| Fugue [message #13244] |
Fri, 20 March 2009 20:13  |
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Fugue
Smooshes!
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| Re: Fugue [message #13253 is a reply to message #13244 ] |
Fri, 20 March 2009 20:27   |
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*deep breath*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAahahahahahahahahahaha
Oh man, I wish I could even *pretend* to be surprised, but I'm afraid I can't. Sorry, Robin. I tried really hard for about two minutes (eternity to a ferret!) but it just didn't happen.
That Oisin, I think he's a worse influence on you than all of us combined. ;)
Smooshes!
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| Re: Fugue [message #13266 is a reply to message #13244 ] |
Fri, 20 March 2009 21:05   |
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Creek Messages: 44 Registered: October 2008 Location: Valencia, CA |
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Stephen Sondheim wipes the floor with Andrew.
Very much so!! I just about cried when I found out Webber wrote a sequel to Phantom and is having it produced...
"remember, it's called a play... that means you should PLAY"
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| Re: Fugue [message #13269 is a reply to message #13266 ] |
Fri, 20 March 2009 22:57   |
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| Creek wrote on Fri, 20 March 2009 21:05 | Stephen Sondheim wipes the floor with Andrew.
Very much so!! I just about cried when I found out Webber wrote a sequel to Phantom and is having it produced...
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Wait. WHAT?!!!
Nooooooooo~
I do like Webber. In very limited amounts.
Sondheim, however, totally wipes the floor with him. Love, love, love Into the Woods. The only musical I've worked on that I enjoyed listening to the soundtrack at the same time I was working it (I can only barely listen to others, like Threepenny Opera, some four years later).
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| Re: Fugue [message #13271 is a reply to message #13269 ] |
Fri, 20 March 2009 23:14   |
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Creek Messages: 44 Registered: October 2008 Location: Valencia, CA |
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| Mori-neko wrote on Fri, 20 March 2009 22:57 |
| Creek wrote on Fri, 20 March 2009 21:05 |
I just about cried when I found out Webber wrote a sequel to Phantom and is having it produced...
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Wait. WHAT?!!!
Nooooooooo~
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Unfortunately, yes and he wants to open it simultaneously in three cities.
"remember, it's called a play... that means you should PLAY"
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| Re: Fugue [message #13276 is a reply to message #13266 ] |
Sat, 21 March 2009 00:42   |
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| Creek wrote on Fri, 20 March 2009 21:05 | Stephen Sondheim wipes the floor with Andrew.
Very much so!! I just about cried when I found out Webber wrote a sequel to Phantom and is having it produced...
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*plugs ears* La la la la la la, can't hear you!
Smooshes!
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| Re: Fugue [message #13283 is a reply to message #13266 ] |
Sat, 21 March 2009 02:38   |
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tassiegal Messages: 92 Registered: November 2008 Location: NSW |
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| Creek wrote on Sat, 21 March 2009 12:05 | Stephen Sondheim wipes the floor with Andrew.
Very much so!! I just about cried when I found out Webber wrote a sequel to Phantom and is having it produced...
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Err that is 10 kinds of WRONG. I mean dear ALW is a nice guy and all, but err NO! Totally agree with the Sondheim sentiment - he is much nicer to sing as well - more logical without the ridiculous key signatures ALW seems to adore. (I mean come on 5!!! flats...)
As for Organs, NOTHING compares with hearing the organ in St Pauls in London. I <3 that organ so badly. I have heard it twice in all its glory. Once doing I think it was St Matthews Passion (I was secreted in a corner with a friend of mine and her then boyfriend and it was just WONDERFUL, singing, and soaring strings and this lovely strident organ) and once about 8ish on a November night, when there was all of about 10 ppl in the cathedral doing an access all areas explore (I loved our chaplin at college, he had all SORTS of intersting contacts), and the principal organist was practicing carols for the next CD they were recording. Mistakes on organs are VERY obvious
[Updated on: Sat, 21 March 2009 02:39]
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| Re: Fugue [message #13285 is a reply to message #13244 ] |
Sat, 21 March 2009 04:49   |
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Something about this entry and the comments about church organ music sparked a recollection about an absolutely delightful set of YA books set in a northern English cathedral town, wherein the protagonists are mostly choirboys. Incidents involve choirboy mischief, exploring the organ, action sequences in foiling would-be thieves of the lead on the church roof, and much more. I racked my brains for a title or the author, and eventually remembered one character's full name, from which Google obligingly supplied full information. Imagine my delight to find there are three related books I have not read. Coupled with dismay at the difficulty in obtaining them. My library used to have some of these, but has evidently "de-acquisitioned" them. The Dallas Public Library (an hour away) has most of them in reference, non-circulating. Hmmm. Anyway, my thanks to you and Oisin for being the catalysts to bring these back to me.
