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[Papy Oli]

Not too many folk here drop by Gloucestershire.
Mike

what time for tea ?  

[MN Dave]

I see you all face-to-face when I peek through your windows at night.

[Opus106]

I don't see you outside my window!

Come play with meee...

[MN Dave]

I don't see you outside my window!

Come play with meee...

Oh, I'm there...waiting...

[Brian]

[off-topic] Love how low that Stadler replica goes. Simply wonderful! Thanks for posting that, Brian. [/off-topic]

I love how the instrument looks like a golf club ... 

[Brian]

I see you all face-to-face when I peek through your windows at night.

You must have one heck of a ladder.

[Opus106]

Oh, I'm there...waiting...

I'll watch out for a skull with super-star smile and wearing a bird's leg for a hat, then.

[Papy Oli]

I'll watch out for a skull with super-star smile and a bird's leg for a hat, then.

or a rodent... on fridays.... 

[Opus106]

or a rodent... on fridays.... 

The rodent population has decreased of late, but I'll have an eye on that, as well.

[MN Dave]

I'll watch out for a skull with super-star smile and wearing a bird's leg for a hat, then.

http://www.inkenstein.com/DarkJester.jpg

[Opus106]

http://www.inkenstein.com/DarkJester.jpg

Oh. Okay, skull with some skin still left. Hat: headless baby octopus, fancily coloured, with tiny skull ornaments at the tips.

I still like to think it's a bird's leg, though.

[karlhenning]

Lorenzo Coppola returns with his achingly expressive period clarinets...

That's one could break either way 

[Lilas Pastia]

We have plans to go back to Europe next Summer (the usual place). If it materializes, I 'll be 45 minutes away from Maastricht or Aachen, an hour from Cologne, 3 hours from Amsterdam  .

[secondwind]

Here's one that might tempt the Gurnatron out of his hideout. 

Sunday, November 22, 2009 4:00pm
Alice Pratt Brown Hall, Rice University
$25 entry, $15 for seniors or students
Carl Maria von Weber:  Quintet for Clarinet and Strings
Franz Joseph Haydn:  Trio for Basset-horn, Viola, and Cello
Wolfgang Mozart:  Quintet for Clarinet and Strings

Lorenzo Coppola returns with his achingly expressive period clarinets...With a rarely- heard gem: a Trio by Haydn featuring the unusual period basset-horn.
Musicians: Lorenzo Coppola, clarinet and basset-horn; Jean-Michel Fonteneau, cello; Maria Lambros, viola; Sergiu Luca, violin; Cristian Macelaru, violin.
Performed on period wind and string instruments

After dinner there is a free performance of Tchaikovsky's Polish Symphony, but it's by an orchestra of the kids who aren't good enough to be music students. 

Love the period clarinet YouTube clip.  (C'mon, Karl, you know you want one!)  Great to hear the low notes that usually get chopped off! Looks like a great program.  And, wow, a Haydn trio with basset horn!  I didn't know there was one, and I look for basset horn music!  (I have to--the poor basset horn only gets to come out of the closet occasionally for the Gran Partita and a little Mendelssohn concert piece or two.) Too bad Rice is not exactly driving distance from Maryland. . .

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

We have plans to go back to Europe next Summer (the usual place). If it materializes, I 'll be 45 minutes away from Maastricht or Aachen, an hour from Cologne, 3 hours from Amsterdam  .

Sounds interesting, André... Keep us posted!

[springrite]

I wonder if anyone is coming to the EXPO in Shanghai next year. If so, do make a detour to Beijing. I have tea and music at the ready. And of course, there is that wall a few miles away, and a tiny little compound with 9,999 rooms that used to be forbidden.

[(poco) Sforzando]

The Passion is going to be sung in Fall River in March . . . .

I think that's an hour closer to me than Boston.

[Lilas Pastia]

Sounds interesting, André... Keep us posted!

I sure will. Another trip is planned next week: Holguin, Cuba  . Anyone plans to visit Fidelland next week?

And, *maybe*, a NYC trip next Spring.

[karlhenning]

And, *maybe*, a NYC trip next Spring.

If that materializes, mon cher, I shall certainly head to New York to meet with you again!  Bruce will be on board, I trow.

[karlhenning]

I think that's an hour closer to me than Boston.

Yes; the dates are 19 & 21 March. Save the date.