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[Ken B]

Hint: It's Dutch.

All I know is it isn't Group of Seven.

[Ken B]

Thanks, Ken.
And can we start regularly using the term Nymanissimo? For any occasion?

Permission granted!

[NikF]

ritter, I watched Ros dancing the Ravel (I watched it a couple of times) and yes, she's great. I agree with what you said about her coolness and detachment, it adds something special and doesn't stop her having such presence; her performance must have almost been felt in the audience.  And yeah, very long legs. 

[TheGSMoeller]

In preparation of that thing that premieres tomorrow, my avatar has been transplanted from a particular human earthling that was a therapist for a dead girl and such 

Nice!

[ritter]

ritter, I watched Ros dancing the Ravel (I watched it a couple of times) and yes, she's great. I agree with what you said about her coolness and detachment, it adds something special and doesn't stop her having such presence; her performance must have almost been felt in the audience.  And yeah, very long legs. 

Glad you liked it, NikF. Yes, Ros filled the auditorium with her presence...and I found myself wishing that Boléro was an hour-long piece, instead of lasting some 15 minutes...

Elisabet Ros actually reminds me of the central figure of this Picasso painting, which is from the Tate Modern in London but is currently on display here at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, in a superb exhibition called "Pity and Terror: Picasso's Path to Guernica" (to celebrate the 80 years of the famous painting):


(Perhaps also suitable for my avatar, eventually  ).

Cheers,

[NikF]

Yeah, it does, possessing that coolness while still managing to impart (or perhaps a better word here is 'impose'? ) self expression. Beauty, but terrible beauty. That's how I see it anyway.
You know of Picasso's work with Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, being married to Khokhlova and all that - what a time and scene to be part of.
But indeed, 'The Three Dancers' (or a selected crop) would make a fine avatar for you.

[Florestan]

Theodor Pallady - Violin and Score, 1940-41

[Ken B]

Theodor Pallady - Violin and Score, 1940-41

Was he married to Vera Renczi?







   

[NikF]

The doctor who prescribed Brahms.



Yeah, a longer lens/further away would have been more flattering.
*All the women in my avatars are either ex girlfriends or girls I've met and had a short term relationship with. She's one of the former and there's an account in the dating thread of how we met and all that stuff. And I've mentioned often how she was hugely patient when introducing me to the music of Brahms.  Anyway, it's only a placeholder avatar until I choose a new one.


(*apart from one, a tall blonde glamour model. But I would like to point out that she was up for it nonetheless.  )

[kishnevi]

Out: Sailor Jerry
In: Chagall, one of the panels he created for the Moscow State Yiddish Theater

[NikF]

My current avatar is Toots McGams, taken in May 2016 at home.


It's low-res on purpose.
As usual, it won't be online a long time. That's for a number of reasons, with one of them being that if I wanted to show what I do I would still have a website.

[Florestan]

Nicolae Steinhardt

Music is now my best friend. Better and better as time goes by. [...] Mozart, Haydn. Then Bach. Then Schubert, Wagner. Then the pre-Classical [composers]. Then all others.

[...]any behavior towards fellow human beings which is not as graceful and gentle as a Mozart menuet is a sin and an abomination[...]

(my translation and highlight)

I had never been an atheist, but for my turning into an active (Orthodox) Christian I will forever be indebted to four chronological events: watching Franco Zefirelli's Jesus of Nazareth, then reading The New Testament , then reading Blaise Pascal's Pensées and finally reading Fr. Nicolae's The Happiness Diary (Jurnalul fericirii in Romanian).

[Alek Hidell]

Barry Guy.

Chose him because he's at home in both classical and jazz, my two chief musical interests.

[George]

Anyone know why my avatar looks like that? I tried a few different images, but it keeps getting cut off on the right. 

EDIT - fixed it by shrinking the image down to 160x160. Still, the forum used to do this automatically, right?

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Linus van Pelt, from Peanuts.

[André]

My favourite cartoon character - by far.

[Omicron9]

It's a Holstein Fresian cow.  Or maybe an actual selfie.   

[aligreto]

It's a Holstein Fresian cow.  Or maybe an actual selfie.   

Reminds me of....

[bwv 1080]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loplop

[Rosalba]

I'm a Yorkshire lass, so I chose my user-name and avatar to reflect that fact - the White Rose of York.