tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post3559683950432499925..comments2023-04-02T03:29:20.219-06:00Comments on Maoist Orange Cake: Feminist WagnerianMaggie Jochildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09763666026058640521noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-77097209573141854772007-08-26T15:52:00.000-06:002007-08-26T15:52:00.000-06:00yes, Josiah got the joke right!yes, Josiah got the joke right!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-18622352650135540852007-08-25T22:43:00.000-06:002007-08-25T22:43:00.000-06:00Actually, the recent drama (to do with Erin's ques...Actually, the recent drama (to do with Erin's quest for an agent for her novel) didn't quite fit in the first post; I'll work on it and tell you all about it later.Josiah Rowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01618215340012997051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-30871376167981194902007-08-25T17:08:00.000-06:002007-08-25T17:08:00.000-06:00Kat asked an age ago,What's the difference between...Kat asked an age ago,<BR/><BR/><B>What's the difference between an orchestra and a bull?</B><BR/><BR/>The answer, of course, is that on a bull the horns are in the front, and the asshole is in the back.<BR/><BR/>Sorry I've been absent — we've had lots of drama lately, which I'll tell you all about in my first post as Divo! (Notice that I've finally gotten a Blogger ID, so the first step in the Josiah Rowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01618215340012997051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-6723539261258904872007-08-24T09:57:00.000-06:002007-08-24T09:57:00.000-06:00Jana,yeah, Seattle Opera gets almost ignored by a ...Jana,<BR/>yeah, Seattle Opera gets almost ignored by a lot folks (most of whom are totally NYC centered), but those who care make sure that it's got a great reputation.<BR/>I've read about so many fantastic productions up there. Especially ones that are unconventional or super creative.<BR/><BR/>I was surprised when, in college, I attended the Opera America conference. It's a 3 day thing for Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-82112613920001840472007-08-23T18:49:00.000-06:002007-08-23T18:49:00.000-06:00Gator-- And I'm a gal.Jana C.H.SeattleSaith WSG: ...Gator-- And I'm a gal.<BR/><BR/>Jana C.H.<BR/>Seattle<BR/>Saith WSG: What's the use of being half a fairy?Jana C.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16974426405568302762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-45622894914687694402007-08-23T17:28:00.000-06:002007-08-23T17:28:00.000-06:00Maggie=I'm so ashamed.I can't remember how the "Hi...Maggie=I'm so ashamed.<BR/><BR/>I can't remember how the "Hickory Tickery TOC" chant went.little gatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12359345204074482888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-29350912409852817242007-08-23T15:21:00.000-06:002007-08-23T15:21:00.000-06:00funny you should mention that. I was born into the...funny you should mention that. I was born into the world alive.<BR/><BR/><BR/>"I wore an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time."<BR/>--Abe "Grandpa" Simpson, sekrit member of TOC<BR/><BR/>oops, didn't log in before i started, so it's little gatorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-46161277073941026442007-08-23T13:57:00.000-06:002007-08-23T13:57:00.000-06:00Did someone mention filking the Messiah? Here’s on...Did someone mention filking the <I>Messiah</I>? Here’s one of my creations. I wrote it for Seattle’s Raging Grannies, but they were not up to the musical demands. I have never heard it performed except when I and a two or three Grannies were trying to belt it out in a hallway without even the benefit of a pitchpipe.<BR/><BR/>Impeachment Chorus<BR/><BR/>Full chorus:<BR/>Let’s impeach ’em. Let’s Jana C.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16974426405568302762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-2020998036026988892007-08-23T11:12:00.000-06:002007-08-23T11:12:00.000-06:00Seattle is co-producing its Iphigenia with the Met...Seattle is co-producing its <I>Iphigenia</I> with the Met. I was told at the last opera event I went to (the screenplay reading last Saturday) that Seattle is the only opera company in the country that has the facilities to co-produce something with the Met.