Topic: COMMUNAL AFFAIRS (Read 4432 times)

bk · « **on:** December 13, 2020, 12:36:46 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were communal and had affairs, and now it is time for you to post until the communal cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** December 13, 2020, 12:38:46 AM »

And the word of the day is: PASTICHE!

Jane · « **Reply #2 on:** December 13, 2020, 12:56:53 AM »

I think I will pass on the cookie dough. I might like it too much.

bk · « **Reply #3 on:** December 13, 2020, 01:11:30 AM »

The Butterfly has flown and I've moved on to its polar opposite, Kurt Weill's opera, Die Burgschaft, which is very Weill and since I love Weill I'm really enjoying it.

singdaw · « **Reply #4 on:** December 13, 2020, 03:18:50 AM »

Do they sell inedible cookie dough?

singdaw · « **Reply #5 on:** December 13, 2020, 03:34:19 AM »

Very much looking forward to Kritzerland. bk, you didn't mention it in the notes, but I'm assuming at the regular time?

singdaw · « **Reply #6 on:** December 13, 2020, 03:34:54 AM »

Wow, I didn't realize how talented Dino is. He not only plays the piano, but makes a great pizza sauce!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #7 on:** December 13, 2020, 03:57:07 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 13, 2020, 04:02:50 AM »

Last night I had three dreams I remembered vividly when I woke an hour ago, and now I only remember one of them. I was sharing an apartment with my friend Ben Davis, and we had both been away on jobs. While we were away, my friend Evans Haile had been staying there, and he left the place a mess. Very curious, since Evans is one of the neatest people I know.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #9 on:** December 13, 2020, 04:05:47 AM »

DR Laura, is this Leonard's first Christmas?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 13, 2020, 04:14:25 AM »

BK, have you seen Mirella Freni's film of Madame Butterfly? She's one of my favorite sopranos, and she's really quite wonderful in this. I'm not always a fan of Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's opera movies, but this and his Marriage of Figaro, with Freni as an adorable heroine, are quite wonderful.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #11 on:** December 13, 2020, 04:16:45 AM »

I have a bit of tidying up today before the cats and I loll about. Much as I prefer to watch the Kritzerland shows the day after, I think I will watch tonight.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 13, 2020, 04:23:48 AM »

PBS has removed Midsomer Murders - I think we were on Season 18 - from their current roster, so last night I dragged out Season One, and we watched the first two episodes, The Killings at Badgers Drift and Written In Blood. I had forgotten how wonderful and perverse those early episodes, adapted from novels by Caroline Graham by Anthony Horowitz who created Foyle's War, could be.

singdaw · « **Reply #13 on:** December 13, 2020, 05:04:06 AM »

That mother/son pair are creepy, indeed.

singdaw · « **Reply #14 on:** December 13, 2020, 05:07:16 AM »

Re: Butterfly

A former co-worker of mine played the silent role of Cio-Cio San's young son opposite Placido Domingo at the Met.

singdaw · « **Reply #15 on:** December 13, 2020, 05:08:23 AM »

Finished with my periodic early morning grocery run. I just love it - no one else in the store!

singdaw · « **Reply #16 on:** December 13, 2020, 05:42:32 AM »

Finished THE PROM last night. Totally agree with DR John G.'s assessment.

singdaw · « **Reply #17 on:** December 13, 2020, 05:45:52 AM »

This should put you in a holiday spirit!

KevinH · « **Reply #18 on:** December 13, 2020, 06:30:07 AM »

Good morning!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #19 on:** December 13, 2020, 06:31:27 AM »

Good morning, all.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #20 on:** December 13, 2020, 06:37:48 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on December 13, 2020, 05:04:06 AM

That mother/son pair are creepy, indeed.

The great Elizabeth Spriggs. I love her!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #21 on:** December 13, 2020, 06:38:44 AM »

For breakfast I had my first slice of seasonal fruitcake. It was deelish!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #22 on:** December 13, 2020, 06:40:40 AM »

Sunday.....I didn't get to The Prom last night - so maybe sometime today I shall watch it.

Before the Kritzerland show......

Jrand74 · « **Reply #23 on:** December 13, 2020, 06:41:17 AM »

There are a couple of basketball games I want to watch, but they are on early....so we shall see what we shall see.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #24 on:** December 13, 2020, 06:41:37 AM »

Last night I attacked the Fellini stack and watched La dolce vita, my first time in a couple of decades. I had last seen it on laserdisc, so a proper Blu-ray experience was just what the doctor ordered.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #25 on:** December 13, 2020, 06:44:05 AM »

Next up in the stack is 8 1/2, and tomorrow night’s looking like the time for that.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #26 on:** December 13, 2020, 06:47:20 AM »

Last Butterfly I’ve seen was the recent (current?) Met production in which the puppet is used. Seems like it has popped up on Great Performances a few times.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #27 on:** December 13, 2020, 06:48:26 AM »

I don’t know the Freni film version. Sounds good.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #28 on:** December 13, 2020, 06:51:36 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on December 13, 2020, 06:48:26 AM

I don’t know the Freni film version. Sounds good.

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle did several film version of operas: I've got four of them: Rigoletto, The Barber of Seville, Madame Butterfly, and The Marriage of Figaro. They all have wonderful moments.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #29 on:** December 13, 2020, 06:57:15 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on December 13, 2020, 06:48:26 AM

I don’t know the Freni film version. Sounds good.

The 2002(?) film, with my friend Richard Troxell as Pinkerton, is also quite good/

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