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Evan Johnson
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« on: 20:31:40, 26-09-2007 »
This appears to be for real.

Can it possibly be?

The floor is open.
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Chafing Dish
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« Reply #1 on: 20:38:43, 26-09-2007 »
Most of my household is "couched in the tenants of twelve-tone composition", but then my upholstery needs cleaning, and the tenants aren't keeping up with the rent.
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oliver sudden
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« Reply #2 on: 20:40:03, 26-09-2007 »
Tenants? Tenets?

http://www.starz.com/features/brokebackmountain/
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« Reply #3 on: 20:53:25, 26-09-2007 »
Quote from: Chafing Dish on 20:38:43, 26-09-2007
Most of my household is "couched in the tenants of twelve-tone composition", but then my upholstery needs cleaning, and the tenants aren't keeping up with the rent.

It's Opera News.  What do you want, spelling?  Elitist.

OK, now I really have to grade this stack of two-page analyses of Density 21.5.  Quite good they are, actually.  A round of applause for my students, please.

...

I'll wait.
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Chafing Dish
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« Reply #4 on: 20:54:46, 26-09-2007 »
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« Reply #5 on: 20:55:34, 26-09-2007 »
Quote from: Evan Johnson on 20:53:25, 26-09-2007
It's Opera News.  What do you want, spelling?  Elitist.

Just to know what word they really mean!

Quote from: Evan Johnson on 20:53:25, 26-09-2007
OK, now I really have to grade this stack of two-page analyses of Density 21.5.  Quite good they are, actually.  A round of applause for my students, please.
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« Reply #6 on: 21:58:46, 26-09-2007 »
Oh well, someone has to be the first to make a comment about the content of the announcement, so I will dip my toe in the water...

... I can't decide whether I am more surprised by the subject-material or the choice of composer?  It's certainly a radical step for such a notoriously staid institution?   I am surprised that the copyright-owners have let this story go into the opera-house, where they seem destined to make a small fraction of what they might have made out of it on Broadway? 

Although I applaud the idea of embracing this GENRE of story, it does seem a bit of a cynical cop-out to be making an opera out of a pre-existing movie...  are there really so few worthwhile NEW librettos kicking-around the Dramaturg's office these days? 

But it will certainly expand the repertoire a bit to have a tenor/baritone love duet Wink

I'll bet anyone a beer they have a counter-tenor role in the piece? Smiley
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« Reply #7 on: 16:19:43, 27-09-2007 »
Quote from: Evan Johnson on 20:31:40, 26-09-2007
This appears to be for real.

Can it possibly be?

The floor is open.

I'll come back and make a comment after I stop rolling around on the floor laughing.   Cheesy
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« Reply #8 on: 19:23:39, 27-09-2007 »


Arnold Schoenberg on cello (honest) and some of his tenants.
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« Reply #9 on: 19:30:26, 27-09-2007 »
I heard this a few days ago.  HMM.  Guess we wait and see then?
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« Reply #10 on: 20:24:10, 27-09-2007 »
The photo of Chuck & his cat in this article makes this whole story all the more plausible.


Okay, back to rolling on the floor and laughing. 

 Cheesy   Cheesy   Cheesy
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TimR-J
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« Reply #11 on: 10:03:06, 28-09-2007 »


Ah wish ah knew how to quit yew...
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« Reply #12 on: 10:56:03, 28-09-2007 »
Quote from: TimR-J on 10:03:06, 28-09-2007

Ah! Angel sex!
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« Reply #13 on: 11:03:49, 28-09-2007 »
Quote from: time_is_now on 10:56:03, 28-09-2007
Ah! Angel sex!

Bertolt Brecht, "Über die Verführung von Engeln"

Engel verführt man gar nicht oder schnell.
Verzieh ihn einfach in den Hauseingang
Steck ihm die Zunge in den Mund und lang
Ihm untern Rock, bis er sich naß macht, stell
Ihn das Gesicht zur Wand, heb ihm den Rock
Und fick ihn. Stöhnt er irgendwie beklommen
Dann halt ihn fest und laß ihn zweimal kommen
Sonst hat er dir am Ende einen Schock.

Ermahn ihn, daß er gut den Hintern schwenkt
Heiß ihn dir ruhig an die Hoden fassen
Sag ihm, er darf sich furchtlos fallen lassen
Dieweil er zwischen Erd und Himmel hängt —

Doch schau ihm nicht beim Ficken ins Gesicht
Und seine Flügel, Mensch, zerdrück sie nicht.
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« Reply #14 on: 11:09:55, 28-09-2007 »
 Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked

Where the hell did you get that from?
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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