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Christmas Songs.
« on: December 23, 2008, 04:25:24 pm »
The stories of the Christmas hits

By Liam Allen
Entertainment reporter, BBC News




A select few songs, played on heavy rotation every year, have come to be considered Christmas classics.

The writers and co-writers of three of the biggest festive favourites tell the stories of their songs.

JEM FINER - FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK

How did the song come about?

I decided to start writing a Christmas song.

Marcia, my wife, said it was a load of rubbish, lyrically and narratively speaking, so she suggested a storyline about a couple who are down on their luck.

The guy went out with what little money they had to buy a Christmas tree and presents but, on the way, he decided to go into the bookies and it all went horribly wrong - he came back and they had a row.

The row was quite a crucial part of it. But then there was a redemptive quality - love took over from the more material aspects of Christmas.

Shane [MacGowan] had been working on the same idea as well, a Christmas duet. He had written the first section and we kept the melody from my first song - the one with the really bad story - and basically the storyline from the second one, which Shane transposed to New York and rewrote in his own inimitable style.

Do you get bored with it?

I never got bored of performing it. There's always a lot of excitement. There's excitement when another singer arrives on stage - for the last few years it's been one of our daughters, Ella. Then when people realise it's Fairytale of New York, the piano starts out, then they get more excited.

The audience always respond in increments of excitement.

It must be disappointing that the song didn't reach number one.

It doesn't surprise me that the Pet Shop Boys with a not-very-interesting remake of an Elvis Presley song [Always On My Mind] got the Christmas number one.

I suppose it might be nice to be number one but, as far as I'm concerned, it's had a longer life than that particular song.

Have you written any other Christmas songs?

I worked in an astrophysics department for a couple of years as an artist-in-residence, and I formed a band there. I wrote a Christmas song there called Is It Christmas Time on Venus? I don't think it's going to knock Fairytale off its pedestal.

Has the song provided you with your pension?

I don't know because I'm not of pensionable age. I'll let you know when I've got my bus pass.

ROY WOOD - I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY

How did the song come about?

I actually had some ideas for the song about two years before we recorded it and I'd written bits for it and kept it in a folder until I was in the mood to write the whole thing.

We recorded it in the August and, to try and get the atmosphere going, I went into the recording studio early on with the road crew and we put on some big fans and blue lights and left them on for an hour.

So we got the band to record the song in overcoats and scarves and we put a Christmas tree up and lights and all that sort of stuff.

Do you get bored with it?

A lot of songs that were hits for me years ago, I do get bored of, to be honest, because I've been singing them for donkey's years. The Christmas one's different.

I listen to a lot of the stuff I've recorded in the past when it comes on the radio and you think, with modern technology you could have recorded it a lot better than that.

But the Christmas one is different because it's just got a certain atmosphere about it and you think, well yeah, it was all right.

It must be disappointing that the song didn't reach number one.

I think the main reason that Slade hit the Christmas number one slot that year [with Merry Xmas Everybody] was that their record company released it three weeks before ours and they had more time to get the sales.

Have you written any other Christmas songs?

In 1980, I wrote a New Year song called Sing Out The Old, Bring In The New. Unfortunately, the radio stations were just playing I Wish It Could Be Christmas and they wouldn't play the new one. I was competing against myself.

Has the song provided you with your pension?

I'd rather rely on that than the modern day pension.

You don't get it at Christmas, though. You have to wait until they work it all out so I'm usually broke at Christmas!

JEREMY PAUL - MISTLETOE AND WINE

How did the song come about?

It was written in 1976 for a musical of Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Match Girl, which I directed.

The song was written as almost the opposite to its meaning now. We wanted a satirical Christmas carol when the little match girl is being kicked away into the snow by the unfeeling middle classes in a Dickensian setting.

The turning point of it was when Twiggy sang it on a TV production of the show in 1987. By this time it had got itself into being used in a different way in the show - she sings it as a sort of pub song - she's playing the local whore.

She sings it lustily and all the people in the pub sing it along with her.

