Posted on 06/29/2012 5:59:14 PM PDT by AZamericonnie
GranDau is living with us, get lots of new born holding time, GranSon came on Monday & left on Thurs to amaze his Dad late tonight when he returns from HI business trip, with his really crawling now & setting up by himself now too .*hugs*
Apple is looking for a place to hide from the others...
But Patch has found her hiding place!
Janis is apparently a radical anarchist. Here she is participating in Occupy the Soup Tureen. She'll be going to a new home in a couple weeks, where she'll be reunited with her big bro Morrison (his owner swears he's a conservative kitteh; he hisses at Rachel Maddow and Alan Colmes when he sees them on TV).
And here's Monkey keeping Mrs. Tweeze's right ankle warm.
Written by Chet Atkins
June 15, 2012 - U.S., Afghan Soldiers Conduct Patrol in Ghazni Province - U.S. paratroopers and Afghan soldiers patrol across the Tarnak River in southern Afghanistan's Ghazni province, June 15, 2012. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod
06/25/2012 - EN ROUTE - The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, fly in the Delta formation over Sugarloaf, S.C., June 20, 2012. The Blue Angels were en route to Latrobe, Pa., to perform at the Westmoreland County Air Show. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Rachel McMarr
06/27/2012 - WELCOME CEREMONY - U.S. Navy Capt. David Lausman presents coins to children in traditional Korean dress at a welcome ceremony in Busan, Korea, June 27, 2012. Lausman is commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington. Based in Japan, the the George Washington and its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing 5, arrived in Busan for a port visit. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Jennifer A. Villalovos
The opening theme, originally intended for a fifth symphony, is like being shot out of a cannon, and the cello has to scramble to be heard over the violins and violas. Upon hearing this theme, Jo’s friend Max Kalbeck said, “Brahms in the Prater,” referring to Vienna’s version of New York’s Central Park. Brahms responded, “And surrounded by all the pretty girls.” The first subject is breathtaking, and the second subject at 1:43 is wonderfully wistful. This performance repeats the exposition. At 6:29, the development begins with a turn to the minor key. At 9:10 the recapitulation comes an something of surprise, and Brahms re-composes it, as is his style. The coda at 12:18 makes it sound as if it will end quietly, but Brahms has a surprise in store. The end blows you away.
Brahms: String Quintet in G Major, Op. 111, first movement
The second movement in D minor features a wonderful cadenza for gypsy viola at 5:14.
The third movement is a ländler in G minor, and it has a pensive air about it. The middle episode in G Major lightens the mood.
For his finale, Brahms turns gypsy, especially at the end for a bravura finish.
The premiere in November 1890 was a sensation.
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Why Worry by Chet Atkins was written by Mark Knopfler and was first released by Dire Straits in 1985. Chet Atkins released it on the CD Sails in 1987
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How's it going? The knee getting better?
Hey dere, Prof!
*Hugs and smooches back*
The knee has been okay.
I finally have an answer for the back and hip pain.
I have spinal stenosis (lumbar).
They are going to “shoot it” on Monday with some meds to calm it down.
If that doesn’t work, we might be looking at surgery.
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Lumbar issues are hell. I have them on occasion, even though the x-rays and bone scan showed nothing amiss.
Hope things feel better.
Good to see ya! I've been busy busy busy with Brahms, which ends tonight.
Starting next week, I'll be listening to Seattle Chamber Music Festival concerts on Seattle's KING-FM thanks to the miracle of the Internet. On Friday nights in July, I'll have my eye on the Canteen thread but my ear on my computer speakers.
Brahms had an effect on another career. One night he heard Gustav Mahler conduct Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”, and he was absolutely stunned. He spent hours afterward talking shop with Mahler, and he procured Gus a series of operatic appointments, culminating in the Vienna State Opera, which Mahler thoroughly reformed and improved.
In January 1891, Jo journeyed to Meiningen for the arts festival, and he was amazed at the playing of clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld in two chamber works for clarinet by Weber and Mozart. This opened Brahms to the possibilities of the clarinet, and for his 1891 summer at Bad Ischl, he composed two clarinet chamber works. So much for retirement! The second, a quintet for clarinet and strings, is one of the monuments of the chamber repertory, a true five handkerchief piece. It’s a song of love, a song of regret, and there is nothing else quite like it.
It opens with a melisma on the strings, and first notes on the clarinet are bittersweet and haunting. At 1:41, the second subject in D Major provides some happiness, but even there the taste is of some long ago sadness. Following the repeat of the exposition, the development at 6:13 moves into a world of struggle, resolving into a sense of kind of sad peace at 9:21 at the recapitulation. At 11:59 there is a tortured cry from the heart that resolves into peacefulness, but with a sense of sadness and desolation at the end.
Brahms: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B minor, Op. 115, first movement
The slow movement changes the mood only slightly, with just a tiny flicker of happiness. In the middle section, Brahms writes a passage for gypsy clarinet that is haunting and full of grief. The return to the opening section at 7:16 is even a bit sweeter and more welcome despite the shadows. It ends with a sense of bliss in the major.
The third movement is a short intermezzo that provides a feeling of happiness to dispel what has gone before. The middle section has a sense of disquiet that resolves peacefully into the opening theme.
Brahms sets the finale as theme and variations, and he writes exactly one more variation than Mozart did in his quintet for the same group of instruments. The variation beginning at 6:30 sounds a bit like “Sunrise Sunset”. At the end, Brahms brings back the opening from the first movement to bring the work full circle. The final notes are bleak and desolate.
The premiere in Berlin in late 1891 was a tremendous success, for everyone understood that this was a work of the heart. The Vienna premiere in early January 1892 was even bigger and brought the house down.
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