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On 3/23/2024 at 10:31 AM, musclestuduws said:
.... one more symptom of the irreparable damage that anti-intellectualism has done to this country and to the democratic system upon which it was founded. Ignorance and stupidity run rampant.
I wouldn't say that ignorance and stupidity run rampant. Priorities have (sadly) changed and people no longer seek the beautiful things in life, like art and good music. Civilization will be doomed when the middle class stops putting an emphasis on academic excellence, which has not yet happened. In the mid-20th century, when classical music venues regularly had sold-out performances, a smaller percentage of the audience had attended university. College graduates are a dime a dozen today, but they never attended music history classes
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2 hours ago, nycman said:
PS I still hate Schoenberg’s atonal crap and am obviously in way over my head. I’ll show myself out.
I've sat through Berg's "Lulu" 3 times and I'll will never go again. My policy is this - if I hear a work 3 times and I still sleep through more than 50% of the performance I have tried my best. For the same reason I'll never go again to Berlioz's "les Troyens" or Mozart's "Idomeneo", though "Don Giovanni" is one of my all-time favorites.
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8 hours ago, nycman said:
Then again, anyone who had his portrait done by Egon Schiele can’t be all bad…
That's a great line! Aha ha ha
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25 minutes ago, rojjodc said:
Has anyone met TripleXTransman?
I would love, love, love to meet TripleXTransman but he does not travel much. For a while he was on Chaturbate quite regularly
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Has anyone met Eli in NYC?
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5 hours ago, Charlie said:
I used to walk by the house, hoping she would just happen to emerge one day.
I have a good friend who lives in Brooklyn. Joan Sutherland, when she was in NYC, used to stay at the huge home of Martin Waldron on Prospect Park West. One day in the 1980s my friend was walking by the house and out emerged Joan Sutherland in an evening gown.
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Blogger Fred Plotkin looks at the legacy of Martin Waldron, an only-in-New York character whose stately Brooklyn townhouse was a haven for opera stars and... -
12 hours ago, BOZO T CLOWN said:
Leontyne Price is still alive. She just celebrated her 97th birthday.
BTC
Yes, she moved to Maryland a few years ago to be close to her brother George and his family.
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For $8,750,000 you can own the SoHo townhouse that was the home of Leontyne Price for several decades. It is located at 9 VanDam Street and has undergone a total gut renovation.
Here is the sales ad:
9 Vandam Street | Compass
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9 Vandam Street is a townhouse listed for sale at $8,750,000. This is a 5-bed, 5-bath, 4,576 sqft property.Here is the home as it looked a few years ago:
Villager and Groundbreaking African American Soprano Leontyne Price - Village Preservation
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While it is a well-established fact that our neighborhoods have attracted and been home to some of the most groundbreaking artists and art movements of the past...- musclestuduws and TruHart1
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Marc in Calif - that is too clever for me to take offense
- mike carey, Marc in Calif and + Charlie
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Opera has always been financially challenging, even in the times of Verdi and Puccini when composers still gave the audiences hummable tunes. The era of Haydn being supported by Prince Esterhazy and Wager supported by King Ludwig of Bavaria had some merit
- Marc in Calif and + Charlie
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10 hours ago, myophile said:
Pornstars: If Zeb Atlas suddenly came out of retirement I would SO make it worth his while...
Yes, Zeb Atlas, whom I hired many many times, was worth every penny
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Can anybody identify a historic operatic performance of the past 30 years? When I first took an interest in opera in the 1970s there were people, of an older generation, who seemed to say the only great singers were the dead singers. I am turning into one of them. I cannot think of any operatic performances since 1993 that quality as "historic". Let's look at other 30-year periods and their legendary performances:
1900-1930 (Caruso & Ponselle in Verdi)
1930-1960 (Callas & DiStefano at La Scala, Milanov & Tebaldi in the Italian repertoire, Melchior & Flagstad singing Wagner)
1960-1990 (Price, Corelli, Sutherland, Nilsson, Pavarotti, Domingo)
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On 1/23/2024 at 7:50 PM, Buff Daddy said:
No way the punch bowl. Lol..Bro you have me laughing soooo hard right now. 🤣
Do you also remember that cheap silver curtain? aha ha
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2 hours ago, Buff Daddy said:
The punch bowl and pretzels or chips lol
Haha hah. I remember the punch bowl in the side room (no way I way going to drink that stuff). Back in the 1990's I had a job that required me to spend a couple of days in NYC, about 4 times per year. The Gaiety was always on my list of things to do. My first hire was Big Frank from Canada. He was a bodybuilder. Please send me a private message if you know that guy I'm talking about
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On 12/30/2023 at 1:27 AM, sydneyboy said:
He should take Alfredo Kraus as his role model.
I heard Kraus sing in "The Daughter of the Regiment" with Miss Sutherland. He was amazing - nailing all 9 high-C in the first act aria. His voice also projected well up to the top balconies.
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I just watched some of his videos on youtube. Yes, he has a major talent. Let's hope he's not just a flash in the pan
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Peter Gelb is all about publicity and get the Met talked about and mentioned in the press. He probably enjoyed the protest. He doesn't give a damn about singing. The Metropolitan Opera is "Sony Upper West Side" since he brought all his cronies from Sony Records to the Met
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For a while it was called "Bargain-tina" since the American dollar went very far there as their economy tanked
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12 hours ago, jmichaeliii said:
I guess he has enough money because if we hit it off, that could have been 4 visits a year toward his income.
The same thing happened to me in Las Vegas, but with Derek Atlas. I set up a first-time session with him and he did not show up; I never contacted him again. I lived close to Vegas at that time so that could have been 4 visits (or more) a year.
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On 11/20/2023 at 7:34 PM, Luv2play said:
Mike Grey. Now that’s a name out of the past that stirs nice memories although I never met him. Always thought I would like to at that time
I, too, never met Mike Grey though I looked at his ad many times. I'm into the long-haired look, like the Chippendale dancers back in the 1980s. I regret not hiring him.
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On 11/19/2023 at 8:48 PM, augustus said:
Once they get the money you won't ever see them again. I've seen it over and over again.
I don't think that leaving money to family is a way to snare them into visiting you. It sounds like an employer/employee relationship - "do xyz or you don't get paid". My nephew and his family live in Great Britain and I don't expect him to come and visit me when I am 100 years old. The fact is I value my nephew a great deal and I want to give him this money as a gift.
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On 11/19/2023 at 8:52 PM, augustus said:
subject to the 5-year lookback period
Are there solutions to the 5-year lookback period? Let's say I withdraw my savings in cash and give it to my family in cash. There is no paper trail between me and the recipients. If questions are asked from Medicaid staff about the withdrawn money I respond "I went to Las Vegas and I lost it on gambling and hookers". How can they prove that is not true? and my family keeps the cash and I get Medicaid
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And which of them was your favorite? I've hired 3 from your list and AJ Irons was the best of them