Topic: ALL THE TRIMMINGS (Read 6735 times)

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #90 on:** November 22, 2016, 12:21:58 PM »

Page 4

Matthew · « **Reply #91 on:** November 22, 2016, 12:45:07 PM »

Hooray - Page 4!!!

Ginny · « **Reply #92 on:** November 22, 2016, 01:01:55 PM »

Kroger was amazingly civilized today. Maybe I picked a good time to go...

ChasSmith · « **Reply #93 on:** November 22, 2016, 01:11:35 PM »

I made it into and out of all the parking lots just fine.

In one more hour, it will again be madness.

bk · « **Reply #94 on:** November 22, 2016, 01:20:50 PM »

Back from some chicken tenders and no fries or breads. Packages still to be delivered so I'm home until they are.

Matthew · « **Reply #95 on:** November 22, 2016, 01:27:57 PM »

Today is a "Hooked on Classics" kind of day!

bk · « **Reply #96 on:** November 22, 2016, 01:32:29 PM »

I'm fascinated that Ravel wrote no symphonies, nor did Debussy.

bk · « **Reply #97 on:** November 22, 2016, 01:40:10 PM »

I'm fascinated I tell you.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #98 on:** November 22, 2016, 01:41:55 PM »

That one guy wrote a couple of good concertos, at least.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #99 on:** November 22, 2016, 01:46:42 PM »

I got to know Pelleas et Melisande fairly well when we did it in school; otherwise, I'd probably have a hard time getting into it now. Well, maybe not, but it's quite ethereal and dreamlike, and could seem like not a lot is going on.

I wish to HELL he'd completed The Fall of the House of Usher.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #100 on:** November 22, 2016, 02:25:52 PM »

Quote from: bk on November 22, 2016, 01:32:29 PM

I'm fascinated that Ravel wrote no symphonies, nor did Debussy.

They were miniaturists as writers, like Edvard Grieg, probably happy to write smaller pieces. Bizet wrote a symphony as a student but seemed happier writing theatre music.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #101 on:** November 22, 2016, 02:27:49 PM »

Milhaud, too?

ChasSmith · « **Reply #102 on:** November 22, 2016, 02:28:56 PM »

Poulenc? Now there's someone I haven't heard in a long time. Never really learned much, either. Played piano in his Le Bal Masque once.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #103 on:** November 22, 2016, 02:29:33 PM »

Love what I've heard of his operas. Got to get into them better.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #104 on:** November 22, 2016, 02:30:03 PM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on November 22, 2016, 01:46:42 PM

I got to know Pelleas et Melisande fairly well when we did it in school; otherwise, I'd probably have a hard time getting into it now. Well, maybe not, but it's quite ethereal and dreamlike, and could seem like not a lot is going on.

I wish to HELL he'd completed The Fall of the House of Usher.

Pelleas and Melisande is gorgeous to listen to but an utter bore in performance. I've dozed through a UC Conservatory of Music production around 1971 and the last Met production. Like Wagner, I'd rather listen than watch. On the other hand I love watching Berg's Wozzeck and Lulu, but cannot sit and listen to them!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #105 on:** November 22, 2016, 02:33:12 PM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on November 22, 2016, 02:29:33 PM

Love what I've heard of his operas. Got to get into them better.

I love Poulenc's "Gloria," but I hated the opera La Voix Humain, thought The Carmelites was boring at Juilliard, and loved the comic Les Mamelles de Tiresias when the Met did it with Ravel's glorious L'Enfant et les sortileges.

Some of poulenc's songs are great and I like his ballet Les Biches.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #106 on:** November 22, 2016, 02:39:51 PM »

DR Elmore, I'm afraid it's going to be impossible for me to come down on Thursday. There's just no way I'm getting away from here this time. Too much going on, too many obligations.

(I make that sound like a negative. It's not. But it would have been relaxing and fun to spend a Thanksgiving in the city away from it all. I did that a few times in the past, and always enjoyed it.)

ChasSmith · « **Reply #107 on:** November 22, 2016, 02:40:51 PM »

However...

Oh joy! Oh Rapture! Film Society Lincoln Center now has showtimes listed for Best Worst Thing... for throughout next week.

I might be able to make FRIDAY my day in the city and see it that afternoon.

bk · « **Reply #108 on:** November 22, 2016, 02:49:56 PM »

Ravel is my fave of these - I like some Debussy, but not all - in fact my favorite thing he did was his orchestrations of Satie's two Gymnopedis. Ravel can do no wrong, really. I like Faure, too. Milhaud is something special and I've got a complete set of the symphonies on its way. Today I should get another set of Sibelius and one that I hope I like best. I hate the Amazon delivery service at least the guy who services this area - even though he knows it's a UPS Store he likes to come very late in the afternoon at the end of his day, which I've complained about - he ought to come there first and deliver whatever he's got to those multiple boxes. It's inane but who knows if they ever even pass on that info.

bk · « **Reply #109 on:** November 22, 2016, 02:58:53 PM »

Have extras of Amahl and the Night Visitors - $4 and the orchestral stuff of Ravel with Andre Cluytens conducting - two CDs (import) and has all the great pieces and is a bit hard to find - $10

bk · « **Reply #110 on:** November 22, 2016, 03:00:57 PM »

Listening to Leinsdorf to La Mer, which I think I surprisingly prefer to Ormandy.

bk · « **Reply #111 on:** November 22, 2016, 03:41:10 PM »

Packages arrived and I picked them up and am uploading Sibelius symphonies as I type this - also two more Milhaud symphonies, and the Bernstein The Planets, which is the last of The Planets I'm getting.

bk · « **Reply #112 on:** November 22, 2016, 03:41:27 PM »

Where in tarnation IS everyone? Shouldn't we be on page fifty already?

bk · « **Reply #113 on:** November 22, 2016, 03:41:40 PM »

Page four? Really?

bk · « **Reply #114 on:** November 22, 2016, 03:49:01 PM »

Much as I'd love to actually listen to my new Sibelius set, the gardeners have arrived and are making so much noise you can't hear anything, let alone Sibelius.

bk · « **Reply #115 on:** November 22, 2016, 03:58:54 PM »

They finally shut up so I've begun symphony number one.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #116 on:** November 22, 2016, 04:01:58 PM »

I just finished my meeting with our Mistletoe and Moonshine MD to fo through our last round of fixes. If this recording is going to happen in January, I'd like to get moving on it.

bk · « **Reply #117 on:** November 22, 2016, 04:11:12 PM »

Well, so far in symphony one, I'd say it doesn't reach the height of Ormandy in terms of the Columbia sound, it's much better than Maazel in both performance AND sound. The conductor of this complete set is Paavo Berglund, who has a good grasp of the Sibelius sound. Hoping the rest is as good.

KevinH · « **Reply #118 on:** November 22, 2016, 04:12:22 PM »

Good evening!

KevinH · « **Reply #119 on:** November 22, 2016, 04:12:51 PM »

One more!

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