Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on July 20, 2021, 12:04:09 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were notes into notes, and now it is time for you to post until the cows into cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: STENTORIAN!
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TCB's last post of the evening mentioned GEE, which no one else had. Read today's notes and you'll see how much I agree with that.
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Not sure why the photo in the notes is so tiny.
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If anyone can enlarge and post here, do so.
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If anyone can enlarge and post here, do so.
Did you scan an actual photo or was it sent to you? I think that that's the original size of the photo file. If it's enlarged, it'll just look really blurry. Otherwise, it's a very nice picture.
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Topic of the Day: I don't think that I've ever had a reunion with someone I haven't seen in a decade or longer. If I did, I can't remember.
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Yes, it was sent to me.
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I've sent images in texts and my app automatically smallerizes pictures unless I specify not to do that. I wonder if you could ask them to send it again and mention that it was quite tiny...maybe they can send the full-sized image.
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But now, I'm off to bed.
Have a good day, all!
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Good morning, all!
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This has been a rotten morning. I think my aged computer is about ready to die on me and thanks to those goddamned property taxes I cannot even think about replacing this one.
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I have a few things to try to accomplish around the apartment. The amount of things I'd like to accomplish and what gets done depends entirely on my body's willingness to cooperate.
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Good morning, all.
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Last night we watched the Glyndebourne production of two Ravel one-act operas, L'Heure Espagnole and L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, designed by Maurice Sendak and directed by Frank Corsaro. I believe I saw the same production of L'Enfant at City Opera, with its scrims and projected animations, but it was accompanied by a much funnier L'Heure Espagnole, a sly erotic comedy about an elderly clockmaker who every Thursday has to leave his pretty young wife to check on all the clocks in Toledo, the pretty wife, a studly strapping young muleteer, and her two suitors, a young poet and a rich old man.
On the Glyndebourne production, the cast is wonderful and very French, but the director's "concept," like those of Hal Prince at his worst, goes nowhere. The same is true of L'Enfant et les Sortilèges: good cast, funny designs for the most part, but too much of the very slender plot gets lost in murkiness.
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Good morning, friends.
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Good morning, all.
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Ravel’s operas sound good. Would love to hear/watch.
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My work computer is very slow this morning. And it’s now restarting.
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I, of course, had work to do.
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My schedule is completely off this morning. It confuses me.
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I've had a couple of great reunions with extended family members -- one especially in 2010 on a visit to Morgantown, WV. My favorite aunt and uncle (from Columbus) and I met up with a cousin I hadn't seen in over 40 years (she flew in from Columbia, MO), at our other more distant cousin's house in Morgantown for two wonderful days of touring their (and my mother's) home town, going through photographs and documents, and reminiscing like we were starved for it. There have been a few other such gatherings since, largely thanks to that one having been so successful, but that one remains the most memorable.
As for friends, not family, I think more of those have taken place in the online realm rather than in real life. The best in-person reunions were with my best friend from school who has lived in Santa Rosa, CA for 40 years. Sadly, his presence is now largely lost to us through some form of dementia that overtook him just within the past three years or so.
There have been other good reunions, but these are two of the most noteworthy.
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Ravel’s operas sound good. Would love to hear/watch.
They sure do!
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Well, it's confirmed -- the MET's free weekly streams will be history after this week:
Week 71
Final Week: Viewers’ Choice
Monday, July 19
Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro
Starring Renée Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli, Susanne Mentzer, Dwayne Croft, and Bryn Terfel, conducted by James Levine. Production by Jonathan Miller. From November 11, 1998.
Tuesday, July 20
Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci
Starring Tatiana Troyanos, Jean Kraft, Plácido Domingo, and Vern Shinall; Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, and Allan Monk, conducted by James Levine. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From April 5, 1978.
Wednesday, July 21
Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles
Starring Diana Damrau, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecień, and Nicolas Testé, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Production by Penny Woolcock. From January 16, 2016.
Thursday, July 22
Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Starring Erin Morley, Hibla Gerzmava, Kate Lindsey, Christine Rice, Vittorio Grigolo, and Thomas Hampson, conducted by Yves Abel. Production by Bartlett Sher. From January 31, 2015.
Friday, July 23
Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment
Starring Natalie Dessay, Felicity Palmer, Juan Diego Flórez,
and Alessandro Corbelli, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Production by Laurent Pelly. From April 26, 2008.
