Topic: PROJECT ONE BEGINS (Read 2915 times)

elmore3003 · « **Reply #30 on:** January 12, 2021, 07:44:30 AM »

At 9:00 I ordered groceries from Fairway and gave them five hours delivery time. By 10:00 the delivery arrived! I'm going to make chili today.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #31 on:** January 12, 2021, 07:45:48 AM »

Page 2 Dance!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #32 on:** January 12, 2021, 07:59:32 AM »

I'm in complete agreement as to the often poor camera decisions made in opera telecasts.

My first attendance at a movie theater of a MET "Live in HD" performance was around ten years ago, for Berlioz's La damnation de Faust. It was my first time to see it staged, and this one had some interesting original ideas. Well, the ideas were all fine by me, but I was frustrated at the relative lack of shots from the audience perspective. These things are staged, compositionally (in the photographic sense) for the opera house, and t's maddening to have the audience's perspective given such short shrift in favor of claustrophobic close-ups and/or, as DR Elmore said, completely irrelevant images.

I don't know if that one was a product of Kirk Browning or someone else. It just always comes up in my memory as one of the disappointments along these lines.

I agree with BK about the presentation of the 1982 Hansel and Gretel being an exception, but Mr. Browning (or someone) did indeed mar it in one respect -- the cutting away over that gorgeous overture being played so magnificently, and up to a point captured on video so beautifully, to a primitive and completely uninteresting (to me) "gallery" of costume designs. That will forever infuriate me.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #33 on:** January 12, 2021, 08:01:36 AM »

That is one HELL of a bathroom story, DR Elmore.

singdaw · « **Reply #34 on:** January 12, 2021, 08:02:40 AM »

ChasSmith · « **Reply #35 on:** January 12, 2021, 08:15:13 AM »

DR Elmore, fellow Stratas aficionado --

I wasn't aware of that CD, but do you also have her MET Bartered Bride on DVD?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #36 on:** January 12, 2021, 08:22:03 AM »

Yes DR DRUXY I enjoyed your performance in WORLD'S FAIR as I always do.

Yes DR TCB Mr. Russell also appears in the movie.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #37 on:** January 12, 2021, 08:23:00 AM »

DR TCB I am waiting for the mail - perhaps we shall both be stimulated today....since our chex were supposed to mailed on the same day.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #38 on:** January 12, 2021, 08:24:08 AM »

I concur with all posters and MR BK on the frustration of the work of some of the Television Directors of Stage Productions.

I like the term Geography Shot.....

Ginny · « **Reply #39 on:** January 12, 2021, 08:28:27 AM »

Tuesday morning greetings! It was brought to my attention during our AAUW meeting last night (on Zoom) that I had not posted the November and December newsletters to our website. Not sure how I missed that step - twice! - but I've spent some time this morning taking care of it.

singdaw · « **Reply #40 on:** January 12, 2021, 08:34:05 AM »

Thanks for all the bathroom well wishes.

Management's plans for today are to run water in all of the bathrooms above ours. When it starts pouring here, we'll know where the problem is. At least they're doing something, but it will mean more water and clean up. And the chance of the ceiling falling in. It's already puckering.

singdaw · « **Reply #41 on:** January 12, 2021, 08:34:56 AM »

Cringed (and chuckled) a bit at your amazing story, DR elmore3003.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #42 on:** January 12, 2021, 08:44:21 AM »

No stimulation in the mailbox today.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #43 on:** January 12, 2021, 08:52:46 AM »

I had my own bathroom ceiling adventure in my little Beverly Hills apartment in the late 1970s. It was a small two-story building, and I was on the first floor. One day the gal's bathtub over mine decided to run into my apartment. The leak was right over the bathtub itself, and was the fault of the pipes. The plumbing was fixed the next day, I think, but I do remember it took the stingy landlady considerable time to get someone in to repair my ceiling which was an ugly bulging mess for a while.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #44 on:** January 12, 2021, 08:54:14 AM »

The Stingy Landlady needs to be the title of something.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #45 on:** January 12, 2021, 10:16:36 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on January 12, 2021, 08:15:13 AM

DR Elmore, fellow Stratas aficionado --

I wasn't aware of that CD, but do you also have her MET Bartered Bride on DVD?