The director of the television show, Michael Custance, moved house. This is the freaky thing about it - his new next door neighbour had been a roadie with Sir Cliff [Richard].

They got talking, virtually over the garden fence, and Michael played the show to this guy and he picked out Mistletoe and Wine and he said, "I think Cliff would be interested in this".

In 1988, he brought it out for the Christmas song and the rest is history - the moral is never throw out your old songs.

We were absolutely overwhelmed by it.

We didn't particularly, the three of us co-writers, at that point, understand the power of Cliff's world.

Do you get bored with it?

No. I think kids can skip to it, old granddads can enjoy it.

I think it evokes Christmas past, even going back to the war. Each generation can bring a private view of it.

It hits the spots that surprise people. And as many people as get it on the level I've just described, are the people that are saying "what a trashy song" and they're entitled to that, as well.

Have you written any other Christmas songs?

No. Because the only context in which I have written any songs at all is in the context of writing a musical - I'm not really in the business.

My strike rate is absolutely unbelievable.

It's a one-off. It's a freak or a fluke - a happy accident.

Has the song provided you with your pension?

The truth is it has. And it's pretty constant. Each time you think, "oh, it'll dip this year", it sort of flares back into life.
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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2008, 04:26:02 pm »
 Wham 'most played Christmas song'

Wham's Last Christmas is most played festive track of the last five years, according to the company that collects royalties for composers and musicians.

The Performing Right Society puts the 1984 hit at the top of their chart of seasonal songs, just ahead of Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas.

The Pogues come third with Fairytale of New York, recorded with the late Kirsty MacColl and first released in 1987.

Other featured artists include Slade, Mariah Carey and Bruce Springsteen.

Carey's song All I Want for Christmas is You comes fourth in the chart, just ahead of Springsteen's version of the popular standard Santa Claus is Coming to Town.
The live recording, which took place at Long Island University in 1975, was originally the b-side to My Hometown and famously features the Boss bursting into laughter.

Iconic

Jona Lewie's 1980 single Stop the Cavalry comes sixth, despite not being originally conceived as a Christmas song.

The anti-war song does, however, feature the line "wish I was at home for Christmas", while its brass band arrangement and chiming bells make it a common inclusion on Christmas playlists.

Surprisingly, Wizzard's ubiquitous I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday and Slade's iconic Merry Xmas Everybody chart relatively low at seven and eight respectively.

Mud's Lonely This Christmas comes ninth in the poll, one place ahead of White Christmas by Bing Crosby.

The crooner's 1942 recording of the Irving Berlin song, which was originally featured in the film Holiday Inn, has sold at least 50 million copies, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

The PRS collects royalties when songs are played on radio, TV, online and in public places and distributes them to its 60,000 members.

Jona Lewie, who is finishing work on his third album, told the BBC News website he was still proud of his biggest hit and had not tired of hearing it on the radio.

"The only time you might hear the song would be at Christmas, so that's not very often throughout the year," he said.

Out of the other nine tracks on the list, he said his favourite was Fairytale of New York.

He added: "I'd like to have seen Greg Lake's track [I Believe In Father Christmas] in there, and Elvis Presley's Santa Claus Is Back In Town - it would have been nice to get a bit of blues in there."
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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2008, 04:26:39 pm »
 Pogues song tops festive playlist
The Pogues' song Fairytale of New York has topped a chart of the UK's most played Christmas song on UK radio over the past five years.

The chart, calculated through radio, television and public performance plays, features Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas in second place.

Wham's Last Christmas takes the third spot.

Fairytale Of New York made headlines last week when BBC Radio 1 decided, briefly, to edit out the word "faggot".

Listeners complained about the station editing the 20-year-old festive hit, and Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt reversed the decision.

The song is a duet with Kirsty MacColl, who died in 2000. It is number four in the current UK singles chart.

The chart of the most played Christmas songs from 2002-2006 was produced by PPL, the company which licenses recorded music on behalf of record companies.

The top five is completed by two versions of Do They Know It's Christmas?, by Band Aid 20 and Band Aid respectively.

Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan will celebrate his 50th birthday on Christmas Day.

He told the Daily Mirror: "To be honest, I never thought too much about getting to 50."

The singer, who is well known for his love of alcohol, said: "Smoking, drinking, partying - that's why I've stayed alive as long as I have."

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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2008, 09:54:07 pm »
How about some "different" Christmas music?


I'm sure you're all familiar with "Walkin' In a Winter Wonderland"......



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« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2008, 09:59:00 pm »



I'm sure you're all familiar with "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"......



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« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2008, 10:00:53 pm »
"There's Something Stuck Up In The Chimney"



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« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2008, 10:05:54 pm »
a different take on "The 12 Days of Christmas".


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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2008, 07:20:27 pm »
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« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2008, 09:36:00 pm »


Please don't hate me!


All I Want For Christmas Is You - Love Actually (2:38)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Zcw5xPq3A[/youtube]


Say it's Carol Singers - Love Actually                       (2:14)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is9xHR11E3A&feature=related[/youtube]


Jump - Love Actually                                       (1:13)
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Christmas Is All Around (Billy Mack)-Love Actually(4:13)
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God Only Knows (Beach Boys)-Love Actually       (3:43)
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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #9 on: December 31, 2008, 11:02:40 am »
Aww, I had forgotten how much I like love actually.

And I love this scene.

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« Reply #10 on: January 02, 2009, 03:38:54 am »
I really enjoy the movie Love, Actually.  Thanks John and Kelda.

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« Reply #11 on: January 02, 2009, 10:40:33 am »




All You Need is Love (Wedding Scene)
with Lynden David Hall
                                              (1:47)
[youtube=425,350]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=h89BbqoPAcM[/youtube]



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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #12 on: January 02, 2009, 10:58:10 am »




Love Actually ('Yes,' being my answer)
Colin Firth and Lúcia Moniz
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« Reply #13 on: January 02, 2009, 02:25:42 pm »
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_jhQSig4Dk[/youtube]

This is my new favorite Christmas song!! I love it.
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« Reply #14 on: January 02, 2009, 03:08:08 pm »

This is my new favorite Christmas song!! I love it.


Very nice!
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« Reply #15 on: January 02, 2009, 03:14:10 pm »

Here's something I always like this time of the year--triumphally uplifting!
I think I've posted it before--oh well, it's a year later, we're allowed!



Messiah
'The Trumpet Shall Sound'
Teddy Tahu Rhodes
Cantillation, Orchestra of the Antipodes
                                (4:02)
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« Reply #16 on: January 02, 2009, 08:51:18 pm »
Here's something I always like this time of the year--triumphally uplifting!
I think I've posted it before--oh well, it's a year later, we're allowed!



Messiah
'The Trumpet Shall Sound'
Teddy Tahu Rhodes
Cantillation, Orchestra of the Antipodes
                                (4:02)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC4_rwbZ2GU&feature=related[/youtube]
Thats just incredible!
I can't belive that booming voice comes from that skinny boy! LOL
It's truly beautiful.
The trumpet work is awesome as well.
I love how the trumpet can sound all gritty and bluesy in one genre the so pure like in this selection.
Thanks for sharing that.
If you did post it before it was worth  a second listen!  ;D
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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #17 on: January 02, 2009, 09:38:24 pm »
Thank you, John.  Such mischievous eyes on that kid!  (And that trumpeter was a woman!)

Mostly, I loved the tempo--so many Messiahs are so fast these days.  I wonder what the original was like, besides being played at Easter. 

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« Reply #18 on: January 02, 2009, 10:22:01 pm »
Here's my favorite from Messiah:  Lynne Dawson with the Brandenburg Consort (conducted by Stephen Cleobury).

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« Reply #19 on: January 02, 2009, 10:50:18 pm »

Here's my favorite from Messiah:  Lynne Dawson with the Brandenburg Consort (conducted by Stephen Cleobury).


