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Bria dribbles to much. Too many bad passes. Stef needs to make easy chip shots against better teams her field goal avg way down in post season so far. Also to many stupid fouls by Stef. Where was KML tonight. We are not an athletic team no one can shoot off the dribble, they depend on screens to get them open
 
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Icebear said:
Think Bach and the mathematical precision and crispness of counterpoint. And make sure the Italian operas get nowhere near the turntable.
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Si...but I may flirt with a little Carmen for Kaleena...it's time for a little mezzo soprano overdrive...
 
I think you guys are way off. What we need is a little Miles Davis up in here.

See, ND's best players are jazz musicians, and we're straight classical. Diggins and McBride know how to improvise in flow, but our Huskies need everything to be precise, perfect, and just so. Problem is, we're not a team of virtuosos. We have a few promising soloists, but we also have second and third chair players who need to follow a leader.

And when these rude scat cats play loud and keep us from staying in sync, we tend to lose the beat entirely.

So tomorrow, gang, instead of walking onstage and feeling the crowd's eyes boring into you with each missed cue...just seize the limelight and do what you know in your bones you can do. Enjoy being young and talented and playing the game that's been yours your whole life. Keep on eye on the crazy maestro gesticulating wildly on the sidelines, but make sure to listen to and play off each other the most.

Then only beautiful music will flow.
 
OneTrickPony said:
That's Act 1...all poetry and seduction...
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Not to be "the guy who always introduces Tennessee into a UConn thread", but..

can you imagine the reaction on The Summitt to this discussion about which opera to play during tonights game? Has anybody ever discussed opera on checkerboard square, much less German vs. Italian, much less lamentation vs. "poetry & seduction"? Act I vs. Act III?

I can see it now - or, better yet, hear it! "Thar they wuz, talkin' bout opera! German opera and, Eye-talian opera, like Gino thar! An' poe-tree n' see-duction! Then sumbuddy said "Uh-uh! Nossir! Gotta be jazz music, 'cuz the Ahrish kin im-pro-viz!"

I think this whole line of discussion would evoke a creamsicle chorus of "Whut the hail?"!
 
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ghostmutt said:
I think you guys are way off. What we need is a little Miles Davis up in here.

See, ND's best players are jazz musicians, and we're straight classical. Diggins and McBride know how to improvise in flow, but our Huskies need everything to be precise, perfect, and just so. Problem is, we're not a team of virtuosos. We have a few promising soloists, but we also have second and third chair players who need to follow a leader.

And when these rude scat cats play loud and keep us from staying in sync, we tend to lose the beat entirely.

So tomorrow, gang, instead of walking onstage and feeling the crowd's eyes boring into you with each missed cue...just seize the limelight and do what you know in your bones you can do. Enjoy being young and talented and playing the game that's been yours your whole life. Keep on eye on the crazy maestro gesticulating wildly on the sidelines, but make sure to listen to and play off each other the most.

Then only beautiful music will flow.
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Great post!

Bird lives!
 
ghostmutt said:
I think you guys are way off. What we need is a little Miles Davis up in here.

See, ND's best players are jazz musicians, and we're straight classical. Diggins and McBride know how to improvise in flow, but our Huskies need everything to be precise, perfect, and just so. Problem is, we're not a team of virtuosos. We have a few promising soloists, but we also have second and third chair players who need to follow a leader.

And when these rude scat cats play loud and keep us from staying in sync, we tend to lose the beat entirely.

So tomorrow, gang, instead of walking onstage and feeling the crowd's eyes boring into you with each missed cue...just seize the limelight and do what you know in your bones you can do. Enjoy being young and talented and playing the game that's been yours your whole life. Keep on eye on the crazy maestro gesticulating wildly on the sidelines, but make sure to listen to and play off each other the most.

Then only beautiful music will flow.
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I have to say...you nailed it...
 
Icebear said:
Sometimes it looks more like we are playing some atonal Stravinsky or Schoenberg, what we need tonight is more Tchaikovsky's 1812 or Beethoven's 9th.
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Yes something triumphant.
This is how you do it.

