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You all are probably objectively correct about Scarlatti harpsichord. It's just my personal taste, which is doubtless bad, but I have trouble listening to solo harpsichord music for extended periods of time (as a continuo instrument it doesn't bug me so much). After listening to Haskil and Tipo, I don't think either is the last word on piano. Will try Zacharias and maybe Pletnev, but CD purchasing is on hiatus for a while...

I checked the Troupe and Chambers books at home (didn't bring them in to work, so can't quote exactly). There was another quote in the autobiography (just after the one I gave above) that gives support to Stockhausen's influence being via "process". Something to the effect of "through Stockhausen I understood music as a process of elimination and addition. Like before you can say 'yes' you have to have said 'no'..." I don't know enough Stockhausen to say which specific "process pieces" might apply here. The most obvious "addition and subtraction" process piece I can think of is Frederic Rzewski's "Attica" "Coming Together". Chambers also says that Buckmaster gave Miles recordings of "Mixtur" and "Telemusik", as well as several cassettes (contents not specified). He further writes that Stockhausen was in the Columbia studios with Miles in 1980 (Chicago area), but that the resulting material (unspecified) has never been released.

I may be able to dig some Stockhausen info up at home (I have some Miles books). Here's an academic passage I googled, though I don't find it very informative... Another passage here: Miles Davis, whose later albums make extensive use of studio techniques, paid homage to Stockhausen’s influence in his works. In his autobiography, he wrote that “I had always written in a circular way and through Stockhausen I could see that I didn’t want to ever play again from eight bars to eight bars, because I never end songs: they just keep going on. Through Stockhausen I understood music as a process of elimination and addition.” The collage-like quality of music from the ‘Electric Miles’ period was said to stem directly from his reaction to Hymnen and several of Stockhausen’s non-electronic pieces. Inspired by passages in Miles's autobiography (the Quincy Troupe book), I once (years ago) looked for Buckmaster material on the web and found basically nothing. Thanks for the above tips.

Wow, that's a tough one, GA! I was able to Google the answer given your hints, but won't give spoilers because I'd otherwise have had no clue.

Just finished A Dead Man in Deptford, historical novel by Anthony Burgess about the life and death of Christopher Marlowe. So I've started Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. Never read anything by Marlowe before.

I've seen 'em both lots of times (annual cable TV "Godfather" marathons), to the point where I've gotten a bit sick of Mafia flicks. I like II a lot more, but it's just personal taste and the original is certainly excellent. I guess I find the sequel much more wide-ranging and sweeping, with Michael's life following a sort of tragic trajectory. The original may be stronger photographically, but it seems more a straightforward narrative (especially since I read the book before the film was made) and less complex. [Added] Though I prefer the sequel, I want to stress that the original is a classic film. IMO the "Sicilian Vespers" sequence, where Michael's godson's baptism is overlaid with rubouts of all Michael's rivals ("Michael Corleone, do you renounce Satan?") is one of the greatest in cinema.

Conn Smythe Patty Smyth John McEnroe

Right! That didn't take long! (Maybe not a great choice, since the pic was from a UK commercial campaign... )

Sorry, but since nobody spoke up:

Thanks, but you by chance hit on one I happened to have seen. I share the same memories of Rigg as you (she's also a noted Shakespearian actress!), and saw a very similar recent pic which served as a real bringdown re. aging... I've butted in a couple of times, so will let somebody else post the next pic(s).

Pretty clearly staying on the British theme (Moore, Macnee), and she looks rather familiar, so I'll say Diana Rigg.

Just read Henning Mankell's The Troubled Man, the last in his Kurt Wallander series. Very good (though more than a little depressing), maybe the best in the series. I had gotten a bit tired of Mankell's style, and had been avoiding his books for a while, but this was definitely worthwhile.

I dunno why I'm doing this, being an ignoramus re. pop culture, but here's another one:

Yes...(good grief!)

This is probably much too easy, but the thread's been quiet for a while...

Another classical recording (sorry for OT) with anti-aircraft fire: Walter Gieseking's 1944 "Emperor" concerto

I'll have to review this when I get home, but I could swear that Hampton Hawes's All Night Session! 1 has a section where the engineers (I assume) are having a conversation (about football iirc). I'll try and confirm...I've heard it more than once, but it could possibly be disc #3; I don't own #2. OT, but there's an old EMI classical recording of Wanda Landowska playing a Scarlatti sonata on harpsichord, recorded in Paris during World War II, in which bombs or artillery fire can be heard in the background.

Wendie Malick?

I'm probably just a dumb-ass, but it's hard for me to imagine the J-E-T-S signing Asomugha. A huge part of the payroll would then be devoted to the cornerback position (with him and Revis). I'm inclined to agree re. Haynesworth.

Well, the Pats are making it interesting with deals for Ochocinco and Haynesworth. In the old days, I'd have expected Conn to chime in on such transactions...

Owners have all the leverage in these pro sports strikes. Over the years, I've drifted away from pro football, and now find it almost impossible to watch the games (granted, I don't watch TV at all any more). There's under 10 minutes (I read 9:45 somewhere) of actual play in a 3-1/2 hour broadcast, and I don't care for the way games are telecast (how many moronic beer and car commercials can one possibly stomach?). You all can have it. I do follow the NY Jints via print/Internet, though. Used to live and die with the NHL, but after the big '04-'05 lockout I realized I could live without it.

Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to deal with those... I just let them be. Still a big space savings from dropping jewel boxes.

Yeah, I'm a convert to those. Huge space savings. It's not quite as easy to find things on the shelves, but you can read the tray card labels by riffling the sleeves on the shelves. If the discs are alphabetized or otherwise pre-organized, it's not that difficult.

Ouch! In addition to the insane training/fitness requirements, it takes a lot of courage to be a pro cyclist! Bravo to Evans, btw.

That's my take on things as well. Should still be very interesting! Evans needs 57 seconds, and I'd ordinarily expect him to gain 1 minute easy (both Schlecks looked awful in the early TTT), but: (a) Andy S. may get a psychological kick from the yellow jersey; (b) Evans didn't overwhelm in the 2008 TDF Stage 20 and 2010 Giro Stage 21 ITTs (granted, the latter was kind of short). I'll still pick Evans. He seems a stronger and more aggressive rider since winning the World Ch. in 2009 (though his public and media presence is far from lovable...).