Lynne Dawson sings
"I know that my redeemer liveth"
                                    (5:52)
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(I knew it was going to be that one! Love it!)
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« Reply #20 on: January 02, 2009, 11:40:32 pm »

Thats just incredible!
I can't believe that booming voice comes from that skinny boy! LOL
It's truly beautiful.
The trumpet work is awesome as well.
I love how the trumpet can sound all gritty and bluesy in one genre the so pure like in this selection.
Thanks for sharing that.
If you did post it before it was worth  a second listen!  ;D


You're welcome! Great voice, no?
Not such a 'skinny boy,' though, is he?  ;D

And he's 6 foot five.  :o

Here's Teddy Tahu Rhodes as
Don Giovanni at Opera Australia.

http://parterre.com/2007/11/do-you-come-from-land-down-under.html


and as Stanley in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'



http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/31/1992426.htm


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« Reply #21 on: January 02, 2009, 11:46:37 pm »


Ok, it isn't Christmas music per se--

(--but Teddy is quite the angel on the (big )Christmas tree, hmmm?)

Woof!


Teddy Tahu Rhodes sings Mozart's Non piu andrai   
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0x4nHr-t4U[/youtube]
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« Reply #22 on: January 03, 2009, 12:05:56 am »

More Teddy:
Merry Christmas, everybody!




As Don Giovanni to Jud Arthur's
Commendatore at Opera Australia, 2007
 


With Leanne Kenneally as Count and Countess Almaviva
in Opera Australia's 2006 Nozze di Figaro



Teddy Tahu Rhodes in New York's SoHo, 2008 (at aged 41).


http://www.metoperafamily.org/operanews/issue/article.aspx?id=4912&issueID=322

Too Darn Hot
Teddy Tahu Rhodes, the buff baritone who sings the title role in Santa Fe's Billy Budd this summer, tells BARRY SINGER why he’s tired of being promoted as Teddy Bare.

June 2008, vol 72, no. 12

(....)

"Honestly, it happened just by default that I became an opera singer," he says over coffee after the rehearsal. He is a New Zealander through and through, with the aw-shucks heartiness of a true Kiwi bloke. Yet there is watchfulness underlying the easy nature, and one senses something sweetly tremulous about Teddy Tahu Rhodes.

(....)

The choir of a Christchurch, New Zealand boys' school was the first place Teddy Tahu Rhodes sang. There was no singing in his family at all, he insists, and no early opera exposure whatsoever. Rhodes was born to a British mother and a New Zealand father. (The Maori word "Tahu" — meaning "to set on fire" — was attached to the family name "when they first arrived.") Rhodes's parents divorced when he was two. The son barely knew the father, who died before Rhodes was out of his teens.

(....)

Rhodes wound up going on three times during Dead Man Walking's legendary San Francisco run. The response was extraordinary. "I received interest from virtually every opera company in America after that. I was invited back to San Francisco immediately. I signed to sing at Houston Grand Opera, where Patrick Summers is the music director. I've since done The Little Prince, Manon Lescaut, Figaro and Jake Heggie's The End of the Affair there, which Jake says he wrote with me in mind. I sang at Dallas Opera, at Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and at Washington Opera in D.C. I also got lots of work in Europe, though not in London, where I've only sung with the London Philharmonic. I guess they don't like me in London. I have sung with the Scottish and the Welsh National Operas, at Munich, Paris, Hamburg, Leipzig."
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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #23 on: January 03, 2009, 12:27:54 am »
I went looking for "For Unto Us a Child is Born" from The Messiah, because not only do I love the tune, but the vocabulary is so uplifting, and thesaurus-y.  I found this amazing piece on YouTube.  Made in 1966(!) by a coupla film students.  I wish the audio was clearer, but the images!


[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9morqKUH0Sw[/youtube]


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« Reply #24 on: January 03, 2009, 12:47:24 am »

I went looking for "For Unto Us a Child is Born" from The Messiah, because not only do I love the tune, but the vocabulary is so uplifting, and thesaurus-y.  I found this amazing piece on YouTube.  Made in 1966(!) by a coupla film students.  I wish the audio was clearer, but the images!


