Insane in the Membrane

[lioness]

Today's Headline in classical music history:
Woman Committed from Four Seasons

Denver- Crazed guitar player and composer, Lioness of BBB, was found crouched in a corner drooling and rocking to and fro. It seems she was drastically trying to plug her ear canals with coffee grinds from the office kitchen in hopes to escape the repetitive sound of Vivaldi's Four Season's.

Reports from her office peers claim she first ran around with her hands over her ears screaming "How many times must everyone [classical music stations] play it?!?!"

Lioness has been transferred to the University Medical Center via white coat and industrial strength earplugs for further mental evaluation.

[Shapley]

Lioness,

At least you can join the Bolero Burnouts and the Revenge Aria Wrecks. You could start a new support group, the Four Seasons Fruitcakes

V/R
Shapley

[lioness]

thanks Shapley

... i just choked on my coffee!!!!

[mmichaelson]

LOL!

[Trumpetmaster]

You all crack me up.

[treebeau]

Isn't "University Medical Center" the place with the "Piqabo ICU" ????

Regards,
Tim "still laughing at that old joke" B.

[Trumpetmaster]

singing the the last song from the Mousekateers.

M
O
U
S
E

[mmichaelson]

tee-hee. Piqaboo ICU. tee-hee.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad today is Friday!

[lioness]

oh i get it... a singing voice and your own set of mouse ears are REQUIRED to gain employment within the Piq-A-Boo... I,C,U.... M,O,U,S,E institute of advanced medicine ?!?!

[OperaTenor]

A B, C D babies?
L, M N O babies!
O S A R! C M P?

That's an old one my dad used to tell.

[barfle]

As one of the Revenge Aria Wrecks (and it's nice to know that at least I have company in my disdain for that piece), it does seem like a request-driven station tends to play the music you love to hate.

At least it seems that way every now and then. One group that got left off the listings is the Grand Canyon Gaggers and The Planets Party Poopers, two works that I happen to really like, but that seem to get a lot of play on beethoven "radio."

[Trumpetmaster]

Lioness,
The Mousekateers on the old Mickey Mouse Club show used to sing "Now its time to say goodbye......... and the last thing they would do is spell M I C K E Y M O U S E.

This was just adding mayhem to the alphabet soup.

[Shapley]

You can add Russian Easter Overture and The Moldau to the list of enjoyable, but overplayed, works. We need to expand our request repertoire.

I tried to break the mold by requesting something by Fritz Kreisler the other day.

Let's see if we can't pull some more requests that break the mold. I'll have to see what else I can come up with that doesn't get requested too often.

V/R
Shapley

[lioness]

as sad as it is to say, it's not just here. and that's not a put down on b.com. i listen to many a classical music stations aside from b.com


p.s. oh mighty trumpet master: yeah, i know. that’s why i threw in the mouse ears comment. my mom stopped feeding me alphabet soup. i would make such a mess trying to put together words on the table with the pasta. phrases were MUCH harder! what a mess!!!

[OperaTenor]

You sure it wasn't dirty words you were trying to spell?



PPS.It also happens to be one of my favorite choral works.

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[Marye]

OT... did they play Offertorium from the Cherubini Requiem ? I seem to remember your mentioning that you would like........... say..... I just noticed you are 4,044. Did you get any gifts? Loot? Anyone throw you a party? You don't look at day over 2,000, if you don't mind my saying.

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[lioness]

Originally posted by OperaTenor:
You sure it wasn't dirty words you were trying to spell?

i'd be lion if i said that didn't hold true nowadays!
i was also thinking of Respighi's Sinfonia Drammatica or one of Medtner's piano sonatas.

[OperaTenor]

Hi Mary,

Yes, I passed through 4,000 with no fanfare. :crocodile tears: I get no respect!

Yes, Dan, brave soul that he is, played it for me one day, and I happened to be listening at the time. It was wunnaful!

[lioness]

oooh god... nooooo! there it is again ["Spring"] !!!! where are those blasted coffe grinds?!?!

[Trumpetmaster]

Hey, I have to come back to work at 10PM tonight and work till the sun comes up. Pass those coffee grinds to me.

We could ask to play
Alban Berg - Violin Concerto, Wozzeck,
OR
Janacek - Sinfonietta,
OR, Charles Gounod - Faust Ballet Music,

Oh gosh another ballet. don't think I had that on my list.

What about some Max Bruch. He wrote 3 symphonies and lots of chamber music.

ughh. too long a day....