<BR/><BR/>Nuccia Focile is singing Iphigenia in the Gold Cast, and Marie Plette in the Silver. Brett Polegato is Orestes is both. Gary Thor Jana C.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16974426405568302762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-68704833498570787822007-08-22T22:24:00.000-06:002007-08-22T22:24:00.000-06:00maggie,you sure it's not "semper cry"??maggie,<BR/>you sure it's not "semper cry"??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-64241574819552331532007-08-22T21:30:00.000-06:002007-08-22T21:30:00.000-06:00Ah, Little Gator! You sly reptile, working mention...Ah, Little Gator! You sly reptile, working mention of the "Turbulent Onion Corps" into your translation.<BR/><BR/>I was briefly a member in 1977, before the FBI used grand jury probes to scatter us all. I still have a faded T-shirt with the "ticking clock" logo, remember? The clock shaped like a big purple onion, and the letters of the sound emanating from it spelled tick-TOCk, tick-TOCk. How Maggie Jochildhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09763666026058640521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-60401370858384748642007-08-22T20:50:00.000-06:002007-08-22T20:50:00.000-06:00Gator:"I am Music, who with sweet accents can calm...Gator:<BR/>"I am Music, who with sweet accents <BR/>can calm each troubled heart,<BR/>and now with love and now with noble anger<BR/>can inflame the most frozen (or frigid) minds"<BR/><BR/>The speaker is the Allegory of Music. <BR/><BR/>17th century arts (I've seen paintings with this too) use "allegory" to mean the personification or embodiment, rather than it's actual meaning...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-43149137954633105062007-08-22T20:44:00.000-06:002007-08-22T20:44:00.000-06:00Jana-Is the Iphigenie going to use the same produc...Jana-<BR/>Is the Iphigenie going to use the same production as San Francisco's recent performance of the same opera? I know that SFO was sharing the production, but I can't remember with whom.....<BR/>I reviewed that show for San Francisco Classical Voice:<BR/>http://www.sfcv.org/2007/06/19/an-iphigenia-for-today/<BR/><BR/>If the Seattle Iphigenie is a shred as fabulous as the SF one, you're in Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-2687968492338395422007-08-22T19:13:00.000-06:002007-08-22T19:13:00.000-06:00I didn't find that translation. I did it all by my...I didn't find that translation. I did it all by myself. Sure, I'd like to know what it really says, but I'm in no hurry.<BR/><BR/>Let's hear some more gelatinous thoughts first.little gatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12359345204074482888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-32015913533748147002007-08-22T18:32:00.000-06:002007-08-22T18:32:00.000-06:00Kat, great to have you aboard. Until now I didn't ...Kat, great to have you aboard. Until now I didn't know there was another opera fan reading the MOC. Together, we will seduce the other MOCcers into our strange and mysterious cult. As you can see, there's usually a silly angle to anything I write. Be warned!<BR/><BR/>I've posted a couple of other articles on opera, one about a Seattle production of <I>Princess Ida</I> in which I participated (Jana C.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16974426405568302762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-54000936378220883192007-08-22T16:22:00.000-06:002007-08-22T16:22:00.000-06:00wow, little gator, that's a creative translation y...wow, little gator, that's a creative translation you found.....<BR/>I'll tell you if you like, or we could keep coming up with fun (but very, very wrong) translations of my email tag.<BR/><BR/>The sequel to custard is printed in the Nash collection "Custard and Company" with illustrations by the glorious Quentin Blake.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and Maggie? I accidentally lied. the book is called "Getting Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-40191730732684667412007-08-22T16:08:00.000-06:002007-08-22T16:08:00.000-06:00http://glenavalon.com/custard.htmlhttp://glenavalon.com/custard.htmllittle gatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12359345204074482888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-46380278866171405812007-08-22T15:56:00.000-06:002007-08-22T15:56:00.000-06:00The Bestialists' chorus"For we like sheep."I knew ...The Bestialists' chorus<BR/><BR/>"For we like sheep."