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Hmmm..... Nica... I really like that!! Edit: I'll be gosh darn, I never had any idea who the "Nica" was in "Nica's dream". Wiki: Pannonica de Koenigswarter. Learn something new every day. I think we have a winner!! Hope my wife likes it too (it's really 'her' cat, so she gets the naming rights. ) Edit: I just e-mailed her, only mentioning the name, without any explanation. Wanted to get her honest opinion on the basis of the sound of the name alone. If she's generally positive about it (if not quite "wildly enthusiastic"), then I think the back-story will sell her. Fingers-crossed.

I suggested Nina this morning, which wasn't rebuffed much (not like Spot!). I guess the names of the hour are Tasha (or Natasha), and Nina. But the field is still wide open.

I think they'd lump the 70's material recorded live by Columbia into the same series (assuming there's enough sales potential for more live 70's material). Just because they referred to it as the "bootleg" series in this panel discussion, that doesn't necessarily mean that the series is actually going to be called that from a marketing perspective. Personally I don't think the series will have "bootleg" anywhere in the name. But they can call it "jumpin' jehosaphat" for all I care, just bring it on!!

Oh my. Good thing my wife wasn't that sold on 'Sasha' either. 'Tasha' is just plain easier to say, since the 't' is an explosive consonant, as opposed to 's' (a sibilant). Two sibilants in the same name (since the 'sh' is also one) is one too many.

Perhaps Natasha, and/or just Tasha. (My wife liked Sasha, but I didn't as much. I like Tasha better.)

Well then, allow me to be doubly lateral, both udderly so, and then note the whipped cream!

Alternate cover... Another to fit the theme... And here's one for Jim...

What, did you have an outhouse before? Damn fat fingers. CAT!!! (corrected above.)

Boy, this first one is going to date me (or haunt me) -- probably both! (What can I say, I was born in 1969.) July 2nd, 1986 - Julian Lennon, Municipal Opera in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri. (The summer between my junior and senior years of high school.) My first JAZZ concert that I claim was the Either/Orchestra, circa 1989/90? (at a bar, The Cherry Street Brewing Company, Galesburg, IL) - roughly my sophomore year of college (probably had both John Medeski and Matt Wilson in the band at that time ). The first jazz concert I actually ever heard was just a month or so before the E/O concert above -- Ed Shaughnessy and some "Tonight Show All-Stars" combo (sextet or maybe septet), at the Orpheum Theater, also in Galesburg. The first "real" symphony performance I remember ever going to (something OTHER THAN a field-trip to the St. Louis Symphony during the day, while I was in jr. high school, or some local philharmonic of no real note) was The Chicago Symphony, circa 1989? - and I remember they played Mahler's 1st, "The Titan"! The first "real" symphonic CHORAL concert I ever went to was at an American Choral Directors Association convention up in Chicago, circa 1990 - a double billing of Stravinsky's "Symphony of Psalms" and the Poulenc "Gloria".

Well, we still haven't come up with the definitive name yet (we've only had the CAT at home less than 36 hours). In the end, the name could turn out to be something already suggested, or something entirely unknown as of this point. I think we'll have a name by the end of the week, probably. I've been informed that naming the cat after Khrushchev is ill advised.

Cool! This is SO great!! For instance, I just discovered that важный in Russian (probably pronounced "VAHZH-nee" ('zh' sounds like the middle sound in treasure)) means all of these adjectives in English... 1. important 2. significant 3. substantial 4. big 5. great 6. considerable 7. first-rate 8. significative 9. donnish 10. portentous 11. earnest 12. solemn 13. material 14. consequential 15. purposeful 16. responsible 17. high-powered 18. weighty 19. grand 20. serious 21. grave 22. momentous 23. fateful 24. influential 25. newsworthy 26. swaggering 27. basilic 28. of great importance 29. of great moment 30. prancing 31. puffy For those wondering -- I translated the word "serious" into Russian, picked one of the translations that sorta works as a name ("важный"), and then reverse translated that back from Russian into English (and then got the huge list of English synonyms). My attempt to confirm what "важный" means; obviously a lot of things.

What do people think of Nikita?? According to Wikipedia... Nikita is a unisex name, historically male from Russian and related languages. In recent times it has been adopted as female in many countries around the world, particularly France. The male Russian name is derived from the Greek name Aniketos, which means "unconquerable". From what we've observed, she appears to be one bad-ass cat! She more than stood her ground with our other cat (to put it mildly), and appears to potentially be the new 'alpha cat' of the household.

Actually, Jim, I think you were more right the first time with Shaft. (re: "Li'l Puss") I think the new cat is a bad-ass. I think she's gonna end up being the dominant one. Pepper was 2nd banana to our previous cat, Emily (who we had to have put to sleep). Emily ruled with an iron paw!! We let the cats see each other briefly a little while ago (probably too soon, actually), and it was the NEW cat who pitched more of a fit than Pepper did.

Nothing's been rejected yet (well, other than "Spot" ). (And, actually, Natasha kind of has a nice ring to it.) Just brought the kitty home for the first time, about 10 minutes ago.

Thanks for all the input, keep 'em coming!

2nd. Call 'em.

Sorry Joe, you just got emphatically vetoed by the wife.

My wife and I are all set to bring this sweet kitty home from a local animal shelter tomorrow, and we need to come up with a name for her. Our other cat (also a female) is named Pepper, so we need a name that doesn't sound too similar. My wife picked her out (she's always liked gray cats), so you'll have to sell my wife on the name. Ideas?? Edit: Some ideas we're coming up with: Smokey, Misty, Sophie, Sasha, and more as we think of them.

Where's the one with the "New Sounds from America" (or some such similar title), which was actually Euro players (maybe Denmark?) The one with the guy holding the trombone the wrong way?? ("Hey, you're black and could look like a jazz musician, here, hold this!") THAT would have to be pretty misleading.

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This really is pretty close to my all-time top five... 1. Hans Werner Henze - Requiem (1993), for trumpet, piano, and 26 instruments (but NO chorus or vocalists). 2. William Levi Dawson - Negro Folk Symphony (1934/52), my nomination for the greatest "American" symphony yet (followed closely by one of the Ives, maybe #2?) 3. Samuel Barber - Symphony No. 2 (1944/47), which Barber ordered destroyed in 1964 (and thus it because the much less known of his only two symphonies). Thankfully it was reconstructed in the 80's from a set of orchestral parts that were found in a warehouse (and previously thought to have been destroyed). 4. Brahms - Piano Quartet #1, orchestrated by Schoenberg thusly (1861, orch 1937), occasionally even referred to by some as "Brahms' 5th Symphony". 5. Kurt Atterberg - Piano Concerto (1935), a HUGE neo-romantic work that gets a little bitonal in places, every bit as much an "integrated" symphony/piano-concerto "hybrid" as Brahms' first piano concerto. I've given out a dozen or more copies of the Henze over the years as a sort of calling card (I buy 'em cheap whenever I can).

LOVE that pic of Anthony with the paperclip contra. (I've got a soft spot for contrabass clarinet. ) Don't suppose you could share a bigger version with the board, just for my curiousity??

Check Amazon's used marketplace (already mentioned), but also check half.com (which is at least as good, and sometimes even better than Amazon's used stuff, depending on the title). And for potentially more pricy things that aren't totally uncommon -- there's 30 days worth of sales data from eBay (sometimes useful for checking some more common OOP stuff, like BN Conns and such.)

About damn time. And it better include material from '67 and '69 -- not just earlier stuff.

Can somebody somehow take a snapshot of it, and attach it here?? The link does work for me, but the image with the sculpture doesn't come up (drat).