Topic: THE END OF THE WORLD THAT WASN'T (Read 40306 times)

Jrand74 · « **Reply #30 on:** May 22, 2011, 09:08:12 AM »

Quote from: ArnoldMBrockman on May 22, 2011, 07:34:51 AM

Quote from: bk on May 22, 2011, 12:06:49 AM
And the word of the day is: NEONISM!

And The Song Of The Day Is: NEW WORDS

A Beautiful Song By Maury Yeston

It's my favorite song to perform in sign language!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #31 on:** May 22, 2011, 09:24:47 AM »

DR JohnG, I hope your package got to you.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #32 on:** May 22, 2011, 10:02:01 AM »

And...

Good Afternoon!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #33 on:** May 22, 2011, 10:02:37 AM »

And...

Now I need to get ready to head out of the apartment for a bit.

Laters...

vixmom · « **Reply #34 on:** May 22, 2011, 10:46:18 AM »

Elmore -

I like the carol /hymn People Look East a lot --- we sing it every Advent but it is not a well known carol

Jane · « **Reply #35 on:** May 22, 2011, 10:54:18 AM »

Quote from: Ginny on May 22, 2011, 04:37:46 AM

Congratulations to DR The Vixter and her choirmates on their big wins and to DR Vixmom for surviving the trip!

DITTO!!!

Jane · « **Reply #36 on:** May 22, 2011, 10:56:58 AM »

My aunt, my mother's younger sister, is 87 today. She is active & doing great, as is her 91 year old husband.

Jane · « **Reply #37 on:** May 22, 2011, 10:57:20 AM »

Quote from: John G. on May 22, 2011, 05:32:06 AM

My cousin Caroline from Birmingham, Alabama, was in town for a convention and we got together for a few hours. It' was fun. Haven't seen her or anyone else from Dad's side of the family for 12 years. I showed her around a tiny bit, we had a wonderful seafood dinner and then went to see the Symphony because there was an extra ticket. All in all quite pleasant.

vixmom · « **Reply #38 on:** May 22, 2011, 11:00:22 AM »

Ginny thanks for the congratulations - the trip was a lot o fun and I am so glad I went along - no retelling of the tale could have possibly reproduced the feeling of sitting there in that stadium as the awards were announced - I was sitting with the Vixter and her friends - all members of the chorus - and she and all of her female friends are also members of the women's choir

As they announced 5th place, 4th place, 3rd place and our school was not named the held hands were squeezed tightly , breaths were held ... 2nd place not us..........a loooooooooooooooong pause...

First place with a rating of "superior " goes to ................................................. .........................(I finally know what the finalists in Miss America feel like)................................................. ................."Insert our school name here"

Absolute pandemonium - one of the chorus dads who was with us had tears streaming down his cheeks - the kids were besides them selves with joy and (this made me so very proud of the kids) within seconds they had all turned from where they stood and faced their music director, applauding her and shouting "thank you Mrs. L......." "We love you Mrs L!!.".

and then we got to do it allover again for the women's choir!

and when they announced that our school won for all over best choir of any type - oh. my. goodness.

trip to Hershey Music In the Parks Festival $200 per person

food at rest areas along the way $ 8 per person

being there when they win the awards--- PRICELESS!!

vixmom · « **Reply #39 on:** May 22, 2011, 11:01:13 AM »

happy birthday to Jane's aunt!

Jane · « **Reply #40 on:** May 22, 2011, 11:02:17 AM »

Jennifer, amoxicillin may be taken with food. it might help your stomach symptoms. antibiotics always bother me.

vixmom · « **Reply #41 on:** May 22, 2011, 11:03:21 AM »

we had church this morning so time to get some stuff done around here

vixmom · « **Reply #42 on:** May 22, 2011, 11:03:40 AM »

Trip vibes for Ginny & her Mom!

