Greetings from England

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Hollywood79

February 18, 2013, 06:36:11 AM
Hello everyone, this is to introduce myself as a new member. I look forward with much pleasure to reading the threads and hope to contribute from time to time.

After responding to the urging of a schoolmate to listen to a music appreciation programme on the BBC in 1948, I fell instantly and deeply in love with classical music and opera, remain enchanted and have acquired quite a large collection of 78 rpm, LP, cassette, Minidisc and CD recordings. Favourite composers are Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Elgar, Vaughan Williams. Favourite conductors Klemperer, Bernstein, Boult, Barbirolli; favourite solo artists Brendel, Perahia, Ashkenazy;  favourite singers are Callas, Di Stefano, Pavarotti, Sutherland.

With all best wishes,

Geordie T

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February 18, 2013, 07:50:48 AM
Welcome aboard! Glad you like RVW and Elgar! Great choices. 8)

Karl Henning

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February 18, 2013, 07:53:44 AM
Welcome!
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

Fafner

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February 18, 2013, 07:54:48 AM
Welcome, Geordie.

Take a seat and have fun!
"Remember Fafner? Remember he built Valhalla? A giant? Well, he's a dragon now. Don't ask me why. Anyway, he's dead."
   --- Anna Russell

North Star

#4
February 18, 2013, 08:01:12 AM
Welcome to the forum!
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

My photographs on Flickr

mc ukrneal

#5
February 18, 2013, 08:03:53 AM
Welcome and enjoy!
Be kind to your fellow posters!!

Lisztianwagner

#6
February 18, 2013, 08:16:45 AM
Welcome to the forum and have a nice time here!

Ilaria
"You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together." - Arnold Schönberg

Bogey

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February 18, 2013, 09:41:03 AM
Post some pics of those 78's if you get the chance.  And welcome.
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

springrite

#8
February 18, 2013, 09:45:38 AM
For a second I thought we had a green one born in 1979!

Welcome!
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

Papy Oli

#9
February 18, 2013, 10:44:03 AM
Hello and welcome !  :)
Olivier

Hollywood79

#10
February 19, 2013, 12:49:15 PM
To Bogey,

Regretfully I cannot post the pictures you requested because the 78s were disposed of many years ago. There were about 50, and I well recall the sweat of hauling them around in a case from home to Edinbugh by train as a student every term. The first ever purchased was Beecham's recording of Mendelssohn's 'Midsummer Night's Dream' Overture - played to death with a pickup weighing a ton that slowly ground it's way through the shellac!
The arrival of LP cast the 78s into a deep shade from which they never emerged I'm afraid, and eventually they were disposed of as junk. How I wish there had been the possibility of converting to files and saving on a computer. Happily I still have the Beecham/Mendelssohn on a cd. All but the 78s are still treasured in the collection by the way.
Sorry!

Geordie T

Hollywood

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February 19, 2013, 10:58:34 PM
Howdy there Hollywood79. Greetings from Hollywood here in Vienna. Austria. Welcome to the forum.

I'm a bit curious to know about your username. This is the first time I have come across another person's username that had Hollywood in it. Do you have a special connection to it as I do? Mine being that I was born in Hollywood, California. Just wondering... 8)
"There are far worse things awaiting man than death."

A Hollywood born SoCal gal living in Beethoven's Heiligenstadt (Vienna, Austria).

Hollywood79

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February 21, 2013, 07:53:44 AM
To Hollywood,
Greetings from Hollywood 79!
No connections with Hollywood SoCal I'm afraid, but with a village just outside Birmingham, England.
Best wishes, and give my regards to Ludwig.

Geordie T

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February 21, 2013, 08:10:57 PM
Quote from: Hollywood79 on February 21, 2013, 07:53:44 AM
To Hollywood,
Greetings from Hollywood 79!
No connections with Hollywood SoCal I'm afraid, but with a village just outside Birmingham, England.
Best wishes, and give my regards to Ludwig.

Geordie T

No doubt!

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