Topic: RAINBOWS FOR ALI AND ME (Read 2612 times)

bk · « **on:** September 21, 2020, 12:29:42 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, you know the Ali and me story, and now it is time for you to post until the rainbow cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** September 21, 2020, 12:30:27 AM »

And the word of the day is: YARE!

George · « **Reply #2 on:** September 21, 2020, 12:40:54 AM »

A Very Happy Birthday to DR DearReaderLaura!!

George · « **Reply #3 on:** September 21, 2020, 12:42:22 AM »

~~~Vibes That Some Little Miracles Make Themselves Known To BK!!~~~

George · « **Reply #4 on:** September 21, 2020, 12:47:35 AM »

Today, I go back to work after unexpectedly being off for three days. I'm sure that I'll have a lot of e-mails to go through. I forgot to set up an automatic reply, or even a voice mail message. Oh, well...it's too late now.

George · « **Reply #5 on:** September 21, 2020, 01:00:22 AM »

Well, I'm off to bed.

Have a good day, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 21, 2020, 04:11:04 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #7 on:** September 21, 2020, 04:11:31 AM »

But YARE, Blanche, YARE in that wheelchair.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #8 on:** September 21, 2020, 04:12:55 AM »

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Happiest of Birthday Wishes to Our DR Laura !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #9 on:** September 21, 2020, 04:14:26 AM »

BK, I would love to see former DR Ben return to HHW. I'm happy to see DR singdaw has returned.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #10 on:** September 21, 2020, 04:15:20 AM »

DR singdaw, did you eat no solid food in hospital? I'm happy you are home in one piece.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #11 on:** September 21, 2020, 04:18:49 AM »

DR George, my dad died around 1:00am on a Thursday and we buried him on Saturday, I'm curious that your dad's services are about a week away from his death. I hope this week goes smoothly for your family. I loved the photo you posted on Facebook.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #12 on:** September 21, 2020, 04:20:08 AM »

I need to step out and post a utilities bill this morning, and it's time to drasg opt the vacuum for the work beyond the powers of a dustbuster.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 21, 2020, 04:27:45 AM »

BK, my recording of the St Matthew Passion is John Eliot Gardiner's; he and Sir Charles Mackerras are two of my favorite conductors, but I must say the lineup of singers on Klemperer's EMI recording is really impressive: Schwarzkopf, Ludwig, etc.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #14 on:** September 21, 2020, 04:33:41 AM »

The whole period music performance movement was good when it began around 1964 because it was time to kick the dust off Victorian approaches to music before 1850 or so. I much prefer Mackerras' and Davis' recordings of Händel's Messiah over the many before then because it was no longer a stodgy church piece; it suddenly danced, and a good conductor knows when the music should move so that the serious moments have weight. Too many conductors today - in serious music, Broadway, and concert - don't know this and speed through everything.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #15 on:** September 21, 2020, 04:35:06 AM »

Today, in what may be called the period instrument movement, everything is too often rushed. If yopu find the Klemperer is what your prefer for Bach, go for it. I would like to hear it, but I must confess that Bach's vocal music does not appeal much to me, although the Brandenberg Concerti put a huge smile on my face. I think it's because I feel Bach's vocal writing has an instrumental approach where Händel's writing seems to flow more naturally. It's all a matter of personal taste.

I see that Bernstein conducted an abridged St Matthew Passion. His cast doesn't impress me, but I don't like his work in baroque music. He seems happier in romantic, late-romantic, and contemporary music.

Druxy · « **Reply #16 on:** September 21, 2020, 04:40:23 AM »

We watched the Emmy Awards last night.

Turned the show off after a half-hour.

Looking at the winner's list this morning, there was not one show that we had seen.

Talk about being out-of-the-loop.

Michael · « **Reply #17 on:** September 21, 2020, 04:48:22 AM »

Good morning to all

Michael · « **Reply #18 on:** September 21, 2020, 04:48:47 AM »

Happy birthday to you DR Laura.

Michael · « **Reply #19 on:** September 21, 2020, 04:52:44 AM »

Quote from: Druxy on September 21, 2020, 04:40:23 AM

We watched the Emmy Awards last night.

Turned the show off after a half-hour.

Looking at the winner's list this morning, there was not one show that we had seen.

Talk about being out-of-the-loop.

I do recommend that you take a look at Schitt’s Creek.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #20 on:** September 21, 2020, 04:53:13 AM »

One last thought on the period instrument movement: this is what led to much of the work I did, that curiosity to hear what popular song might have sounded like to the people who wrote them. When On Your Toes was revived in the early 1980s, Hans Spialek - the original orchestrator for Rodgers' Babes In Arms, I Married An Angel, Boys from Syracuse, Pal Joey, and other shows - was terrified that his orchestrations would be laughed out of the theatre because it would sound old-fashioned. I believe this revival, as well as the 1975 revival of Very Good Eddie and the Houston Grand Opera revival of Show Boat were the first shows to let an audience hear a close approximation of what was heard when these shows opened. John McGlinn wasn't the first, but he was the one who got the praise for treating popular song historically.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #21 on:** September 21, 2020, 05:12:57 AM »

Mildred Natwick
Dangerous Liaisons
The Court Jester
Barefoot in the Park
The Trouble with Harry

Robert Redford
Barefoot in the Park
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
All the President’s Men
Jeremiah Johnson

Jane Fonda
Barefoot in the Park
Cat Ballou
Coming Home
They Shoot Horses, Don’t they
Nine to Five

elmore3003 · « **Reply #22 on:** September 21, 2020, 05:16:06 AM »

I knew Mildred Natwick slightly from phone conversations at the Drama Book Shop. She died in 1994, so it must haver been between 1990 and 1993. She had an account and used to call to place orders. She told me I should come for tea, and I wish I had. One of my best college friends was the assistant to costumer Jane Greenwood, who dressed 70 Girls 70, and he adored her.

singdaw · « **Reply #23 on:** September 21, 2020, 06:04:01 AM »

I love Bach's Saint Matthew Passion. My favorite recordings lately atr the original John Elliot Gardner, and also the one by Helmuth Rilling, where the choir is exceptionally clean and clear.

singdaw · « **Reply #24 on:** September 21, 2020, 06:05:28 AM »

No, DR elmore3003, I was only allowed broth and jello.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #25 on:** September 21, 2020, 06:40:02 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #26 on:** September 21, 2020, 06:46:15 AM »

My first real exposure to the St. Matthew Passion was at Meadowbrook in ‘68, where Roger Wagner of the Roger Wagner Chorale led a performance at the end of the season. I wasn’t involved with it, but I sat in on a rehearsal and attended the performance. I thought it was beautiful, but remembered hardly anything of it till listening to a couple of recordings some years later. I would go into the Music Room to see which one I have, if indeed I still have one, but there’s a cat on me.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #27 on:** September 21, 2020, 06:51:31 AM »

I do know I don’t have Klemperer, and I’m curious now to hear it. I also like the idea of Richter, and of the suggestions of DRs elmore and singdaw. Robert Shaw might have been my man, but he never recorded it.

singdaw · « **Reply #28 on:** September 21, 2020, 06:51:38 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on September 21, 2020, 06:46:15 AM

but there’s a cat on me.

So perfect in so many ways!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #29 on:** September 21, 2020, 07:01:17 AM »

Sorry to hear about the crappy Blu-ray release of Barefoot in the Park.

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