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FReeper Canteen ~ It's Halloween: Trick or Treat!! ~ 31 October 2013
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Posted on 10/30/2013 5:59:48 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
~ FR Canteen Presents ~
~ It's Halloween: Trick or Treat!! ~
WELCOME JIG Two little girls dance with anticipation as they wait for a welcoming home ceremony to begin on Fort Steward, Ga., March, 7, 2013. Fifty soldiers, assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, returned home after being deployed for more than six months in Afghanistan. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Richard Wrigley
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CANINE SALUTE Linda Odierno, left, wife of Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno, and her dog, Tootsie, receive a special salute award from retired Army Capt. Leslie N. Smith during the USO of Metropolitan Washingtons 31st awards dinner in Arlington, Va., March 14, 2013. Odierno received the award for her volunteer service in pet therapy. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Teddy Wade
FINAL FLIGHT The last C-130E Hercules on Hurlburt Field, Fla., March 4, 2013, prepares for its final flight before retirement. The Hercules has been in service in the Air Force for more than 40 years and flew during the Vietnam War. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Christopher Callaway
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Monster Mash
Rock & Roll Graveyard
Halloween Is
Trick or Treat
Bo Meets The Monster
FIRE MISSION Army soldiers prepare for a fire mission with a 155 mm howitzer during the regiment's mission rehearsal exercise in Grafenwoehr, Germany, March 12, 2013. The rehearsal exercises develop combat skills, counterinsurgency tactics and interoperability among military forces of the U.S. and its partner nations before a scheduled deployment. The soldiers are assigned to 2nd Cavalry Regiment. U.S. Army photo by Gertrud Zach
NIMROZ SECURITY U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Michael Skowronski provides security en route to a meeting in Nimroz province, Afghanistan, March 13, 2013. Skowronski, a machine gunner, is assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Tammy K. Hineline
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The Purple People Eater (For you, Mr Tonkin)
Voodoo Voodoo
Werewolves In London
Ghostbusters
Witch Doctor
AFGHAN COMPOUND U.S. female soldiers secure an Afghan compound while other soldiers meet with Afghan elders in the Spin Boldak district in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, March 3, 2013. The soldiers are assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division's Female Engagement Team 6, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, and 519th Military Intelligence Battalion. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Shane Hamann
MEDICAL MOMENT U.S. Army Pfc. Laci Lognion, right, inventories her medical equipment while U.S. Army Capt. Ivonne Cartagena, center, adjusts medical items during a pre-flight exercise on Jalalabad Airfield in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, March 13, 2013. Lognion, a flight paramedic, and Cartagena, a critical care nurse, are assigned to the 101st Airborne Division's Company C, 2nd Battalion, 149th General Support Aviation Brigade, 1st Brigade Combat Team. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class John D. Brown
HELICOPTER ROUTINE U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Bethany Bump conducts her pre-flight routine in a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and checks with her crew chief before a mission on Jalalabad Airfield in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, March 13, 2013. Bump, a helicopter pilot, is assigned to the 101st Airborne Division's Company C, 3rd Battalion, 501st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Brigade Combat Team. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class John D. Brown
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To: left that other site
I am reminded of what Edith Wharton's mother said to prepare Edith for her wedding night.
"You have noticed that there are differences between male and female statues."
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posted on
10/30/2013 7:14:09 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius is now available at Amazon.)
To: left that other site
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posted on
10/30/2013 7:16:03 PM PDT
by
MeekMom
(He is risen, no longer in the grave. Death could not hold Him. Behold Christ the risen Lord!)
To: Publius
I just got to the tubular bells in the Berlioz piece...Man are they BRIGHT sounding. I am used to a much darker sounding Bell.
Of course, blended into the idee fixe is the actual liturgical music for the DIES IRAE. And the bells on top of that.
So cool!
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posted on
10/30/2013 7:18:56 PM PDT
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left that other site
(You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
To: MeekMom
hee hee.
the best stories are the true ones!
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posted on
10/30/2013 7:20:02 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
To: AZamericonnie; ConorMacNessa; Kathy in Alaska; MS.BEHAVIN; LUV W; left that other site
Cesar Franck was topped in his writing for organ only by Bach. He led the French organ movement from his perch at the organ of the Church of Ste. Clothide in the Paris suburbs, and his pieces work best on organs built by Cavaille-Coll, the great French organ house.
Dont listen to this piece in a darkened room! Its an improvisational work that uses 3 sharps only as a key signature of convenience. Franck is all over the place and often dispenses with the concept of key entirely. You have a sense of floating and being unmoored from tonality. He spends much of his time in A minor and even ends it there. Its a great piece to accompany a silent movie.
Franck: Fantasy in A (Vincent Dubois at the organ of the Soissons Cathedral)
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posted on
10/30/2013 7:21:52 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius is now available at Amazon.)
To: y'all; GodBlessUSA; AZamericonnie; HiJinx; Publius; MS.BEHAVIN; mylife; SandRat; PROCON; ...
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posted on
10/30/2013 7:24:41 PM PDT
by
luvie
(All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL of you heroes!)
To: LUV W
Happy Halloweenie Luvy!
Are u on the mend now?
How are u feeling?
((((hugs))))
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posted on
10/30/2013 7:29:19 PM PDT
by
MeekMom
(He is risen, no longer in the grave. Death could not hold Him. Behold Christ the risen Lord!)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Uh - excuse me, Ma! It's cold out here and I'd like to come aboard! Please?
