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Off-Topic => Off-Topic: Talk about anything you want. => Topic started by: Stoday on December 09, 2009, 09:10:17 AM
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In 1998 way before I got ill, I was a self-employed consultant in electricity economics. I used to work in lots of different countries and made a comfortable living. One of the things I did that year was to buy a case (12 bottles) of 1997 Richebourg.
Now you don't buy wine of that calibre from your local wine shop. I had to buy lesser wines over a number of years before I got an invitation to buy a case Richebourg for £1050. In 1998 it was undrinkable; it needed 10 years to mature. Today I thought it time to try a bottle for the first time.
A beautiful garnet red color. And a powerful perfume that pours out of the glass. A mouthful is heavenly. I'm drinking and listening to the Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah. The only thing that's appropriate...
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OH, my! I'm on my way. It sounds just lovely. Sure beats the leftover pizza I scarfed down with my kids at at school a few minutes ago.
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that sounds like heaven... enjoy :beer1;
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Can we join you? It sounds like a fantasy world that I would like to be in right now! Please enjoy every little sip and think of us :cuddle;
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I am a brand new wine taster- I hope its just wonderful. My palate is so uneducated it would be wasted on me- but I aspire to understand!!
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Same as Glitter here!
Congrats, and that is right up my alley. I have to make do with lesser wines but still find immense joy in them!
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I just drank a glass of wine that we made and bottled 5 years ago. It was delicious!!
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I like Wine. I don't suppose, that comes in a BOX, by any Chance? :popcorn;
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Good for you Stoday!!!! At least you did not have to die to get the wine and be in heaven.
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I'm pretty much a beer and Christmas Play type of person. But, each to his own. Enjoy! :waving;
I've been drug to the Nut Cracker and it was the worst 3 hours of my life next to Handel's Messiah! I went to it in Washington DC at the Cathedral (I thought it was a play)! Seriously! I wanted to die just to escape!
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You wouldn't dare to write this if you lived iin or near Houston... cause I'd be knocking on your door in a few. Finish your Handel cause I'll be bringing along the Bach!
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I've been drug to the Nut Cracker and it was the worst 3 hours of my life next to Handel's Messiah!
Oh dear Rerun! What a shame! I was 45 before I started to enjoy ballet. I can remember when it just went click! when I watched "Ghost Dances" and I suddenly realised what I'd been missing for years. As for the Nutcracker, I saw it near to a Christmas ten years ago at the Bolshoi theatre in Moscow. I found it beautiful and exhilarating, so much so I wept.
The Messiah is such an emotional work it leaves me breathless. And I'm not a believer. I would have thought Christians would find even more in the work than I do.
Give it another try, Rerun. I bet you didn't care much for the first beer you drank, but learnt to enjoy it. Same with ballet.
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Just a thought! I'm thinking it is uncanny how so much great art and music arose from the concept of Christianity and some of us, between weird and agnostic, get so moved with Christian based art. MMM Just maybe need to think about it! And Christmas? What's up with that?
However, a good Christian would surely share his wine! I think there's a commandment to that effect.
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Isn't it the 200th or 250th anniversary of the debut of "Messiah" this year? There was a whole article about Handel, whom Bach considered a genius he could never live up to, in a recent Smithsonian.
The wine sounds fabulous, and I don't even drink alcohol!
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Messiah was composed in 1741 and premiered in 1742. I wasn't born yet. My math says about 267 years??? But I took math the same place I learned to type. Let's let Darthvader tell us where the premere was held. I think she may have been hanging around outside at that time.
I'd never comment on the genius of Handel vs Bach, but I believe Handel had only two compositions that would fall into the genius category where as there are logs and logs of Bach excelling about AVERAGE. Although, if Bach said it.... lol... it must be true.
Next person who needs a Trivia question ask how many children Bach produced. Or maybe ask about how many girlfriends Tiger Woods had?
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Messiah was composed in 1741 and premiered in 1742. I wasn't born yet. My math says about 267 years??? But I took math the same place I learned to type. Let's let Darthvader tell us where the premire was held. I think she may have been hanging around outside at that time.
I'd never comment on the genius of Handel vs Bach, but I believe Handel had only two compositions that would fall into the genius category where as there are logs and logs of Bach excelling about AVERAGE. Although, if Bach said it.... lol... it must be true.
Next person who needs a Trivia question ask how many children Bach produced. Or maybe ask about how many girlfriends Tiger Woods had?
I saw them both originally, and always prefer Handel. Besides I've always like his water music. :police:
Regarding Tiger Woods, yet to be determinded. I want to know, when he have time for golf.
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Regarding Tiger Woods, yet to be determinded. I want to know, when he have time for golf.