Unto Us A Child Is Born                                                                (4:52)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9morqKUH0Sw[/youtube]



This is a USC film school student film made by Bill Morgan and Jerry Strawbridge in 1966. It shows pictures of childhood animated to the music "Unto Us A Child is Born" from Handel 's "Messiah."

This technique of animating still photographs is called "kinestasis" (or "kine" for short), a word which means moving (kine) stills (stasis).

It was made on Jerry Strawbridge's homemade animation stand. For me (Bill Morgan) it was a dream come true as I had long dreamed of combining photographs with classical music.



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unto us a Son is given,
and the government shall be upon His shoulder;
and his name shall be called
Wonderful,
Counsellor,
the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father,
the Prince of Peace.

(Isaiah 9:6)
 



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« Reply #25 on: January 03, 2009, 10:07:51 am »
Quote
You're welcome! Great voice, no?
Not such a 'skinny boy,' though, is he? 

And he's 6 foot five. 

Here's Teddy Tahu Rhodes as
Don Giovanni at Opera Australia.

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I got that wrong!!
He's hotter n a whore house on dollar day!!
He is beautiful!
Wow! I really couldn't tell from that you tube preformance!
Boy , I was wrong and happily so!  ;D
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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #26 on: January 03, 2009, 11:19:15 am »
"Teddy Bare"? No kidding.  Don Giovanni in leather?  That's a way to increase opera subscriptions.  Meryl, are you listening??
Enlightening, John!

Elle, that USC student project was gorgeous! 

Here's a little Messiah  piece for Brokies:  All we like sheep!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9HhfvGaFH0[/youtube]

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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #27 on: January 03, 2009, 11:28:08 am »
All right, this is a little tangential:  Teddy and Sheep! 

Teddy Tahu Rhodes (fully clothed) as the pilot in Rachel Portman's The Little Prince (film version).  "Draw me a sheep..."

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« Reply #28 on: January 03, 2009, 11:31:19 am »
The trumpet work is awesome as well.
I love how the trumpet can sound all gritty and bluesy in one genre the so pure like in this selection.


Thank you, John.  Such mischievous eyes on that kid!  (And that trumpeter was a woman!)


Isn't YouTube amazing? The things you learn, even from the 'comments' below!

"That's Leanne Sullivan on the natural (valveless) Baroque trumpet. Outstanding!"

"Do you know her? Yes, true she plays trumpet in a wonderful way"


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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #29 on: January 03, 2009, 11:55:23 am »
For anyone wanting to do a little further research, there is a blog called "Barihunks": 

http://barihunks.blogspot.com/

Barihunk is in the urban dictionary:  barihunk - 1 definition - A handsome or pretty baritone. Especially, but not exclusively, one who removes his shirt for the sake of opera.


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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #30 on: January 13, 2009, 01:27:31 pm »



New York City Opera Presents Samuel Barber's
Antony and Cleopatra
at Carnegie Hall
Starring Lauren Flanigan & Teddy Tahu Rhodes
January 15 & 16, 2009

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(New York, NY, November 24, 2008) New York City Opera is proud to present the company premiere of Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra in concert on January 15 and 16, 2009 at 8 PM in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium. Soprano Lauren Flanigan sings the role of Cleopatra opposite baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes, in his New York City Opera debut, as Antony. The cast includes rising tenor Simon O’Neill as Caesar and City Opera favorites David Pittsinger as Enobarbus, Sandra Piques Eddy as Charmian and Laura Vlasak Nolen as Iras. City Opera Music Director George Manahan will conduct. The company’s celebration of Samuel Barber’s upcoming centennial will also include a Symposium on Antony and Cleopatra on Saturday, January 10, co-presented by and taking place at Miller Theatre at Columbia University, which will feature City Opera soprano Elizabeth Futral in a unique recital of musical depictions and evocations of Cleopatra.

“By presenting this masterpiece, New York City Opera is continuing its tradition of championing important 20th-century American repertoire. We hope to spark new and lasting interest in Antony and Cleopatra, as we have done for other rarely performed American works including Barber’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning opera Vanessa, which we presented last season,” says Music Director George Manahan.

