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This version is funnier and longer than the old LP (now on CD reissue). Even her "senior moment" about Love Potion, was handled with grace and humor. She was the best. And for those too young to know her complete works, her send up of Gilbert and Sullivan is priceless. She sings a quartet taking ...

to minorsecondXXI: Of course te XX century is well-known for extended techniques:Penderecki, Stockhausen, and many others certainly went that route! But do remember that Haydn used col legno, and 17th century Biber used a prepared double bass to imitate a snare drum in La battaglia.

@allanramsaysteele So be more specific about what is so intolerable about the music. All the folks deriding it as well as those liking it are simply following the "like" "don't like" mentality, which includes no substantiating of an "opinion" — which effectively makes it a non-opinion.

I find it...

blackmoon3: Warum nicht? Nichts besser!

What a great performance!! It is the first time I've ever heard Nimrod as a stand-alone work, and it was effective. And the conducting and playing were very effective. Congratulations!!!

The chorus really sounds good with its straight, vibratoless delivery.

Of course everyone makes mistakes. I'm not trying to be snarky; I'm just hoping you can go in and fix it. The photos are great, so if there is something in the way of making the full presentation perfect, then it should be done. I'm a retired editor, so I guess I don't shrug off fixable errors li...

Lovely playing by all!! To bad the woman keeps interrupting to talk. I guess it must be an ad. Love to hear it complete. Particularly taken with the brisk tempo of the second theme in the Schumann first movement, where so many pull it back a touch.

my all-time favorite Sachs, and I'm fond of Morris.

I would take nobodady's comment one dimension further. It is the dimension of time that comes to me most clearly. Ives feels not only the present but the infinity of presents now past which inhabit a location. It is, indeed, the very point of each of the Three Places in New England that the "Ives...

Bag the music!! It gins up phony adrenaline. Real sound of wind and waves and the sounds of tacking as the grinders work and the sails fill on the new tack — now THAT'S honest excitement! When it's only stupid music I just hit the mute and watch.

I loved traveling from NYC to Toronto by rail. It was a mini-vacation, far better than the rushed and packed-in feeling of flying

How many times my Grandma and I began a day's adventures by climbing onboard a trolley at High and Broad in Bethlehem!! We'd end up as close as the Boyd just down Broad, shown early in this film, to see a movie, or out the Hellertown theater across from the slag heaps, or Central Park (amusement ...

The iconic performance of an American iconic work. Any "new" version of this choreography should at least stay with the story line. I saw a version awhile back that had nothing at all to do with the original. Not only was it poorly danced, for lack of a better term, but it was based on some simpl...