 
Icebear said:
I have the Telarc 1812 vinyl recording on 200g heavy disk. It has a warning for the cannon shots about volume and excessive cone excursion. When you look at the groove it literally jumps directly sideways a visible amount, probably a couple of hundredths. Unbelievable impact.

http://www.musicdirect.com/p-99837-...el-cincinnati-symphony-orchestra-200g-lp.aspx
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My high school band played the 1812 I think for our winter concert, Senior year. We had a couple guys shoot shotguns into old metal trash barrels (the kind you used to could actually burn in). Inside the auditorium. Pretty effective. Scared the $&!# out of us the first time they did it in rehearsal.
 
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Icebear said:
I have the Telarc 1812 vinyl recording on 200g heavy disk. It has a warning for the cannon shots about volume and excessive cone excursion. When you look at the groove it literally jumps directly sideways a visible amount, probably a couple of hundredths. Unbelievable impact.

http://www.musicdirect.com/p-99837-...el-cincinnati-symphony-orchestra-200g-lp.aspx
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Do you have an original Telarc pressing from back in the day or a re-issue? That was probably the most legendary record ever pressed from a strict audiophile standpoint. I want to say that was around 1981 or '82.

What's your TT/cart setup? Those cannon shot grooves are nearly impossible to track! At the time of the original release, it was quite common for the cart to be literally thrown [visibly] out of the groove....
 
Icebear said:
Sometimes it looks more like we are playing some atonal Stravinsky or Schoenberg, what we need tonight is more Tchaikovsky's 1812 or Beethoven's 9th.
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If we stick with the classical idiom, then the pieces from the real classical period would be even better, as the composers allowed (expected!) skilled improvisation on the well-structured themes. That, and the sonata form was really at the fore--themes and melodies shared around among sections, developed, adapted, turned around, but all making sense on both an intellectual *and* intuitive level. Probably the best analogy we could hope for :)
 
As the (one of the) professional musicians in this crowd, I defer to the eloquence of the posts above...

OT: Wonderful Parsifal in St. Johnsbury's Catamount Arts...from the Met, last Saturday (rebroadcast),
All 6 hours of it.
 
VAMike23 said:
Do you have an original Telarc pressing from back in the day or a re-issue? That was probably the most legendary record ever pressed from a strict audiophile standpoint. I want to say that was around 1981 or '82.

What's your TT/cart setup? Those cannon shot grooves are nearly impossible to track! At the time of the original release, it was quite common for the cart to be literally thrown [visibly] out of the groove....
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I bought 150g? heavy pressing upon release in 1978 plus have a more recent 200g copy. I have a Souther straightline tracking arm on a VPI TT and a Dynavector Ruby cartridge.
 
Icebear said:
I bought 150g? heavy pressing upon release in 1978 plus have a more recent 200g copy. I have a Souther straightline tracking arm on a VPI TT and a Dynavector Ruby cartridge.
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Cool -

BTW, never was there a better candidate for inside-out mastering than the 1812. That would put the cannon shots on the outside grooves where they belong. The old Scully lathes can do this, but I'm not sure if there have been commercial releases cut that way. (You're probably familiar with Stan Ricker, the guy who cut all the old Mobile Fidelity releases back in the day. He used a Scully.)
 
I have numerous Mobile Fidelity pressings including the Beatles Collection. I understand it can be worth up to $1000. It was played exactly once.

I have no musical talent whatsoever but have been told by a couple of recordings pros I have very good ears.
 
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Icebear said:
I have numerous Mobile Fidelity pressings including the Beatles Collection. I understand it can be worth up to $1000. It was played exactly once.

I have no musical talent whatsoever but have been told by a couple of recordings pros I have very good ears.
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Do you have their Respighi: Feste Romane / Pines of Rome ? That was my favorite orchestral record for many years.
 
Icebear said:
I have numerous Mobile Fidelity pressings including the Beatles Collection. I understand it can be worth up to $1000. It was played exactly once.

I have no musical talent whatsoever but have been told by a couple of recordings pros I have very good ears.
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Q. "Tell me, Mrs. Icebear, what first attracted you to your hirsute husband?"
A. "Ahhhh the first time I looked into his ears, I melted like a global-warming icecap."
 
Icebear said:
I have no musical talent whatsoever but have been told by a couple of recordings pros I have very good ears.
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Good thing you didn't take up referee as a profession - it damages the hearing.
 
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