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Remember "Coawfee Toawlk"? Bronx, Queens, Long Island?

Boawston? [i moved from Wisconsin to Boston in 1977, and the midwestern way I pronounced "Bob" was understood in Boston as "Barb" -- and when I ordered "potted beef" from the cook where I waitressed, he said "PATT-ed beef? What's PATT-ed beef? Do you mean POAWTTED beef?" BTW this is a REAL working-class accent -- quite the oawpposite of pretentious!]

ditto

Well, at least we agree with each other, if this ISN'T what Joe G saw!!! [stage production had music by Marc Anthony Thompson, aka Chocolate Genius]

I never heard of "Portrait of Jason" -- sounds like I'll have to check it out. But Joe G's description also made me think of "A Huey P. Newton Story" -- writted and performed by Roger Guenveur Smith off-Broadway ~5 years ago -- and then filmed by Spike Lee:

Yet another huge fan who doesn't have cable. Rented 1st season for home marathon (just like Mr&Mrs Johnny E, and wesbed's folks) and saw 2nd season a friend had taped -- now I try to avoid hearing about the shows I haven't seen until I get to see them. (NOOOO! Don't tell me David and Keith broke up again! When I haven't even seen them move in together!)

Congratulations! And best of luck!

Ooh, we (a band I was in) had a heavenly raclette dinner in our wonderful promoter's lovely farmhouse outside (and uphill from) Zurich -- melted and almost roasted raclette* with tiny pickles and tiny onions and potatoes and fantastic bread on the side. And wine. Ooh. *

This thread is guaranteed to vastly increase the female membership of this forum... um, NOT!!!

Me too, me too, me too! Should've jumped on the early bandwagon -- I was offline yesterday -- but, I was partying on your birthday, Tom! Many happy returns to Organissimo Forum's own Golden Rooster!

Good luck! My nephew reports to Marine boot camp the same day -- so you know my best wishes were already headed there -- now they're in doubletime.

And then there's the old hemiola. Where what's been 6/8 turns into 3/4 (by way of accents) for a bar or two: 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 + 2 + 3 + (aka "1 2 3 4 5 6") (happens a lot in latin music, especially in 12/8 things)

Hey Rooster -- I've been singing soprano in a large (~150 voice) classical chorus in NYC for the past two years and alto in a small (at most, 12-voice) madrigal/motet-y group for three. (Maybe you never got my BNBB-era PM -- November 2002? -- you were selling some classical CDs and I was looking for Berlioz Messe Solennelle to help learn it for the big group.) I sang in choruses in college (was a voice major for a few years) and then spent about 20 years in other genres (!) (let's just call it "Other Music from Under Ground" -- if anyone's familiar with that venerable venue originally known as CBGB-OMFUG) before hooking back up with "classical" recently. I know what you mean about choral music being toward the bottom of the "listening to" list -- the only pieces that ever had some serious rotation there for me are Symphony of Psalms, Britten War Requiem, Mozart Requiem -- and some opera choruses (Boris Godunov stands out for me as one where the chorus has a real dramatic role). [Also, not "classical" but definitely choral: Kirk Franklin, recently.] But it's been great to sing this music -- the big group I'm in (St. Cecilia Chorus) performs at Carnegie Hall with orchestra twice a year, and does a third concert in a big church with organist. Still to come this year is Bach St. Matthew Passion at Carnegie Hall in May. Shortly after I joined the big group, I was amazed to realize how GREAT I felt at 10 PM after 3-hour rehearsal. A big part of this is physical -- I walk miles everyday and am in pretty good shape, but I've never really gotten into yoga or any exercise routine beyond walking -- so singing long phrases in long pieces for 3 hours with a 15-min break in the middle makes me feel like I guess OTHER people feel after their tai-chi-class-equivalent. An added plus. I sang the Brahms German Requiem in college and loved it; also Ives Three Harvest Home Chorales :tup, Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms, Beethoven's Ninth (mentioned earlier this week in a thread about Ruth Ellington Boatwright, Duke's sister, because her husband McHenry Boatwright was the soloist in that college performance, guest-conducted by Gunther Schuller!). Really lovely piece we sang earlier this year: Puccini Messe di Gloria.

Man, that was banned a LONG time ago...

And after the Schnapps -- ANOTHER ROUND OF CAKE!

You and half these guys still have to win the other half over to the LONG-HAIR club: Here's someone doing his part to convince Jimmy Swaggart...

My thought exactly, even before I opened this thread!

Hope you like chocolate, B! Happy birthday!!

I guess I'm AWFULLY slow on the uptake -- but it's registering today, Moose! I, on the other hand, am number 6...

Larry, here's the Federal Trade Commission's identity theft site: http://www.consumer.gov/idtheft/ Rainy Day is completely right -- contact Experian, TransUnion and/or Equifax. You may want to phone them rather than do this online. You can have them put a 6-month stop on opening up new accounts for your social security number, if you want. And as Rainy Day said, keep tabs on your credit report. (Sorry it happened to you, Rainy. Me too, about a year ago, and it took an awful lot of time and energy -- always in short supply! -- to unravel.) There's also this earlier Organissimo thread about ID theft -- I'm thinking there was even an earlier one, but maybe that was back at BNBB...

Awfully sorry to hear about this Jim. Very bad timing with baby on the way -- just "keep breathing" (as a friend at work always tells me when any kind of crunch hits) and know that YOU'RE DOING THE BEST YOU CAN and don't deserve any verbal abuse -- I know that's not always easy to arm yourself with when such abuse arrives out of the blue -- but that woman is an asshole. Do you have a family member or friend -- or two or three -- who can help you put the $850 together and get the state out of the picture? (Just as long as it's people who won't vibe you and can loan it without feeling too much of a pinch.) Otherwise (as you said) be proactive and (as Jim Sangrey implied) find a higher-up or at least NICER state tax person to contact and see if a payment plan can be made. In my experience (with credit card companies, for example -- YIKES) they're nicer if you contact THEM than if they feel they've had to track you down.

Happy birthday Shawn! Tell Ms. McGrew we miss her too!