Comments on: Staffing up http://parterre.com/2009/11/20/staffing-up/ where opera is king and you, the readers, are queens Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:04:49 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 Camille commented http://parterre.com/2009/11/20/staffing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-107122 Camille Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:44:59 +0000 http://parterre.com/?p=10303#comment-107122 I am wrong about the title! It's "Von Heute auf MORGEN" see www.schonberg.at - hope I got web address right. In any case, it was pretty hard to take, for Mr. Babbitt. It was well sung, I felt. Hey, could we have a contest for the WORST opera we've ever seen? I've got a candidate: FERVAAL! It was a big turkey from which I bailed at first intermission. There's also Vaughan Williams "Riders to the Sea". Abysmally depressing and boring. and don't let the Vicar know I said so! Bonne nuit, Monsieur l'Ecureuil. Don't forget what that good times gal, Mlle. Manon Lescaut said, "Profitez bien de la jeunesse", or gather your acorns while you may.... I am wrong about the title! It’s “Von Heute auf MORGEN”
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http://www.schonberg.at – hope I got web address right.

In any case, it was pretty hard to take, for Mr. Babbitt. It was well sung, I felt.

Hey, could we have a contest for the WORST opera we’ve ever seen? I’ve got a candidate: FERVAAL! It was a big turkey from which I bailed at first intermission. There’s also Vaughan Williams “Riders to the Sea”. Abysmally depressing and boring. and don’t let the Vicar know I said so!

Bonne nuit, Monsieur l’Ecureuil.
Don’t forget what that good times gal, Mlle. Manon Lescaut said, “Profitez bien de la jeunesse”, or gather your acorns while you may….

]]> squirrel commented http://parterre.com/2009/11/20/staffing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-107120 squirrel Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:20:12 +0000 http://parterre.com/?p=10303#comment-107120 sorry, you are right, schoenberg! sorry, you are right, schoenberg!

]]> squirrel commented http://parterre.com/2009/11/20/staffing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-107118 squirrel Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:05:09 +0000 http://parterre.com/?p=10303#comment-107118 von heute auf morgen (hindemith) ? "used to be a blonde" sounds like a cop out to me! :) von heute auf morgen (hindemith) ?

“used to be a blonde” sounds like a cop out to me! :)

]]> Camille commented http://parterre.com/2009/11/20/staffing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-107117 Camille Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:50:46 +0000 http://parterre.com/?p=10303#comment-107117 ACTUALLY, I USED to be a blonde, and I've had many a lovely tete-a-tete with him, just running into him occasionally and casually near Juilliard. Particularly memorable was the time I went to see the horror that is "Von Heute auf Gestern" or is it "Von Gestern auf Heute"? -- I honestly cannot remember at the moment -- I happened to be assigned a seat next to him, absolutely a fluke. During the course of the opera (a film) his head sunk lower and lower and lower, until finally he just about held his head in his hands as he listened to Mr. Schoenberg's opus. The sorrow and the pity of it all!! Lovely man. God bless him. ACTUALLY, I USED to be a blonde, and I’ve had many a lovely tete-a-tete with him, just running into him occasionally and casually near Juilliard.

Particularly memorable was the time I went to see the horror that is “Von Heute auf Gestern” or is it “Von Gestern auf Heute”? — I honestly cannot remember at the moment — I happened to be assigned a seat next to him, absolutely a fluke. During the course of the opera (a film) his head sunk lower and lower and lower, until finally he just about held his head in his hands as he listened to Mr. Schoenberg’s opus. The sorrow and the pity of it all!!

Lovely man. God bless him.

]]> squirrel commented http://parterre.com/2009/11/20/staffing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-107097 squirrel Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:48:27 +0000 http://parterre.com/?p=10303#comment-107097 Thanks, Camille - Your enthusiasm is golden. Acorns to you! Incidentally, I was once told by a Princeton Professor that Uncle Milt liked to skip out during intermissions of concerts on a certain night of the week because he regularly watched that Lonnie Anderson girl on WKRP in Cincinnati. Who cares if you listen, indeed! Thanks, Camille – Your enthusiasm is golden. Acorns to you!

Incidentally, I was once told by a Princeton Professor that Uncle Milt liked to skip out during intermissions of concerts on a certain night of the week because he regularly watched that Lonnie Anderson girl on WKRP in Cincinnati.

Who cares if you listen, indeed!

]]> Camille commented http://parterre.com/2009/11/20/staffing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-107091 Camille Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:32:45 +0000 http://parterre.com/?p=10303#comment-107091 SQUIRRELLY! Anyone who mentions Charles Rosen and uncle Miltie Babbitt in these here pages, and STILL goes all out for Der Freischutz (DAMMIT! Shoulda won!) is Okay by me. SQUIRRELLY!

Anyone who mentions Charles Rosen and uncle Miltie Babbitt in these here pages, and STILL goes all out for Der Freischutz (DAMMIT! Shoulda won!) is Okay by me.

]]> louannd commented http://parterre.com/2009/11/20/staffing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-107002 louannd Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:58:39 +0000 http://parterre.com/?p=10303#comment-107002 Congratulations! Highly interesting and educational, it's good to see this site grow! Congratulations! Highly interesting and educational, it’s good to see this site grow!

]]> tannengrin commented http://parterre.com/2009/11/20/staffing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-106860 tannengrin Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:44:48 +0000 http://parterre.com/?p=10303#comment-106860 which one of the two is British? which one of the two is British?

]]> CrewMantle commented http://parterre.com/2009/11/20/staffing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-106855 CrewMantle Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:23:45 +0000 http://parterre.com/?p=10303#comment-106855 All the best to squirrel and Ercole Farnese. La Cieca only runs with the finest cats! CM All the best to squirrel and Ercole Farnese.

La Cieca only runs with the finest cats!

CM

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