From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V6 #55 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, February 26 2000 Volume 06 : Number 055 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Re: Loreena McKennitt's "Stolen child" [Marion Kippers ] Re: Loreena McKennitt's "Stolen child" [Neile Graham ] Stolen child, on Live album? ["ReNeE-z Da bOmB" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 03:00:03 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* Paula Shanks (no Email address) ********************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Paula Shanks Mon February 25 1952 Pisces Brni Mojzes Fri February 26 1965 the vanishing boy Pamela Pociluk Fri February 28 1964 Pisces Peter Clark Thu March 04 1948 Pedestrian Tim Steele Fri March 08 1963 Pisces Matt Bittner Thu March 12 1964 Pisces kIrI Hargie Fri March 13 1970 Pisces Bob Dreano Thu March 13 1958 Pisces Randall K. Smith Sat March 15 1969 Pisces Jessica Skolnik March 16 Pisces Alan Sodoma Thu March 18 1965 LuckyLurker Richard Konrad Sat March 18 1944 Pisces Barry Wong Thu March 19 1970 Merlin Graham Dombkins Fri March 19 1965 Pisces Ian Young Wed March 19 1969 Squiggol Jeff Wasilko Wed March 19 1969 Pisces Geoff Carre Sat March 20 1954 Pisces John Stewart Sat March 21 1970 Aries Bob Brown Thu March 22 1951 Ham Valerie Nozick Thu March 25 1971 Aries - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:09:51 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) From: Marion Kippers Subject: Re: Loreena McKennitt's "Stolen child" Hi, Jeff replied to dmw who wrote: > > "stolen child," waterboys/w.b. yeats - _fisherman's blues?_ > > adaptation of poem about changeling > > Didn't Loreena McKennitt also do a version of this poem on either her > first or third album? Yes, she did, on her first album "Elemental". There is also a wonderful live version, that was on the promotional 10-track release of her "Live in San Francisco" live-album (but it's not on the official 6-track release). The live version has been officially released on one of the "The Mummer's Dance" cd-singles, I think the European one. More info on her website at http://www.quinlanroad.com/ (though the "Live in SF" promo is not mentioned I think). Kate Price also did a version of this poem on her album "The Time Between". Best wishes, Marion (who's wondering if she's been imagining that there was an entry for Kate Price in the Ectoguide -- I can't seem to find it anymore...) n.p. Lydia McCauley - Sabbath Day's Journey n.r. Geert Mak - De eeuw van mijn vader - ---------------------- Marion Kippers Marion.Kippers@wkap.nl ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:08:10 -0500 From: Paul Blair Subject: Re: ecto classical On Brahms, I do have some recommendations. I have always loved Brahms' Second Piano Concerto, but for a long time was completely unable to make sense of the First. I finally wound up going to the university music library and listening to every recording they had of the First (and reading the liner notes, which tell a story that's remarkable in itself) until I "got it." The recording that finally did it for me was a bootleg live recording from Carnegie Hall of William Kapell with the New York Philharmonic under Dimitri Mitropoulos on April 12, 1953. (There's a story that when Carnegie Hall was renovated back in the, what, sixties? they asked all the radio stations and recording companies to come remove their microphones and there was one left over, whose owner they never discovered.) The recording is mono and the sound quality, particularly at the beginning, is awful. On the other hand, Kapell's energy is awe-inspiring, and he is just "on." From what I've heard he was a young prodigy who died in a plane crash before he made it really big. The recording appears on Hunt Productions as well as some other small Italian labels that make their money carrying disreputable recordings. For the Second Piano Concerto, I like Julius Katchen with the London Symphony Orchestra. There's also a recording by Emil Gilels with Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony that has an exquisite third movement. Oh, and if you're listening in the Brahms - Chopin - Rachmaninov area, try Saint-Saens, who deserves appreciation for much more than the "Carnival of the Animals." The music is light, benevolent and optimistic. His Organ Symphony (#3) will rock the foundations of whatever building you happen to be in, if played at the right volume. For piano and orchestra, his piano concertos (especially #2 #4) and "Africa" fantasy are excellent, and his third violin concerto and cello concerto have become standards. Here are some of my favorite versions: the five piano concertos: Aldo Ciccolini with Serge Baudo and the Orchestre de Paris "Africa" fantasy: Jean-Philippe Collard with Andre Previn and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (also contains Piano Concerto #1) Violin Concerto #3: Joshua Bell with Charles Dutoit and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal Cello Concerto: Matt Haimovitz with James Levine and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Organ Symphony: Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra Cheers, Paul ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 07:00:25 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: Loreena McKennitt's "Stolen child" At 11:09 AM +0100 2/25/00, Marion Kippers wrote: >(who's wondering if she's been imagining that there was an entry for >Kate Price in the Ectoguide -- I can't seem to find it anymore...) No, there isn't one yet. She's in the 1,200 backlog files. At least there's plenty of good company there! - --Neile - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Neile Graham ...... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ....... neile@sff.net Les Semaines: A Weekly Journal . http://www.sff.net/people/neile/semaines The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music ....... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:56:37 CDT From: "ReNeE-z Da bOmB" Subject: Stolen child, on Live album? Hello... Jeff wrote that there was a version of "Stolen Child" on LM's live Promo cd... but not on the six track version of the cd... My question is... How do you get the 10 track Love cd? ~renee ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:06:30 -0500 From: Ofer Inbar Subject: Re: Ofra Jess913@aol.com wrote: > oh and my aunt and cousins live in a town called Ofra in Israel (not far past > Ramallah from Jerusalem). i wonder what Ofra means..... i will have to ask > them. I don't think it means anything, as a word. Granted, my Hebrew vocabulary isn't what it should be, but I do speak fluently. Ofra as far as I know is just a name. It's the feminine form of the name Ofer (mine!), however, and Ofer is a word: fawn. I don't actually know how Ofra, Israel got its name, but I suspect it's because of the female name Ofra. Plenty of cities and towns in Israel have common people names (first and last), although in Hebrew, most common people names are actually words. But you don't call a young female deer an ofra, or at least I've never heard that. So, just a name. -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@polyamory.org http://www.leftbank.com/CosWeb/ -- WBRS (100.1 FM) -- info@wbrs.org http://www.wbrs.org/ "It's not every day somebody mentions labial fricatives in innocent conversation." -- J.D. Falk , on IRC, 2Nov1998 ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V6 #55 *************************