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[bk]

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were both moon-faced and starry-eyed, and now it is time for you to post until the moon-faced and starry-eyed cows come home.

[bk]

And the word of the day is: SNUGGERY!

[TCB]

Did you ask the midget if you could have his baked potato
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[George]

I looked up Susan Slept Here on IMDb, and saw that Debbie Reynolds was 22 years old when she made this movie.  Dick Powell was 28 years older than Debbie Reynolds!

[TCB]

I looked up Susan Slept Here on IMDb, and saw that Debbie Reynolds was 22 years old when she made this movie.  Dick Powell was 28 years older than Debbie Reynolds!

The age difference is the main plot point in the film.  Debbie is supposed to be seventeen.

[George]

I looked up Susan Slept Here on IMDb, and saw that Debbie Reynolds was 22 years old when she made this movie.  Dick Powell was 28 years older than Debbie Reynolds!

The age difference is the main plot point in the film.  Debbie is supposed to be seventeen.

But he's supposed to be 35??  Dick Powell was 50 years old at the time.

[George]

I just read the Trivia section and there's this bit of tid:

Dick Powell, whose character in the movie is 35 and says he can pass for 29, was actually 50 (and looked it). Debbie Reynolds' character is scandalously underage at 17, but she was actually 22 (and looked it). And Anne Francis, Powell's supposedly age appropriate multiply married fiancee, was actually only 24 (and looked it) just two years older than Reynolds.

[TCB]

Here is an idea for a topic du jour.

What word do you find is suddenly being used in every conversation by every individual from students to old people like Jack?  My nominee would be iconic!

Today I heard it three times on different TV shows and twice at the grocery store.

[bk]

Systemic.

[singdaw]

DR TCB - congratulations on adding to your family!

[George]

Here is an idea for a topic du jour.

What word do you find is suddenly being used in every conversation by every individual from students to old people like Jack?  My nominee would be iconic!

Today I heard it three times on different TV shows and twice at the grocery store.

Iconic is definitely overused.

[George]

Systemic.

Yup...been hearing that a lot lately, too.

[singdaw]

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[singdaw]

Here's a recipe which was served on the train line (The Empire Builder) that brought folks to Glacier National Park:

[singdaw]

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[singdaw]

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[singdaw]

à propos today's notes: I have sung the role of Top in Copland's The Tender Land.  The director had the idea that "Top" was short for "Carrot Top," so I had to dye my hair orange.

Gorgeous, gorgeous music from the end of his "Americana" period.

[singdaw]

Wishing you good sleep, DR George.

[singdaw]

And a better night's sleep for bk, too.

[George]

Wishing you good sleep, DR George.

Thanks, Singdaw!  And I hope you sleep well, too!

[George]

I'm off now, too.

Have a good day, all!

[elmore3003]

Good morning, all!

[elmore3003]

I slept well last night, until like Ebenezer Scrooge, I was visited by three nocturnal spirits, none of whom thankfully wanted to reform me. The first was Thatch, who dislikes being held but who loves to lie next to me. The second was Stella, a demon demanding food, and the third was Annabelle, who seemed unsure why she was climbing all over me.

[elmore3003]

DR TCB, a new kitty? Did I miss an earlier announcement of your intentions? What can you tell us about him?

[elmore3003]

BK, I love Street Scene, too, and I remember a great NYC Opera production from the late 1970s conducted by Mauceri. who knows the score really well.  Since I dislike the man, I have never heard his recording, and I like the TER recording, which is based on an English National Opera production, although a few American accents go far afield.

In the past twenty years I have seen productions at NYU and at some college in New Jersey.  This DVD with my friend Kip Wilborn as Sam is a Houston Grand Opera production taped in Germany.

[elmore3003]

DR Matthew, I was ready to murder Stella weeks ago, and she still lives, so I'm happy you and Leo have come to terms.

[elmore3003]

Since I love Messiah, I try to keep up on current recordings although I purchase few, and too many of the latest suffer from an overload of ornamentation and fast tempi.  My three favorites are these:

Sir Colin Davis' recording from the mid-1960s was the first to shake up the traditional, rather plodding Victorian approach to Händel, and it's really fine with nice tempi and no overload of ornamentation.

Charles Mackerras' recording is from about the same time, and it offer some nice alternates, such as the 12/8 verion of "Rejoice Greatly," and maybe a bit more ornamentation.  I have Mackerras' Oxford University Press edition of the vocal score for Händel's wonderful Semele.

John Butt's recording is less than ten years old, and I think it's the best of the current crop of ultra-baroque editions.

[John G.]

Good morning, all.

[elmore3003]

And one last word on Messiah.  I am very fond of the abridged version that Mozart arranged, and I like thius recording quite a lot.

The piece was revised to suit the current round of soloists each time Händel conducted the work.  It was Ebenezer Prout (1835-1909) who formalized the general Messiah performance sequence from Händel's score. Nicholas McGegan's recording, which has my late friend William Parker as his baritone soloist, includes every variant Händel wrote for the piece in its performances, and the listener can program what version he wishes to hear.

[elmore3003]

Good morning, DR JohnG!