Quote for Today

"If a child does not favor his father, there is a dead cat on the line."
---Rev. J. M. Gates


(Comparing children to how cats would get on telephone lines and die and the message would not get through the telephone line. His recording inspired Tampa Red to write the Blues song, Dead Cat on the Line.)

 

Cheating, by looking that one up on Google backfired.

It came from one of more than two thousand letters, exchanged between Tchaikovsky and his patron Madam Von Meck, who he never met.
She was virtually at war with Wagner, for belittling the musical formats in his first piano concerto.
Many people think that Wagner's real problem was that although married Tchaikovsky was gay.

It was his partner, who thought that dunking Tchaikovsky in boiling water would cure his cholera. That one backfired too.

This is the work that Wagner described as a pile of drivel. 6.8 million YouTube viewers disagree.

 

Anna Fedorova, One of the most talented pianists of modern times, combining true feeling without sacrificing technical excellence.
Yves Abel, conducting a concerto for piano and orchestra, rather than piano vs orchestra.
The correctly high positioned microphones, capturing the uncoloured natural resonance of the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
What more could you ask for.?

The first movements Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso , expanding to Allegro con spirito after the cadenza, was faultless.
then the Andantino. Opening with pizzicato strings, passing first to flute, then to and fro from piano.
All ending with that with the climax, Allegro con fuoco

 

I wish that I had travelled more in my younger days, but designing specialist equipment for major public buildings, left me looking after it, sometimes 24/7
Comments here on HF probably made all this sound quite glamorous, but over my 55 working years, 90+% was spent on things like blocked toilets and ripped carpets. One call was when a large central London theatre auditorium was just about to fill to the ceiling with raw sewage. I remember that one, it was a Christmas day. LOL
My ambition to visit far away lands, Had India at the top and the USA very near the bottom. China was even lower, probably ripped off altogether. LOL

 

"I never lose,I either win or learn"

Not just for today...............live and learn. We all fall down and get up.............

Mzzls

 

It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!

 

Did you hear thunder? Where did that thunder come from?

 

“There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. … Clearly, it is this second part, which presents the difficulties.”


-- Douglas Adams