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Do any of you listen to music to relieve stress? If so, what music do you listen to? My new gig is a high stress environment. By day's end, I am spent. The only thing that re-charges me right now is listening to Bach. Everything else seems not to work.

Have a good one and many more to come too.

This is nice to see.

This feels like Sophie's Choice. I can't pick between the two.

This is a real nice fine. The first thing someone want to do when they make a discovery like this, is to sell it. I'm not sure if I would want to sell it. It should be in a museum. NEW YORK (AFP) - A handwritten, working manuscript of one of Beethoven's most revolutionary works had been rediscovered after 115 years by a librarian in Pennsylvania, triggering fevered excitement among music historians. Sotheby's auction house, which will offer "Grosse Fuge" for sale in London in December, said Thursday that the 80-page score was "the longest and most important manuscript to have appeared on the market in living memory." Sotheby's experts have put an estimate on the lot of between 1.7 million and 2.6 million dollars. "This is an amazing find," said Stephen Roe, Head of Sotheby's Manuscript Department. "The manuscript was only known from a brief description in a catalogue in 1890 and it has never before been seen or described by Beethoven scholars," Roe said. "Its rediscovery will allow a complete reassessment of this extraordinary music," he added. The manuscript was uncovered in July by Heather Carbo, a librarian who was nearing the end of a huge inventory project in the archives of a theological seminary in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Carbo found the score in the very last cabinet she inspected in the basement of the library. "It was just sitting on that shelf. I was in a state of shock," Carbo told the New York Times. Written in brown and black ink, sometimes over pencil and with later annotations in red crayon, the manuscript shows the extent of Beethoven's working and reworking with some corrections so deep that the paper is rubbed right through. "The passion and struggle of Beethoven's working can be seen graphically," Sotheby's said, highlighting how the notes were written larger as the music intensified. "What this document gives us is rare insight into the imponderable process of decision making by which this most complex of quartet movements is made over into a work for piano four-hands," said Richard Kramer, a musicologist at the University of New York. Among Beethoven's last works from the period when he was deaf, "Grosse Fuge" was originally composed as the finale for a string quartet. The rediscovered manuscript is a transcribed version of the same piece for a piano duet. The manuscript was last seen at an 1890 auction in Berlin. The buyer was believed to have been William Howard Doane, a Cincinnati, Ohio, industrialist who loved composing hymns. In 1952, Doane's daughter made a gift to the Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia to establish a chapel. The gift included music manuscripts including Mozart's Fantasia in C minor and Sonata in C minor, a major find 15 years later which together with other manuscripts fetched 1.7 million dollars. The manuscript was put on display at the seminary Thursday for just one afternoon. It was then scheduled to be exhibited at Sotheby's showrooms in New York and London before the auction on December 1.

Any plans on playing in NYC?

Back in the 1960's bands and artists would be booked to long engagements. Sometimes hopping from one club to another and then back again. Today, that had gone the way of the dodo. Any idea when this stopped happening?

quite poignant that his widow just passed away about a week ago. ← Valerie, who's wife just passed? I'm not sure I understood it from you post. Thanls

Happy birthday to two of the greatest drummers. Thanks for keeping the beat.

For all the musicians here, excluding gigs, how many hours a day do you devote to praticing? When I played, it varied. I tried to pratice at least 2 hours a day.

Question, are you the pianist Michael Weiss? Just asking.

Wow Mike, as the first sentense says, "This is gold". 3000 hours of reel-to-reel recordings and 40,000 photos.

Good for you man.

Even though we know they exist, the Boris Rose recordings he did at Birdland.

You never know. One day it may be all yours.

This year we had two great discoveries in jazz released to the jazz community . Bid and Diz at Town Hall on Uptown Records and Monk and Trane at Carnegie Hall on Blue Note. Any other recordings that you can recollect over the years that have come to light?