Ticket Information
CONCERT: Thursday, January 15 and Friday, January 16, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium, 57th Street and Seventh Avenue
Tickets: $25 - $130 | 212-247-7800 | www.carnegiehall.org
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« Reply #31 on: January 13, 2009, 01:35:06 pm »
Are you going to go, John?

Maybe Meryl could arrange an introduction...

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« Reply #32 on: January 13, 2009, 02:27:47 pm »
Barihunk is in the urban dictionary:  barihunk - 1 definition - A handsome or pretty baritone. Especially, but not exclusively, one who removes his shirt for the sake of opera.

 :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:

Is there a comparable word for a handsome tenor?  ;D
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« Reply #33 on: January 13, 2009, 03:31:57 pm »
:laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:

Is there a comparable word for a handsome tenor?  ;D

I've heard "hunkentenor", but you could make up your own. :)

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« Reply #34 on: January 13, 2009, 05:13:07 pm »
I've heard "hunkentenor", but you could make up your own. :)

I suppose that would work. It sounds a little like heldentenor.  :)
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« Reply #35 on: January 14, 2009, 12:33:36 am »

Are you going to go, John?

Maybe Meryl could arrange an introduction...


Thanks to the amazing, magical, musical Meryl--Yes!!!!

We (with one of Meryl's Musical Buds) went to the Full Rehersal at Carnegie Hall this afternoon!

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Teddy Tahu Tuesday (T3!)

Teddy Tahu Rhodes
as Antony
in Samuel Barbour's
Antony and Cleopatra

Carnegie Hall
57th and Seventh Avenue
(and environs)

1:45 - 5:00 PM
39 Degrees

15 images




1  (Take a left on Fifth and 57th..that's the Giant Snowflake above the intersection....)





2  (Walking West on 57th...that's the big red '9' by the graphic designer Ivan Chermayeff....)




3  (...in front of the 'Ski-Slope' Building, 1974....you can see the 'Snowflake' on the right....)




4  (...Continuing West, just past Sixth Ave...yes, that's where the pianos are....)




5  (...Carnegie Hall...."Practice, practice, practice!"....)




6  (....Samuel Barbour's 'Antony and Cleopatra'....)




7  (....Ahem! 'Cleopatra' is one of Meryl's colleagues....Meryl has connections in the HIGHEST places, 'Asps a speciality'....)




8  (....Meryl and her Music Bud....and I am given warning NOT to use the iPhone....oops!)





9  (....Very Illegal, but making cub-photographer Jimmy Olsen proud....)




10  (....Did I say Jimmy Olsen? It's Spiderman!....Carnegie Hall was built in 1891....)




11  (....I LOVE this interior....)




(....And then the opera begins....Sorry, Joke! I wish!!....)




12  (....the full rehersal begins...concert format, street clothing....
       Lauren Flanigan as Cleopatra on the left, Teddy sadly hidden, way back....he's really tall, if you didn't know that!...)





13  (....and we were out back on the street....Teddy was quite good--and ok, he's gorgeous
          and amazingly tall --did I say that yet?--rangy, with a 'default' pose of 
          'wide-stance' virility that would make Larry Craig faint (and did I say that?? )
          Seriously, Teddy was very, very good, and I am so happy to have heard him.
          Lauren Flanigan was the star, truly, and Simon O'Neill (a tenor) as Caesar was terrific....)
          And we all agreed that the Samuel Barbour score was lush, really beautiful.
         Thank you so much, Meryl! Sorry about the photo below--Jimmy Olsen says I blew it!





14  (....Just walking at 57th and Park Avenue, then towards home....)




15  (....Finis!)
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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #36 on: January 14, 2009, 02:11:09 am »
WOW, now that's a rehearsal report!  Thanks, Jimmy John!   :-*

It was such fun being able to give you the gift of Teddy.  He is gorgeous, eh?  Sounds pretty good, too.  L and I had a great meal at Rue 57; we'll have to go back sometime so you can get your steak.  The screening of "Revolutionary Road" proved to be excellent, too.  All in all, a very good day's play!  8)
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« Reply #37 on: January 14, 2009, 03:49:58 am »
Wow, neato cool!

