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« Reply #4050 on: December 06, 2009, 06:01:13 PM »
Ladies first.  You go ahead and take this Kitkatz, you answered first.
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« Reply #4051 on: December 06, 2009, 06:11:33 PM »
But Galvo answered correctly and completely.  Its his turn.  Unless Ylguy wants to tell me what's in the package.  Then he can go.   Oh, now I understand the lure of POWER.
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« Reply #4052 on: December 06, 2009, 06:59:07 PM »
Sure, It is a present.  Can I go now?  :rofl;
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« Reply #4053 on: December 06, 2009, 07:00:42 PM »
NO!  That's rude.  Galvo, you're up?
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« Reply #4054 on: December 06, 2009, 07:02:50 PM »
Aw c'mon...it was a little bit funny.
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« Reply #4055 on: December 06, 2009, 07:03:46 PM »
How little?  but find out for sure if they stuffed bullet and buttermilk and you can go next.   OOOO, I love this power.
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« Reply #4056 on: December 06, 2009, 07:16:24 PM »
Here they are.  Mounted.
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« Reply #4057 on: December 06, 2009, 07:32:12 PM »
Galvo, go ahead. I had to google to find Buttermilk and Bullet.
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« Reply #4058 on: December 06, 2009, 07:47:29 PM »
Oh hell, both of you go.  That was fun and I learned some stuff... buttermilk and bullet were stuffed and mounted (I mean that in the purest way)
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« Reply #4059 on: December 06, 2009, 10:13:53 PM »
Right! Enough of this nonsense!! Here we go:

Again, your vintage, DW!

In the "I Love Lucy" show, you will recall that the Fred Mertz character was played by William Frawley, and Ethel Mertz by Vivian Vance. But these were not the original actors chosen for the roles.

Who were?
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« Reply #4060 on: December 06, 2009, 10:35:29 PM »
Wow, you got me.  I thought I knew everything about that show I watched it so much.  I can tell you the whole episode just by watching about 5-10 seconds of it flipping through the channels.  When they moved to Connecticut(in the show), they moved to Westport which was the town next to mine where my father was a cop.
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« Reply #4061 on: December 06, 2009, 10:55:40 PM »
Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet, supporting cast members on "My Favorite Husband", were originally approached for the roles of Fred and Ethel, but neither could accept due to previous commitments.
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« Reply #4062 on: December 07, 2009, 01:14:23 AM »
Well done!!
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« Reply #4063 on: December 09, 2009, 04:58:07 PM »

Oh shoot, I forgot to check here -- will find a question later when I get home ... or if someone has one ... go ahead and take my turn!
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Jenna is our daughter, bad bladder damaged her kidneys.
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New kidney in a paired donation swap July 26, 2017.
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« Reply #4064 on: December 10, 2009, 05:45:16 AM »

Thanks, Karol, I take it:

Aleksandr Porfirevich Borodin composed a work about these areas

of flat grassland of central Asia.
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« Reply #4065 on: December 10, 2009, 06:29:05 AM »
Cacasus

Steppes of Central Asia
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« Reply #4066 on: December 10, 2009, 09:56:55 AM »

Well done!

...a scene set in the remotest outpost, a dreamy, harmonious tone-poem.
A trading caravan appears slowly in the distance , it meets the Tsar’s soldiers,
they greet each other and pass again into the vast distance...

Over to you, Dan...
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Bach was no pioneer; his style was not influenced by any past or contemporary century.
  He was completion and fulfillment in itself, like a meteor which follows its own path.
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« Reply #4067 on: December 10, 2009, 10:49:44 AM »
Ok, back to Kristinas last question about Borodin's Steppes of Central Asia.  Who conducted the first performance and where?
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« Reply #4068 on: December 10, 2009, 11:55:53 AM »

Nicolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov in St Petersburg.
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« Reply #4069 on: December 10, 2009, 12:05:22 PM »
In the famous words of my friend Zach:   YEP
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« Reply #4070 on: December 10, 2009, 03:37:30 PM »

Thank you, Dan... here is another question...

He was a young Irishman and travelled to Russia,
to sell piano's from his music-teacher’s factory in London/Cheapside.
He played many of these pianos in exhibition-concerts, to impress
prospective piano-customers (mostly Russian aristocrats) and it is possible that
these customers never heard the piano’s played so beautiful again.
Many regard him now as the "Father of the Russian Piano-School”.
His friends often frantically searched for him before a concert,
they found him eventually - not always sober - but as soon as he played the piano,
the listener was instantly transformed into another world.
He had an exquisite ear for sensitive tonality,
his fingers effortlessly gliding over the keyboard,
playing his own deeply sensitive, colourful and thoughtful compositions.
Frederic Chopin adored him & based his own compositions on the thoughts of this composer.
Anton Rubinstein and Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninov are - musically speaking - direct descendants.
What is the name of this genius Irishman who eventually
became the Founder of the Russian Piano-School?
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Bach was no pioneer; his style was not influenced by any past or contemporary century.
  He was completion and fulfillment in itself, like a meteor which follows its own path.
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« Reply #4071 on: December 10, 2009, 08:34:23 PM »
Kristina, I think you are referring to Dubliner John Field, who is also known as the "inventor of the nocturne".
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« Reply #4072 on: December 11, 2009, 02:51:58 AM »


Well done, galvo!

John Field is sometimes still a little underestimated, because
his compositions do not sound their very best on a modern Piano.
They want to be played on a Clementi-Piano,
(the very instrument on which they were originally composed);
particularly, because John Field's teacher Muzio Clementi
(a great virtuoso/composer/music-publisher himself),
produced the tonality of each of his Piano's very individually:
he wanted them to sound a little like a harp,
a little bit like a harpsichord, a little like a clavichord
and the deep tones of a Clementi-Piano are able to growl wonderfully.
With the special individual Pedal-action & tonality of a Clementi-Piano,
John Field's Nocturnes come alive and sing exquisitely.

...over to you,  galvo...
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Bach was no pioneer; his style was not influenced by any past or contemporary century.
  He was completion and fulfillment in itself, like a meteor which follows its own path.
                                        -   Robert Schumann  -

                                          ...  Oportet Vivere ...
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« Reply #4073 on: December 11, 2009, 04:52:23 PM »
An easy one.

Which is the world's largest structure created by living creatures?
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« Reply #4074 on: December 12, 2009, 10:38:18 PM »
The Great Barrier Reef
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