Maybe he shouldn't have taught his wife how to swing a golf club. . .
Not sure about the math, either DW - trying to remember bits of an article I read while under the influence of morphine may mean I'm completely wrong about it all, too. . . .
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My sister Helen recently decided to try to educate her sons and my other sister by buying them tickets to an opera - Tristan and Isolde I think, and she said it was utterly wasted! So, she is going on her own to a Wagner concert soon - and has spent the same amount on her one ticket as she did on the four she got last time - she wants to know if you'd like to come Dan!
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YES
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I think we should all go! And bring the pricey wine, we can drink it on the way! :clap;
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Enjoy a glass for me :wine;
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I'll be the designated driver and stay in the car until it is over to drive you all home.
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Messiah was composed in 1741 and premiered in 1742. I wasn't born yet. My math says about 267 years???
You have to be very careful when calculating dates that span 1751/2. 1751 was a short year of 282 days because the start of the year was brought forward that year. The year started on 25 March 1751 and ended on 31 December 1751.
1752 was also a short year, of 355 days, with the 3rd thro 13th of September missing. That was because England adopted the Gregorian calendar which was in use in most of Europe. (It was a leap year, so 11 days missing, but one added on 29 February).
The US did as it was told and followed England because it was still a colony. :rofl;
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I'll be the designated driver and stay in the car until it is over to drive you all home.
No no Rerun, you must join us too. I'll fix you a non-alcoholic drink. Dandelion & Burdock? That's been drunk in the UK for over 700 years. Tastes a bit like sarsaparilla.
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Somehow or other heaven seems to have lost its appeal.
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Of course.
I drank the contents of the bottle yesterday. ;D
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Oh dear Rerun! What a shame! I was 45 before I started to enjoy ballet. I can remember when it just went click! when I watched "Ghost Dances" and I suddenly realised what I'd been missing for years. As for the Nutcracker, I saw it near to a Christmas ten years ago at the Bolshoi theatre in Moscow. I found it beautiful and exhilarating, so much so I wept.
The Messiah is such an emotional work it leaves me breathless. And I'm not a believer. I would have thought Christians would find even more in the work than I do.
Give it another try, Rerun. I bet you didn't care much for the first beer you drank, but learnt to enjoy it. Same with ballet.
One of Beth's best friends was trained with the Bolshoi ballet. Sergei is amazing. After leaving Russia, he danced with the Vienna ballet,then North Carolina recruited him. Now he dances with the LA ballet. The training he got as a child puts him in the top group of male dancers. He dances in the movie Benjamin Buttons. He introduced my grandchildren to the Nutcracker and we go every year. You have to see a good ballet company perform it-- it makes a difference! Now, all I need is just a little sip of that incredible wine!
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My Mother wanted the Messiah played at her funeral. So as the family got up to leave the organist blasted Halleuiah, Halleuiah to the church's roof.
It was beautiful.
I like a good glass of wine, too. We usually have some at Christmas and New Year's.
As far as Tiger, the last I heard was 11.
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People (family and friends) seemed to think if you're an opera fan and other classical music forms that you instinctively like ballet. Therefore I was always elected to escort the kids, neighbors kids, etc. to the Nutcracker. I enjoyed it a few times but.. eventually it sort of made my butt feel very much like the dialysis chair does. Dance as a performing art is great in small doses but I need a little vocal to go with it.
Bach 20, Tiger 11 and counting (different questions)
Come on folks, you can get a really nice bottle of wine for under 50 bucks. Hey, lets all go buy one and open them Christmas Eve and collectively toast our kidneys! And Rerun, beer is coming into its own in the gourmet realm now. If you like beer, go for it. Besides, my renal dietitian has suggested I drink a beer nightly. (I would except it is way too fattening.
Sorry about the calendar miscalcutions. I'm not an expert Someone said once that an "ex" means a "has been" and a "spurt" is a "little drop of water".
Just early morning comments from a not so wide awake COLONIST.
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OK, OK...as long as the bottle is under $50 and still considered heavenly...I think I may open a nice Chardonnay by Kendall Jackson...not too pricey but at least it still has a real cork in it. (a bottle I've been hoarding, a 1996).
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Your expensive wine would be wasted on me Stoday; I'm usually more than happy with a cheap bottle of Tesco plonk. I'm so very uncultured. (And I can't stand opera.) ;D
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Pops — you sound like Mrs Stoday. She prefers Tesco's Fleurie, a cru Beaujolais at £6 a bottle to my grande cru Burgundies.
Before I got too sick, I took her to Paris to see the ballet "L'histoire de Manon" at the Paris Opera House. She didn't like it at all. She was devastated at the end of the second act because she thought it had ended but found it had not. It was the start of the second interval. :rofl;