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Brian

Quote from: Metal Dave on March 26, 2012, 12:39:47 PM
I have a $25 iTunes gift card burning a hole in my wallet.

HELP!!!


Ataraxia

You are a day late, my friend.  ;D

Lethevich

Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

Antoine Marchand

Quote from: Metal Dave on March 27, 2012, 03:09:11 PM
You are a day late, my friend.  ;D

http://www.amazon.com/Couperin-L-uvre-pour-clavecin/dp/B002UYG940

It's a shame because who knows if this is not the best complete set of Couperin's keyboard music in existence and you even get some change.  :)



Karl Henning

Quote from: Antoine Marchand on March 27, 2012, 03:23:16 PM
http://www.amazon.com/Couperin-L-uvre-pour-clavecin/dp/B002UYG940

Antoine, many thanks for that!  I am very happy with the Olivier Baumont box of Couperin, but for 20 clams, a second account (and so highly recommended) is, in the parlance of our times, a no-brainer.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Antoine Marchand

Quote from: karlhenning on March 28, 2012, 03:35:34 AM
Antoine, many thanks for that!  I am very happy with the Olivier Baumont box of Couperin, but for 20 clams, a second account (and so highly recommended) is, in the parlance of our times, a no-brainer.

You're welcome, Karl. I hope you will enjoy those discs.

BTW, maybe it's time to add that Baumont to my collection after years in my wishlist. 

eyeresist

Apparently the cousin of my great grandfather (on my mother's side) was Clytie Hine, a soprano (born in Australia) who was in the first performance of Elgar's Starlight Express, sang opera in Beecham's company, and ended up as a singing teacher and trainer in NY (by this time married and known as Hine Mundy - her husband was a cellist who went on to some sort of work with the Met Opera). Oh, she taught Peters Pears, and apparently Britten's song "Down by the Salley Gardens" was dedicated to her.

My question to the panel is: does any collector of older vocal recordings know if Clytie is on CD anywhere? Like many people nowadays, my parents are uncovering the family history, and would love to have an artifact of our "famous" ancestor. Her performinging songs would be ideal, but an opera in which she was of the ensemble would be great too.

Grateful for any help :)

http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/traveling-culture/chau1/pdf/hine/1/brochure.pdf

mc ukrneal

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Quote from: eyeresist on March 31, 2012, 02:33:22 AM
Apparently the cousin of my great grandfather (on my mother's side) was Clytie Hine, a soprano (born in Australia) who was in the first performance of Elgar's Starlight Express, sang opera in Beecham's company, and ended up as a singing teacher and trainer in NY (by this time married and known as Hine Mundy - her husband was a cellist who went on to some sort of work with the Met Opera). Oh, she taught Peters Pears, and apparently Britten's song "Down by the Salley Gardens" was dedicated to her.

My question to the panel is: does any collector of older vocal recordings know if Clytie is on CD anywhere? Like many people nowadays, my parents are uncovering the family history, and would love to have an artifact of our "famous" ancestor. Her performinging songs would be ideal, but an opera in which she was of the ensemble would be great too.

Grateful for any help :)

http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/traveling-culture/chau1/pdf/hine/1/brochure.pdf
IS this the same person? http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hine-clytie-may-12640 If so, there is unlikely to be much on record, though you might try contacting one of the organizations listed. Here is a picture: http://www.historicopera.com/beecham_page3.htm. If there is a Peter Pears or Britten organization, they may be able to help as well. If you are able to contact any of the opera companies or opera houses where she performed, they may be able to help too.

EDIT: This has some performance listings: http://www.musicweb-international.com/hooey/licette_chrono.htm
It also appears the daughter is still alive. Maybe she can help if someone can track her down, though she is nearly 100 now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Mundy
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Papy Oli

Quote from: mc ukrneal on April 01, 2012, 09:00:46 AMIf there is a Peter Pears or Britten organization, they may be able to help as well.

There's a Britten and Pears archive here.
Olivier

eyeresist

Thanks MK, and also Papy. I don't seem to be any closer - perhaps I am chasing a grail. :(

eyeresist

This is probably not serious enough for the Mahler Mania thread...

