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@TheGeffenizlude Interestingly, I served a variety of Lagavulin, Sheep Dip, and Ardbeg to a single malt novice last night. This guy loves gin and mixed drinks and red wine. Well, he LOVED the Islay malts. He even loved the Alligator, which is not a whisky for the faint of heart. And I agree - Blu...

This kind of comparison holds true for Bourbon here in the States. The OLD Weller whisky is far superior to the current Weller, which is made by Buffalo Trace. They have mostly preserved the labels, but it's a very different product.

@EnzoTorino If you are drinking L8 and earlier, you are a lucky man. If you like more blast, Supernova is the drink for you. The 2010 roars in like a lion. Amazing stuff.

I still miss Charles Kuralt. In fact, I miss the old media entirely. All the current batch want is to be celebrities.

I just came across a reference to Charles Kuralt. As a person who also suffers from autoimmune disease, this is personal. Of course, the reference to Clarence Day is the thing that puts this over the top. The kids who might stumble upon this won't remember Charles and they CERTAINLY won't rememb...

@hanksnow82 So anything that we didn't do in the past should not be done now? As it turns out, civil marriage did not exist in Europe until relatively recently. Sounds "special". If you aren't a Christian church member, no marriage for you. Fat kids get bullied more than LGBT kids - where's your ...

This choir sings with a more full-throated sound than many English peers. In Westminster Abbey, a 30+ voice choir likely would sing this with more finesse. I have soloed in this at Incarnation (Episcopal) in Dallas and our style was a little quieter.

The organ is a Skinner. The Cathedral announced two winners for construction of separate instruments, with one sounding down the Nave from the West Gallery to ease congregational singing. It's hard to keep the sound together with that much reverb. I am relieved that Dobson did not get to dismantl...

Sunday services at Broadway are truly inspirational. I am not a Baptist, but the music and preaching are always great when I do go.

This is a standard is many Episcopal churches in the United States, minus the orchestra and trumpets. The organ version is pretty thrilling, too.

The vowels are wrong. This is overclocked.

I'm honestly a little more appalled at the smog than the food.

I like his guitar work.

It's interesting to note that ETA makes the movements for lots of good Swiss watches, including the lower end Rolex models. Although I wear a genuine Rolex that has been in my family since 1971, I suspect that some (but not most) of the fakes are, practically speaking, solid watches that are obje...

@ViperGuy84 The difference would be whether it has a hacking movement. I think that all Rolex Datejusts got a hacking movement in the early 1970s. My 1969-dated movement does not have it. Another big delineation is the quickset date. Omega switched to a quickset date in the mid-60s with the ...

I did not grow up in the Orthodox tradition, so I may be biased, but I don't find this equal to Bach. (I am an Episcopalian with a Catholic background.) I sang the Bach St. Matthew for the first time at Oxford with the Oxford Bach Choir and the Britten Sinfonia in the Sheldonian Theatre. The or...

Belgian production. Note the Nederlands subtitles and the French name of the orchestra.

This is a Royal service, therefore the piece was sung in English. This is the practice at St. George's, Windsor.

I used to own some Dick Kesner albums. They were confiscated (to use a nice word) by some family members. I really need to replace them.

@foucle

I found it stunning. According to my grandmother, my family goes back to Malcolm III and Saint Margaret, who was I believe great-niece of Edward the Confessor. Her chapel in Edinburgh is one of the most serene places I have ever been.

I would love to hear this in person sometime! What an instrument!

In the organ world, I often say that most of the snarky organists who play digital organs in country churches but spend most of their time extolling the virtues of French organs they've never played ought to get real. I would say the same thing about opera - Anna Moffo on a bad day still is bette...