I suppose the good news here is, the nuclear-war plan has trended upward since 1997. I’m traveling today. I am in Demopolis, Alabama, “City of the People.” You should Google it. It has a very interesting history. It was founded in the early 19th century by Bonapartists, political exiles from France after the return of Royalist government there. The settlers in west Alabama established what became known as “the vine and olive colony.” They thought they would be able to grow these crops, because the soil and climate reminded them of Bordeaux. They were wrong about that. There was a John Wayne movie supposedly set in French Demopolis that bore no relation whatsoever to anything that ever really happened.
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This is another version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQMKiwk7J0s
Not the first time I’ve blown my cover here. Yeah, today [Sat. 25 July] was wife’s birthday, and also the day she bore our daughter, who is 54 today and probably doesn’t care to be reminded of that.
Butterfly Lover’s Concerto is neat. So is a piece Steve* played earlier, two instruments [most often violin and piano, recent Middle European composer, repetitious but lovely]. Almost like playing scales or changes on church bells. Can’t remember title or composer but would recognize it. Maybe look at the MPR playlist. *Staruch is also a good MC, handled a small group’s recital here. I’ve had him play lots of stuff, including G&S.
Peace, emb
Mirror in the Mirror [Spiegel im Spiegel]; Arvo Part [pronounced pairt]; Anne Akiko Meyers, violin; Akira Eguchi, piano.
We had a married couple who did it often here, but he got a better job in music ed someplace else. He was also a comedian, of the better sort. emb
The title of the only tune which stuck with me from my NYCity years had always been unknown to me until a week ago. It happened that I was in a traffic snarl on the way to a genealogical meeting, and the radio played it. I was delighted and listened carefully to the title, etc. I may add that it has been an earworm since the mid-/late-1940s, so I TRULY wanted the name!
My family had made a visit to Radio City Music Hall in all its glory, for an Easter show, I think. The tune was gorgeously done, with singers slowly walking up along the sides of the main floor audience. My memory may be wrong on this, but I think they sang a religiously inclined verse beginning with “Oh, give thanks to the Lord up above”. For an Easter show, that’d be appropriate. When you listen to it, you will understand how the meter works out.
So, go to youtube and seek Anton Rubinstein’s “Reve Angelique”. There are several choices of artists, but I chose the one whose thumbnail showed some of the Radio City exterior [a lot more of the interior was shown during the performance]. It was done by the Philharmonia Slavonica and some commenters didn’t care for that version, but it did fine for me. Enjoy.
The 5-manual organ at Radio City helped, too…it was 5, wasn’t it, eMb?
Good morning Villagers…..
TR and Steve….that was not a Freudian slip 🙂 a typo, but a funny typo (where’s that edit button?)
Well, the man to man talk did not happen, Andrew called and we had to hurry and get to the hen house….another auger out.
But Ian did get his glasses yesterday. Modern technology, competitiveness allowed him to get his glasses within an hour….and it was from one of those big eye glasses stores.
It’s Caturday….have to work on the steel rod conveyor this morning. Humidity is high.
Oh, and yesterday was PAYDAY….Ian opened his check that was a week old and noticed he got a raise….I fumbled in opening my envelope and sure enough, I got one too. I always check my hours never the pay….came home and looked at last week’s pay stub…..it was there too. I got twenty five cents more on the hour than Ian…..and I’m not telling him. Got a .75 cent raise…yayayayaya!!!!!!!
Ya’lll have a blessed Caturday
And a big welcome to L Jackson….good quote too.
GR 😉 here’s a favorite of yours, it was on the side of the Kayak mishap…..you won’t be disappointed in the ‘viewing’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvxAmH7e7Q8&list=RDOvxAmH7e7Q8
Gal…..a prayer for your sister’s recovery…………………Amen
Glasses for big eyes. Sounds like one of those things that you might see hanging over the sidewalk in NYC to advertise their wares to non-English speakers.
Good morning Debbe and good luck Galliglo. May I comment that I’ve never seen that name before?
Going sailing this weekend with a pack of Scamp sailboats, then to a fireworks display tonight. All these towns up here work hard on tourism with constant festivals, musical events, farmers markets, street vendors, foodie enticements. I will say the food truck with Texas barbeque from Round Rock, TX would only excite the Pacific Northwest, Texas wouldn’t have been so excited, I wasn’t.
When boat building school ends here we are off to the North Channel of Canada to sail, a long, long haul across either Canada 1 or long haul from here to Lake Huron, then back across country to Boise, Idaho to go white water rafting and back to rest up in Washington state before the big wooden boat show.
Hey I just wanted to have a interesting summer, I didn’t do the schedule!
Love Jackie
Until a few months ago I lived in the same area as Bubba Watson if that tells you anything.
Appalachicola, Appalachicola, APPALACHICOLA! Appalachicola is fun to say, Jerry! (So is Bemidji, emb.)
Congratulations on the raise, Debbe! I’m glad Ian could get his glasses quickly. I can’t imagine needing them and being without them.
Jackie, you sure are covering a lot of water AND land!
Yay! sand is back, sand is back! (Doing happy dance.) Hug Loon for us, please. We have missed you folks.
Gal, if the rehab unit is part of the hospital, I think that would be good for coordinating her care. Sometimes it’s hard to get everyone on the same page in different facilities.
Ghost, I’m curious…what fragrance are you asking for?