Once I was walking down 57th when I was about maybe 11, and my father and I watched a big pane of glass come flying out of that 9 building and tumble through the air til it landed in the street in front of a taxi.  No one was hurt.  Saw the whole thing.


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« Reply #38 on: January 14, 2009, 11:55:24 am »
Wow, neato cool!

Once I was walking down 57th when I was about maybe 11, and my father and I watched a big pane of glass come flying out of that 9 building and tumble through the air til it landed in the street in front of a taxi.  No one was hurt.  Saw the whole thing.

 :o

That's one NY sight I hope none of us sees soon!  Glad you survived to tell it to the Brokies.   :P  :)
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« Reply #39 on: January 15, 2009, 01:13:22 am »

:o

That's one NY sight I hope none of us sees soon!  Glad you survived to tell it to the Brokies.   :P  :)


Ditto. Whew!

(Watched a window fall out on 65th and Third Avenue about ten years ago. It hit smack in the middle of the intersection, and, thankfully, no one was hurt. Very unsettling, though....)
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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #40 on: December 01, 2009, 11:38:38 am »
I never thought I'd live to see the day when Sting and Bob Dylan put out holiday CDs!!  :-\
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« Reply #41 on: December 01, 2009, 12:33:57 pm »
I never thought I'd live to see the day when Sting and Bob Dylan put out holiday CDs!!  :-\

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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #42 on: December 03, 2009, 09:51:11 pm »
And after all those classy pics, along comes Chuck.

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Here's a lovely Christmas ditty told from the POV of the angel atop your Christmas tree.



[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa8Oh7t3rJo[/youtube]


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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #43 on: December 03, 2009, 10:39:26 pm »
Not so much a Christmas Song,  but it is part of a cartoon that airs every Christmas time.

It's a take on "A Christmas Carol" with Mr. MaGoo as Ebenezer Scrooge.

In this scene, old Scrooge watches as his younger self has to deal with the break up of his relationship with Belle, who is leaving because Ebenezer loves money more than her.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kole2oVfAaY[/youtube]


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« Reply #44 on: December 03, 2009, 11:21:18 pm »
YAY!!!!!
Teddy's back!!  ;D
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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #45 on: December 03, 2009, 11:40:46 pm »
From John's signature line:

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OK, this is totally OT, but I was scrolling through this thread, looking at John's signature line, and suddenly this "scholarly book title" popped into my head. I can just see it. ...

From Pee-wee's Playhouse to C.S.I.: The Television Career of Laurence Fishburne

No doubt someone will do a dissertation on this. ...

Good to see the pictures of Teddy Tahu Rhodes are still up. I really should copy that one of him as Don Giovanni in black leather shorts. ...
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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #46 on: December 06, 2009, 03:40:48 pm »
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g4lY8Y3eoo[/youtube]

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« Reply #47 on: December 08, 2009, 07:38:32 pm »


Here's a lovely Christmas ditty told from the POV of the angel atop your Christmas tree.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa8Oh7t3rJo[/youtube]


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« Reply #48 on: December 24, 2009, 04:10:14 pm »
I never thought I'd live to see the day when Sting and Bob Dylan put out holiday CDs!!  :-\

I acquired Sting's "If On a Winter's Night" and it's very listenable! Got a free download of "Must be Santa" by Bob Dylan from Starbuck's but haven't downloaded it yet...
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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #49 on: December 23, 2010, 08:23:55 am »
I just knew we must have a thread for Christmas songs somewhere around!


