Hola Dan!

Post #376,106 by Ashton 6/9/13 3:48:19 AM Reply	Hola Dan! Hoped you'd drop in before the Great Conflagration (..oh, there'll be a fancier title--but it won't be televised.) Did you ever score a copy of the Manfred? [Beecham: First Complete Recording] How's it feel, realizing that the milieu you inhabit has a % Huge of folks tetched in the head? Is the kindling temp of modrin super-paper still 451° F? (Wait.. that's another chronicle; luckily I've memorized all the good stuff, anyway..) Drop in again, eh? We'unses on The Barricades need moral support from all those folks what read Proust, and such.. Jejune's just no fun. A.
Post #376,163 by danreck 6/10/13 10:31:03 AM Reply	Re: Hola Dan! Breathe, Ash, breathe. I miss you too! :-) I am also looking forward to the GC but am hoping that it will be at least on pay per view. Who knows, maybe you or I can claim rights to pyro-in-chief and at least spark a couple of embers. Not entirely sure I completely understand the Manfred reference (unless I'm wrapped up like a deuce, you know, the runner in the night?) I was quite surprised and pleased that you all still have a vibrant community going. I am still wrapped in the throws of raising chilluns and watching high fallutin' football folks fabricating females here in SBÂ I still have you phone number in my cell phone (from carrier to carrier from phone to phone) from the missed attempt many years back when I was in CuppertinoÂ It is exactly what triggered me to check z.iwethey.org in my browser. So, yes, in essence, it is all YOUR fault.
Post #376,227 by Ashton 6/11/13 12:38:26 AM Reply	Re: Hola Dan! (Manfred) Don't recall the exact context that led to suggesting this unique collaboration 'twixt Lord Byron and Robert Schumann; the result of these two chimerical figures is a kind of tone poem, all metaphysical in scope. Prolly lots in Googling same, haven't been moved to look lately if someone has transcribed the 'original' Beecham / Royal Philharmonic O. 'Best': I have that LP (M2L-245) from way before the Transistorized Society dropped on us. (Have heard that there are some performances in execrable-mp3, that suppurating wart on the rectum of sensitive souls everywhere==Don't Bother.) Will delve further into who Must have saved this seminal recording, perfectly executing (Byron's own angst; "Manfred" is He!) A trip to the Underworld.. to rescue the beloved Astarte--is the back-story. Many wry quips abound (including Manfred's dismissal of a priest attempting to offer him absolution ... and like that.) Schumann was a genius, reminiscent of Mendelssohn, and the overture to Manfred is deemed among his best work. Anyway.. listening to this with no techno-distractions, from a proper mood (?) can, for a time replace today's fungible 'questions' with all those intimations of the er, ineffable, abetted by a decent Symph. O. Hmmm, local academics might also have a handle on a copy. (My music system is in disarray, as the cones have rotted (foam surrounds, yet) on my Ed Long super-speakers; unclear what medium I might copy-to, as well. Do have decent Linn-Sondek LP-12 tt and ancillary stuff.. whenever. Gotta find a really ept repairer of esoteric drivers.. from the late '70s / little idea where even to begin that search.) Catch ya later, I.

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