Denise 🙂
Denise: Yes, the rehab is part of the hospital and has excellent reviews! A few years ago, my BIL had surgery on his shoulder at another hospital and was sent to a local rehab unit. Terrible! Luckily, due to some members of the family that knew which strings to pull, he was able to transfer to the hospital rehab. The difference was like night and day!
Debbe: I know I would not be able to function without my eyeglasses. I do have prescription sunglasses so at least I would be able to drive. Thankful that Ian was able to get his in good time.
Old Bear: Thanks for the link! Don’t have time today, but shall bookmark it.
Village: Blessings to all!!!
My experience with rehab hospitals for my late mother in law and husband were not good. We used a wonderful hospital but when transfered out we dropped into the dark ages.
Hope to avoid that step altogether when I get knee replaced. Hospital is orthopedic only and John is coming from New Zealand to nurse me. He assures me he was trained as a medic for field surgery during Vietnamese war by New Zealand armed forces, along with other useful skills like flying engine less aircraft and jumping out of perfectly good planes with engines.
I am reassured. Love Jackie
Debbe 😉 Thanks for the Springsteen video, hon; I had not seen that version. (Looks like someone had some fun with PowerPoint.) Good song, good visuals. Even if there was an amazing scarcity of pokies among such a wide array of skimpily clad lovelies. (An exception at 2:22, if anyone is interested. Wish she worked out at my gym.)
I wonder if there is a term for a group of pokies, as in a Brood of Chickens, a Clowder of Cats, a Murder of Crows, a Prickle of Porcupines, etc.
A Prominence of Pokies, perhaps?
Debbe: Congrats. I bet you’re still not paid what you’re worth. Few are, while others are paid 1,000 x w.t.w. Welcome to the Land of Opportunity.
“Appalachicola is fun to say, Jerry! (So is Bemidji, emb.)” BSU had a president who had trouble with it. He was from Texas. BSU is where I taught biology and stuff for 36 years. Some alums think I walked on water. Only some.
c x-p: “The 5-manual organ at Radio City helped, too…it was 5, wasn’t it, eMb?” I guess I knew they had one, probably like the one at the old John Wanamaker’s store in the Village, theatre organ style. Saw “Random Harvest” and “Fantasia” at RCMH.
Ranks? Everything I know about organs I’ve learned in Bemidji [no longer, if ever, a secret]. The conductor of the BSO, Dr. Beverly Everett, the greatest gift Texas has ever sent us, is also an organist, does a recital every summer in the Bemidji Area Church Musicians summer recitals at St. Bart’s Episcopal. They have an electronic organ, but a good one.
BUMC did two BACM Wed. noons this summer. The first* was to celebrate our newly refurbished pipe organ, and featured several area organists and a fabulous free-will lunch afterwards. BUMC and St. B. are rivals for the best after-recital lunches, a rivalry l much enjoy. Bev is in her 11th year with us, also has the Bismarck/Mandan orch. She is a godsend. I thought she’d be in Milwaukee or some such by now, but Bev apparently likes it here. But then, as I said, she’s from Texas. Actually, I think she loves Texas, too.
*The second was just last Wed., Glenn Seibel [BUMC] on euphonium and baritone, with Wayne Hoff on piano. Wayne, who will have his own recital [electronic organ], with Carol Johnson on piano, 12 Aug at Aardahl* Lutheran, a small rural ELCA church, also with good lunches and an excellent lutefisk supper each fall. Wayne is a most gifted pianist, plays with the Bemidji Chorale [two concerts a year], and is often the “orchestra” for musical productions of the Bemidji Community Theatre, which wife was active in. Have I mentioned before that she achieved a life goal, starring as Eulalie McKechney Shinn, the mayor’s wife in “The Music Man.”
*Mostly we’re Scandinavian and Lutheran up here, don’cha know. Mostly [actually more] German farther south, RC and Lutheran. I know of one MN city that is mostly Baptist*, of various stripes, but none that are mostly UMC. *My younger son, a known UMC liberal, came in last of five or so in a school bd. election there. He and wife will retire in Mpls.
Peace, emb
Ranks? Manuals!
“It’s something about your skin.” Great line to use on the waitress at a breastarunt.
My dear virtual friends, my Mom passed away at 7:20 this morning at the nursing home. When I visited her on Wednesday, she was questioning why the good Lord had not taken her home. She is home now, she passed peacefully…and she looked at peace…finally.
Edema and high blood pressure built up, so it’s a question of a stroke or fluid build up in the lungs…..I’m okay, but my one sister is in Montana (not Wyoming) on a week’s vacation. They should arrive in Indianapolis late tomorrow night. We meet with the funeral home Monday.
Ian is especially taking it hard…she is the other one who spoiled him. I am happy she looked so peaceful and is finally at rest…I asked her as she laid there in the bed, and I know she was still around us, that she keep Ian safe.
Ian and I are working tomorrow….I need to stay busy, The Boss is so understanding. Thank all of you for being here when we need one another.
love…Debbe
{{{{Debbe}}}} Loon and I will keep you and your family in our prayers.
Debbie, I know just how bad you’re feeling right now, because I’ve lost both of my parents, neither of them suddenly. You think that you’ve accepted the fact that it’s going to happen and that you’re ready for it, but you never really are. Yes, you’re going to grieve, you’re going to mourn, but with time, the hurt will pass and life will go on. As the doctor said about the kidney stone, this too shall pass.
My condolences Debbe.
Lost my father fast and my mother slow. There is no good way to lose someone you love. Thoughts and prayers for you and your family – Sideburns said it best.