Saturday, July 24
Verdi’s Il Trovatore
Starring Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick, Yonghoon Lee, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Production by David McVicar. From October 3, 2015.
Sunday, July 25
Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Kathleen Kim, Stephanie Blythe, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Fabio Luisi. Production by David Alden. From December 8, 2012.
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#waitforit
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LOL!
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I wonder if any DR has an mp3 file of the Andre Kostelanetz Columbia recording of Harold Arlen's "Blues Opera?" This piece has haunted me since 1992!
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Good morning!
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HA!
I enjoyed the reunion story and photo in the notes.
I also very much enjoyed reading about MR BK's thoughts on his books. I think GEE would be a great movie but it would be hard to find actresses who wouldn't try to remold the characters to their own personalities...... THRILL RIDE would also be great!
I didn't mention the KRITZER books - because I'm afraid they would mess them up. When you really like a story - it's such a disappointment when the writer/director/producer decides to put his/their own spin on the what is a perfect story to begin with.
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Last night's choreography was an ordeal. Everyone decided that they didn't understand when they should start or finish everything....even though they were given MEASURE NUMBERS and they had their books in their hands.
There is also one idiot woman who says everything should begin on the 2 & 4 counts - although I have specifically instructed them to start on 1......
And of course then she gets the people around her going with her and everyone is off.
ANYWAY....between that and updating the website and approving the costumes and being cast as Kolenkhov in YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (aka the Bruce Kimmel role, since he would be perfect) I am as busy as a one-armed paper hanger....
I will be glad when this show is over.....and all I have to think about are my lines....and the publicity stories and photos and slideshows and the special dinner we're planning for our outgoing president....
THE END
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Hello, Page Two.
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I wonder if any DR has an mp3 file of the Andre Kostelanetz Columbia recording of Harold Arlen's "Blues Opera?" This piece has haunted me since 1992!
No, but that certainly sounds intriguing.
There are original LPs available. It's a 1958 release but appears to have been mono only. Hmm...
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I ordered one. If the vinyl is in truly good condition, I'll digitize it.
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DR TCB I suppose you wouldn't mind being trapped on a ship. Too many sea days and I want off ;D
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I guess the angelic side of kitties deserves a chance, too.
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Cute kitty.
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I'm pleased to announce that the audio edition of my play, JACK OAKIE, is now available via Amazon, audible.com and iTunes.
Jack Oakie’s forte was comedy. He appeared in over 100 motion pictures, mostly as a likable, somewhat dim-witted buffoon, and often in his early films, in a college setting.
Although he co-starred with the likes of Clara Bow, W. C. Fields, Bing Crosby, Alice Faye, Betty Grable, and Doris Day, his most durable performances were in THE CALL OF THE WILD (1935) with Clark Gable and Loretta Young, and THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940) in which he spoofed Benito Mussolini to Charlie Chaplin’s Adolph Hitler. That role earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Richard Travis delivers a brilliant performance as Oakie in the play, which is also available in paperback and Kindle editions. Performance rights are available.
https://www.amazon.com/Jack-Oakie-One-Person-Hollywood-Legends/dp/B099NXV4DZ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1626797654&sr=8-1
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I'm up, I'm up - five hours of sleep. Have lost a Kritzerland cast member - I was worried about her but I decided to take a chance - she used to be with us quite often, but not in years now. I was right to be worried. So, we're desperately trying to replace her, which is daunting as the first rehearsal is two days from today.
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I sent elmore the Blues Opera mp3s, which I have in iTunes, along with Hugh Martin's marvelous Grandma Moses Suite, also by Kostelanetz.
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I sent elmore the Blues Opera mp3s, which I have in iTunes, along with Hugh Martin's marvelous Grandma Moses Suite, also by Kostelanetz.
Downloaded and uploaded. Thank you!
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In 1992 or 93, after Babes in Toyland, Houston Grand Opera contacted me about Blues Opera. They were thinking about a tour of Porgy and Bess and wanted another piece for African-American actors to tour with it. Theyt asked me to look into both Blues Opera and its source, St Louis Woman, since I would be orchestrating it for them. So I schlepped out to Queens to an office of a woman representing Harold Arlen and looked over the Blues Opera vocal score. I sent Houston my report; I actually thought St Louis Woman was a better piece.
