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classic- thanks for posting!

What's with the couple of Airbus-haters commenting on this post? This post shows the exceptional landing of an Airbus A330. If you hate Airbus, please go to a post of a Boeing aircraft landing and pontificate on how great said Boeing aircraft is instead of coming on an Airbus landing post and try...

Man, this is some jammin'. Never seen those kinds of small timpani looking drums before. (in front of the main drum set) At 4:12, it looks like one of the drummer's drum stick pads flies off!!! (you know you're jammin when part of your drum stick flies off! )

Awww, totally made me cry. The great music, and then seeing George Bailey hug the stuffing out of his youngster- as a man on the edge.

Musical question: Is Kenny G. playing an alto sax, here? Looks too small to be a tenor. I'd heard him on a CD once playing a tenor sax for this song, and it was...

csheff- you're definitely not goin loony The engineers, technicians, tape editors (probly was actually digital TAPE back then!) all did an immaculate job on this recording. Being an organ enthusiast too, I notice that you can hear the low thump of the organ mechanism when the organist changes th...

Can ya hear me now? !

Nice post, Tom1980. Were those Rogers Digital organ/consoles on the right side of the screen? Whatever they were, it looks like they got blown away by the Wanamaker Organ around 1:40, when the main organist at the real Wanamaker organ console (left side of the screen) pulled on a stentor division...

Agree with MaxR. Grandiose indeed.

Love how the 32' comes on on the final chord. I've only ever heard this piece with the 32' Bombarde coming on a couple ? measures before. Bringing it on on the final chord just gives me the chills. Very, very Nice.

Very nice, Paul. I honestly watch this every couple of weeks. This is my favorite video recording of our favorite Disney fireworks production. Thanks!

Mike in NC

My brother in law in Alabama has that John Deere 5303 you showed in the end of your video. The John Deeres are all great machines. DIdn't know you're in Southeast Virginia, kvusmc -- we're in central North Carolina nearby. Have a good one, Mike

Love this video, kvusmc.

That grill guard cage on the John Deere2305 is awesome. I wish my 'Bota BX2350's guard flipped down like that so easy. They're rigid on the botas. have to unbolt the whole thing to get em off. Luckily the BX is a beast like the JD 2305, though. Also like that quik-hitch...

@clubpirate et sweeneyari-

Singing voice of Don Giovanni is Dick (credited as Richard) Stilwell -- an accomplished American opera singer. I think singing voice of Leporello is also an accomplished, professional singer. The rest may be from an opera academy.

I remember seeing this in the movie theater at 11 years old (in 1984) and just knowing this scene & this opera played-for-keeps and turns out, I was right. I now love this opera -- add to it Rigoletto and Sweeney Todd -- any play in which pride gets the best of a character.

texaschilibowl-- I was thinkin the exact same thing about our fullgrown doxie: she wouldn't "play well" with any rabbit. She doesn't play well with anything furry other than Other Dogs.

I have a fun story about Zukerman playing this piece: My parents have a good old CD recording (CBS Masterworks DDD recording- not posted) of Zukerman playing this piece with Zubin Mehta conducting the Israel Symphony??? PhilOrh?Mentioned to my mom that I'd heard "stomping" on off-beats during the...

I was fortunate enough to join a fine choir in singing this Requiem in-concert in a church sanctuary years ago. And although (understandably) audiences love to applaud loudly at the end of concert performances...I soooo wished that the audience would just let the last notes reverberate out, and t...

Sorry- meant G-D Harrison e.g. G. Donald Harrison (not J-D Harrison--- sorry)

@musicispower84 asked "whatever happened to him?"

My family and I go to the Disney World and the EPCOT Food and Wine Festival basically every year (the event is held Sept. thru Veteran's Day), and Jon Secada is booked basically every year on the American Adventure main stage at EPCOT (he usuall...

Michael's rubato is AWESOME in this recording. And just an awesome performance overall.

Gotta love University Auditorium on the University of Florida campus making the appearance ( 0:17 ) I heard they rigged cherry-picker bucket-trucks prior to filming this scene, to pick all the spanish moss off the trees on the UF campus... to make the scenery fit the film-- e.g. film was set in...

Love the Gainesville, Florida police car with Missouri tags on the back!

Nice "cameo" of the University of Florida campus and carillon tower in the psychopath/sniper scene. I think the baseball scenes were shot in Orlando, Florida.

a55b47--- thanks for posting this.

This recording was actually made at the celebration/"symposium" in 1988 of the renovation of the Harrison/Aeolian-Skinner organ at the Tabernacle. Shoenstein???Organ Works cleaned, and regulated the great 1948 Aeolian-Skinner, and also added several reed stops ...

RoyHaPencil said it best- Bach is the greatest composer of all time. I mean, I love rock n roll, blues, soul, cajun bayou music, bluegrass, classical and romantic orchestral music, etc etc. But Bach is still the pinnacle. I don't know if he'll ever be beat.

NA734-- I've flown on a few 717s. They're configured like an old DC-9 inside (2seater/aisle/3seater) but they're quieter. I think the engines are higher-bypass turbofan engines (Rolls-Royce, I believe). The old DC-9s (before Boeing bought MD and began producing the DC9 as a B717) were much louder...

Love those front end weights, jq730d. How much weight do those add? I need to get some like that for my Kubota BX2350. Mike

LOL We hauled an old set of kitchen cabinets out of our house and I bashed them up with our Kubota BX2350's front end loader. Helped me reduce all that plywood and drawers to a sleak, slim pile of wood. Nothin' like hydraulics to git er done.

Good video, nrmoss. We own a three year old BX2350 with a FEL and I was sittin' here watching your video, reflexively waving my right hand to the right (bucket-forward-tilt) , trying to tilt that load forward for you before it spilled out! We're all newbies starting off! Hope you're lovin' the ...

MavDude- Y'all make a *great product there in Gainesville. We own a 2008 BX2350 outta Dunn, NC and it's awesome -- 162 hours of flawless work so far. Keep it up!

Messicks-- nice video. Your guy gets the loader off the tractor a little faster than I can, but I can always try to be faster!

Mike

WOW! No pressure, here: Cameron Mackintosh sitting there, listening to this audition! Love Michel-Schonberg (perhaps inconsequentially) checking Lea Salonga's tone-memory (repetition-of-phrase). She passes with flying colors. And hey: Schonberg has a decent voice (singing phrases ahead of Salonga...

Just by listening to the introduction of this song it ain't hard to realize that Journey's keyboardist wrote this song. A grand piano has hardly sounded better, anywhere/anytime.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: Haley Barbour insults rednecks by calling himself a redneck.

@any Iowans commenting here "How dare he/does he think Iowans're idiots?"

I can only imagine that, since Iowa has a special place in the electoral process that Pawlenty thinks there's a wider spread of national media there and maybe he's trying to project a Southern lilt (completely unsuccessful...