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Actually there three Leonore overtures and the Fidelio Overture, so four in all.
...leaves here are full so it already looks like summer. Will actually feel like early summer of the next couple days and again next week.
Yeah, spring cleaning, need to do that myself. I feel th same with my creaky joints. Keeling is is not only painful but difficult to stand back up as I need something to brace on. Moving the tempered glass chair mat to clean under the edges is also a challenge as it weighs about 60#.(thankful for Prime as it was delivered to my apartment door), The tradeoffs is it is easy to keep clean and very durable unlike those soft plastic ones that tend to wear out and crack after a couple years..
The concerts sound great (saw the list on the second post). .For a supposedly "artsy" minded town here, there is a dearth of any outdoor classic concerts
The only other local summer event I liked to go to was the airshow, which several years ago was moved from the Hillsboro airport on the west side (the west line LRT stops right by there) out to McMinnville about 40 miles to the southwest 9which requires a car).
Spring cleaning... yeah... like trying to rake leaves in the middle of a tornado over here. I do what I can and make peace with the rest.
As Mom always said... it's fine to write your name in the dust. But if you write the date, you get to clean it.
...complaint: forums really slow tonight with multiple bad gateway errors.
ETA
Forums pretty useless tonight. had over a dozen occurrences so far.
'Tis quite slow tonight. It's okay because so am I.
And thus the world is in tune.
I was thinking of alcohol. I think there is and was too many of my relatives has a drinking problem. I think that is another good reason not to drink alcohol. Also it would mess up my meditation.
Alcohol bad. Meditation good.
Not a complaint. Nope. Just found out my evil stepmother is dead. My sister in law informed me she found an obituary on line. Apparently she died in 2020. Long ago, back in 1962, two years after my mother, Elsie May Rose (nee Reid) of Nfld, died of cancer (back in 1960 when I was four) Kay, whom I called Irma in my books, left her husband while he was away fighting fires to move in with my father a very rich widower with 6 children (us). She tossed us all to the curb to fend for ourselves as minors. Her obituary mentioned none of us, Arch Roses's six discarded kids. The ironic part is she died with alzeimers forgetting how she beat us with belt buckles, me in the face, kicked us in the ribs and left us locked outside during raging winter storms wearing only sweaters or and pjamas. She tossed my siblings out, permently banned, one by one, pennyless while still under the age of sixteen. She exterminated us like we were cockroaches. My sister died hating them. I don't hate them but I sure don't mourn her passing. Her obituary only mentions the son they had out of wedlock after she moved in. I have cried during movies, for the homeless, for stray dogs and cats, and so so much more, but no tears shed for this loss. I am not bitter, nor elated . . . but waste no tears on someone so dark.
https://www.carnells.com/obituaries/mary-kathleen-rose/
I drink alcohol off and on when I am in pain, but take no medications. My husband takes medication daily but never drinks alcohol. Mixing meds and alcohol would be like mixing bleach and ammonia. Simply toxic.
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It's difficult to eat cereal or soup with a knife and fork. Not impossible, it just takes more time and patience.
@ArtAngel I wish you peace, and hope that this bit of knowledge slots into your healing in the way that fits and helps the best. (Please take in kindest, most supportive, least presumptuous manner possible... low on sleep after a long day so I'm afraid nuance with words isn't my strong suit atm.)
Non-complaint: My symphony buddy has come through with tickets for a symphony at Kleinhan's Music Hall in Buffalo on a Sunday afternoon in July. Beethoven: "Piano Concerto #3", and Strauss: "Ein Heldenleben"(tr: A Hero's Life). Wheee..., a maxi-adventure!
A day out, a long trip (60 miles) in a car, a symphony, a glass of champagne during intermission, a good dinner on the way home, and a day with a friend who knows more about music than me.
360 degree views of the Kleinhan's Music Hall: https://kleinhansbuffalo.org/kleinhans-music-hall-in-360/ Drag cursor or use arrows to navigate. The narration has some interesting information.
PBS documentary about Kleinhan's Music Hall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANBxaoQQ28Q&t=1409s Beginning at 14:30 are discussions about the acoustics for which it is renowned.
Non compliant I got to work tody. I started an hour earlier which might mean some extra time. That helps pad the paycheck.
Compliant: I prepared some onions for work. They made my eyes sting. I did make an extra big pan of onions which is okay. A lot of people like onions cooked into their Philly cheesesteaks.
another complaint my undershirt isn't cooperating well today. There is nothing I can do until I get home.
There have been days when I wanted to be non-compliant at work. But preparing onions is being compliant with your job. Although, are you sure your undershirt issue is a complaint or is it being non-compliant, or both? I'm sooo... confused.
And I admit that there were days when I was at work slightly tody, but my boss one day finally issued a complaint that I wasn't being compliant. So I didn't do it any more.