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| Re: Fugue [message #13300 is a reply to message #13284 ] |
Sat, 21 March 2009 13:45   |
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there are couple songs on the JCS soundtrack that I very much enjoy, ditto my boyfriend. I've seen Phantom and Cats, and enjoyed the pair of them as well. Webber is very good at... sheer spectacle.
Sondheim appeals to me on so many levels, though. He's more fun to sing, to play, to watch... He appeals to the music geek and the word geek in me (something about rhyming "ask it" and "basket"...). There's fantastic parody done by Forbidden Broadway called "Into the Words".
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| Re: Fugue [message #13318 is a reply to message #13311 ] |
Sat, 21 March 2009 19:41   |
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| Robin wrote on Sat, 21 March 2009 19:28 | Oh, I'm sorry, I love Threepenny--although I love Beggars' Opera more.
And I'm a SWEENEY TODD girl. I think INTO THE WOODS comes apart in the last act. But I have rather strong opinions about fairy tales for some reason. . . . 
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I worked on Threepenny because I really enjoy the show (even better, the next season that theatre did A Chorus of Disapproval... which takes place backstage at an amateur production of Begger's Opera). I'm just now starting to be able to listen to it again.
Sweeney Todd I like, but it just doesn't quite do it for me. I -adore- A Little Night Music, saw a production of it for my birthday a couple years back.
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| Re: Fugue [message #13323 is a reply to message #13322 ] |
Sat, 21 March 2009 19:49   |
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I did see the movie. Enjoyed it, but it definitely doesn't match up to the original.
Company I've heard, but am a bit 'meh' on. Assassins doesn't have the best music/writing, but the concept gets me every time. Pacific Overtures, I'm not familiar with. Think I need to go hunt it down. 
As far as shows about neurotic New Yorkers, I'll take Tick, Tick, Boom by Johnathan Larson (and you can -totally- tell he was Sondheim's protoge).
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| Re: Fugue [message #13327 is a reply to message #13326 ] |
Sat, 21 March 2009 19:57   |
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Tick, Tick, Boom is semi-autobiographical. Very catchy music.
I can definitely see the creep factor to Assassins, but the concept of it definitely amuses me (and only Sondheim can pull it off).
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| Re: Fugue [message #13337 is a reply to message #13244 ] |
Sun, 22 March 2009 01:32   |
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danceswithpahis Messages: 380 Registered: October 2008 |
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I must confess to liking ALW (whom I know is controversial); part of it is having grown up on the song Memory (I don't know if I can adequately express the extent to which this song was woven into the fabric of my childhood and has strong emotional ties for a large percentage of my family). He has a number of songs that I rather enjoy. I will say that the play Cats does annoy me at times. I enjoy it (especially Memory, for aforementioned reasons), and I like the idea of a play about Cats, but it annoys me that they play so fast and loose with feline social mores. For example, having a sexy tomcat come out on stage that all of the queens hang off of adoringly... No, that's a HUMAN fantasy, not a reality of cat mating behavior. The original poems amuse me, though, so I try to just ignore that part.
We had an amazing organ at my college. I didn't really appreciate it when I first got there, but my dad thought it was wonderful, and oohed and aahed over it so much that it started to grow on me. I had friends who played it who really enjoyed it.
"Oh good! My dog found the chainsaw!"
-- Lilo ("Lilo and Stitch")
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| Re: Fugue [message #13362 is a reply to message #13244 ] |
Sun, 22 March 2009 14:55   |
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In Wurms, [mumble] years ago, we as tourists wandered into the cathedral, after having to wait for a small wedding party to come out, on a summer Saturday morning. As we drifted around in the back, ignoring some little stir up at the altar, it seems another wedding was assembling up there at the front (apparent miles away). Suddenly, unexpectedly, the organ burst out in Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D, rolling and echoing through the gray forest of carved pillars. It was GLORIOUS!
I don't know that I would have chosen that for wedding music, but I'm sure glad they did. Really, a great stone cathedral is the only proper habitat for such music.
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| Re: Fugue [message #13364 is a reply to message #13363 ] |
Sun, 22 March 2009 17:43   |
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Me three.
Really, when you get down to it, I just adore musical theatre.
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