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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were 124% and welcomed the lovelier than lovely April, and now it is time for you to post until the foolish cows come home.
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« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2021, 12:28:39 AM »

And the word of the day is: JOCULAR!
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Re: 124% AND WELCOME TO THE LOVELIER THAN LOVELY APRIL - NO FOOLING
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2021, 02:30:30 AM »

And the word of the day is: JOCULAR!

I knew one in High School.
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« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2021, 02:30:42 AM »

Good morning, friends.
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Re: 124% AND WELCOME TO THE LOVELIER THAN LOVELY APRIL - NO FOOLING
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2021, 02:37:31 AM »

Like bk mentioned the other day, I kind of dread going on the Internet on April Fool's Day.
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« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2021, 02:52:04 AM »

I have a friend from college who, during COVID isolation, has turned himself into a fancy bread baker.
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« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2021, 03:02:02 AM »

Morning at DR elmore3003's house:
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« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2021, 03:27:36 AM »

I have a friend from college who, during COVID isolation, has turned himself into a fancy bread baker.

This is very pretty.
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« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2021, 04:02:16 AM »

Morning at DR elmore3003's house:

That is so Stella!
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« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2021, 04:02:37 AM »

And good morning, all!
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« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2021, 04:09:51 AM »

At 3:30 Annabelle came down from her bookcase aerie with every breath sounding like a loud fart.  Her nose was completely clogged with dried gunk. I chased her down, cleaned her nose with a wet cotton ball, and gave her a dose of Lysine. She was amused by none of this. I got back to bed around 4:15, and had a long dream that Annabelle, Thatch, and I were at ther Miami University Library and I saw several old (and now late) friends, including my wonderful boss Helen Ball.  When we left, Thatch and I waited in the lobby while several librarians brought armfulls of cats to me while I looked for Annabelle.  We found her.  Then we were riding to Middletown with my Dad and his girlfriend. Qw aropped at a garage where father and GF had a fight, she slapped him, and walked out.
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« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2021, 04:13:30 AM »

DR JohnG, I'm happy the Porter review was not a complete disaster. Yes, "Say It With Gin" was my first orchestration when we began work on The New Yorkers in October or November 2017.  Josh and I had a deal that we would never reveal who scored what except for "Love For Sale" and "I Happen To Like New York," so don't tell anyone I revealed this one's mine, too.
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« Reply #13 on: April 01, 2021, 04:20:40 AM »

BK, in my various jobs digging into 1930s musicals of Cole Porter and Richard Rodgers, it's my observation that when it came to the "ballets" in their shows, they actually composed the music. It was the dances that accompanied the songs that were arranged by the orchestrator or his ghostwriter.  So, Rodgers composed "La Princesse Zenobia" and "Slaughter on 10th Avenue" for On Your Toes, but another did the dance arrangements for "On Your Toes," "There's a Small Hotel" and other songs. Unlike later, he wrote out the entire scores.

"The Carousel Waltz" was actually a suite of waltzes he wrote in thew 1930s and I believe the orriginal score may be in the Rodgers Collection of the Library of Congress. I have never seen the manuscript, but it's my belief that the wonderful opening of the "Carousel Walt," which sounds a bit like a calliope warming up, may have been arranged by Russell Bennett, the show's original orchestrator.
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« Reply #14 on: April 01, 2021, 04:26:23 AM »

Hans Spialek, who orchestrated Om Your Toes, orchestrated The Boys From Syracuse, and for the fantastic "Sing For Your Supper" Chappell's Latin American dance arranger Menotti Salta was brought in to arrange the rhumba following the song.
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« Reply #15 on: April 01, 2021, 04:29:08 AM »

That's enough of me for now!
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« Reply #16 on: April 01, 2021, 04:30:02 AM »

I forgot! The unemployment situation remains a complete mess. Perhaps Suad will have good news today.
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« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2021, 05:37:30 AM »

Good morning, all.
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« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2021, 05:39:02 AM »

Hans Spialek, who orchestrated Om Your Toes, orchestrated The Boys From Syracuse, and for the fantastic "Sing For Your Supper" Chappell's Latin American dance arranger Menotti Salta was brought in to arrange the rhumba following the song.

Salta did a fantastic job with that little rhumba numba. (A Cole Porter reference.)
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« Reply #19 on: April 01, 2021, 05:53:11 AM »

Fascinating posts, DR elmore3003.
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« Reply #20 on: April 01, 2021, 05:54:55 AM »

Does anyone have the old OED (Oxford English Dictionary), the one that was in two volumes with an included magnifying glass?

That edition seems to have been replaced by an online subscription.
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« Reply #21 on: April 01, 2021, 05:58:03 AM »

30 CDs for under $50? That's a pretty great deal!
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« Reply #22 on: April 01, 2021, 06:05:31 AM »

Happy Birthday, Sergei (Rachmaninoff)!
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« Reply #23 on: April 01, 2021, 06:07:17 AM »

Good morning, all.
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« Reply #24 on: April 01, 2021, 06:10:51 AM »

I'd love to hear those Rodgers scores. I'm only familiar with Slaughter on 10th Avenue.
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« Reply #25 on: April 01, 2021, 06:18:35 AM »

Does anyone have the old OED (Oxford English Dictionary), the one that was in two volumes with an included magnifying glass?

That edition seems to have been replaced by an online subscription.

That's one of those things I used to think I just had to have. After years of waffling on it, about the time I decided to look for a copy is, I think, about when they were transitioning to publishing it only online, so it was already getting hard to find one for a reasonable price. Then, the more I thought about it, the less I thought I'd ever actually use it, so I crossed that off my list.

But it always seemed such an attractive thing to own. And wasn't it always - or very often - being offered for very little money when you joined a book club or something?
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« Reply #26 on: April 01, 2021, 06:19:54 AM »

 :)
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« Reply #27 on: April 01, 2021, 06:20:25 AM »

HAH!! Good one.
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« Reply #28 on: April 01, 2021, 07:02:54 AM »

Friends on FB have been offering suggestions for an April 1 playlist.

So far we've got:

Dionne Warwick, The April Fools
Simon & Garfunkel, April, Come She Will
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« Reply #29 on: April 01, 2021, 07:03:04 AM »

Let's move on.
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