Non-Complaint:
It's always nice to see people discussing classical music. For a short fleeting moment, it even makes me feel part of the upper class and incredibly rich. When I were a kid, I always used to think it was the sort of music that only rich people listened to. That said, I do know something about classical music, like for example Bach did the one that you hear a lot on horror films!
I remember taking my parents to York for a day out a few decades back. There was an old record shop there. And because I had gotten interested in Classical Music but didn't know where to start, I was looking at some collections in what were some very fancy-looking boxes. It was going just fine until ...
Complaint:
My mother walked-up behind, started noseying at what I was looking at and said to me ...
"What are you looking at that for? You don't listen to that type of music you listen to head-banger music! Ooooooooh, what are you looking at that for? Anyway, hurry-up, stupid, your dad want wants to see the big church!"
*** FACE PALM ***
And just in case anyone's curious: No, I didn't buy it (but only because I was too embarrassed to go to the checkout after that)!
I love all forums of music except 1. My playlist is a combo of pop, rock, alternative, coral, metal, heavy metal, death metal, symphonic metal, classical, symphony orchestras etc, ATM I'm listening to "Alter Bridge". My music folder is 130GB, it has 832 artists with a total of 34,393 songs. Music has always cleared my mind, an escape from reality, and was a coping mechanism from the time I was 5yrs old, even to this day.
or possibly he didn't - opinions are divided https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toccata_and_Fugue_in_D_minor,_BWV_565
Oh, I didn't realize that it's possibly contested. I always that it was Bach. I first heard "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" in my classical music literature class in college. It was part of our Bach studies. Going to have to read up on it. It's very Bach sounding in the style. If it was Ringk, since at that time, I believe, was a period that Bach's music was being played by many, if he liked Bach's style and geared his composing around it. I'm not that familiar with Johannes Ringk.
Looking him up real quick, it mentions that he's copied some people work.
"He composed organ works, concertos and possibly an opera, but is most remembered today for the numerous copies he made, often the only ones now remaining, of works by more notable composers. Amongst these copies in his hand are Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, BWV 202 and the oldest copy of the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565. It is possible that the copies were made from versions in Kellner's collection, who was a pupil of Bach. The copies in Kellner's collection, which were made about 1725, are today one of the most important sources of Bach's work. Many theorize that it was in fact Ringk who wrote Toccata and Fugue in D Minor."
@Frank
I hope you have a back-up of all that, because you'll be one sick puppy if it ever corrupts if you don't have one. I hear you on the variety, and same here, I listen to anything that takes my fancy really, but I'm very stubborn in the formats I use, and I'll never buy virtual music, ever. It's very rare that I buy, but whenever I do, I always buy on vinyl, and record it to tape on first play.
@Richard
Interesting. Something that specifically struck me about what I was reading, was about instrumentation. There was one part I read where they suggested it was likely not composed for Organ. That comment really interested me, because personally, I've always felt that specific parts of it sound as if they were composed for Harpsichord. To me it sounds as if it were possibly even written by two composers, therefore in part for Organ, part for Harpsichord.
I think I left my portable power bank at work.
I got a whole new set of silverware today. It includes lots of spoons. Then we got pizza. Something people eat without silverware. I have no idea if the spoons work.
...want to hear something n really scary?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtbjekV-huA
This is re-mastered form a 1960s collection of the complete Organ works of JS Bach.
In 1985 I heard the late Madame Alain perform a concert of Bach works at St Mark's Cathedral in Seattle for the Bach Tricentennial on the massive 4 keyboard organ there which was built in 1965. Though a modern instrument, it was built and voiced in the Baroque style with mechanical key action just like in Bach's day. The large copper pipes in the case are 32' tall.
She was considered one of the great interpreters of Bach's organ works. I was honoured to meet with her afterwards.
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I love classical music, though I know very little about it.
Back in the late 90's when I was a student at the U of MN, I'd sometimes have to walk through Northrop Hall in the early mornings on the way to class (because the tunnel/passage system went through there, and when it's bitterly cold out, you take the long way around if it means you're out of the windchill). Northrop also contains a theater, and there's a pipe organ in there somewhere, and often someone would be practicing. I used to stop and close my eyes and just listen to it, and how it echoed down the halls, and for a moment the world was beautiful and my deadlines didn't matter so much.
(Back in those days the passage system was an adventure, because nothing was marked, so you learned either from other people or from exploring on your own. I was all excited to give my brother the Super Elite Info when he started several years later... only to discover that by then they'd actually marked the routes. It was a good thing overall, and should've been done decades earlier, but it still took the thrill out of it.)
I'd have a heart attack if I ever lost my music, so I have a back-up of the full folder on 2 separate drives. Originally when I started the collection I was burning them to DVD, but that just got too expensive and just an extreme amount of DVDs to go through. I decided to get a drive specifically for my music, and then I have another for a back-up of my music and any other of my important files on the PC in general. Lucky they are all pretty much .mp3, or mp4, so file sizes are pretty minimal for the amount I have.