Jane · « **Reply #43 on:** May 22, 2011, 11:04:49 AM »

DR Vixmom, PRICELESS & EXCITING!!! I'm so glad you could be there.

Jane · « **Reply #44 on:** May 22, 2011, 11:07:07 AM »

Quote from: vixmom on May 22, 2011, 11:01:13 AM

happy birthday to Jane's aunt!

thank you.

bk · « **Reply #45 on:** May 22, 2011, 11:25:09 AM »

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bk · « **Reply #46 on:** May 22, 2011, 11:25:23 AM »

I'm up after a very needed and good night's sleep.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #47 on:** May 22, 2011, 11:25:25 AM »

Quote from: vixmom on May 22, 2011, 10:46:18 AM

Elmore -

I like the carol /hymn People Look East a lot --- we sing it every Advent but it is not a well known carol

It's the same tune as the French carol "Shepherds, Shake Off Your Drowsy Sleep," but the imagery of "People, Look East" fits our show well, and it begins the piece. I'm starting to get very excited about the whole thing, and I think it's going to be fun. I've arranged for the tomorrow's rehearsal the following:
West Virginia Mine Disaster
People, Look East
Sing, All Men/Ring the Christ Church Bells
I Wish I Was Single Again (Men and Women's versions)
Christmas Time's A-Comin'
It's The Goold Old Mountain Dew
Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
How Far Is It To Bethlehem?
The six songs in the "Appalachian Carols" arrangement I wrote for my Dad

Then we've gt eight pieces that need to be arranged and dictated by the staging, so I'm giving the actors photocopies from various carol and other song books.

bk · « **Reply #48 on:** May 22, 2011, 11:26:18 AM »

So, who are these people who have egg on their faces from the end of the world that wasn't? As I said, I stayed away from reading about it or listening to the news. Someone recount who these people are and how many took them seriously.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #49 on:** May 22, 2011, 11:26:33 AM »

Quote from: vixmom on May 22, 2011, 11:00:22 AM

Ginny thanks for the congratulations - the trip was a lot o fun and I am so glad I went along - no retelling of the tale could have possibly reproduced the feeling of sitting there in that stadium as the awards were announced - I was sitting with the Vixter and her friends - all members of the chorus - and she and all of her female friends are also members of the women's choir

As they announced 5th place, 4th place, 3rd place and our school was not named the held hands were squeezed tightly , breaths were held ... 2nd place not us..........a loooooooooooooooong pause...

First place with a rating of "superior " goes to ................................................. .........................(I finally know what the finalists in Miss America feel like)................................................. ................."Insert our school name here"

Absolute pandemonium - one of the chorus dads who was with us had tears streaming down his cheeks - the kids were besides them selves with joy and (this made me so very proud of the kids) within seconds they had all turned from where they stood and faced their music director, applauding her and shouting "thank you Mrs. L......." "We love you Mrs L!!.".

and then we got to do it allover again for the women's choir!

and when they announced that our school won for all over best choir of any type - oh. my. goodness.

trip to Hershey Music In the Parks Festival $200 per person

food at rest areas along the way $ 8 per person

being there when they win the awards--- PRICELESS!!

This is so exciting! What a great thing to have been there.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #50 on:** May 22, 2011, 11:30:22 AM »

Quote from: bk on May 22, 2011, 11:26:18 AM

So, who are these people who have egg on their faces from the end of the world that wasn't? As I said, I stayed away from reading about it or listening to the news. Someone recount who these people are and how many took them seriously.

Many fools did. There were parents who'd stopped putting money into their children's college funds because they wouldlfn't live to see college, there was a man interviewed on the news who's spent around $40,000 of his retirement funds for ephemera on the event and REPENT FOR THE END IS AT HAND brochures, there were parents who'd told their children they were going to die yesterday. Since I shy away from street preachers and other assorted loonies, I only get thingson the tv.

