Has anyone been listening to broadcasts from the London Proms this year or actually attending concerts there? One highlight was last night : a performance of a...
Des, Who are the conductors of the peices you mentioned? Is Slatkin still the BBC conductor? Jeff...
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Aug 23, 2003 10:07 pm
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I asked this question of the 20th c. group but would like to ask for past centuries as well. I've noticed that my collection is heavy on strings and piano...
Mozart's wind serenades and Holst's military band suite. Gene Hanson...
Gene Hanson
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Aug 24, 2003 1:36 pm
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... Indeed. And, despite my views on Mozart, I feel his serenade (a bit of which is used in the film 'Amadeus') is a wonderful work. One of the greats. Des...
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Paul Minotto
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Aug 25, 2003 4:50 pm
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On the (Czech) Musica Bona website, www.musicabona.com, on the CD discounts page is W. A. Mozart: Serenades & Divertimenti, an 8 CD set performed by Willi...
Ron Chaplin
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Aug 25, 2003 4:51 pm
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Hi, Jeff, how are you? Well, I hope. Great to hear from you. Clacton is sunny - just had the air show. I'm afraid I don't pay much attention to conductors'...
Dave! How great to see your message pop up on my computer! How's your music making going? I miss our improvisation sessions in Amsterdam. I'll have to get...
Robert Avalon
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Aug 27, 2003 12:58 pm
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Well it sounds like you're doing some fun stuff, Robert. I had to find out what you were doing, and found your website, and gave your music a listen. Really...
... Boy, Robert, sounds like you're doing great stuff! My music making has changed a lot since we saw each other. I had a rotten bout with tendonitis last...
triodeia@...
Aug 27, 2003 10:00 pm
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... Dave, Just last night I was thinking this is what I'd really like to do with the rest of my life. Problem is, no musical training (just years of ...
Gene Hanson
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Aug 28, 2003 12:39 am
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thanks, Gene. The Mozart pieces were available on a cheap Naxos and sound great. ... ask for ... on ... the ... just ... ...
"Views on Mozart," Des? Doesn't everyone love Mozart? What views? If you've discussed them elsewhere here, and don't want to repeat yourself, please let...
Sounds like an amazing deal, Ron, but are many of them woodwind serenades/divertimenti? The ones I bought on Naxos--K. 196f, 240a, 253, 388--aren't included,...
... ...a message I apparently never received (along with lots of the spams). ... I'll enthusiastically second the Piston Sixth - marvelous recording by Munch ...
Stevevasta@...
Aug 28, 2003 2:07 am
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Oh, please, no! Gene Hanson...
Gene Hanson
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Aug 28, 2003 2:10 am
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... You have to listen to it in Central Park in the dark. Gene Hanson...
Gene Hanson
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Aug 28, 2003 2:24 am
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In a message dated 8/27/2003 10:31:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... you get mugged on the side? as you leave the west 80's or so? V..V__! Wooff ...
I will be brave and respond to this post... I have decided I need a real break from my life now that my kids are just about through college. I have spent the...
Aylee Welch
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Aug 28, 2003 3:04 am
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... I used to live in the West 80s (82nd and Riverside). A perfectly nice place. (83rd was scary, though.) When I was living in California in the late 1980s,...
Gene Hanson
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Aug 28, 2003 4:05 am
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Lucky you. I have only one through (and she looking toward graduate school) and two to go (one starting this year, one in four years). Gene Hanson...
Gene Hanson
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Aug 28, 2003 4:13 am
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In a message dated 8/27/03 9:30:22 PM Central Daylight Time,...
Stevevasta@...
Aug 28, 2003 11:09 am
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... You have to listen to it in Central Park in the ... Outside of safety issues...I somehow doubt one could *hear* the music that well in modern-day Central...
Stevevasta@...
Aug 28, 2003 11:11 am
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... But just think of the bass. Gene...
Gene Hanson
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Aug 28, 2003 2:11 pm
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OK. Des ;-) ... <http://rd.yahoo.com/M=251812.3170658.4537139.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=17 05024083:HM/A=1693352/R=0/SIG=11tralmvc/*http://www.netflix.com/Defaul ...
... Problem is, I don't have two friends who play piano. I have a Yamaha baby grand, and all three of my children took lessons, but they stopped before they...
Gene Hanson
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Aug 28, 2003 8:25 pm
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I love the Washburn and Persichetti works for WW 5tet and Brass 5tet...
PaulQ6R9S@...
Aug 28, 2003 9:11 pm
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... This I can identify with. ... That does present certain obstacles, but they're not insurmountable. ... First buy a baton. Then decide what pieces you want...
triodeia@...
Aug 29, 2003 12:13 pm
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Sergei Prokofiev's musical fairy tale Peter and the Wolf is popular with children but not with wolf lovers, and two former world leaders -- Bill Clinton and...