<BR/><BR/>I knew Anna would know what to say. Did you know she only died in the past year or two?<BR/><BR/>Pathetic and frivolous translation of Kat's sig:<BR/><BR/>"His music's sweet accent has tranquility with a turbulent core of onions. Love, or Di's noble Ira, inflames her gelatinous thoughts." <BR/><BR/><BR/>Dear old Custard had a sequel, little gatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12359345204074482888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-76003788844041757622007-08-22T14:15:00.000-06:002007-08-22T14:15:00.000-06:00grr....I'm already defensive about my craft and th...grr....I'm already defensive about my craft and then I see a Yahoo news headline that reads "Stressed Opera Singers Turn to Drugs"....<BR/>grr....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-14286610605643748042007-08-22T14:05:00.000-06:002007-08-22T14:05:00.000-06:00oh my god that's hysterical!!!that totally beats t...oh my god that's hysterical!!!<BR/><BR/>that totally beats the alternate lyrics to the Messiah that my friends made up while in Conservatory..."There were shepherds imbibing in the fields, drinking scotch over the rocks by night"...<BR/>Other musical funniness: My friend Paul once messed up the words to a Handel aria while onstage. He sang "Trees where you shit..." Instead of "sit." The poor Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-20574167497888861782007-08-22T13:56:00.000-06:002007-08-22T13:56:00.000-06:00TOO funny, Kat. It's a small, small world. I'll ...TOO funny, Kat. It's a small, small world. <BR/><BR/>I'll have to work in this opera connection to the "Kat" who turns Myra on to McVities in my novel. She's already an oddity in Myra's list of exes, that would be just one more delicious thing about her.<BR/><BR/>And, I'll check out "Opera for Beginners", I'm getting seriously interested by all this talk of it.<BR/><BR/>This isn't strictly Maggie Jochildhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09763666026058640521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-19883463900802198362007-08-22T13:38:00.000-06:002007-08-22T13:38:00.000-06:00Maggie--In "Sing Faster", when the stagehands talk...Maggie--<BR/>In "Sing Faster", when the stagehands talk about trying to land a Rhinemaiden? I totally know one of the Rhinemaidens! We studied with the same voice teacher.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-87410394876847785212007-08-22T13:35:00.000-06:002007-08-22T13:35:00.000-06:00jana--I have to admit to having had a really knee-...jana--<BR/>I have to admit to having had a really knee-jerk reaction, when I could have read more slowly and carefully.<BR/><BR/>anyway, I don't think that serious analyses of opera are boring at all....if you get one that is not concerned with stereotypes, but rather what's actually going on. It can be quite entertaining.<BR/><BR/>I think it's important to remember that the plot is frequently Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-87365201955013009622007-08-22T13:27:00.000-06:002007-08-22T13:27:00.000-06:00Yo, Kat! Welcome to the MOC. Another opera fan, ...Yo, Kat! Welcome to the MOC. <STRONG>Another</STRONG> opera fan, with strong opinions -- you came to the right place, babe. For those of you who don't correspond with her privately, Kat's e-mail signature is the following: <EM>Io la musica son, ch'ai dolci accenti, so far tranquillo ogni turbato core. Et or d'amore et or di nobil ira, poss'infiammar le piu` gelati menti</EM>.<BR/><BR/>I had Maggie Jochildhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09763666026058640521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151314217446794832.post-2067215212305322007-08-22T12:18:00.000-06:002007-08-22T12:18:00.000-06:00Little Gator--As Anna Russell said about the Rhine...Little Gator--<BR/><BR/>As Anna Russell said about the Rhinedaughters' song, "I won't translate it because it doesn't mean anything."<BR/><BR/>Jana C.H.<BR/>Seattle<BR/>Saith Floss Forbes: If you don't know the tune, sing tenor.Jana C.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16974426405568302762noreply@blogger.com