I think probably the first time I heard Mahler's name was as spoken by Tom Lehrer in his introduction to his song "Alma". This transcription doesn't really give an idea of his wry comic delivery (though I've tried to improve the punctuation):
QuoteLast December 13th, there appeared in the newspapers the juiciest, spiciest, raciest obituary it has ever been my pleasure to read. It was that of a lady name Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel, who had in her lifetime managed to acquire as lovers practically all of the top creative men in central Europe. And among these lovers (who were listed in the obituary, by the way, which was what made it so interesting) there were three whom she went so far as to marry: one of the leading composers of the day, Gustav Mahler, composer of Das Lied von der Erde, and other light classics; one of the leading architects, Walter Gropius, of the Bauhaus school of design; and one of the leading writers, Franz Werfel, author of the Song of Bernadette and other masterpieces.
It's people like that who make you realize how little you've accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that, when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. It seemed to me, reading this obituary, that the story of Alma was the stuff of which ballads should be made, so here is one.

One of the big laughs of the monologue came after the line "Das Lied von der Erde, and other light classics". Now that I've grown into that work (after finding a version with non-strangulated tenor and non-hooting alto), this joke doesn't really work, particularly as the people who laughed at this joke in concert were probably the type of cultural dabblers who'd sit down fairly happily to a couple of hours of Puccini, who by comparison with DLvdE is basically the same thing but less good. :P



  The first one she married was Mahler,
  Whose buddies all knew him as Gustav.
  And each time he saw her he'd holler:
  "Ach, that is the fraulein I moost have!"

  Their marriage, however, was murder.
  He'd scream to the heavens above,
  "I'm writing Das Lied von der Erde,
  And she only wants to make love!"

  ...

  While married to Gus, she met Gropius,
  And soon she was swinging with Walter.
  Gus died, and her tear drops were copious.
  She cried all the way to the altar...


Scion7

When, a few months before his death, Rachmaninov lamented that he no longer had the "strength and fire" to compose, friends reminded him of the Symphonic Dances, so charged with fire and strength. "Yes," he admitted. "I don't know how that happened. That was probably my last flicker."

mc ukrneal

Quote from: Scion7 on April 05, 2012, 01:43:20 AM
Good ... Lord ...

:o
But there is so much more. There are your 'yodeling for dummies':
(love the chicken)

Then there is national yodeling:
AMerica

Germany

Bulgaria

Bavaria

Switzerland

Austria

Somewhere in Asia

Arabia (That is what Amazon says):

Swissconsin (Swiss + Wisonsin - gotta love it)


Then there's yodeling for different professions:
Cowboys
Rangers
Astrologers
Customer Service
Drifter

There's national professions (apparently):


Yodeling oldies:


And even here, hot chick covers:


Yodeling and jumping:


And "I bet they regret that when they get older ' cover posing yodeling:


Religious:


Secular:


And 'that's really out there, perhaps I should cut down on the mind altering substances' yodeling:


What I can't figure out is why they spell it both yodelling and yodeling... :P
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Opus106

Who here (other than myself and Ray, perhaps) has heard the yodelled version of the Overture to Guillame Tell? ;D

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Regards,
Navneeth


Karl Henning

Whatever did happen to the yodeling cowgirls? . . .
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

mc ukrneal

Quote from: karlhenning on April 05, 2012, 04:11:25 AM
Whatever did happen to the yodeling cowgirls? . . .
Probably more information that you wanted to know, but then you did ask! :) http://www.cockmanfamily.com/butterpats/
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Szykneij

I had the opportunity today to go for a drive through northeastern Massachusetts and visit some old haunts from several years ago when I was working on my Masters degree. It was a beautiful sunlit morning, and just as I was passing through a scenic area along the Ipswich River, George  Butterworth's "Banks of Green Willow" came on the radio. What a terrific piece of music! I had never heard it before, and to experience it for the first time under those conditions was amazing.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige