Sharing a grandmother’s favorite pattern and memories – Priceless . Read on…
4 Needles No 6? $5.75. 1 Skein Sweater Wool (2 oz or a touch more)? $8.50. Grandmother's handwritten beanie pattern? Priceless.
Care to knit Quill's Beanie for yourself? Read on…
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
12 noon WFMT/European Opera: Rossini’s La Donna del lago from the Wallonie Opera–followed by another Rossini for us, courtesy of our Opera Rara friends: Zelmira recorded live at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival.
Remember, these always repeat Saturday also noon eastern, and the next Tuesday at 6 pm eastern.
Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Wagner Thursdays–(noon, 9 am Pacific)— In the vast cycle of works, we’re back to the Tristan und Isolde featuring Deborah Voigt (with some reflections from the lady herself); and the Massenet rarity, Le Jongleur de Notre Dame.
Friday, February 16th, 2007
Big Ticket Friday Special (noon eastern, 9 am Pacific)— A Jessye Norman spectacular–first, TWO Verdi operas–Un Giorno di Regno & Il Corsaro; and the wonderful 1988 Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos.
Friday Night at the Opera (6 pm eastern, 3 pm Pacific)—From Tuesday: A reprise of our Robert Merrill tribute (and perfect for Valentine’s Day) as we look at two aspects of love: Carmen and The Barber of Seville.
Saturday, February 17th, 2007
Saturday A.M. (Begins 6 am Eastern, 3 am Pacific)—
Big Ticket Saturday: (noon eastern, 9 am Pacific—repeats Tuesday at 6 pm eastern, 3 pm Pacific): WFMT/European Opera: Rossini’s La Donna del lago from the Wallonie Opera–followed by another Rossini for us, courtesy of our Opera Rara friends: Zelmira recorded live at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival.
Saturday Night at the Opera (6 pm eastern, 3 pm Pacific)— A Jessye Norman spectacular–first, TWO Verdi operas–Un Giorno di Regno & Il Corsaro; and the wonderful 1988 Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos.
Days like this illustrate the wonders and riches of the MET archives – Sutherland, Pavarotti, Mitchell, Stratas, Dessay, Morris, and then ending with Dimitri and Renee and on a SNOWY WINTERS NIGHT too! So I will feel very Russian toinght with the snow falling and the internet blazing with the white hot passions of Tchaikovsky!
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
6:00 AM Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
1/6/1973-Bonynge; Sutherland, Pavarotti, Resnik, Corena
9:00 AM Verdi: Ernani
12/17/1983-Levine; Pavarotti, Mitchell, Milnes, Raimondi
12:00 PM Puccini: La Bohème
2/4/1967-Cleva; Stratas, Raimondi, Bower, Sereni, Harvuot, Tozzi
3:00 PM Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffman
2/7/1998-Young; Leech, Dessay, Racette, Larmore, Morris, Mentzer, Lefèbvre
8:00 PM Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (LIVE FROM THE MET)
Gergiev; Hvorostovsky, Fleming, Vargas, Zaremba,
Aleksashkin
Love the humour over at Mason-Dixon Knitting blog – Ann is a southern gal after my heart and Kay, well, we give her Honorary Southern Gal status. (and yes a Southern Gal can still admire Lincoln). {EDITED 2–13–07]
In honor of Abraham Lincoln's birthday, some trivia:
1. He hated the nickname Abe.
2. Lincoln's mother and sister made all the family's clothes from buckskins and from homespun fabric made from the cotton and flax that they grew, picked, carded, spun and wove. My take away: Dress your boy in natural fibers, and someday he may save the Union.
One of the most interesting bloggers on music (and the UK) is Jessica Duchen. See her interview with Alvarez today in the INDEPENDENT . Excerpt below:
Marcelo Alvarez: Living the high life
As Marcelo Alvarez attempts to rival Pavarotti as ‘king of the high Cs’ at Covent Garden, Jessica Duchen explains why hitting the top notes can make or break a singer’s career
Published: 12 February 2007King of the high Cs: it’s a handy pun. But why are operatic high Cs such a big deal? The high C – actually, any inordinately high note sung long and loud – has a mystique all its own. Watching the Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez soaring through the nine Cs of the show-stopping aria “Ah, mes amis” in Donizetti’s La fille du régiment at Covent Garden recently, I couldn’t help thinking that it’s about adrenaline. We’re pre-programmed to respond to high, loud noises with that old fight-or-flight instinct, an adrenaline rush. A tenor’s top notes, however refined, still provoke it. All he has to do is stand and deliver them, and the public goes bananas.
Verdi’s romantic blockbuster Il trovatore, currently showing at the Royal Opera House, features one of the most famous high Cs of the lot, in the aria “Di quella pira”. “There’s something apparently superhuman about a tenor singing a long, high note,” comments Marcelo Alvarez, the barrel-chested Argentinian tenor who’s singing it in the role of the troubadour Manrico. “Everyone responds to this astonishing sound that they feel they’ll never be able to make themselves.”
Yes! This weekend brought a clean sweep through the blogs of a Southern Gal. Just what the doctor ordered for a COLD February ! (and who knew that I could get used to wearing three sweaters and double socks and 58 degrees!– anything to keep that gas bill down!)
So what’s up:
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See the continuing battle at Sign of the Shovel
So back to square one. Well, today's New York Times piece about a zoo-keeper who trains groundhogs for their February 2 media moment confirms that I was correct first of all, in trying to foist off the job of trap-and-release on my spouse and second, in not running out myself and acquiring havaheart traps for the dears. Here is how the zoo-keeper described the experience of training "Chuck":
“The patience involved is staggering,” Mr. Schwartz said. “He’s got a brain the size of a cashew, so you really don’t have much to work with.” And, he added: “They’re known for their aggression, so you’re starting from a hard place. His natural impulse is to kill ’em all and let God sort ’em out. You have to work to produce the sweet and cuddly.”
This month we had our first snowfall in Toddington. It had been exceptionally mild and wet before this, but unexpectedly one morning, we woke up to a crisp white blanket covering everything. Gardens always look so neat and clean under the snow, and there is little gardeners can do outside, but it is always worth checking no branches have snapped under the weight of the snow, and theres always the job of keeping the driveway and paths snow free!
Yes! This weekend brought a clean sweep through the blogs of a Southern Gal. Just what the doctor ordered for a COLD February ! (and who knew that I could get used to wearing three sweaters and double socks and 58 degrees!– anything to keep that gas bill down!)
So what’s up:
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Quality of the Candidates for Ethics Awards Was Special, Says Panel ChairBy Winthrop Quigley
Copyright ©2007 Albuquerque Journal; Journal Staff Writer
A Los Alamos bank, a Santa Fe restaurant, a statewide food bank and an Albuquerque engineer are this year’s New Mexico Ethics in Business Awards winners. The awards, sponsored by Samaritan Counseling Center in Albuquerque, honor businesses, nonprofit organizations and individuals whose work in New Mexico demonstrates the highest ethical conduct and social responsibility. The business winners, chosen from 17 nominees, are Los Alamos National Bank and the restaurant Vanessie Santa Fe. Roadrunner Food Bank, the nonprofit winner, was one of six nominees.Victor J. Chavez, a founding partner of Chavez-Grieves Consulting Engineers Inc., is the winner of the PNM Award for Individual Excellence in Ethical Business Practice and was one of seven nominated. The individual award was created to honor John Ackerman, a former PNM chairman and a University of New Mexico business ethics professor whose students research the nominees and prepare reports for the selection committee to consider. The winners will be honored at a banquet April 18 at Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town on Rio Grande Boulevard NW.Choosing the winners “was one of the most difficult processes this year because of the quality of the candidates throughout,” said D.F. “Duffy” Swan, chairman of the selection committee and a 2002 individual Ethics in Business award winner. “We were pleased we had to labor so hard.”[snip]Victor J. Chavez takes a stand and sticks with it, no matter what the cost might be, because it’s the right thing to do, Swan said. Chavez helped lead the controversial and ultimately failed campaign to pass a Bernalillo County gross receipts tax to fund quality-of-life activities. He is president-elect of the Albuquerque Community Foundation. He is past chairman of the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce and a former Albuquerque Economic Development board member. “What we saw in Vic was a pattern of courageous ethical decisions in his business, in his personal life,” Swan said.Swan, who is president of French Mortuary, sees business ethics as a way of maintaining a free society. Citing the work of political scientist Francis Fukuyama, Swan said that trust is critical to the maintenance of a free society, and business ethical lapses violate trust. “When trust breaks down, you tend to become more isolated,” Swan said. “Groups isolate from one another.” Society builds “more safeguards and processes and bulky mechanisms to keep it from happening again.” “When we have high trust in people, we give more room, greater freedom, greater access because we tend to believe their influence will create a greater good,” Swan said.
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