ArnoldMBrockman · « **Reply #51 on:** May 22, 2011, 11:31:08 AM »

Vixmom and Vixter et al

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S ! ! !

elmore3003 · « **Reply #52 on:** May 22, 2011, 11:31:59 AM »

I think I will go to Staples and rid myself of this carton of empty ink cartridges.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #53 on:** May 22, 2011, 11:55:16 AM »

I'm back!

I took 50 empty cartridges to the store, and they only offer credit for 20/month. Since I had no urge to schlep back 30 cartridges, I left them all and got a store credit of $100, which will use to pay for the paper to print the final EILEEN scores.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #54 on:** May 22, 2011, 12:03:33 PM »

I think I'm going to begin this medieval epic on DVD, PILLARS OF THE EARTH. I'm too groggy to accomplish much else today.

TCB · « **Reply #55 on:** May 22, 2011, 12:04:10 PM »

The whole "world is coming to an end" yesterday was just stupid.

Everyone know the world ends in December 2012.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #56 on:** May 22, 2011, 12:05:04 PM »

Quote from: TCB on May 22, 2011, 12:04:10 PM

The whole "world is coming to an end" yesterday was just stupid.

Everyone know the world ends in December 2012.

My world ended several years ago!

TCB · « **Reply #57 on:** May 22, 2011, 12:20:07 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on May 22, 2011, 07:48:37 AM

Quote from: Michael S on May 22, 2011, 05:58:27 AM
For all those in NYC....

Have you been following the musicians union protesting at the Palace Theater over the canned music used in Priscilla? The producers said that if they lose they will hire the musician but they will "sit on the hands".

DR Michael S - First of all, the Priscilla situation is not, in the bigger picture, just an NYC issue.

As for my thoughts on the issue, well...

I think the AFM needs to focus more on the revivals that come in using greatly reduced orchestrations and orchestras. If the AFM wins this case, and the producers are able to hire "walkers" - which were eliminated in the last big contract negotiation, that will surely just open up another can of worms by making the hiring of "walkers" a possibility again.

I think the reason so much attention is being paid to Priscilla is because it's at The Palace and that's where the revival of West Side Story played - and that was the production that invoked it's "cut list" after opening. -And the "cut list" is something the AFM somehow approved in the first place.

Now, if the AFM does win, I wonder if they'll try to get Mamma Mia! to do the same thing. Mamma Mia! is in the Winter Garden. It was granted a dispensation to use a less musicians than the required minimum... And there are a lot of horn and string samples in the Keyboard 3 and 4 books.

MAMMA MIA is still playing on Broadway?

TCB · « **Reply #58 on:** May 22, 2011, 12:28:16 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on May 22, 2011, 11:00:22 AM

Ginny thanks for the congratulations - the trip was a lot o fun and I am so glad I went along - no retelling of the tale could have possibly reproduced the feeling of sitting there in that stadium as the awards were announced - I was sitting with the Vixter and her friends - all members of the chorus - and she and all of her female friends are also members of the women's choir

As they announced 5th place, 4th place, 3rd place and our school was not named the held hands were squeezed tightly , breaths were held ... 2nd place not us..........a loooooooooooooooong pause...

First place with a rating of "superior " goes to ................................................. .........................(I finally know what the finalists in Miss America feel like)................................................. ................."Insert our school name here"

Absolute pandemonium - one of the chorus dads who was with us had tears streaming down his cheeks - the kids were besides them selves with joy and (this made me so very proud of the kids) within seconds they had all turned from where they stood and faced their music director, applauding her and shouting "thank you Mrs. L......." "We love you Mrs L!!.".

and then we got to do it allover again for the women's choir!

and when they announced that our school won for all over best choir of any type - oh. my. goodness.

trip to Hershey Music In the Parks Festival $200 per person

food at rest areas along the way $ 8 per person

being there when they win the awards--- PRICELESS!!

Wow, that was a goosebump post!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #59 on:** May 22, 2011, 12:29:06 PM »

Lots of loud thunder around here!

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