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Morning. All night party in the hood after local team won the footy finals
Color me excited!
I just got a flyer from the BPO (Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra) outlining the upcoming season concerts. There are two that I would like to attend because they are on a Sunday afternoon. Additionally, the BPO concerts are in Buffalo's "Kleinhan's Music Hall" It's not a spectacular, Gothic, or Rococco, glitzy gold leaf overadorned palace but has simple graceful curves of 30s Art Deco design lines and excellent acoustics.
I don't like evening concerts where I can't drive home in 20 minutes on familar roads and would have to get a hotel room. That makes them too dangerous and too expensive for me. Getting home from Buffalo after an 8:00PM concert ending at 11:00PM takes about an hour and a half of unfamilar city/Interstate/rural roads, well after my bedtime, and and well into my night-vision problems. So, Sunday afternoon concerts are ideal for me.
The concert I'd really like to attend is in February but spending $90 on a concert ticket weeks before driving 70 miles to Buffalo in February is an iffy proposition at best.
The program includes Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQNymNaTr-Y which always makes a fantastic event. Scherherazade is always played with a very large orchestra, lots of brass, drums, extra everything. Very big sound. This is one of those "must hear at least once in your lifetime" pieces. I've heard it live three times already but never in the Kleinhans Music Hall acoustics and think it's worth the trip. I'd like to get prime seats but that means ordering early. I guess I'll have to check into refund policy in case I have to cancel because of blizzardy weather.
But later in the spring is Dvorak's Symphony #9 "From the New World". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HClX2s8A9IE One of my all time favorites that I've heard on recordings for well over 50 years but never live, for one reason or another. I'm sure I will attend this performance.
I can't say enough about my impression of the acoustics in the Kleinhan's Music Hall. I've been there a total of three times now, and from my usual seat near front center balcony I close my eyes and I think I'm standing right behind the conductor. The music is not way "down there" on stage as it is in other theaters I've attended, it is instead hanging right in front of me and to my left and to my right and I'm swimming in it. Remember the TV commercial for audio speakers where the guy is sitting in a chair and his tie and hair are blowing backwards? That's what the acoustics in the KMH are like when the orchestra fires up a powerful piece like Scheherazade or Dvorak's "New World" Symphony. And going to the KMH is a much more classy experience than going to the Chautauqua Amphitheater. No hard bench seats, no screaming kids, no barking dogs, no mosquitos. I dress nicer, I have a glass of champagne during intermission, and I don't have to walk a quarter mile uphill or ride a crowded bus back to my car. At the KMH, my car is 50 feet from the exit door. Color me excited!
Kleinhan's Music Hall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleinhans_Music_Hall : excerpt from the Wikipedia article "... was recognized as one of the greatest concert halls ever built in the United States". It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989 and "is renowned for its acoustical excellence and graceful architecture."
BPO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Philharmonic_Orchestra
The country formerly known as Britain? There are the occasional welsh language poetry readings in Melbourne at the town hall
(this isn't one of them)
..OK here are the events I am looking forward to in our Symphony's schedule.
October 14th Shostakovich Symphony #5 (one of my faves) The programme also includes Sant Seans Cello Concerto #1
November 4th: Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. I learned the piano solo for it, never got to play it, and surprisingly, never even heard a live performance of it. . The performance also included Schoenberg's Piano Concerto.
December 2nd. Andre Watts performing Gireg;'s Piano Concerto. The programe also included Neilsen's Symphony #5
January 27th Brhams' First Symphony WHich also inclkudes Mozart's Turkish Concerto for violin
Feb 10th is Tchaikovsky’s Symphony @ 6 along with Prokoviev's Piano Concerto #2
Feb 24th is Sibelius’ Fifth Symphony which is said to have one of the most exquisite finales. The programme also includes Franck's Symphonic Variations.
April; 7th has a performance of the complete Daphnis and Chloe by Maurice Ravel.
On the 21st is a perfomrance of Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony another work I wish I could have played the solo part to.
Finally in May isd a performance of the mysterious 7th symphony by Mahler.
I wonder if they have season tickets at a senior discount.
Great lineup of classics.
The Saint-Saëns cello concerto is delightful.
When I lived in Orlando our neighbor was Tzimon Bartow for a couple months. We loved to hear him practicing Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue at the time. Years later I heard him play at the Kennedy Center and talked with him out on the terrace during intermission. He was a bigger bodybuilder than I was.
When he came out on stage preceeded by the conductor it looked like stickman followed by a TV wrestler. 
Brahm's 1st, so grand. Worthy of Beethoven.
Tchaikovsky's 6th (the Pathetique) is wonderful, such a wide range of emotions, and depth of pathos.
Sibelius's 5th, so dreamy.
Ravel's Daphis and Chloe such a beautiful story of their love and trials and so representative of Ravel's genius.
And finally Saint-Saëns' 3rd (the Great Organ Symphony) is always a go-to event for me, Even if just to sit there to throb and vibrate with the finale!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hopaQjQFUYw (need good speakers with lots of bass 
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Congrats on the win !
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..and that's not all, Trinity Episcopal (an old English styles stone church which has a lovely large manual key/pedal action organ and is within reasonable walking distance). will be hosting several events I marked on my calendar including a couple solo organ recitals, Mozart's Requiem (which I participated in when back in college), Bach's B Minor Mass, and Montiverdi's Orefeo.
complaint - transformers movie they refering to Sam as lil kid. he's not a kid, he's in college 2nd movie, college grad by 3rd.
Winter Storm Warning for here - 15Cm of snow possible overnight, with winds gusting to 90KPH.. Temps not too bad, only -3C
...it's barely October. Were do you live again?
out of bound uvs?
whisky tango foxtrot
swiss cheese not from switzerland, made in Wisconsin. does Switzerland know?
I'm sorry but I believe you'll find that all cheese is retroactively endemic to Wisconsin.
Calgary, Alberta.. funny thing is that for Tuesday the forecast is for sun and 16C, with the rest of the week being mild as well.. then again, I have seen i5 snow here in July... not that it stuck, but still....
And in a week or so, these get put on..and stay on until the end of April or so...
happy cows
can yoo see northern lights from there?
equator always summer?
Yes.. but not as often as one would like.. not quite that far north
two common reasons for that
(1) there are an unequal amount of UV co-ords and vertices in an object (vertex overlap?) or
(2) UV co-ordinates exceed -1 to 1
:)
not really 'cos the sun is only directly over the equator during the equinoxes
seems is only in the 'u' direction.
i dont understand why is better than shader tiling settings?
zenith and azimuth different things i think
...actually what we refer to as "Swiss" cheese here is derived from Emmenthaler which originated in Switzerland and is still made there. Emmenthaler has a stronger nut like flavour and is a bit harder than our domestic Swiss. A "cousin" of Emmenthaler is Gruyere which has a much stronger flavour and is a bit harder still.
...well, I would debate that but then explaining so would step across TOS guidelines.
I think you might have misunderstood my joke a little.
...I come form Wisconsin originally. Yeah, they make a lot of different styled cheeses there due to the wide variety of immigants who settled in the area.
California is not to be slighted though, neither is Oregon.
Also just wanted to point out that "Swiss" is kind of a generic term today.
If you can afford it, cave aged Gruyere is one of the best.
UV's are more precise, everything else being equal, with geometry of an irregular shape like a face for example, often tiling won't let you precisely place a pupil in an eye altho meh let's be honest most of those situations are more to do with underlying geometry issues. You can use tiling/shaders with UV's, you generally plug U and V in somewhere - at least that's what I do if I can :)