Nothing ever came of this, but I have friends working on the show right now, and another conductor friend just sent me an email asking me what I knew about the show. When Encores! announced they were doing it years ago, I took Rob Fisher, their MD then, to dinner and begged for bthe orchestration job. I gave him a copyt of my Houston report, and he hired Ralph Burns. He never returned the report.
After all of that, I had never heard the Kostelanetz recording, so now I will!
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Some story, Elmore. Too bad you didn’t get the job.
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I like the Hugh Martin Grandma Moses Suite.
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I'm up, I'm up - five hours of sleep. Have lost a Kritzerland cast member - I was worried about her but I decided to take a chance - she used to be with us quite often, but not in years now. I was right to be worried. So, we're desperately trying to replace her, which is daunting as the first rehearsal is two days from today.
Good luck finding someone.
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No luck so far.
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Very irritating.
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Unneeded drama.
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All drama should be ONSTAGE.
Vibes for MR BK to find the right person.
Think of people alphabetically and someone will come to you.
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Tonight we are only doing Pharaoh's Dream Explained and Stone The Crows - so there will be time to work on other things.
Unless the musical director spends an hour and half teaching those songs......
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I'm up, I'm up - five hours of sleep.
I should take a nap and try to catch up to you. If only I had five hours of sleep ;D
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Tuesday afternoon greetings! We visited paper crafting shops in Circleville and Ashville and are now settled in the Columbus ‘burbs.
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TOD: Chris was one of my best friends in high school. We both went to college at Michigan, but didn’t see much of each other until graduation day when we, quite by accident, processed into the arena side by side and sat together to receive our Bachelor’s degrees. We kept in touch pretty well after I moved to Ohio and she and her husband attended our wedding. We visited her family in the early ‘90s as they were moving into a new home in Michigan and then we lost touch. She and I reconnected just before our 50th high school reunion in 2018 and picked up right where we’d left off.
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All drama should be ONSTAGE.
Amen!
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I forgot to mention that we watched the first 2 episodes of Schmigadoon! (the only 2 that are available so far).
It's a thin premise, spread thinly. It generated a few gentle chuckles from me, but the DH declared that he didn't need to see any more episodes, and it is not terribly well executed. Kristin Chenoweth is stuck in a humorless, one-note harridan role.
The fun for me is listening for the classic songwriting models behind the contemporary material.
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Sad to read that Dover Publications, purveyor of affordable scores, has run into difficulty.
Dover Publications went bust. What happens now to their scores? - Slipped DiscSlipped Disc | The inside track on classical music and related cultures, by Norman Lebrecht (slippedisc.com) (https://slippedisc.com/2021/07/dover-publications-went-bust-what-happens-now-to-their-scores/)
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Yikes! A lull.
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But only a few more
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Will take us
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onward and upward
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THREE!
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Good night, friends.
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Today we should have been spending the afternoon & evening with our old neighbor in Ashland.
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At least we did something fun and went our with our neighbor/friends here.
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Been listening to music and am thinking about watching something.
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Unneeded drama.
My day in two words.
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We watched America’s Got Talent.
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Then I watched the College Bowl Show, which I really like.
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I also made the very last recipe in my Avoca Soups book. It was a bouillabaisse, snd it was spectacular. I changed up the seafood and used clams, scallops, shrimp and Dover sole. I had fennel and vermouth but no star anise on hand. Made a rouille (a spicy mayo with garlic and breadcrumbs) as well as croutons. Beautiful and delicious.
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I had to go back to work this evening and still haven’t caught up.
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I don’t like that.
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It doesn’t happen often.
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But it’s happening more frequently lately.
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It’s late.
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And I need to get to bed.
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No time for my book.
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Lawrence can keep until tomorrow.
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Good night, all.
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And vibes for us all.
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Finished with my viewing.
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There’s been a lot of unnecessary drama just recently
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I will spare you the details
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I apologize fir my absence today but it was unavoidable
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I am afraid I hav3 no news which I am in a position to share at this time
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I would like to carry is to the next page at least
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Nbu5nim not even sure if that is possible
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I was thinking about BKs boom to film question though
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I agree Gee would make an excellent film
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I would envision the Kritzer trllogy as a 3 season miniseries
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I envision the Hofstetter books as series as well, each book a different season
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I can barely keep my eyes open
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But at least we’re on page 4
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It’s up to ye west coast lads now
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Good night
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I bought some apples yesterday at Gelson's. A few hours ago I tried to eat one. There was something hugely wrong with the taste - my usual Envy brand. I swallowed the bite before realizing there was something really off. I hope it wasn't poisoned by some malevolent person or pesticide. I have never tasted an apple that tasted like this. Foul and fetid.
