Topic: GREETING SEPTEMBER WITH A SMILE AND A LAUGH AND A SONG (Read 2526 times)

bk · « **on:** September 01, 2020, 01:17:07 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes greeted September with a smile and a laugh and a song, and now it is time for you to post until the September cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** September 01, 2020, 01:18:11 AM »

And the word of the day is: TENACIOUS!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #2 on:** September 01, 2020, 04:02:48 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #3 on:** September 01, 2020, 04:06:03 AM »

I had a lot of strange dreams last night, the weirdest being one with Patricia Routledge that veered between England and Trenton, Ohio, where we ended up at a farm house eating a meal of burnt veggies.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #4 on:** September 01, 2020, 04:07:46 AM »

It's a rainy day today, and that's bad for my joints. I think I will attempt laundry.

Michael · « **Reply #5 on:** September 01, 2020, 04:14:34 AM »

Good morning everyone. And I hope everyone has a great September.

John G. · « **Reply #6 on:** September 01, 2020, 04:31:52 AM »

Good morning, all.

vixmom · « **Reply #7 on:** September 01, 2020, 05:27:05 AM »

Good morning

vixmom · « **Reply #8 on:** September 01, 2020, 05:27:13 AM »

That is all

elmore3003 · « **Reply #9 on:** September 01, 2020, 05:41:43 AM »

It's time to think about the laundry now that kitty cleanup is out of the way.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #10 on:** September 01, 2020, 05:44:38 AM »

Finding Rover, one of the three pet rescue sites where I've registered the cats' microchip numbers, wanted a new photo of Annabelle this morning, so I cropped one of DR ChasSmith's photos and updated all three sites.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #11 on:** September 01, 2020, 05:48:41 AM »

And so the other two do not accuse me of favoritism, here are the others.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #12 on:** September 01, 2020, 05:49:54 AM »

We need to get our DR ChasSmith into Manhattan for some more super shots!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #13 on:** September 01, 2020, 06:08:29 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #14 on:** September 01, 2020, 06:08:56 AM »

Good cropping there, DR Elmore!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #15 on:** September 01, 2020, 06:12:05 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on September 01, 2020, 05:49:54 AM

We need to get our DR ChasSmith into Manhattan for some more super shots!

How exotic such a thing seems right about now.....just the idea of going to visit someone.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #16 on:** September 01, 2020, 06:57:06 AM »

The laundry is in the washers. When the elevator came up to three, my jerk neighbor, the man with the bike, stepped off, so swathed in mask, gloves, and other paraphernalia I thought he was injured. I can only hope so.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #17 on:** September 01, 2020, 07:06:07 AM »

In the third grade, I played the part of TENACIOUS in Mr. Brewer's production of Julius Caesar.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #18 on:** September 01, 2020, 07:07:33 AM »

TOD:

Mr Van Cliburn - about whom we read in our Weekly Reader - was on The Ed Sullivan Show and played Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto in B Flat Minor [or part of it] - and it has been one of my favorite if not my favorite classical pieces ever since......

Jrand73 · « **Reply #19 on:** September 01, 2020, 07:08:08 AM »

1958 - so I was in the second grade......of school not the military.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #20 on:** September 01, 2020, 07:43:55 AM »

Not sure if I can name a favorite, but maybe these all were at the time, since they’re the earliest classical music discoveries I can recall this morning and I know I played the records a lot:

Beethoven - Symphony #5
Beethoven - Violin & Piano Sonata (the one in F)
Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and probably a few other pieces
Handel - Messiah
Haydn - “The Heavens Are Telling” from The Creation (no record, learned it from church choir).
Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite (before I knew about the ballet) and Sleeping Beauty because of the Disney film.
Grofe - Grand Canyon Suite

Van Cliburn might very well have been the first classical performer name I knew, too. Flor Peeters and Dr. Albert Schweitzer, at least in name recognition relating to organ. First known conductor was probably Stokowski because of Fantasia. This gets me up to around age nine or ten, when I discovered Gershwin and then Bernstein and things took off from there.

KevinH · « **Reply #21 on:** September 01, 2020, 08:17:37 AM »

Good morning!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #22 on:** September 01, 2020, 08:19:13 AM »

Nice kitty photos to start the day.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #23 on:** September 01, 2020, 08:47:54 AM »

Tonight/tomorrow on the MET Opera stream is Peter Grimes, which I have never seen, only listened to.

I hope they get around to showing Marnie. I also hope they didn't run it earlier and I missed it. Too bad it wasn't included in "20th Century and Beyond" week.

Next week is "French Week".

elmore3003 · « **Reply #24 on:** September 01, 2020, 09:03:06 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on September 01, 2020, 08:47:54 AM

Tonight/tomorrow on the MET Opera stream is Peter Grimes, which I have never seen, only listened to.

I hope they get around to showing Marnie. I also hope they didn't run it earlier and I missed it. Too bad it wasn't included in "20th Century and Beyond" week.

Next week is "French Week".

I believe the Peter Grimes is the dreadful John "I can't direct but people hire me" Doyle production. The Met director is a "flavor of the month" employer. I saw the Met production directed by Tyrone Guthrie back in the 1980s. It was glorious.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #25 on:** September 01, 2020, 09:03:35 AM »

And the laundry is finished. but not quite put away.

Laura · « **Reply #26 on:** September 01, 2020, 09:29:30 AM »

Good morning.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #27 on:** September 01, 2020, 09:30:23 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on September 01, 2020, 09:03:06 AM

Quote from: ChasSmith on September 01, 2020, 08:47:54 AM
Tonight/tomorrow on the MET Opera stream is Peter Grimes, which I have never seen, only listened to.

I hope they get around to showing Marnie. I also hope they didn't run it earlier and I missed it. Too bad it wasn't included in "20th Century and Beyond" week.

Next week is "French Week".

I believe the Peter Grimes is the dreadful John "I can't direct but people hire me" Doyle production. The Met director is a "flavor of the month" employer. I saw the Met production directed by Tyrone Guthrie back in the 1980s. It was glorious.

Oy, yes indeed, it's the Doyle. Thank you.

John G. · « **Reply #28 on:** September 01, 2020, 09:38:18 AM »

Isn’t TENACIOUS the dog that guards the River Styx?

Laura · « **Reply #29 on:** September 01, 2020, 09:38:32 AM »

So I took a few days off from my daily walk because of the terrible air quality -- and I gained a pound. Four miles per day is what I have to do to maintain my overweightedness.

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