a stage build that is completed by 11pm rather than 2am, and the many people who helped to make it so. Thank you, one and all.
Category: Music
As this articlepoints out, the dawn of google bombing has broken, and no telling where it will end. I hope to use it to do a bit of promotion for Pirates. If you have an idea for a good phrase for us to use (‘best show ever’, ‘good times’, &c.) and/or would like to help us out, let me know in the comments.
And we’re still looking for a couple of basses or baritones.
Tonight is the first rehearsal for RLOS’s production of Pirates of Penzance. We are still short of basses. If you are interested, *please* call me 1t 713-522-0799.
Kathy said I should start thinking about doing another recital. So I’m trying to get ideas of pieces to do on it. The only one I’m definitely doing so far is “This Nearly Was Mine” from “South Pacific” (hear it or read the lyrics). Got any other ideas? Leave ’em in the comments, please.
There are some songs that reach down and hit me every time I hear them. Was reminded yesterday that the 2nd movement of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony is one of
them…stayed in the car yesterday after driving back from rehearsal so I could hear it all. Also among these gems are:
- the Queen of the Night’s aria from Act 2 of Zauberfl?te
- Barber’s Adagio for Strings
- Strau?’ Radetzky March
- “Ah, leave me not to pine” from Act 2 of Pirates
- Albinoni/Giazotto Adagio in G minor
And the full quote is:
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
It’s ‘breast’, not ‘beast’, and is from “The Mourning Bride,” Act i. Sc. 1., of William Congreve (1670?-1729).