moving…

Posted on August 5, 2005 by sogalitno

I have a new home!!!!

A sweet apartment in a fourplex in an almost idylic town on the Hudson River. (Think FLYING FINGERS)

More in the next few days – this deal happened in 24 hours !!

Out of many perfect things about this new home is that there is a perfect room for a MUSIC ROOM and i can buy a piano and start making music again!!!! And another room that will become my study/studio/knitting stash room. And a big yard that is crying to be turned into a beautiful garden (no one else is interested). And a front porch to sit and knit on as well as the patio to sit and knit on ….and many other wonderful things.

can't wait to move in and get settled- this month is going to FLY by!

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SUCCESS!

Posted on August 4, 2005 by sogalitno

I have a new home!!!!

A sweet apartment in a fourplex in an almost idylic town on the Hudson River.

More in the next few days – this deal happened in 24 hours !!

Out of many perfect things about this new home is that there is a perfect room for a MUSIC ROOM and i can buy a piano and start making music again!!!! And a big yard that is crying to be turned into a beautiful garden (no one else is interested). and many other wonderful things.

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Whats up…

Posted on August 3, 2005 by sogalitno

southern gal is apartment hunting – stay tuned – something in the works and it may be the real thing. watch this space.

House

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VOX Radio – August Schedule

Posted on August 1, 2005 by sogalitno

From Robert Aubry Davis, Program Director, VOX

July 31st  Sunday
Sunday A.M. (begins 6 am)
Among other choral pieces, between 6:45 am and 8:30, as well at during the 11 am hour, we’ll hear compositions by and converse with composer Daniel Gawthrop.

Sunday Baroque (begins noon eastern)
A reprise of the WFMT/European Broadcasting union live performance of Handel’s Saul, plus the excellent William Christie/Les Arts Florissants Serse.

August 1st
20th Century Monday (begins noon eastern)
Our interview with composer Stephen Paulus and a unique chance to hear two of his works, The Three Hermits and Heloise and Abelard. And, for the operetta bunch, the Ohio Light Opera production of Oscar Straus’ The Chocolate Soldier.

August 2nd
Tuesday Big Ticket (noon eastern, repeat Friday at 6 pm)
We have had a full none months since we’ve heard two early Verdi operas, so we’ll a Swiss production of the rearely-heard Jerusalem, and Ramon Vargas in Alzira.

Tuesday Repeat Show   (6 pm.eastern)
Remember Renee Fleming, Part 4

August 3rd
Wednesday Repeat Show (noon eastern)
Remember Renee Fleming, Part 4

August 4th
Wagner Thursdays (begins noon tomorrow, August 4th)
Continuing to our Solti Ring Cycle with Siegfried, and the astute observations by that greatest of Wagnerians, Anna Russell!

August 5th
Big Ticket Friday (noon eastern, repeats Saturday at 6 pm)
Joe from Wisconsin (a great traditional opera fan who has been championing our tributes to famous singers of the past) made a very special request for our ongoing tribute to Beverly Sills–to find the out-of-print Rossini rarity The Siege of Corinth –we’ll hear the La Scala production with Marilyn Horne; plus we had such nice comments about our Alcina  with Renee Fleming, we’ll turn to that great Beverly Sills production that helped
put Handel back on the operatic map, Julius Caesar.

August 6th
Saturday Special (noon Saturday and Wednesday, 6 pm eastern Tuesday)
Renee Fleming, Part 5
We have spent some hours with this lovely lady over the last months, and will celebrate her artistry and hear her own observations on her craft for the weeks to come.  This week, the Opera Rara recording of Donizetti’s Rosmonda d’Inghilterra, and duets with Placido Domingo

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update

Posted on August 1, 2005 by sogalitno

Not much knitting this weekend – lots of work on my other blog.  i had meant to knit some but i didnt. 

my Fir Cone Shawl is at the place where i need to pick up all the edge stitches of the center square and start the first lace panel… just didnt feel like it . 

actually i was soooo exhausted from work (its been a h#%l of a couple of months – i actually spent the night two times in the last 30 days working to make project deadlines.  so all the plans i had for the four days went out the window as i basically rested and recuperated.  ah me.

i ripped up the Branching Out scarf – the Elsbeth Lavold cotton patine just wasnt doing it … and it was recently WAY too hot to do anything with wool – which i think will be better in that pattern anyway.  So that leaves me with no commuter sized WIP. 

but i think this item may get me out of my slump 

Ribbitpromosuper
Chic Knits Ribby Shell.  I wear sleeveless tops to work under my jackets/sweaters cause i work in a big open area full of cubicles and lots of computers and servers (can you tell i work in IT?) and its WAY too hot in there year round – its a problem i can tell you.  anyway it looks like a totable pattern. 

now to figure out if i have any yarn that will work?

photo from chicknits website

 

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Andrew Cooper’s (mainly) Operatic Pages

Posted on July 31, 2005 by sogalitno

I heartily recommend this website – in the interests of full disclosure – Andrew is one of the co-moderators of Opera-L (of which I am the other); we assist our able moderator, Bob Kosovsky

Link: Andrew Cooper’s (mainly) Operatic Pages.

Andrew Cooper’s (mainly) Operatic Pages
Recent(ish) additions and updates to this site

    * 8 July 2005 – added review of Glyndebourne’s La Cenerentola
    * 25 March 2005 – added reviews of WNO’s Wozzeck and La Cenerentola at the RNCM
    * 3 January 2005 – added reviews of Braunfels’s Prinzessin Brambilla, Mercadante’s La Vestale and Foerster’s Eva at the Wexford Festival, and the Royal Opera’s Don Pasquale
    * 29 September 2004 – added reviews of Opera North’s Orfeo ed Euridice and Manon Lescaut
    * 30 August 2004 – added reviews of Die Zauberflöte at Glyndebourne and a concert performance by the Zürich Opera of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

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TONIGHT Paris Opera TRISTAN

Posted on July 31, 2005 by sogalitno

Tristan256Link: Guardian Unlimited | Arts critics | Tristan und Isolde, Opéra Bastille, Paris.

Musically, it’s stupendous. Meier and Heppner sing like gods. Selig is infinitely harrowing, while Yvonne Naef is the most intense Brangäne imaginable. Esa-Pekka Salonen’s conducting is flawless in its combination of clarity, sweep and exaltation, holding the score’s erotic and transcendental elements in perfect balance. Despite its flaws, the overall impact is shattering. A great occasion, no question.

ok.. my 7th Wagner since Monday – ironic that this returns back to the Bayreuth TRISTAN from last Monday’s opening.  From all reports, this is supposed to be the hottest lately.

Photograph: Remy de la Mauviniere/AP

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DVD Reviews and Article

Posted on July 31, 2005 by sogalitno

by one of our favorite bloggers to read –Antea_1
vilaine fille

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BBC7 – 3 new mysteries this week

Posted on July 31, 2005 by sogalitno

John Moffat - Murder in MesopotamiaFrom the BBC7 website: 
There are three more classic mystery series coming up as from
Monday, beginning with everyone’s favourite Belgian private detective,
Hercule Poirot, followed by tough-as nails American VI Warshawski, and
finally the Franciscan priest and philosophy lecturer who’s always on
hand to solve a crime, Paolo Baldi .

Murder in Mesopotamia
In this Christie classic there are strange goings on at an
archeological dig. Happily, Poirot is brought in and hopefully his
logic will solve the crimes. John Moffat and William Franklin star in
this splendid production directed by Enyd Williams.
Monday to Friday, 9am, 8pm and 1am. (BST)

Sarah Paretsky’s thriller
Deadlock, dramatised for radio also starts on Monday
and stars Kathleen Turner as V.I Warshawski and  it is directed
by Janet Whittaker. 
Weekdays at 9.30am, 8.30pm and 1.30am. (BST)

Baldi :
‘The Prodigal Son’ in the first of this series, Baldi
accidentally solves a murder at an Italian chip shop. In ensuing
episodes he has a very busy time: caught up in the murder of a leading
academic, he investigates the mysterious circumstances surrounding the
tragic death of a nurse at an old people’s home, investigates a murder
at a leading Dublin hotel and a sudden death amongst the Franciscan
brothers at a monastic retreat far out in County Cork causes Paolo to
suspect foul play. Phew!

The Baldi series is written by by Barry Devlin, Simon Brett, and Annie Caulfield. It stars
David Threlfall, Tina Kellegher, Owen Roe and T P McKenna and is directed by Lawrence Jackson.
Monday to Friday at 1pm and 5am (BST)

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Les Maitres Chanteurs de Nuremburg

Posted on July 31, 2005 by sogalitno

Link: Radio Classique.  Ok.  my non-Wagner listening period didnt last very long- but how can you pass up Solti with Van Dam, Mattila, Heppner and Pape… and the rest of a good cast with Chicago?  funny, i havent heard this recording yet.  oh well, perfect to listen to while continuing to record all these d#$% cds and dvds(mainly self recorded).  i still havent found a program i like.  will probably enter the bare details in a spreadsheet or create a little notes database (it will be flat but i can export into something later).  i just want to get a list – i have no idea what i have and i have lots.   basta, to work.

R. Wagner. Les Maîtres Chanteurs de Nuremberg
José Van Dam : Hans Sachs.Karita Mattila : Eva. Ben Heppner : Walther.
René Pape : Pogner. Alan Opie : Beckmesser. Herbert Lippert : David.
Albert Dohmen : Kothner. Iris Vermillion : Magdalena. Ch. Symph. de
Chicago. Orch. Symph. de Chicago. Georg Solti, dir.  (DEC 4708002).

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