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I am having real issues with phlegm and feeling logy - I haven't had any real allergy attacks but I suspect it's related to allergies.
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Still haven't found a replacement.
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I've been listening to music by film composers this evening.
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Here is something I would really like to hear others opinions.
The other day on the news they said they had taken a survey of college students. The question was, “Are you proud to be an American?”
Only 38% percent said they were proud. That seems very strange to me.
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Last night's choreography was an ordeal. Everyone decided that they didn't understand when they should start or finish everything....even though they were given MEASURE NUMBERS and they had their books in their hands.
There is also one idiot woman who says everything should begin on the 2 & 4 counts - although I have specifically instructed them to start on 1......
And of course then she gets the people around her going with her and everyone is off.
ANYWAY....between that and updating the website and approving the costumes and being cast as Kolenkhov in YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (aka the Bruce Kimmel role, since he would be perfect) I am as busy as a one-armed paper hanger....
I will be glad when this show is over.....and all I have to think about are my lines....and the publicity stories and photos and slideshows and the special dinner we're planning for our outgoing president....
THE END
~~~Vibes of Coping for Jrand!!~~~
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Gratuitous Post #100!
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I sent elmore the Blues Opera mp3s, which I have in iTunes, along with Hugh Martin's marvelous Grandma Moses Suite, also by Kostelanetz.
Cool! I was just about to post that it's also available on CD (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00008O338/):
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/519aRTngy6L.jpg)
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Some story, Elmore. Too bad you didn’t get the job.
Ditto and ditto! :-\
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All drama should be ONSTAGE.
Amen!
Agreed!!
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Sad to read that Dover Publications, purveyor of affordable scores, has run into difficulty.
Dover Publications went bust. What happens now to their scores? - Slipped DiscSlipped Disc | The inside track on classical music and related cultures, by Norman Lebrecht (slippedisc.com) (https://slippedisc.com/2021/07/dover-publications-went-bust-what-happens-now-to-their-scores/)
That's terrible. :(
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I never bought any myself, but I remember classmates at Western Washington University using them, and seeing them in the music library when I worked there.
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We watched America’s Got Talent.
I've been recording the episodes, but I haven't been watching them. I need to ketchup on them...or delete them from my DVR. ::)
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Still haven't found a replacement.
~~~Replacement Vibes for BK!!~~~
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This evening, I did some shopping for my sister.
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She needed some things at Fred Meyer.
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I didn't find everything that she wanted, but I did get most of it.
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When I came back, I read a couple of chapters of my book.
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And now, I'm here...just waiting.
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For what, I know not.
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;)
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Last night's choreography was an ordeal. Everyone decided that they didn't understand when they should start or finish everything....even though they were given MEASURE NUMBERS and they had their books in their hands.
There is also one idiot woman who says everything should begin on the 2 & 4 counts - although I have specifically instructed them to start on 1......
And of course then she gets the people around her going with her and everyone is off.
ANYWAY....between that and updating the website and approving the costumes and being cast as Kolenkhov in YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (aka the Bruce Kimmel role, since he would be perfect) I am as busy as a one-armed paper hanger....
I will be glad when this show is over.....and all I have to think about are my lines....and the publicity stories and photos and slideshows and the special dinner we're planning for our outgoing president....
THE END
Seven posts. At least!
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Tempus fugit!
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PUUUUUUUSSSSSHHHHHH!
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Hi, Tom.
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C R A N B E R R I E S !
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Hello, George.
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No opinion on the survey?
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No opinion on the survey?
I can imagine that it's pretty accurate after what the country has been through over the last five or six years. ::)
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My mom is coming home tomorrow.
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She went to Spokane to visit her friend Margita.
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Correct, that's the CD I have.
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College kids are, for the most part, dolts.
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That's my opinion.
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And I don't care who knows it.
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Sometimes it smells like cigarette smoke in here. How is that possible?
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I know not.
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We need some damn ACTION around here.
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Listening to the soundtrack to Crime in the Streets by Franz Waxman.
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Here's an America's Test Kitchen video on The Foolproof Way to Make Boiled Corn on the Cob (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okZl55RUJbI).
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It's a post. :)