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naftee
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response 25 of 46:
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Mar 31 07:16 UTC 2005 |
Pierre Boulez is about the worst Mahler conductor ever. Hermann Scherchen
and Otto Klemperer are key here.
Also, the best Mahler symphony is the seventh, by far.
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md
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response 26 of 46:
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Apr 23 15:07 UTC 2005 |
Pretending to like the 7th symphony is the sign of the true person who
pretends to like Mahler. :)
Re Boulez conducting Mahler, it's like putting truffle sauce on
haggis, I know.
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naftee
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response 27 of 46:
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Apr 23 16:17 UTC 2005 |
what ! I'd say people who say they like the eighth are faking it up.
I really do like the seventh!
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mary
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response 28 of 46:
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Apr 24 09:17 UTC 2005 |
Haggis is sausage, yes? Truffle sauce is mushrooms, yes?
Hard to smell when your noise is pointed up like that, eh? ;-)
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md
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response 29 of 46:
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Apr 24 13:05 UTC 2005 |
I probably should've said weiner schnitzel instead of haggis. You
know, for authenticity.
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md
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response 30 of 46:
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Apr 24 13:22 UTC 2005 |
Okay, that's just mean.
Boulez conducting Mahler is like a flawless digital restoration of a
movie that had been so badly damaged by time and mishandling that
nobody's impression of it was even close to the truth. Whether the
movie itself is any good is a matter of taste.
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naftee
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response 31 of 46:
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Apr 24 17:20 UTC 2005 |
You've probably never listened to Boulez' recording of the seventh :(
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md
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response 32 of 46:
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Apr 26 00:58 UTC 2005 |
No, I have the 1st (not good) the 6th (excellent) and the 9h (shrug).
Oh, and the 5th (shrug).
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naftee
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response 33 of 46:
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Apr 26 01:51 UTC 2005 |
anyway, i listen to all my mahler with amazing slow downer, so i can basically
choose whatever tempo i want for a given piece. it's great
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mary
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response 34 of 46:
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Apr 26 19:35 UTC 2005 |
Aside to Michael: I saw Lady Agnew of Lochnaw today and thought of
you. She is a beauty.
-Mary from Haggis Central-
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md
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response 35 of 46:
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Apr 27 02:26 UTC 2005 |
Now why in heaven would Lady Agnew of Lochnaw make you think of me?
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naftee
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response 36 of 46:
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May 1 03:52 UTC 2005 |
maybe you're very feminine ?
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mary
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response 37 of 46:
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May 1 10:37 UTC 2005 |
My mistake, I thought you'd said you admired Sargent's painting of
Lady Agnew. Something about her being a "hot toddie" or some such
thing. Must be thinking of someone else.
Anyhow, she hangs in the Scottish Gallery, in Edinburgh.
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md
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response 38 of 46:
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May 1 12:54 UTC 2005 |
Ah. Well, you know, I probably did say something about her because
I've thought she's a hottie since I first set eyes on her (during the
Kennedy administration).
Here's the way John Singer Sargent saw her:
http://www.jssgallery.org/Paintings/Lady_Agnew.htm
And here's what she actually looked like when she was still just
Gertrude Vernon:
http://www.jssgallery.org/Resources/Photos/People/GertrudeVernon.htm
According to the text on the first web site, somebody has now written
a book about the relationship between JSS and Lady Agnew.
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md
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response 39 of 46:
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May 1 12:57 UTC 2005 |
Btw, I think she'd be more at home in a discussion of Edward Elgar's
music. Definitely not Mahler.
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md
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response 40 of 46:
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May 1 13:00 UTC 2005 |
Btw btw, are you grexing from Scotland, Mary??
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mary
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response 41 of 46:
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May 1 16:57 UTC 2005 |
She was stuck in here as I'm not sure you're reading Grex mail. I
suspect most people aren't. And I'm sad to say I'm no longer in
Scotland. Unlike my luggage.
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naftee
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response 42 of 46:
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May 2 01:10 UTC 2005 |
my luggage went to laborador once, i think
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md
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response 43 of 46:
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May 2 02:47 UTC 2005 |
For all you folks who filter him out, he says he thinks his luggage
went to Laborador once.
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naftee
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response 44 of 46:
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May 2 03:09 UTC 2005 |
ahah,a
well, it went to LABRADOR. i was coming from st john's NFLD, and the other
airplane was going to like, GOOSE BAY, so i assume my baggage went on the
OTHER PLANE :(
i got it back in a few days
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twenex
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response 45 of 46:
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May 2 08:22 UTC 2005 |
The Labrador should've eaten it. It would have served you right.
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naftee
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response 46 of 46:
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May 2 17:38 UTC 2005 |
what !
i'll send YOU to Labrador for that comment, boy.
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