Topic: CATCHING KHACHATURIAN (Read 3592 times)

FJL · « **Reply #30 on:** December 29, 2016, 02:40:30 AM »

Yes, page 2!!!! (unless someone earlier deletes something)

FJL · « **Reply #31 on:** December 29, 2016, 02:40:46 AM »

First on page 2!

FJL · « **Reply #32 on:** December 29, 2016, 02:41:24 AM »

Thinking of Ginny. More surgery vibes!

FJL · « **Reply #33 on:** December 29, 2016, 02:42:07 AM »

Jane - It was fun living your trip with you.

Where are we all going next?

FJL · « **Reply #34 on:** December 29, 2016, 02:45:26 AM »

So many wonderful performances for the TOD, so i need to think a little more.

FJL · « **Reply #35 on:** December 29, 2016, 02:45:49 AM »

i know the movie was released in 2015, but I saw it in 2016, so the biggest shocker of a terrific performance was Lebron James in TRAINWRECK.

FJL · « **Reply #36 on:** December 29, 2016, 02:49:01 AM »

Onstage: The whole cast of DEAR EVAN HANSEN was remarkable.

The replacement cast of BEAUTIFUL was also quite wonderful.

Danny Burstein was out as Tevye the day i saw FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, but the whole cast was great, and many many individual kudos to Alix Korey as Yenta and Adam Kantor as Motel.

Michael · « **Reply #37 on:** December 29, 2016, 02:55:36 AM »

Good morning to all

ChasSmith · « **Reply #38 on:** December 29, 2016, 04:51:34 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #39 on:** December 29, 2016, 04:58:43 AM »

I would guess my first exposure to Khachaturian was indeed ONE, TWO, THREE - which a friend's dad took us to when it opened. I didn't remember it being a Christmas-y thing, but sure enough it opened in December 1961 and we had just moved to Fort Lauderdale the year before so we were basking in our newfound warm climate. We were living in the part of town where we could walk to the movie theaters and everything else downtown, and that was a wonderful year for me.

John G. · « **Reply #40 on:** December 29, 2016, 05:01:10 AM »

Good morning, all.

John G. · « **Reply #41 on:** December 29, 2016, 05:01:47 AM »

Surgery vibes for Ginny.

Vibes for all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #42 on:** December 29, 2016, 05:04:50 AM »

The second thing in my memory is the piano concerto which someone played with the symphony there, and I became quite fond of it. I was also fascinated that he had written one passage for an instrument called the flexatone, which they indeed used at the concert. I think it duplicates the melody in the violins, and I never was able to really pick it out. I think I still have the study size score I bought back then.

John G. · « **Reply #43 on:** December 29, 2016, 05:07:55 AM »

Danny Burstein was incredible in Indignation. Tracy Letts was also very good in that movie.

Kate Beckensale and Chloe Sevigny in Love & Friendship

Ben Foster in Hell or High Water

The leads of Florence Foster Jenkins

ChasSmith · « **Reply #44 on:** December 29, 2016, 05:08:22 AM »

The third piece would have been the Adagio used in 2001, as BK reports, and what a magnificent usage that is.

I think someone else (probably a few someones) subsequently used it, but not in the genius way Kubrick knew to do it.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #45 on:** December 29, 2016, 05:10:26 AM »

Thus concludes my morning take on Catch as Khachaturian Can.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #46 on:** December 29, 2016, 05:12:16 AM »

So, DR Ginny is getting the first eye done, probably as we speak, and I can't wait to hear her report whenever she's up to giving it.

Best vibes for a wonderful outcome!

John G. · « **Reply #47 on:** December 29, 2016, 05:13:24 AM »

Got a CD called Two Souls by a violinist named Mikhail Simonyan, who soloed with the San Antonio Symphony. It features the Khachaturian Violin Concerto and the Barber Concerto for Violin and Orchestra as well as the Barber Adagio for Strings. Really good stuff. Will have to haul it out later.

John G. · « **Reply #48 on:** December 29, 2016, 05:15:21 AM »

Listening to the concert Victoria Mallory and Kurt Peterson gave that's a sort of retrospective of their careers.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #49 on:** December 29, 2016, 05:18:14 AM »

What with this week's overwhelming events surrounding Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, did anyone post this HBO clip here? If so, please excuse the brain fart, but here it is, the recent documentary on them that's to air in early 2017.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1EnDqhFU6I&feature=youtu.be

A friend of mine pointed out what an incredible "Grey Gardens" feel permeates this particular clip.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #50 on:** December 29, 2016, 05:21:51 AM »

I feel dumb for having never read any of Carrie Fisher's books. I never even saw the film version of POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE. This is all going to be rectified soon, as I've had nothing but admiration for her in recent years and it's time I honored her on my bookshelf.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #51 on:** December 29, 2016, 05:22:50 AM »

Quote from: Ginny on December 29, 2016, 02:19:51 AM

Thursday morning greetings! First east coast post - I'm up early to be at the surgery center in Cincinnati by 7:30. No food or drink - I need coffee!!!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vibes for DR Ginny! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

elmore3003 · « **Reply #52 on:** December 29, 2016, 05:25:32 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #53 on:** December 29, 2016, 05:26:22 AM »

I'm back to City Center this morning, then a movie with goddaughter Charlotte. It should be a good day.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #54 on:** December 29, 2016, 05:27:27 AM »

Best performance of 2016: Carmen Cusack n Bright Star! She was amazing.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #55 on:** December 29, 2016, 05:29:20 AM »

DR JohnG, thanks for the "Asheville" post. They're good, but I think it lacked the yearning and tug the song has sd s solo. Perhaps that's not going to happen out of context?

Druxy · « **Reply #56 on:** December 29, 2016, 05:34:14 AM »

TOD:

I really haven't seen a lot of films that are up for Oscar yet. I'm waiting for them to appear on RedBox.

I did like Jeff Bridges in HELL OR HIGH WATER.

TV?

THE PEOPLE AGAINST O.J. SIMPSON (or whatever it was called) and THE NIGHT MANAGER.

Jane · « **Reply #57 on:** December 29, 2016, 07:25:57 AM »

Quote from: FJL on December 29, 2016, 02:42:07 AM

Jane - It was fun living your trip with you.

Where are we all going next?

Thank you. We are going to Italy & Portugal with a few stops in-between. I can't believe all the traveling we are doing.

Jane · « **Reply #58 on:** December 29, 2016, 07:27:59 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on December 29, 2016, 05:12:16 AM

So, DR Ginny is getting the first eye done, probably as we speak, and I can't wait to hear her report whenever she's up to giving it.

Best vibes for a wonderful outcome!

Ditto. I looked for news before reading the posts.

Jane · « **Reply #59 on:** December 29, 2016, 07:28:45 AM »

DR Danise is out of surgery and recovery.

News:

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