Topic: A NEW COMPOSER DISCOVERY OR WHY I LOVE MUSIC (Read 3564 times)

Jeanne · « **Reply #60 on:** November 11, 2019, 03:42:19 PM »

Looking forward to the new CDs.

Jeanne · « **Reply #61 on:** November 11, 2019, 03:43:10 PM »

TTFN.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #62 on:** November 11, 2019, 04:39:03 PM »

I'm closing shop. Good night, all!

John G. · « **Reply #63 on:** November 11, 2019, 05:58:56 PM »

Quote from: Jrand69 on November 11, 2019, 11:22:51 AM

Big snow falling now.....2-3 inches predicted.....Winter.

Hope you haven't had to go anywhere today.

John G. · « **Reply #64 on:** November 11, 2019, 06:01:45 PM »

Been watching The Dirty Dozen. I don't think I've ever seen this all the way through.

John G. · « **Reply #65 on:** November 11, 2019, 06:03:27 PM »

I think I saw parts of it on commercial TV way back in the day. Heavily censored for TV.

John G. · « **Reply #66 on:** November 11, 2019, 06:06:22 PM »

John Cassavetes is excellent. Second movie today with a Nunnally Johnson screenplay (Along Came Jones with Gary Cooper earlier). Second flick with Telly Savalas in the the past week.

John G. · « **Reply #67 on:** November 11, 2019, 06:08:17 PM »

Went to a early Thanksgiving dinner earlier. Hadn't seen these people in two years and it was nice. The food was good, but way too sweet. Sugar in the sweet potatoes, sugar in the cranberry sauce, sugar in the salad and dressing, and, of course, sugar in the pumpkin pie and whipped cream.

That meal was at 3:30 p.m., so I really didn't eat anything later.

John G. · « **Reply #68 on:** November 11, 2019, 06:11:05 PM »

Tootsie is closing in January. I'm sort of surprised, because the reviews were uniformly excellent for the book. But the songs I've heard from the score are mediocre, and the dancing pedestrian. From what I gather, audiences didn't care enough for it.

John G. · « **Reply #69 on:** November 11, 2019, 06:31:38 PM »

The temperature has dropped to 38 degrees and the wind is crazy. There were supposed to have been thunderstorms today. But the rain is still in the forecast and there's a possibility of snow at 4 a.m. Ugh.

John G. · « **Reply #70 on:** November 11, 2019, 07:00:42 PM »

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John G. · « **Reply #71 on:** November 11, 2019, 07:54:52 PM »

Been watching High Noon. Forgot how tense and fast paced this movie is. It's a tight 85 minutes, and not a second is wasted. It's a master class of acting, down to the lying housewife and the faces in the church congregation. And its message of having the moral courage to do what's right even when it's not convenient couldn't be more important in the Trump era.

bk · « **Reply #72 on:** November 11, 2019, 08:16:54 PM »

Jeanne, I have little memory of Tammy Shaw - don't remember anything about her, really.

bk · « **Reply #73 on:** November 11, 2019, 08:17:00 PM »

No mail today.

bk · « **Reply #74 on:** November 11, 2019, 08:17:21 PM »

Had a chili, cheese, and onion hot dog for lunch, with a side Caesar.

bk · « **Reply #75 on:** November 11, 2019, 08:18:58 PM »

Came right home and did some work on the computer and at the piano, dozed off, and listened to more music by Weinberg. His middle symphonies are not as easy on the ear as everything up to the tenth. But since I've already heard the twenty-first, I know that he goes back to that land eventually - and there are wonderful things in these middle symphonies, but they simply seem more agitato than the early works.

bk · « **Reply #76 on:** November 11, 2019, 08:19:15 PM »

Mr. Shostakovich was a fan of Mr. Weinberg.

bk · « **Reply #77 on:** November 11, 2019, 08:19:30 PM »

Mr. Weinberg was a fan of Mr. Shostakovich.

bk · « **Reply #78 on:** November 11, 2019, 08:19:40 PM »

I, on the other hand, am a fan of both.

bk · « **Reply #79 on:** November 11, 2019, 08:19:51 PM »

Page three? Really?

bk · « **Reply #80 on:** November 11, 2019, 08:20:13 PM »

I gotta tell you.

John G. · « **Reply #81 on:** November 11, 2019, 08:52:23 PM »

Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly won their shootout. And all is right in the Old West.

John G. · « **Reply #82 on:** November 11, 2019, 08:52:46 PM »

I think it's been 40 years since I saw that movie.

John G. · « **Reply #83 on:** November 11, 2019, 08:53:21 PM »

It was like going back and reading a Raymond Chandler or a Ross Macdonald again. Everything felt right.

John G. · « **Reply #84 on:** November 11, 2019, 08:53:54 PM »

Sort of like what this neuroscientist had to say in Chicago about content writing and the role of memory.

John G. · « **Reply #85 on:** November 11, 2019, 08:55:41 PM »

We do react to things because of memory.

John G. · « **Reply #86 on:** November 11, 2019, 08:55:59 PM »

And people in my industry use that to impact their decisions.

John G. · « **Reply #87 on:** November 11, 2019, 08:56:16 PM »

Anyway, enough of that.

John G. · « **Reply #88 on:** November 11, 2019, 08:56:28 PM »

I need to head off to bed.

John G. · « **Reply #89 on:** November 11, 2019, 08:56:36 PM »

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