Topic: IT WAS A SATURDAY LIKE ANY OTHER SATURDAY EXCEPT THAT IT WASN'T (Read 5453 times)

bk · « **on:** July 23, 2017, 12:02:10 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were like any other notes except they weren't, and now it is time for you to post until the like any other cows cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** July 23, 2017, 12:04:34 AM »

And the word of the day is: AILUROPHOBIA!

bk · « **Reply #2 on:** July 23, 2017, 12:07:10 AM »

Taking a Tcherepnin and Mahler break to give old Rimsky-Korsakov another chance. I don't think my mind was really on the music the first time I listened to the first symphony. This time around it's enjoyable. I suppose the problem for old Rimsky-Korsakov is that when you've written one of the most popular warhorses in all of classical music - Scheherazade - people tend to leave it at that. So, I have a lot to listen to as I got a Rimsky-Korsakov box set.

TCB · « **Reply #3 on:** July 23, 2017, 12:10:10 AM »

First post after BK!

TCB · « **Reply #4 on:** July 23, 2017, 12:14:51 AM »

Quote from: bk on July 23, 2017, 12:04:34 AM

And the word of the day is: AILUROPHOBIA!

I can't even think of a smart-ass joke to make out of this word

George · « **Reply #5 on:** July 23, 2017, 12:29:26 AM »

First post (finally) after TCB!

TCB · « **Reply #6 on:** July 23, 2017, 12:31:45 AM »

How was the show?

George · « **Reply #7 on:** July 23, 2017, 12:33:14 AM »

Last night's performance of First Date was great! The audience loved it (they extended the show an extra week!), and several people who were in Hairspray were there, so we had a mini-reunion.

TCB · « **Reply #8 on:** July 23, 2017, 12:36:55 AM »

Quote from: George on July 23, 2017, 12:33:14 AM

Last night's performance of First Date was great! The audience loved it (they extended the show an extra week!), and several people who were in Hairspray were there, so we had a mini-reunion.

Is FIRST DATE a musical?

TCB · « **Reply #9 on:** July 23, 2017, 12:49:02 AM »

Good night.

George · « **Reply #10 on:** July 23, 2017, 12:53:07 AM »

Quote from: TCB on July 23, 2017, 12:36:55 AM

Quote from: George on July 23, 2017, 12:33:14 AM
Last night's performance of First Date was great! The audience loved it (they extended the show an extra week!), and several people who were in Hairspray were there, so we had a mini-reunion.

Is FIRST DATE a musical?

Yes...and it's really good.

George · « **Reply #11 on:** July 23, 2017, 12:53:21 AM »

Quote from: TCB on July 23, 2017, 12:49:02 AM

Good night.

Good night, Tom.

FJL · « **Reply #12 on:** July 23, 2017, 04:06:20 AM »

Good morning!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 23, 2017, 05:17:43 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 23, 2017, 05:20:42 AM »

By an error on my part, the alarm rang at 6:03, not 6:30, so I turned it off and went back to bed. I have my first cup of coffee, I'm reveling in the fact that the laundry is accomplished, and I am pondering a rewrite of "A Pirate Is A Rotten Thing to Be." I think the drum part is too busy.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #15 on:** July 23, 2017, 05:21:17 AM »

DR vixmom, how did I miss the fact that you and Steve were in Manhattan for his birthday?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #16 on:** July 23, 2017, 05:30:26 AM »

Yesterday I istened to Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's opera The Mines of Sulphur, which reminded me a great deal of Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw. It's a horror tale about a rundown mansion in the British countryside, the murder of its owner for his wealth by an army deserter, a gypsy woman, and another derelict, and the arrival of a theatre troupe, who may be already dead, carrying the plague. The musical idiom is much like the Britten ghost opera, but the orchestra is as large as that for Peter Grimes or Billy Budd.

On an interesting sidenote, the opera's libretto is by Maggie Smith's husband Beverley Cross, based on his one-act play Scarlet
Ribbons.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #17 on:** July 23, 2017, 05:31:09 AM »

Well, the damned opera gave me nightmares.

I am going to listen to it again today.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #18 on:** July 23, 2017, 05:32:02 AM »

I need more coffee and I need to get to work.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #19 on:** July 23, 2017, 05:43:57 AM »

This is good news. The credit card company has refunded my unauthorized $34.99 charge.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #20 on:** July 23, 2017, 05:47:15 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #21 on:** July 23, 2017, 05:49:51 AM »

Waiting for a friend to show up to patch my bathroom ceiling.

You know. Well, actually, you don't. The one I stepped through from the attic some months ago. Long story.

And yes, months. I'm a little slow here sometimes.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #22 on:** July 23, 2017, 05:52:46 AM »

I'm going to have to get out that Turn of the Screw DVD.

DR Elmore: Any Albert Herring or Billy Budd ones you'd recommend?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #23 on:** July 23, 2017, 05:54:28 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on July 23, 2017, 05:52:46 AM

I'm going to have to get out that Turn of the Screw DVD.

DR Elmore: Any Albert Herring or Billy Budd ones you'd recommend?

DVD or CD?

ChasSmith · « **Reply #24 on:** July 23, 2017, 06:00:01 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 23, 2017, 05:54:28 AM

Quote from: ChasSmith on July 23, 2017, 05:52:46 AM
I'm going to have to get out that Turn of the Screw DVD.

DR Elmore: Any Albert Herring or Billy Budd ones you'd recommend?

DVD or CD?

DVD.

Druxy · « **Reply #25 on:** July 23, 2017, 06:04:38 AM »

Last night, we watched MY FELLOW AMERICANS with Jack Lemmon, James Garner and the recently departed John Heard, who was hilarious.

The movie holds up very well.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #26 on:** July 23, 2017, 06:16:04 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on July 23, 2017, 06:00:01 AM

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 23, 2017, 05:54:28 AM
Quote from: ChasSmith on July 23, 2017, 05:52:46 AM
I'm going to have to get out that Turn of the Screw DVD.

DR Elmore: Any Albert Herring or Billy Budd ones you'd recommend?

DVD or CD?

DVD.

There are only a few choices unless you go to bootlegs. The only Albert Herring available is the 1985 Glyndebourne production directed by Sir Peter Hall. Cast and setting are fine, but I hate the use of additional supers to fill out the production. It's a small cast chamber opera.

There are three for Billy Budd, and it all depends if you want the new Glyndebourne production or the ENO production from the 1980s with the great Sir Thomas Allen. Since this opera has become a "barihunk" specialty with shirtless Billys running rampant, I'm surprised none are on commercial DVD. The DVD of a 1960s BBC broadcast conducted by Britten, with Peter Pears as Captain Vere, the role he created, but Peter Glossop is more a Rigoletto than a Billy Budd.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #27 on:** July 23, 2017, 06:34:42 AM »

So, the barihunk Billy Budd appears to be THE major requirement now for the role. I always thought I could lead our former DR Michael Barnum to opera with Billy Budd!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #28 on:** July 23, 2017, 06:38:55 AM »

Ha! Ah, former DR MBarnum, where are you now?

Excellent, thanks!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #29 on:** July 23, 2017, 06:49:23 AM »

Probably watching a nice Bollywood movie.....

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