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What are you listening to....... right now...........

winetarelliwinetarelliMember
Randomish mix... right now the past few songs have been:

Mr. Tambourine Man (Dylan)
City of New Orleans (Arlo Guthrie)
Tiny Dancer (Elton John)
Stairway to Heaven (Zepplin)
Blue Sky (Allman Brothers Band)
Locomotive Breath (Jethro Tull)
Superstition (Stevie Wonder)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Beatles/Clapton)
Tupelo Honey (Van Morrison)
Torn and Frayed (Stones)
Thunder Road (The Boss)
I Don't Need No Doctor (Ray Charles)

up next:

Paper Sun (Traffic)
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W wine+artMember
quote:
Originally posted by winetarelli:
Randomish mix... right now the past few songs have been:

Mr. Tambourine Man (Dylan)
City of New Orleans (Arlo Guthrie)
Tiny Dancer (Elton John)
Stairway to Heaven (Zepplin)
Blue Sky (Allman Brothers Band)
Locomotive Breath (Jethro Tull)
Superstition (Stevie Wonder)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Beatles/Clapton)
Tupelo Honey (Van Morrison)
Torn and Frayed (Stones)
Thunder Road (The Boss)
I Don't Need No Doctor (Ray Charles)

up next:

Paper Sun (Traffic)


You are far too young for that mix! Wink
winetarelliwinetarelliMember
quote:
Originally posted by wine+art:
quote:
Originally posted by winetarelli:
Randomish mix... right now the past few songs have been:

Mr. Tambourine Man (Dylan)
City of New Orleans (Arlo Guthrie)
Tiny Dancer (Elton John)
Stairway to Heaven (Zepplin)
Blue Sky (Allman Brothers Band)
Locomotive Breath (Jethro Tull)
Superstition (Stevie Wonder)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Beatles/Clapton)
Tupelo Honey (Van Morrison)
Torn and Frayed (Stones)
Thunder Road (The Boss)
I Don't Need No Doctor (Ray Charles)

up next:

Paper Sun (Traffic)


You are far too young for that mix! Wink


I can't help it that I was born 30 years too late Big Grin

Your generation just made better music than mine. Cool
winetarelliwinetarelliMember
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Originally posted by wine+art:
All alone in the house, and the systems is blowing out "La Traviata" Act 1!

Hail to Verdi. Big Grin


FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, OUR TASTES ARE TOOOOO SIMILAR!!!!

While I have loved Operetta (Gilbert and Sullivan, mostly, but also Offenbach) since I can recall, it was La Traviata that made me love opera. The Cleveland (where I grew up) opera was putting on a show. I went, basically on a lark, when I was 16. But the female lead was sick. Rather than use the understudy, it just so happens the MET was going to start up two weeks later with a production. So we got the New York Metropolitan Opera House's diva. Wow. Her voice got a little metallic at the higher range, but still. Wow.

Still, I am a bigger G&S fan than just about anything else in the world. (The greatest theatre experience of my life was 4th row center at the D'Oyly Carte production of The Mikado at the Savoy in London.) But man, I'm a huge fan of La Traviata and that is what got me interested in opera.
W wine+artMember
quote:
Originally posted by winetarelli:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by wine+art:
All alone in the house, and the systems is blowing out "La Traviata" Act 1!

Hail to Verdi. Big Grin


FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, OUR TASTES ARE TOOOOO SIMILAR!!!!

Okay, I'm going to start calling you Mini Me! Cool

You are not too much older than my kids, (no DNA test please) and it excites me to know you have such a love of the finer things in life at such a young age! Bravo.

Do you enjoy art as well?

Thank you for sharing how you fell in love with Operetta. A great story that put a smile on my face as I could feel your passion in your words.

Stay curious Mini Me and have a great Thanksgiving.
winetarelliwinetarelliMember
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Originally posted by wine+art:
Do you enjoy art as well?


I do but I'm almost scared to tell you what I like. Razz

(Geez, I could write a novel about how I fell in love with art. I'm the geek who at 20 had a Monet Poster on his wall rather than one of Carmen Electra...)

Actually, I love art. From an overall perspective, my favorite art may be Rembrandt. I just can't get over how he paints eyes. I was lucky enough to go to the Reichmuseum in my early teens, and to see 'Nightwatch' and some of his other masterpieces was spectacular. (And, honestly, I used to go to the Met in NYC once or twice a year and they have a lot of great pieces of his as well.)

I fell in love with 3 dimentional art the summer I turned 17. My family went to Rome and Florence and, well, basically lots of Italy north of Rome. The Uffizi did it for me. As did Michaelangelo's 'Moses' (I was far more impressed with 'Moses' than I was with 'David'.)

But it wasn't until the summer I turned 19 -- one week after I turned 19, actually -- that I truly fell in love with 2 dimentional art. Before then I appreciated it, but I did not love it. I had already been to several famous art museums in these cities famous for their art (Paris, New York, Amsterdamn, etc), I'd been to the Sistine Chapel, but it was the Prado in Madrid that did it. I recall staring at 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' for about 50 minutes and only leaving it because I knew I couldn't spend more than 1 day in the museum (we'd gotten there at about 10:00am, I'm pretty certain my family left at 12:30; I think I got a bite to eat then but I know I then stayed in the museum basically until closing). Then I got to Picasso's 'Guernica' (I believe it has since moved to a different museum) and it was incredible. But more incredible was the sketch of the screaming horse he did that was located right next to it. I mean, this is 8 years ago and I've never been back, but the image is burned into my skull. I still cannot stop talking about it. And then I got to the El Greco room... And then I got to the Goya room... wow.

Since then I became very interested in art. One of my interests now, I guess is in what I'd say is... "ambient art"(?). I guess I look at art now and think, "One day when I'm old [you know, your age Razz] what sort of thing would I like to look at in my house?" And basically it comes down to, I guess you would call them early abstract expressionists(?). My interests and a lot of what speaks to me now seem to be focused on Chagall, Miro, and Kandinsky in that regard. (Of course, other than perhpas a Chagall serograph, I know... somewhere well beyond a pipe dream... but I'm just saying...)

Still, now, it is probably Rembrandt and El Greco that just wow me like no one else, especially when talking about consitency.

So that is my long-winded answer to your question.

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...have a great Thanksgiving


Thank you. You as well! Big Grin
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