Here's my addition, I just listened to it while driving in my car (go figure): Driving Home for Christmas by Chris Rea. I LOVE this song. Seriously. I relate very much to it.
Get my feet on holy ground - yes, that's the feeling I get when the hills of the Odenwald come in sight, when I know we'll be all together soon. We're four girls, each married with kids, living a bit apart from each other. Through the year, even on birthdays, we see each other, but it's rare that all four of us are together, and our own families with us. But on the second Christmas Holiday there's only one place we want to be: our parent's home. And it's a place where you can relax and just be yourself. No need to watch your words, no need to oppress every loud word from the kids, they DON'T have to speak in hushed tones, the dog can greet my people, and they're actually happy about him, he gets many friendly pats; if someone tips over a glass, it's no catastrophy, it's just life. You can bing a guest with you, without having to ask beforehand, so we're mostly more than the 15 people of which the family consists, you get the picture. I can sum it all up in one word: home. I am so blessed.



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« Reply #50 on: December 24, 2010, 04:22:30 pm »
Loved the song and your thoughts about being home. That's the kind of home I've always tried to make for my children. Lovely.
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« Reply #51 on: December 24, 2010, 05:27:29 pm »
I just knew we must have a thread for Christmas songs somewhere around!


Here's my addition, I just listened to it while driving in my car (go figure): Driving Home for Christmas by Chris Rea. I LOVE this song. Seriously. I relate very much to it.
Get my feet on holy ground - yes, that's the feeling I get when the hills of the Odenwald come in sight, when I know we'll be all together soon. We're four girls, each married with kids, living a bit apart from each other. Through the year, even on birthdays, we see each other, but it's rare that all four of us are together, and our own families with us. But on the second Christmas Holiday there's only one place we want to be: our parent's home. And it's a place where you can relax and just be yourself. No need to watch your words, no need to oppress every loud word from the kids, they DON'T have to speak in hushed tones, the dog can greet my people, and they're actually happy about him, he gets many friendly pats; if someone tips over a glass, it's no catastrophy, it's just life. You can bing a guest with you, without having to ask beforehand, so we're mostly more than the 15 people of which the family consists, you get the picture. I can sum it all up in one word: home. I am so blessed.



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« Reply #52 on: November 20, 2012, 08:23:58 pm »
Hiya BetterMost friends!!!

I know it's early for Christmas songs, but I really would like this to get attention.  I've sent it to a few NYC radio stations, and posted it on some forums and Facebook.

80s group Exposé ("Seasons Change", "Point Of No Return") has recorded a new song called "I Believe In Christmas (Like It Used To Be)" and it is now available on I*Tunes for download.

Proceeds from this song will go to the Wounded Warrior Project, which assists soldiers who have been wounded in battle.  The promotional video on You Tube features very little footage of Exposé, and features footage of families being reunited with soldiers returning from overseas.


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« Reply #53 on: December 23, 2012, 12:05:34 pm »
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysIzPF3BfpQ[/youtube]

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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #54 on: December 23, 2012, 12:14:47 pm »
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysIzPF3BfpQ[/youtube]

God Jul!
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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #55 on: December 23, 2012, 12:18:07 pm »
And here is, for entertainment only, one more Muppet show.

Not actually christmas related, but the captions are hilarious!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=B7UmUX68KtE[/youtube]


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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #56 on: December 23, 2012, 07:22:34 pm »
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WeQFb1bdLA[/youtube]

John Denver--"Christmas for Cowboys"

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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #57 on: December 24, 2012, 08:58:11 am »
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WeQFb1bdLA[/youtube]

John Denver--"Christmas for Cowboys"


Can't see the video (do I even have to say it? *sigh*), but I think I have this on my Christmas CD in my car. :)

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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #58 on: December 25, 2012, 07:43:13 pm »
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1VkMBi9vvw[/youtube]

love this song


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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #59 on: December 26, 2012, 06:00:06 am »
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1VkMBi9vvw[/youtube]

love this song


Now that is a video I actually can see. But I almost wish I couldn't. Eeek - I fear I'll go blind now! The clothes, the hair-dos - a crime against humanity! :laugh: :laugh:

But the song is actually nice. :)

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Re: Christmas Songs.
« Reply #60 on: December 28, 2012, 02:55:38 pm »
LOL Chrissi!  :laugh:   I agree!  Ghah!

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