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After enjoying the soul-stirring music produced live by a string quartet, I want to experience the performance of an entire symphony.

Does anyone know about any of the shows listed at the link for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra? What's a good choice?

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My husband played French horn in the Wyoming Symphony for three decades, as well as some other regonal orchestras as an import. He'd love to have that many choices.

The sitar concert sounds interesting. Obviously it's not Ravi, unless he's making a post mortem tour, but Anoushka tours. Maybe it's her. Anoushka Shankar I'm not a big fan of orchestral movie and pop music concerts, but I could be talked into the John Williams concert. For sheer glorious, showy sound, it would be hard to beat Beethoven's Ninth. My husband skipped playing with the orchestra that concert so he could sing in the chorale. It was one of my favorite singing experiences, even though the idiot choir director decided we needed to sing it in freaking ENGLISH, as if the chorale hadn't sung in everything from Latin to Hebrew, including German. Frankly, he should've retired years earlier. He gave himself the bass solo, though he was nowhere near the best bass in the chorale. I retired from chorale after the Ninth.

But I digress, as usual.

Talked to my daughter-in-law today. We're going to Scotland in September. :) It'll be my third time, but her first. She's looking forward to trying her Gaelic out on someone.
 
CatrionaGrace said:
'm not a big fan of orchestral movie and pop music concerts, but I could be talked into the John Williams concert. For sheer glorious, showy sound, it would be hard to beat Beethoven's Ninth. My husband skipped playing with the orchestra that concert so he could sing in the chorale. It was one of my favorite singing experiences, even though the idiot choir director decided we needed to sing it in freaking ENGLISH, as if the chorale hadn't sung in everything from Latin to Hebrew, including German. Frankly, he should've retired years earlier. He gave himself the bass solo, though he was nowhere near the best bass in the chorale. I retired from chorale after the Ninth.
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I don't blame you. Singing the Beethoven Ninth in English is insane. Anything but Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium is a travesty.

I agree that for 'glorious, showy sound', Beethoven Nine is hard to beat. But have you considered the Mahler Eight? ;) One of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire -- it requires huge instrumental and vocal forces, and is frequently called the "Symphony of a Thousand". But the work is normally presented with far fewer than a thousand performers, and Mahler greatly disapproved of the name. :)

CatrionaGrace said:
Talked to my daughter-in-law today. We're going to Scotland in September. :) It'll be my third time, but her first. She's looking forward to trying her Gaelic out on someone.
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Och! Biodh spòrs agad ann an Alba, ye ken? :)
 
Went for the 7 am swim this morning. Love starting my day with a swim
 
Rath Darkblade said:
Och! Biodh spòrs agad ann an Alba, ye ken? :)
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I dinnae ken nothin' but English and enough Spanish to get myself into trouble. My daughter-in-law is the one with the Gaelic.

We're going the first three weeks of September. The place she reserved for us is off Loch Ness.

I've never done Mahler. My favorites include Orff's Carmena Burana, Verdi's Requiem, and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms. Carmena is the one I did the most. That was back when I still had a high D and could sing Dulcissime. Sigh. I miss my voice.
 
I have to leave the house in fifteen minutes and must be in denial because I'm still sitting here at the computer. I donwanna go see a movie. A friend really does want to see this movie and is not the sort of person to go alone, so- good deed moment. Sigh. Wonder what I did with my shoes...
 
Lately I've woken up in the middle of the night and become roaringly hungry. So I need to find a middle-of-the-night meal that is easy and quick. I've been having different things, like eggs, sandwiches, noodles, and that has worked out fine. I just have great trouble sleeping when I'm hungry.

Now you guys know!
 
Madman Starryteller said:
Lately I've woken up in the middle of the night and become roaringly hungry. So I need to find a middle-of-the-night meal that is easy and quick. I've been having different things, like eggs, sandwiches, noodles, and that has worked out fine. I just have great trouble sleeping when I'm hungry.

Now you guys know!
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(unless you've posted here before, in which case you're already doomed)
 
My granpa (born in 1915) used to tell random pieces of information from his youth. When he was a child, he and friends would describe the monarch in the capital city as a dude who sits on throne and two soldiers feed him with butter using shovels.

Interestingly, there is no way to know how the myth like this was created and retained in a remote village. I held on this info since 1970s and never shared before. Thanks to this thread I am now free from this haunting picture.
 
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Oh gosh I am having a lazy day. Getting laundry done, but not much else
 
Other village story is about easter. Children hit each other's boiled eggs in one-on-one duels. Whichever egg breaks loses. The legend is that some kid had a fake egg, likely painted and made of wood. Imagine the spoils!
 
Heartlet Happer said:
Other village story is about easter. Children hit each other's boiled eggs in one-on-one duels. Whichever egg breaks loses. The legend is that some kid had a fake egg, likely painted and made of wood. Imagine the spoils!
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Where was the village? An acquaintance once told me about having egg duels when she was a little girl. We had candy eggs and chocolate bunnies at our house.
 
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