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"hk" wrote in message
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For a guy like you, who went to Amity Regional, the "artsy-craftsy" public
high school in New Haven County, you seem to have a closed mind on many of
the performing arts. Amity had great theater and music shows, Broadway
musical comedies, folk music festivals, all sorts of good stuff. Didn't
you go to any of them?

Hell, Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe were married by Rabbi Robert
Goldberg at a synagogue in Woodbridge!* Just by osmosis you should be more
artsy-craftsy! :)



* Bet you didn't know that.

Nope. I was too busy working at a Mobil station after school, playing
soccer and stealing my parent's car for joyrides before I had my license.
Amity's "artsy-craftsy" culture did nothing for me.

But .... we grow. This weekend we are entertaining some guests from
Israel. My younger son's wife's brother, wife and three teenaged
daughters. Two of the daughters attend a music conservatory in Israel, one
for piano, the other vocals. They have performed at concerts throughout
Isrial and are in the States to perform later this month in Chicago.

Knowing they were coming, we had the baby grand tuned and ready. They
played and sang for us last night, doing some classical stuff and then a
bunch of contemporary American tunes. It was fun to listen to Frank
Sinatra ballads sung in Hebrew.

After their performance, we went upstairs to *my* junk laden music room.
I have a Roland keyboard hooked up to a Leslie speaker system, plus my
collection (still growing ) of guitars. We started jamming a bit, the
pianist on the keys, me on the g'tar and the rest singing. Old fashioned,
American rock and roll is a favorite in Israel I learned, and their family
knew every song and all the words. Quite a blast.

Eisboch

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Eisboch wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
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For a guy like you, who went to Amity Regional, the "artsy-craftsy" public
high school in New Haven County, you seem to have a closed mind on many of
the performing arts. Amity had great theater and music shows, Broadway
musical comedies, folk music festivals, all sorts of good stuff. Didn't
you go to any of them?

Hell, Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe were married by Rabbi Robert
Goldberg at a synagogue in Woodbridge!* Just by osmosis you should be more
artsy-craftsy! :)



* Bet you didn't know that.

Nope. I was too busy working at a Mobil station after school, playing
soccer and stealing my parent's car for joyrides before I had my license.
Amity's "artsy-craftsy" culture did nothing for me.

But .... we grow. This weekend we are entertaining some guests from
Israel. My younger son's wife's brother, wife and three teenaged
daughters. Two of the daughters attend a music conservatory in Israel, one
for piano, the other vocals. They have performed at concerts throughout
Isrial and are in the States to perform later this month in Chicago.

Knowing they were coming, we had the baby grand tuned and ready. They
played and sang for us last night, doing some classical stuff and then a
bunch of contemporary American tunes. It was fun to listen to Frank
Sinatra ballads sung in Hebrew.

After their performance, we went upstairs to *my* junk laden music room.
I have a Roland keyboard hooked up to a Leslie speaker system, plus my
collection (still growing ) of guitars. We started jamming a bit, the
pianist on the keys, me on the g'tar and the rest singing. Old fashioned,
American rock and roll is a favorite in Israel I learned, and their family
knew every song and all the words. Quite a blast.

Eisboch





Nothing better than home-made music. Read Mozart's bio... :)

--
Republicans - They Take Special Pride in their Ignorance.

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"hk" wrote in message
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Nothing better than home-made music. Read Mozart's bio... :)


I am far from a hi-brow, but my now deceased German friend turned me onto
Bach.

Eisboch

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Eisboch wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
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Nothing better than home-made music. Read Mozart's bio... :)


I am far from a hi-brow, but my now deceased German friend turned me onto
Bach.

Eisboch




A very musical family.

--
Republicans - They Take Special Pride in their Ignorance.

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On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:02:46 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

I've also witnessed highly educated, egotistical blowhards that, when laid
off, can't grasp the concept of how they possibly could not be needed. Most
of the time the company was better off without them.

Bet you never hired a highly qualified, PhD research scientist whose
idea of 45 hours/wk for salaried employees was 45 hours straight and
the rest of the time off.

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On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:10:58 -0400, hk wrote:


By providing a list of popular opera tunes? Too highbrow for the
pseudomusicians in this newsgroup?

I really believe opera didn't catch on here because of language.
Aside from excellent voices, opera tells a story on the stage.
If you don't understand the words, you don't hear the story.
Of course you can read along with a translation, or learn the
language.
Musicals in English did well here, and wasn't HMS Pinafore an opera?
West Side Story, Seven Brides..... were moneymakers.
Even that said, who here hasn't enjoyed the Three Tenors even when not
understanding the words?

--Vic

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Jim wrote:

"hk" wrote in message
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I used to have the "special telephone" ringtone from Our Man Flint,
the put-on spy movies starring the incomparable James Coburn. These
days, I mostly have opera tunes.


See how long you can go without using the word "I". Narcissists have a
terrible time leaving that word out of every other sentence.

His affliction is well established here. While he is likely incapable
of acknowledging his own disease, it is painfully obvious to everyone
who doesn't have his/her head up his fat ass.

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Sir Grand Duke of Marmalade, Reginald P. Smithers III The Great, Esq.
LLC wrote:
hk wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
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I used to have the "special telephone" ringtone from Our Man Flint, the
put-on spy movies starring the incomparable James Coburn. These
days, I mostly have opera tunes.


Opera "tunes"?

Eisboch


Sure. There are kazillions of tunes in opera. Even if you don't listen
to or like opera, you've heard them. At the moment, my "ringtone" is a
tune from La Traviata, sung by Anna Netrebko.

Don't know Anna? One of her albums outsold one from Beyoncé when it
came out in 2004 in Europe. Terrific voice, good-looking, too. Well,
both of them, Anna and Beyoncé!


Here's a list of some popular opera tunes for you:

Lakmé: Flower Duet (Dome épais)

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie): Ride of the Valkyries

La Forza del destino (The Force of Destiny) : Overture

Andre Chénier: La mamma morte

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville): Overture

Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al factotum

Lohengrin: Wedding March

La Wally: Ebben? ne andro lontana

Cosi fan tutte: Soave sia il vento

Legend of Tsar Saltan: Flight of the Bumble Bee

La Traviata: Libiamo ne lieti calici (Brindisi)




grin, he is cute when he wants to be. Can you imagine being at the
marina dock when his cell phone rings?


He doesn't have Google to help him in a situation like that.

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Sir Grand Duke of Marmalade, Reginald P. Smithers III The Great, Esq.
LLC wrote:
Don White wrote:
"Jim" wrote in message
...
"hk" wrote in message
. ..
I used to have the "special telephone" ringtone from Our Man Flint,
the put-on spy movies starring the incomparable James Coburn. These
days, I mostly have opera tunes.

See how long you can go without using the word "I". Narcissists have
a terrible time leaving that word out of every other sentence.

I this, narcissist boy!


I wish you would stop using my "insults". I have the copyright on
"__fill in blank___ this" insult.

Dumb Don shows his true colors once again. This time we have a classic
one-liner in defense of his a-hole buddy WAFA!