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- Wed Jun 29, 2011 3:56 pm
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: On Singing
- Replies: 35
- Views: 24503
In my opinion, yes, but to a Russian Jew perhaps not. And you're absolutely right about acting and theatre. :) I hope I wasn't too terribly frustrating, Alatar. That certainly was not my intent. I thought more about what you had written, and what point you were trying to make, and I think I may have...
- Wed Jun 29, 2011 1:53 pm
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: On Singing
- Replies: 35
- Views: 24503
- Wed Jun 29, 2011 1:43 pm
- Forum: Tolkien's Letters
- Topic: Letter 181 and Letter 246 Frodo, Sam, Gollum and Other Stuff
- Replies: 43
- Views: 122285
Very nice comments, WampusCat. I wholeheartedly agree with everything you wrote. :) But could Sam have found the strength to wrest the Ring from Frodo, or even to push him, Ring and all, into the abyss? Unfortunately, I don't find that likely either. I don't, either. However, if Sam had found Frodo ...
- Wed Jun 29, 2011 11:12 am
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: On Singing
- Replies: 35
- Views: 24503
- Wed Jun 29, 2011 1:33 am
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: On Singing
- Replies: 35
- Views: 24503
- Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:19 pm
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: On Singing
- Replies: 35
- Views: 24503
Or getting a little drunk and landing in jail.Primula Baggins wrote:...and sing solos that aren't about coal mining
- Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:14 pm
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: Musicals and Operas
- Replies: 404
- Views: 235675
Pretty Women We lose the orchestra slightly here, but get it back. Also I'm singing the wrong verse at one point. Still, how often do you get to sing a male Baritone duet! At one point you nearly put the brush in Turpin's mouth while he's singing. LOL! There are plenty of times in Mozart's Don Giov...
- Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:36 pm
- Forum: Tolkien's Letters
- Topic: Letter 181 and Letter 246 Frodo, Sam, Gollum and Other Stuff
- Replies: 43
- Views: 122285
Tolkien says in another letter that if Sam had shown him compassion, pity on the stairs, that Gollum would have repented...also after reading up on this am convinced that Gollum had to play a role in the destruction of the Ring. It had to be Gollum that destroyed the Ring. If Gollum had repented, h...
- Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:59 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Why care if the teeth don't lock?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 33686
...as presented (to a great extent) posthumously through the herculean efforts of Christopher Tolkien Ha! So someone else compares CT's efforts to compile and publish his father's work to the labors of Hercules! I've been using that term for years. Besides, I just like the sound of it: herculean . ...
- Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:43 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Tea in Tolkien's Hobbit - Recipes of the Shire
- Replies: 22
- Views: 20307
- Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:26 pm
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: Ombra mai fu
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4946
I was introduced to this aria in a voice class back in 1980 or '81. It's not terribly difficult to sing, which is why it is a standard for beginners. I have a performance of countertenor David Daniels on CD that is fantastic. I also have a Pavarotti performance on cassette tape. (Pavarotti? :shock: ...
- Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:08 pm
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: Group listening of "The Magic Flute"? (Die Zauberf
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11595
Nearly four years later... Let's see, that performance at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House. What was it like? Ah, now I remember! We sat in the balcony where the sound is fantastic but the view of the stage not so much. However, I was introduced for the first time to 'Opera Vision'. "...
- Tue Jun 28, 2011 12:03 pm
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: Classical music fans?
- Replies: 101
- Views: 37816
Did you all know there are two classical music threads? Either Voronwë is slipping or he has mellowed from the scythe-wielding thread splitter/thread melder that I knew back in the day. The Classical Music Thread , whose first post is dated May 7, 2006, actually predates this one, although it appear...
- Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:59 am
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: Peter, Paul and........Mary
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5257
- Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:36 am
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: 'Interesting' Choice to play Freddie Mercury
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5068
- Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:28 am
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: The King's Speech
- Replies: 34
- Views: 16966
- Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:12 am
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: AVATAR sequels announced
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7381
- Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:57 am
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: Following LOTR Actors
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6208
I'm not personally into following any particular actor or actors, including those featured in Peter Jackson's movies. I've observed, however, that TheOneRing.net (TORN) seems to do a really good job of covering their latest exploits. 'Wilfred', starring Elijah Wood, has been receiving extensive prom...
- Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:44 am
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: Looking for Mediaeval Music
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3167
This probably isn't (or wasn't) what you're looking for, Alatar, but have you seen The Merchant of Venice (2004) starring Al Pacino as Shylock and Jeremy Irons as Antonio? Jocelyn Pook's music, which features German countertenor Andreas Scholl ( With wand'ring steps and How sweet the moonligh t) and...
- Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:22 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Move to Middle-Earth
- Replies: 80
- Views: 112924
I've been revisiting some of the threads here, lurking about you might say, after a long absence. I have been reminded how much the good folk of this online community love the :salmon: . This provides me with the opportunity to tempt you all into, as the thread indicates, Moving to Middle-earth . =:...