Posted on 11/19/2016 9:57:39 PM PST by aquila48
Personally, I LOVE Wagner, but he's awfully heave, the RING CYCLE is too damned long for most people, and I HATE THE FLYING DUTCHMAN. :-)
Verdi and Pucini are always good picks. :-)
Re THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA....see the silent ( Lon Channey stars ) and the several talkie remakes on TCM. I'll try to remember to let you know when they are on.
I went to a rally and met Mike Pence and he seems like an amazing guy.
However, why he would waste his money going to see this trash is beyond me.
BRAVO, doug; I remember when you first wrote that! It’s still spot on and funny! :-)
But like you, I also wonder WHY he even wanted to go see that POS stinker to begin with.
The supply of white idiots (and the audience is over 90 percent white) willing to travel to NYC and pay almost a thousand bucks a seat to see a bunch of racists perform an absurd adaptation of the life of Alexander Hamilton is NOT limitless.
2017 will NOT be a good year for these chumps.
It’s called “Reverse Racism”, by blacks, but in their world, it is just a normal practice.
Hypocrisy knows no limits!
Mind numbing hypocrisy from the left on display once again.
#21. We have an afficianodo of Opera here. Great. My late mother would have loved to have corresponded with you. She and my father would go to NY once a year as a wedding anniversary treat to see the great opera and stage shows.
And when she was young she either saw Caruso and the other greats of the 30’s and 40’s, or collected their records including Red Dog Victor albums.
I was raised on D’Orly Cart light operas with Martin Green - Mikado, HMS Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance etc. Even got Green’s autograph on a playbill. But I loved Bizet’s “Waltz of the Toreadors” and “La Habenera”.
My wife likes classical music and played it in Germany.
One of the last great stage shows I saw (gift tickets, couldn’t afford them back then), was “1776”. I’d like to see that brought back to the big stage. It was patriotic and entertaining at the same time.
America has been blessed with the greatest and most diverse musical entertainment of all time, from operas and stage shows/movies such as “The Producers”, Rock & Roll, Jazz, Bluegrass, Country and Western, to folk and cowboy tunes.
The Politically Correct liberals and Leftists want to destroy our national heritage. It is up to us to prevent this “Cultural Genocide”.
Freepers can do that just by commenting on this issue because it educates and enlightens its readers, as well as writing about it in other media formats when the attack is on.
This is our time to smash the Left. Let’s do it with gusto and knowledge.
I don’t see why Obama couldn’t be played by a white guy. After all, Obama is a half Arab portraying a half black man.
I guess then Whites Need Not Buy Tickets.
I was raised on opera AND G&S ! My parents did G&S semi-professionally and from the womb,onwards, I attended rehearsals and shows. My parents' troop did the FIRST complete G&S operetta ( The Mikado ), on American T.V., on NBC, in the summer of '49.
When the D'Oyly Carte Savoyards came to America, after WW II ended, I was taken to see ALL of their performances and we had a box. Martin Green asked one of the American caste ( who was a fill in and someone from our troop ) who that child was, in the box, mouthing every word. My "Uncle" Buddy told him it was ME and I got to go back stage and meet the late GREAT, best KoKo EVER, Martin Green! :-)
I have ALWAYS been a somewhat obsessed G&S fanatic, know all of the operettas by heart...including every single hand movement and bit. :-)
Anytime you care to talk about this, let me know/drop me some FRmail! :-)
In '85, during one of our trips to England, we went to visit Gilbert's home, Grim's Dyke and I stood by the wee river where he drowned and cried. Schwenck is my favorite and always has been; I adore the man.
Ummmmmmmmmmmm....Caruso was somewhat before your parents' time. My great Aunt was his special private secretary ( she was in charge of picking out and sending Christmas and birthday cards and other such bumff for him ) in the teens. Caruso DIED in 1921.
Tibaldi lived a floor or two up from my parents' apartment, in the '60s and if she was practicing, one could hear her as though she was right next to you, in the powder room. It was VERY disconcerting; to say the least. :-(
Absolutely LOVE 1776 and the movie is also very good. Yes, it should be revived; with an ALL WHITE cast, of course! :-)
As to the resat of your post, I concur and have done my part, raising the kiddo and now the grand, to know and appreciate our culture. :-)
You’re right about Caruso. My mother was born in 1992 but I know she saw Richard Tucker and Robert Merrill, among many other greats.
Rosa Ponselle was one of her acquaintances (my mother was a key member of the citizens support group for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Lyric Theater (our second home away from home - Heard Andre Watts, Arthur Rubenstein and Van Clyburn there).
My mother was also a semi-professional opera singer (studied under Frank Bibb) and sang in choirs in Baltimore for over 40 years (church and synagogues - under Hugo Weiskall). She was also on the Mayor’s Advisory Council for the Arts and Culture.
Her borther, my uncle, was an internationally known art collector and critic (Picasso, Klee, Kandinsky, Arp, Still, etc, and State Department host for international cultural figures who came to DC and Baltimore). Jackson Pollack was one of his friends.
We hosted the fist public reception for BSO newly appointed conductor Commissioni in our house. I got to walk him in.
Those were the good old days when you got one education in school and another in your home.
Being Jewish we had books, hundreds, if not thousands of them, plus records. We were truly the “people of the books”.
Education is a terrible thing to waste!
“Enjoy! Enjoy!” - Leo Rosten or Harry Golden
PHUCKING NONSENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely LOVE Tucker and Merril! :-)
My maternal grandfather was a super, in his spare time, for fun, when he was a young man and knew ALL of the greats of that time.
I grew up with LIVE FROM THE MET on the radio, on the weekends, so I still know most of the words to the GREATS and what the story lines are.
Like you, I grew up in a family of readers and was surrounded by lots of books. My grandmother would Bodlerize the great books as she read them to me, when I was bitty; Shakespeare too.
My parents both also painted and my father was an expert re ART; especially the pointillists and Dali. He would deliver lectures to me, when we were at a museum. When the Huntington Hartford had a Dali exhibit, in the mid '60s, daddy was at it and he drew a crowd that followed us around to hear him. LOL
Oh yes...one got an education at school, but a better one at home! It sounds as though we had somewhat similar childhoods. :-)
My grandmother was a child prodigy concert pianist, so classical music was like mother's milk to me too.
It's truly wonderful to meet someone, here, who "gets it". We might be a bit "strange" ( to others and the way they were raised ), but I'm glad that I had what I did and I can tell that you are on the same page. :-)
I LOVE your family story; it's MARVELOUS!
We aren't Jewish, but we have much in common.
how inclusive of them.
The progressive inclusive book burning liberals are a joy
Whites need not pay those outrageous ticket prices. If they had any sense.
Porgy and Bess with an all white cast? You would never hear the end of it.
The shame of it is that the movie with the cast including Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis jr Brock Peters etc was simply wonderful.
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