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The Diner / Re: What are you currently rea...

Last post by vers la flamme - Today at 09:48:06 AM

Just reread:



... for the 4th or 5th time, I reckon. Still rate it among my favorite books, but I was struck this time on just how much Wilde owes to J.-K. Huysmans, whose À rebours I read last summer for the first time. Indeed, chapter 11 of Dorian Gray appears to be an homage to that book bordering on plagiarism. Doesn't bother me, however; a great writer, musician or whatever can steal as much as he wants to as far as I care.

Now, I want to read some Walter Pater and John Ruskin.

#2

The Diner / Re: Pictures I like

Last post by Karl Henning - Today at 09:45:37 AM

How to stop a would-be intruder?  Just be careful where it aims (lest it set your home on fire!).

PD

What could go wrong?

#3

The Diner / Re: What TV series are you cur...

Last post by krummholz - Today at 09:44:55 AM

Odds and ends from my recent viewing of The New Twilight Zone. The "Christmas Show" is fun: "But Can She Type" is probably my favorite of that triptych, with a brief appearance by Jno Frakes as a superficial dude at a cocktail party. The remake of "Night of the Meek" is passable. Even allowing for the original suffering the disadvantage of having been shot on tape rather than film (in retrospect, an ill-considered "cost save" that season. It hadn't registered, the first time I watched "The Star" that it featured Fritz Weaver. Weaver played across Leslie Nielsen in the Night Gallery episode "A Question of Fear. As to other New TZ stories, John Carradine (and son?) appear in "Still Life," a fun riff on the "natives think that the camera steals their soul" motif. Kenneth Mars is the Tooth Fairy in "Tooth and Consequences," whose plot germ bears a passing familiarity to "The Chaser" from the original series. "Monsters" is a fun, and suitably unconventional vampire story. "The Elevator" is a creepy Ray Bradbury story. Bradbury was an important (generally offstage) personality for Serling's original series, a mentor to Beaumont and Matheson, although the way things fell into place (or didn't) there was only one direct Bradbury contribution to the original show.

This sounds like the series from the 1980s... rather than the short-lived 2019 revival.

Of that series my favorite was "Wordplay", a very chilling tale about someone for whom the meanings of words gradually shift, for some unknown reason until he can no longer understand what is being said. A few years ago I learned that there is a type of stroke that can cause this, which makes this story even scarier.

#4

Composer Discussion / Re: Mozart

Last post by prémont - Today at 09:44:12 AM

Never heard of Florea, but I like this Amandine Beyer recordings!

https://www.discogs.com/release/17284792-Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Musica-Florea-Marek-%C5%A0tryncl-Brandenburg-Concertos-BWV-1046-1051-Complete-

I don't think you missed anything by not knowing them.

As to Amandine Beyer: The recording I refer to makes me nervous - and I can say that I don't get nervous easily.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7955847--bach-violin-concertos

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Your favourite Tchaikovsky...

Last post by Wanderer - Today at 09:27:03 AM

Atriod was just trying to share with you what clicked with him, trust me he was not trying to lecture you on how to listen to music.  He just wanted you to start with the presentation that made him click with Tchaikovsky.

So did I - and I believe everyone else that offered recommendations.

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Your favourite Tchaikovsky...

Last post by Wanderer - Today at 09:25:28 AM

I am listening to form an opinion for this thread. I'm listening to Jurowski doing them all. It is fair.

Kudos if you enjoy what you hear. However, first you post this, asking for recommendations...

The thought of which performance to check out... 

...and then you're being rudely dismissive, in multiple posts, when people are trying to help you and recommendations are given to you.

(How does the adage go? No good deed goes unpunished.) 

#7

The Diner / Re: Pictures I like

Last post by Pohjolas Daughter - Today at 09:24:58 AM

Flame throwing robot dog.  The four most beautiful words in the English language?

And all for under $10K!  I'm buying two.

How to stop a would-be intruder?  Just be careful where it aims (lest it set your home on fire!).

PD

#8

The Diner / Re: Pictures I like

Last post by Todd - Today at 09:14:14 AM

Flame throwing robot dog.  The four most beautiful words in the English language?

And all for under $10K!  I'm buying two.

#9

The Diner / Re: What are you currently rea...

Last post by vers la flamme - Today at 09:09:08 AM

So far The Golden Bowl has surpassed my highest expectations. James's prose is very subtle and ambiguous, much like Thomas Mann's prose although at the same time also very different. I'm roughly 1/3 through.

Old post I know but just wanted to note that I also found some similarities between James and Mann.

#10

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: On-line Stores & Sellers

Last post by Spotted Horses - Today at 08:54:54 AM

Customs in Los Angeles has officially had my package (Monteux, complete RCA) for four weeks, with no change in status. (It took them 3 days to process my package from grooves.land) I've sent an email to JPC asking them to look into it.