Topic: BOOKS INTO MOVIES (Read 3873 times)

bk · « **on:** July 20, 2021, 12:04:09 AM »

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.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** July 20, 2021, 12:05:08 AM »

And the word of the day is: STENTORIAN!

bk · « **Reply #2 on:** July 20, 2021, 12:07:12 AM »

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.

bk · « **Reply #3 on:** July 20, 2021, 12:07:29 AM »

Not sure why the photo in the notes is so tiny.

bk · « **Reply #4 on:** July 20, 2021, 12:07:45 AM »

If anyone can enlarge and post here, do so.

George · « **Reply #5 on:** July 20, 2021, 12:19:12 AM »

Quote from: bk on July 20, 2021, 12:07:45 AM

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.

George · « **Reply #6 on:** July 20, 2021, 12:20:20 AM »

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.

bk · « **Reply #7 on:** July 20, 2021, 12:34:17 AM »

Yes, it was sent to me.

George · « **Reply #8 on:** July 20, 2021, 12:39:58 AM »

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.

George · « **Reply #9 on:** July 20, 2021, 12:55:30 AM »

But now, I'm off to bed.

Have a good day, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 20, 2021, 04:23:20 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 20, 2021, 04:24:50 AM »

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.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #12 on:** July 20, 2021, 04:26:40 AM »

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.

John G. · « **Reply #13 on:** July 20, 2021, 04:29:20 AM »

Good morning, all.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 20, 2021, 04:41:46 AM »

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.

singdaw · « **Reply #15 on:** July 20, 2021, 05:10:28 AM »

Good morning, friends.

singdaw · « **Reply #16 on:** July 20, 2021, 05:12:33 AM »

ChasSmith · « **Reply #17 on:** July 20, 2021, 05:26:56 AM »

Good morning, all.

John G. · « **Reply #18 on:** July 20, 2021, 05:40:51 AM »

Ravel’s operas sound good. Would love to hear/watch.

John G. · « **Reply #19 on:** July 20, 2021, 05:41:38 AM »

My work computer is very slow this morning. And it’s now restarting.

John G. · « **Reply #20 on:** July 20, 2021, 05:42:08 AM »

I, of course, had work to do.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 20, 2021, 05:45:48 AM »

My schedule is completely off this morning. It confuses me.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #22 on:** July 20, 2021, 05:51:06 AM »

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.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #23 on:** July 20, 2021, 05:51:27 AM »

Quote from: John G. on July 20, 2021, 05:40:51 AM

Ravel’s operas sound good. Would love to hear/watch.

They sure do!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #24 on:** July 20, 2021, 05:56:01 AM »

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.

singdaw · « **Reply #25 on:** July 20, 2021, 06:02:45 AM »

#waitforit

ChasSmith · « **Reply #26 on:** July 20, 2021, 06:04:41 AM »

elmore3003 · « **Reply #27 on:** July 20, 2021, 06:45:03 AM »

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!

KevinH · « **Reply #28 on:** July 20, 2021, 07:13:09 AM »

Good morning!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #29 on:** July 20, 2021, 07:14:44 AM »

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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