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Warrior Princess
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Alright, I'm plugging a concert that I'm playing in this weekend. I had to wait until we had at least one rehearsal to make sure it was "pluggable".
Seattle Choral Co. is putting on Mozart's arrangement of Handel's Messiah. It's at Meany Hall at the U.W this Saturday night and Sunday afternoon if anyone needs a Messiah fix. How many concerts can you attend with tunes like "We like sheep" (ok it's really "All we like sheep" but I like my version better). Lot's of singing about virgins and feet too. In ENGLISH even!
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“If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.” - Unknown
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polecatjoe
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Sorry, Cowbell. "Messiah" makes me want to run from the room, screaming for my ears to stop bleeding!
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Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:35 am |
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Wow, Cowbell, I would love to go; alas, I'll be fighting rogue waves and death logs on the coast this weekend.
Will there be a recording?
I went to a Messiah concert a few years ago at a church in the U Dist; it was heavenly. I love chorales.
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dacker
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Fri Dec 08, 2006 6:15 pm |
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Warrior Princess
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This is weird, I can't quote you Dacker. OH Well.
So you know I can't be a string player because they're all dorks, right  ?
This is my first Messiah. I'm usually home whining because all the trumpet, oboe and bassoon players I know are making the big bucks (ha.ha) playing several Messiah's each December. But Mozart added flutes in, so I get to work this season.
Now you have to fess up to your instrument Dacker.
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Sat Dec 09, 2006 11:49 am |
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Yeah, I was just replying to your post on thread length while you were replying to mine here and I noticed that the quote feature seems to be off too. Oh, well. Edit: it just came back!
I knew you can't be a string player because those are used in the original version 
And Mozart didn't even like the flute!
Oh, what do I play?
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Warrior Princess
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Of course you're a nroh player. Almost every musician that I hike with is one. Interesting. The nroh parts in this Mozart Messiah are SCREAMING high. Maybe you all should have an Nrohpla concert somewhere cool and Alpine?
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Sat Dec 09, 2006 12:08 pm |
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| More Cowbell wrote: | | Of course you're a nroh player. Almost every musician that I hike with is one. |
That's because nroh's and gnikih just sort of go together, doncha think? Can't you just hear Seigfried's call ringing through the mountains? 
(I'm too lazy to lug that heavy thing up there though, so you won't hear it from me.)
btw, just because Mozart didn't like flutes, that doesn't reflect my opinion. It's my second favorite instrument.
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Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:45 pm |
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| More Cowbell wrote: | | How many concerts can you attend with tunes like "We like sheep" |
Well I'm kind of partial to the part about building a highway for God.
This afternoon's Messiah was terrific - I'm glad I went. Yup, needed a Messiah fix, so thank's for the info. (And the flute section was in fine form!)
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Cool, somebody went. Good thing you chose today as last night was a bit tentative (to put it nicely).
Thanks for coming.
I almost started laughing at one point because I was spacing out, thinking about the "Social" photo labeling of the drunken bag lady. And this was in a movement I was actually playing in. Thanks, who ever labled that photo 
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Sun Dec 10, 2006 10:35 pm |
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I play one of those and the other one plays me! 
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Foist
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Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:08 am |
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Mozart didn't like the flute? But he wrote an entire opera about a flute!
Are there any period instrument groups in Seattle?
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dacker
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Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:25 pm |
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Well, about Mozart's legendary attitude towards the flute. His pitch sense was so acute that the flutes of the day, which were notoriously difficult to play in tune, drove him crazy when he had to listen to them (fingernails on the chalkboard to him). But that didn't keep him from writing masterfully for them. His two flute concertos are staples of the literature.
BTW, the Magic Flute isn't exactly about a flute... 
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Foist
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Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:34 pm |
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I know, I know, but it HAS a lot of flute...
"Ha! das ist Papagenos Ton...."
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I'd come, but I'm playing this weekend too.
What's your instrument, MC? I know it can't be this one... 
Oh, and I was reading the beginning of this thread from months ago about ballet. I once worked with a ballet company. Those dancers are so athletic, yet I couldn't believe how much these smoked...like freakin' chimneys! 