I'm not sure if I want my doctor listening to music when I'm being cut open. Music to operate to becomes specialty Anesthesiologist takes on operating room DJ duties Tuesday, October 4, 2005; Posted: 10:04 a.m. EDT (14:04 GMT) Dr. Frank Gentile a adjusts the sound system in an operating room at Edward Hospital. LendingTree.com - Official Site Lendingtree - Find a mortgage, refinance, home equity or auto loan now. Receive... www.lendingtree.com Save on All Your Calls with Vonage When looking for local regional and long distance calling, use Vonage to make... www.vonage.com MyCashNow - $100 - $1,500 Overnight Payday Loan Cash goes in your account overnight. Very low fees. Fast decisions.... www.mycashnow.com Compare Mortgage Offers Up to four free mortgage, refinance or home equity offers - one easy form. www.nextag.com HEALTH LIBRARY • Health Library YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Hospitals and Clinics Music or Create Your Own Manage Alerts | What Is This? CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- General anesthesia or local? Hip-hop or Sinatra? These are among the decisions facing Dr. Frank Gentile in his double-duty job as anesthesiologist and self-styled DJ of the OR. He doesn't use a microphone or speak in a fake baritone. But the eclectic range of CDs he loads onto the anesthesia cart headed for the operating room would impress any bona fide disc jockey. Gentile's collection is between 50 and 100 CDs, and his iPod holds about 5,000 songs. "I choose my music strategically. I know my surgeons' tastes," says Gentile, the anesthesiology chairman at Edward Hospital in Naperville, Illinois. There's Eminem and 50 Cent for one surgeon who likes rap -- the songs are "cleaned-up" to avoid offending anyone. For another doctor it's Metallica. Others prefer oldies or opera. Gentile picks different types of music for different stages of surgery. Many surgeons prefer up-tempo beats for the final stage and one doctor Gentile works with "always closes to J-Lo." Many U.S. operating rooms have sound systems, so playing music during surgery has become commonplace. Some doctors say it relieves the tension; studies have shown it can also benefit patients, even reducing the need for anesthesia somewhat during surgery. In many hospitals, the task of selecting OR music often falls to the anesthesiologist -- and it's one many take seriously. Some say amassing impressive music collections is even an effective marketing tool -- a way an anesthesiologist can ensure being picked when a surgical team is being chosen. "Sometimes surgeons will say, 'I won't work with that anesthesiologist because he's a fuddy-duddy and I don't like the kind of music he plays,"' said Dr. Doug Reinhart, an anesthesiologist in Ogden, Utah. Reinhart surveyed 301 American Society of Anesthesiology members and found that providing operating music was among non-medical tasks many performed. Anesthesiologists in private practice and those under 50 were most likely to serve as the operating-room DJs. Gentile says the DJ task falls sort of naturally to anesthesiologists, given their role. While their medical duties continue after a patient is asleep -- including monitoring vital signs and administering intravenous fluids -- anesthesiologists are less tethered to the operating table than surgeons and other OR staff. They're often more free to walk around during surgery, or to change a CD. Gentile thinks music makes surgeons work more efficiently. "If they're working faster and they're happy, the flow of the operating room is happier." If things aren't going well during an operation, or if the music starts becoming a distraction, Gentile says he turns it off. Reinhart, 51, said nurses and surgeons provide the music in the surgery center where he works, but he was the OR DJ at his former job at a private Dallas, Texas, hospital. We're not going to play rap when there's a 90-year-old lady in there -- it would scare them to death. -- Dr. Doug Reinhart, an anesthesiologist in Ogden, Utah"I had a little boom box on top of my anesthesia cart and I had a selection of CDs -- a lot of country and classical and kind of quieter soft rock," Reinhart said. Patients' tastes must be considered when surgery involves only a local anesthetic, he said. "We're not going to play rap when there's a 90-year-old lady in there -- it would scare them to death." Dr. Greg Irvine, an orthopedic surgeon in Portland, Oregon, says he's worked with anesthesiologists who load their iPods and laptops with special music mixes catering to specific surgeons' tastes, then plug them into the operating-room sound system. Irvine says he's usually so focused on operating that he barely hears the music and generally lets others decide what to play -- unless "they put on something I really can't stand," like when an anesthesiologist started playing military music from Eastern Europe. "It was a little intense," Irvine said. On the flip side, Irvine said several years ago an anesthesiologist turned him on to bluegrass singer Alison Krauss -- he'd never heard her "phenomenal" voice until it filled the operating room one day. "I went out and bought one of her early CDs," Irvine recalls. Gentile's own taste in music leans more toward heavy metal, though he chose something much more mellow when he had sinus surgery a couple of years ago. "I went to sleep listening to Coldplay," he said. Gentile dreamily says that now, whenever he hears that same CD, "I get taken to a pretty cool place." Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. 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Jim, I was just wondering where the photo attached to your profile is from? Makes me wonder if that guy got any.

I hope he hits NYC. I need to catch the giant.

At the end. You want the music the way it was released when it first came out. Give the desert at the end.

I think some sign-up to sell something and then never come back. Others sign-up to talk about the G man and the likes of him. They get burried real fast.

We should hit it by the end of the week of 10-14. We're at 394989.

For those that have bought the Blue Note CD of Monk and Trane, what do you think? For me, just one word. "Wow".

I'll be there on Sunday. Ich könnte sogar in meinem Deutsch auffrischen.

I'm just wondering why the discography doesn't list them as either rejected or unissued.