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Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
10/30/2013 7:29:45 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN - 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: ConorMacNessa
Permission Granted!
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posted on
10/30/2013 7:30:47 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: AZamericonnie; ConorMacNessa; Kathy in Alaska; MS.BEHAVIN; LUV W; left that other site
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posted on
10/30/2013 7:33:00 PM PDT
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Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius is now available at Amazon.)
To: smokingfrog
Good evening, smokingfrog....my goodness is that cute. I gotta save that.
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10/30/2013 7:35:25 PM PDT
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Kathy in Alaska
((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Publius
I think Moussorgsky put those dissonances there for a reason! :-)
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posted on
10/30/2013 7:36:22 PM PDT
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left that other site
(You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Thanks very much, Kathy!
***HUGS***
Sir Winston's Hallowe'en Costume
My Hallowe'en Costume
Coming aboard as we speak. Rendering Hand Salutes to our National Colors and to the Officer of the Deck!
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"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"
Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
10/30/2013 7:37:42 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN - 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: Publius
I used to always play “Night on Bald Mountain” for trick or treaters coming to the house.
Thanks for the reminder. I’ll do it again this year. :D
To: left that other site
True. When Ravel orchestrated “Pictures at an Exhibition” from Moussorgsky’s piano score, he did the same thing. He ran Moussorgsky’s piece through an industrial sander and dipped it white paint.
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posted on
10/30/2013 7:38:44 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius is now available at Amazon.)
To: SandRat
Good evening, Sand...((HUGS))
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posted on
10/30/2013 7:40:04 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: AZamericonnie; ConorMacNessa; Kathy in Alaska; MS.BEHAVIN; LUV W; left that other site
In the German Romantic tradition of 200 years ago, death was a constant companion. It could be handled sentimentally, with horror, in the Greek Classical tradition, or with Christian imagery. German poets of the era each had their own take on the subject.
Franz Schubert received his musical training at the Vienna Choirboys School from the headmaster, Antonio Salieri. (Yes, that Salieri!) Old Tony ran a musical gym for young Frannie, giving him old opera libretti in Italian and having the teenager set the text to music. It was from Tony that Frannie received a thorough grounding in opera. It was in fact Schuberts goal to be the next great opera composer after Mozart, a goal he was never to get anywhere near. His gift was song, and Tony taught him to graft the North German art song based on a poetic text to the Italian style.
Matthias Claudius was a German poet of the second rank, whose dates (1740-1815) put him contemporaneous with the English Classical period before Romanticism blew the cover off poetry. Yet his German poetry relates better to Shelley than to Alexander Pope or anyone else of his period. Schubert was only 20 when he set Claudius Death and the Maiden to music.
In Vienna of that period, Death always spoke in D minor, thanks to Mozart and the Commendatore in Don Giovanni. Frannie begins with a statement of the theme in that key as a prelude on the piano. The Maiden, perceiving the skeletal aspect of Death, sings the opening verse with horror and trepidation. Death answers by singing around the opening theme, which remains on the piano.
This video contains both German and English text upon expansion.
Schubert: Death and the Maiden, D. 531 (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau accompanied by Gerald Moore)
Frannie knew when he a great theme on his hands. Like Haydn, Schubert decided to write a set of variations on this song and place it in a string quartet. Thanks to the Sword of Damocles, in the form of syphilis, hanging over his head, Schuberts music made a quantum leap in his last five years. It was a mixture of secondary syphilis and typhoid that finished him off at age 31, and he managed to avoid the tertiary phase that destroyed the minds of Baudelaire, Smetana and Scott Joplin before they died. (Being bisexual is dangerous to your health!) Schuberts last three quartets are monuments to the genre, and the slow movement of his Quartet in D minor is a set of variations on Death and the Maiden in G minor.
He starts by stating the theme directly. Youll remember it from the song.
At 2:10, Variation #1 has the first violin play around the theme.
At 4:14, Variation #2 gives the theme to the cello while everyone else plays around her.
At 6:33, Variation #3 breaks the theme into smaller fragments.
It was de rigeur that a variation be in the opposite mode, so Schubert at 8:29 writes Variation #4 in G Major. Its sentimental, but not but too much so. In fact, its breathtaking.
At 10:37, Variation #5 returns to the minor with the second violin and viola taking the theme, with the cello playing a ground bass. It cascades into pure joy before settling down.
At 12:11, the theme returns, but with a trick. Schubert creates a small church organ effect with just four string instruments. It ends peacefully with a wan smile.
The quartet uses their laptops to display the score, rather than sheet music. Score one for modern technology!
Schubert: Quartet in D minor, D. 810, second movement (Borromeo Quartet)
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posted on
10/30/2013 7:43:21 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius is now available at Amazon.)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Beautiful thread, Kathy!! Lots of hard work of love!
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posted on
10/30/2013 7:44:50 PM PDT
by
luvie
(All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL of you heroes!)
To: laplata
Good evening, laplata....will you be handing out treats where you live? We will be lights out....just too many stairs.
Something to drink?
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posted on
10/30/2013 7:45:41 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Publius
Good evening, Maestro! An outstanding playlist this evening. The Danse Macabre is an old favorite and obligatory for this evening. A Night on Bald Mountain, another of my all-time favorites, is not played as often on Hallowe'en as the Saint-Saens, but is just as much a part of the festival as the former, as far as I'm concerned.
Thanks very much for reprising us with these great works this evening.
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Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
10/30/2013 7:46:29 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN - 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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