I do. I did not like the set design.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #46 on:** January 12, 2021, 10:29:48 AM »

I spent the morning listening to the new Anyone Can Whistle. I followed the recording with my vocal score (actually, John McGlinn's score, signed by Sondheim and Lansbury), and it is not complete. There are missing snippets here and there, particularly in the Cookie Chase. The 6/8 section near the end is out. This section was one of the cuts Lieberson made in the LP of the Broadway cast - his edits were good - but the CD release of the original cast restored the cuts he made in the ballet, and may be more complete than the new recording.

I actually enjoyed quite a lot of the recording, and the performances have their moments. I wasn't crazy about Maria Friedman's voice when she began, but I actually liked her monologue and "There Won't Be Trumpets" more than I thought I would, and I liked her title song very much. Julia McKenzie is better than I thought from the track posted on Facebook, but I'm not sure I would have cast John Barrowman; he's fine, but Harry Guardino's rougher voice, particularly in "Everybody Says Don't," makes me want to hear a voice with more heft in the role.

singdaw · « **Reply #47 on:** January 12, 2021, 10:31:57 AM »

Thanks for your thoughts, DR elmore3003. Always illuminating.

singdaw · « **Reply #48 on:** January 12, 2021, 10:32:12 AM »

vixmom · « **Reply #49 on:** January 12, 2021, 10:52:47 AM »

I am a cultural cretin with no knowledge of opera

Jane · « **Reply #50 on:** January 12, 2021, 10:53:26 AM »

Quote from: TCB on January 12, 2021, 03:54:49 AM

I fell asleep, and then slept for one hour. Now I am wide awake. I am afraid to look in the mirror, I think I may have turned into DR Jane!

If so I feel very sorry for you.

Jane · « **Reply #51 on:** January 12, 2021, 10:56:35 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 08:34:05 AM

Thanks for all the bathroom well wishes.

Management's plans for today are to run water in all of the bathrooms above ours. When it starts pouring here, we'll know where the problem is. At least they're doing something, but it will mean more water and clean up. And the chance of the ceiling falling in. It's already puckering.

CONTINUED VIBES! MAY THEY FIND THE LEAK WITHOUT YOUR CEILING CAVING IN!

George · « **Reply #52 on:** January 12, 2021, 10:57:47 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 03:41:19 AM

~~~PROJECT ONE VIBES~~~ for bk and company!

~~~Ditto!!~~~

George · « **Reply #53 on:** January 12, 2021, 10:58:06 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 03:50:39 AM

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Safe Travel Vibes for our DR JohnG! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~~~Ditto!!~~~

George · « **Reply #54 on:** January 12, 2021, 10:58:40 AM »

Quote from: TCB on January 12, 2021, 03:54:49 AM

I fell asleep, and then slept for one hour. Now I am wide awake. I am afraid to look in the mirror, I think I may have turned into DR Jane!

~~~Sleep Vibes for Tom!!~~~

Jane · « **Reply #55 on:** January 12, 2021, 10:59:46 AM »

At least when the neighborhood flooded our guest bedroom & bathroom his wife had the key to our place. By the time we returned home from Greenland the worst part of the work was over. We missed the constant sound of heavy duty fans blowing. People tell me the sound is enough to drive you crazy and impossible to sleep through.

I think the fans ran for a week.

Jane · « **Reply #56 on:** January 12, 2021, 11:06:11 AM »

For those of you who don't remember, my father used to eat lunch at Bruce's father's restaurant at least once a week. We always went there for lunch when I spent the day with my father at his office.

Jane · « **Reply #57 on:** January 12, 2021, 11:06:25 AM »

When I first took drama at Hamilton High my father shared lots of information about Bruce knowing we would meet. I had fun with that until I told Bruce how I knew. I was very shy but knowing his father and having a bit of background gave me the courage to walk up and talk to him.

Jane · « **Reply #58 on:** January 12, 2021, 11:06:40 AM »

Fun memories.

Jane · « **Reply #59 on:** January 12, 2021, 11:06:51 AM »

I am mentioning this as my father would have been 107 today if he were alive. Making it to 90 was pretty good.

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