Topic: A MESS OF MASSENET (Read 3141 times)

bk · « **on:** January 09, 2021, 12:16:45 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were a mess of Massenet, and now it is time for you to post until the miss of cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** January 09, 2021, 12:17:28 AM »

And the word of the day is: BAKSHEESH!

bk · « **Reply #2 on:** January 09, 2021, 12:46:43 AM »

I figured out how to fix the calendar, so that's fine again. Wrote another couple of pages, so just two more to go, which I'll do after I shower.

Jane · « **Reply #3 on:** January 09, 2021, 12:54:05 AM »

I am glad you coukd fix the calendar.

bk · « **Reply #4 on:** January 09, 2021, 02:14:40 AM »

Sixteen pages, so that's good. That's it for tonight. I'll listen to a little more music and be in bed early, by two-thirty.

bk · « **Reply #5 on:** January 09, 2021, 02:16:33 AM »

The web guy said we'd have to wait until Monday, but I had a feeling it was something simple, so I went into the admin panel, found Calendar, went to that page and they had a year range that the calendar would be good for. It began when the board began, but the final year was set for 2020. So, I changed that to 2025, clicked save and voila, calendar back. I let the web guy know.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 09, 2021, 03:51:29 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 09, 2021, 03:55:27 AM »

It was the night of ankle aches. For some reason my left ankle was not in a good mood last night, and I was awake too much because of it. Some time around 1:45 I finally decided to take a Tramadol - which is really good but it's an opioid and I take it very seldom - and slept fine until 5:00 or so when Annabelle descended from her aerie, and she and Stella decided to wrestle on top of me.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 09, 2021, 03:56:31 AM »

I plan to spend the day, if possible, lolling about with my three little kittens and the telly.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 09, 2021, 04:05:13 AM »

BK, Massenet, like Gounod, composed a ton of operas, but some like Esclarmonde, written for one of Massenet's mistresses with a trick voice, faded with the singer until Richard Bonynge revived it for Joan Sutherland. I also suspect that Manon was so popular that it eclipsed most of the others.

Manon, like Puccini's Manon Lescaut, is based on the 18th century novel by the Abbé Prévost. I prefer the Massenet over the Puccini.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #10 on:** January 09, 2021, 04:07:43 AM »

DR JohnG, I am not surprised that so many Republicans still support Trump. That party has only proved in the past four years that their members are not the brightest bulbs in the lamp.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #11 on:** January 09, 2021, 04:29:47 AM »

BK, you haven't mentioned in your operatic encounters Benjamin Britten, and I've been thinking that, after listening to Krasa's Brundibar, you might like Britten's opera for children and adults, Noye's Fludde. This work really moves me to tears by its imagination, heart, and beauty; by the time the audience joins in singing the Navy Hymn (Eternal Father, strong to save) to calm the animals on the ark during the storm, I'm a complete mess.

Britten's live recording has some echo, but the three adults (Noah, Mrs Noah, and the Voice of God) and the six boys and girls playing Noah's sons and daughters-in-law are, as Goldilocks would say, just right.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #12 on:** January 09, 2021, 06:56:46 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #13 on:** January 09, 2021, 06:58:41 AM »

Hmm...I have to see if I can help someone with a dying laptop. Back later.

KevinH · « **Reply #14 on:** January 09, 2021, 07:00:01 AM »

Good morning!

KevinH · « **Reply #15 on:** January 09, 2021, 07:01:32 AM »

Sorry to hear about Michael Apted. I thoroughly enjoyed the UP series and, like JohnG, have yet to see 63 Up.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #16 on:** January 09, 2021, 08:03:17 AM »

Back!

Now, if only I had something brilliant to say...

singdaw · « **Reply #17 on:** January 09, 2021, 08:30:36 AM »

That's never stopped me.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #18 on:** January 09, 2021, 08:35:07 AM »

I want a possum hat.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #19 on:** January 09, 2021, 08:36:00 AM »

Thanks for the Balanchine links DR ELMORE. I enjoyed them all. Mr Hershy Kay, if I am correct, did the orchestrations for the original CANDIDE - which is still my favorite recording of the material....

Jrand73 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 09, 2021, 08:37:18 AM »

.....it could also be that a large percentage of the Republicans have abandoned the party in the last few years......80% of 40 is < than 80% of 100.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #21 on:** January 09, 2021, 08:37:39 AM »

I changed my affiliation to Independent in 2018.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #22 on:** January 09, 2021, 08:38:13 AM »

TOD:

ROOT BEER BARRELS and DUM DUM SUCKERS.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #23 on:** January 09, 2021, 08:38:35 AM »

Perhaps my check will come in the mail today.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #24 on:** January 09, 2021, 08:39:25 AM »

I am hoping there are a few good bassetball games on today....I haven't checked the schedule.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #25 on:** January 09, 2021, 08:56:12 AM »

Quote from: Jrand70 on January 09, 2021, 08:36:00 AM

Thanks for the Balanchine links DR ELMORE. I enjoyed them all. Mr Hershy Kay, if I am correct, did the orchestrations for the original CANDIDE - which is still my favorite recording of the material....

Yes. He also orchestrated the dances and some songs in On The Town, and a lot of shows, including 110 in the Shade. I think he was a genius, but the guys at musicians union, Local 802, told me he was quite the sonofabitch. He once did a show, they claimed, where he hated the producer so much that he changed every song in 4/4 to 2/4 and made twice what he would have.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #26 on:** January 09, 2021, 09:03:29 AM »

For Caedmon Records, Hershy Kay arranged the music for a very sophisticated and funny album of Mother Goose, with Cyril Ritchard, Celeste Holm, and Boris Karloff. It's one of my most favorite recordings ever. Kay's arrangements are witty and brilliant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrhH8oKQ74M&list=PLPw285N9oBgy0Sgn2Ev-ujuntUqT4_Q2q

Jrand73 · « **Reply #27 on:** January 09, 2021, 09:11:43 AM »

LOL.......you makez your money the way you canz.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #28 on:** January 09, 2021, 09:12:13 AM »

I think I had that MG album......or my brothers did.

Ginny · « **Reply #29 on:** January 09, 2021, 09:57:07 AM »

Saturday afternoon greetings! I'm about to commence a FaceTime call with my friend Rebecca...

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