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Pontius Pilate Jean-Luc Ponty Jean-Luc Godard

Another passing we seem to have missed... NYT obit: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/arts/music/henri-dutilleux-modernist-composer-dies-at-97.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/may/22/henri-dutilleux I know Ainsi la nuit string quartet the best, also a small box on Erato (various genres incl orchestral, SQ, solo piano) whose details escape me at the moment. Although I enjoyed his music and sometimes recommended it, I never heard any performed live and didn't really "collect" recordings.

The Grand Pooh-Bah Winnie the Pooh The King of Bahrain

Charles Hermite Buster Crabbe Jeroen Krabbé

Paul Klee Stephen Kleene Kurt Gödel

Agreed, excellent final 4 and the West semis were both awesome series. I was impressed by the Red Wings' play after squeaking into the playoffs. [Added] I see the Ranger$ had to make a play for "back page coverage" by firing their coach just before the finals...

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Grantland Rice Francis Ford Coppola

There's now another one (or is it a branch?) in Roxbury, NY: http://popcultureblog.dallasnews.com/2012/08/dallas-no-longer-the-only-city-with-an-eight-track-museum-as-ny-outpost-debuts-in-october-with-worlds-rarest-tape.html/ Not too far from me, but I haven't yet visited.

I respect AS's music more than I dig it, and don't listen that often or have multiple recordings of works, but find P-H Chen's recording of the piano music extremely good. That's the CD I most frequently (by far) take off the shelf.

Best wishes!

A. A. Milne B. B. King C. C. Rider

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nascar-from-the-marbles/dick-trickle-former-nascar-driver-dead-self-inflicted-202844077.html RIP. Can't say I know much about NASCAR, but I heard Mr. Trickle's name many times on ESPN Sports Center. He's probably appeared in the "Name Three People" thread as well...

All the best, and many more! :party:

Art Pepper, Complete Village Vanguard Sessions

The first half-season of Big Bang Theory spanned the last months of my having TV, and I took a shine to the show. Now I rent each season from Netflix a few months late. The Newhart episode is something to look forward to!

This could have gone either way, but I really liked it. Very funny!

Sadly, this happened to me a few times (a number of years ago). Best solution IMO is to disassemble the player - I stupidly damaged some discs trying to forcibly dislodge them w/o disassembly (and they were parts of boxed sets, too! ).

Even my local public library got a copy! (They have IB, too.)

True enough (I actually saw Inglourious Basterds in a theater on its opening weekend), but I live in a very rural area, and cinema expeditions require big planning and a measure of luck... [Added] Watched it...Photography and (technical) direction QT's best to date IMO, acting generally very good...However, the violence became excessive to me, and some of the pop music on the soundtrack was not to my taste (par for the course with Tarantino). Enjoyed it for the most part, but didn't want to watch a second time. (I like to replay Netflix discs with director's commentary when available, but this release is too new for that feature.)

I'll be receiving it from Netflix tomorrow...

Maybe I shouldn't have spoken so soon on Tennstedt. The Tennstedt disc I own is an old singleton with only non-"Ring" overtures. Maybe the "soft" approach works better for "Lohengrin" and "Rienzi" overtures...Don't have a "Ring" excerpts CD; the full cycle I kept is Solti, who probably qualifies as "anti-soft".

I like Tennstedt's compilation a lot, but never bothered to compare with others, since I have full recordings of almost all the operas.

Harmonia Mundi "Lumieres" box from Berkshire: http://www.berkshirerecordoutlet.com/search.php?row=0&brocode=153608&stocknum=&submit=Find+Item&text=&filter=all

Classical music for chess enthusiasts: http://www.berkshirerecordoutlet.com/search.php?row=0&text=philidor&filter=all&cd=1&Label=ARION&genre=&RPP=25&pprice=&submit=Search Philidor! (No, I haven't heard it...)

The Festetics were often recommended in the rec.music.classical.recordings archives, but I had trouble finding their recordings and went for the Quatuor Mosaiques (which the OP already owns) instead. The other Haydn recordings I own are with modern instruments...