I'm up, moving about but I cannot say that my mind mind is moving as quickly as my body. I'm looking at the mess of reading matter lying on the floor next to my bed, and all vI can think is, duh . . .

elmore3003 · « **Reply #17 on:** October 18, 2016, 05:45:10 AM »

As soon as things start functioning, I'll decide what to do about it.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #18 on:** October 18, 2016, 05:46:44 AM »

I hope today to finish the first half of Act Two. Tomorrow I will go to City Center to visit Joshie. He will be away all of next week, opening the King & I tour.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #19 on:** October 18, 2016, 05:47:19 AM »

Maybe coffee would help.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #20 on:** October 18, 2016, 05:51:51 AM »

TOD:

A pair of classical discoveries rocked the boat on one evening in the summer between high school and college. A friend and I went to the house of another friend of his (I have no idea now who that was), and he introduced us both to Mahler's SECOND (on the Columbia reel-to-reel tape of the Bernstein/Jennie Tourel recording), and Orff's CARMINA BURANA (likewise, the Ormandy recording). These two bombshells in one evening were as life changing as Gershwin's PORGY AND BESS, Rodgers' SOUTH PACIFIC, and Bernstein's WEST SIDE STORY had been in the several years prior to that.

As a footnote, that evening was equally responsible for kicking off a love for reel-to-reel tape.

(And yes, another SECOND.)

elmore3003 · « **Reply #21 on:** October 18, 2016, 06:15:05 AM »

That Ormandy Carmina Burana was truly an amazing recording! The Orff piece (what's an Orff?) was relatively unknown then and now it's a pops orchestra favorite, and God knows what movie previews could do without it.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #22 on:** October 18, 2016, 06:25:45 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on October 18, 2016, 06:15:05 AM

and God knows what movie previews could do without it

No kidding. And I'll take it a silly step further: What movie previews (and probably some actual scores) could do without having their over-the-top action scene music being hugely orchestral AND choral, AND in D minor - the key of both "O Fortuna" and "Fortune plango vulnera", the two opening choruses and the music most used and imitated?

ChasSmith · « **Reply #23 on:** October 18, 2016, 06:27:13 AM »

(I had to look up the second chorus title. I ain't that smart.)

Jane · « **Reply #24 on:** October 18, 2016, 07:02:55 AM »

DR Drury, my condolences on the loss of your friend.

Jane · « **Reply #25 on:** October 18, 2016, 07:04:13 AM »

Quote from: Druxy on October 18, 2016, 04:51:07 AM

TOD:

I don't know if they were life changing, but three songs that have certainly stuck with me from my youth:

Moments to Remember
The Wayward Wind
Thunder Road

I love The Wayward Wind.

Kerry · « **Reply #26 on:** October 18, 2016, 07:15:31 AM »

TOD: Besides the OBC albums of Annie Get Your Gun, South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Flower Drum Song, Can-Can (which I played all of them to death), we had an album of classics conducted by Eugene Ormandy. The Nutcracker was on there, and I loved parts of that. Same with Peer Gynt. But the one that really got me, and that I played over and over again on our Sears Silvertone record player was "Clair de Lune." I wanted to know what it meant. And I'd play it before going to bed. The cast albums and Debussy started me on my way.

John G. · « **Reply #27 on:** October 18, 2016, 08:09:27 AM »

Good morning, all.

John G. · « **Reply #28 on:** October 18, 2016, 08:11:38 AM »

My sympathies, DR Drury. I like the sounds of Astro-Zombies. May have to look for that one.

John G. · « **Reply #29 on:** October 18, 2016, 08:18:02 AM »

TOD:

The soundtrack to Mary Poppins when I was really little. Then Sound of Music soundtrack. There was a George M. Cohan collection and then A Little Night Music OBC became an obsession.

Percy Faith did a Borodin album after Kismet that I played to death. As for classical music, I saw Michael Tilson Thomas conduct an outdoor performance of Mahler's First that just blew my mind.

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