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Tonight I enjoyed a wonderful evening of Strauss and Brahms courtesy of Arizona Musicfest. The performance was excellent, and I now feel so cultured! : ) What is/will be your culture for the week? Yogurt doesn't count!

AzVixen52 7 Feb 21
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I don't know if I'm supposed to comment on my own post, but I wanted to say what great comments this post generated! I love being amongst a cultured group!

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I like stuff like that but haven't done it in a while. All I do is work lately.

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I think I like your cultural high point for the week better than mine. At MobileRead.com there was a discussion today of Amazon Alexa's new skills, which now include several styles of heavy metal music on demand, which in turn forced me to post this to show my love for heavy metal.

On the other hand, it was also at MobileRead today where I discovered Learn Our Loud's monthly freebie, Introduction to Poetry, which includes 24 classic poems (the offer expires on the 28th), and which is now on my phone.

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I'll listen to Shakespeare on YouTube. I can't listen to "Romeo and Juliet". I usually shout at the empty room:"You are idiots!!!!!"

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Sadly, I will be deprived of any culture this week. My 16 year old daughter is heavily into musical theater and that's the main source of my "culture." The Company she is with is currently working on their production of The Addams Family. Locally, we have an annual event in the summertime called The Strauss Festival. It's 4 nights of Strauss, performed in an outdoor amphitheater at a local public park. The facility was built primarily for this event. Local citizens dance various waltzes to a loosely structured "story." Dancers are dressed in period costumes. Music is performed by a full orchestra and the show is repeated 4X during the last weekend in July. It's a lovely event. Apart from that, I have musical theater with the Kid. LOL! The Company (River City Theatre Co.) do two shows per year. My daughter also takes voice lessons and dance (tap and jazz), and both of those programs have recitals periodically.

Culture doesn't have to be "high brow" to be culture! Kudos to your daughter!

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Today I attended a meeting of the Pligrim Fathers Origins Association.
I live in the area where some of the folks who sailed in the Mayflower in 1620 orginated. Both William Brewster and William Bradford. came for my part of England.
You can't escape histrory here as this is also the area that spawened the Baptist and Methodist churches.
While I am not religious the physical artefacts (their churches, halls , homes and farms) surround us and the social history is fascinating.
Of course we are expecting large numbers of Americans to cross the pond in 2020 and experience for themselves the places from which the Separatists orginated.

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Different Strauss, Richard. Opera Salome in Royal Opera House. Very agnostic thing.

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Organic yogurt..probably chobani lemon & cream...damn just read the caveat..er probabably something Post Punk..or a trip to see M.C Eschers show at the museum here in Boston.

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I am sitting in with a wonderful group of gaelic musicians.

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Headed to Salem, MA on Saturday for some creepy history. I'm delighted. Haven't been in ages.

Cool. I was able to go to a history tour in Salem many years ago. Also a cool small storyteller group there.

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I miss culture. I have missed it since moving to semi-rural Georgia from Western New York State. But I have we have a corn maze.

Redneckstan. That's where I am from. GA is the good place to be from

Real rural would have a corn pone maize, so you are a leg up on culture! 😉

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I am happy to have cultural opportunities where I live, as a chorister as well as a patron. My choir's annual festival is in full swing, and we have a lot of music ahead by Bach, Bruckner, and Brahms, plus Rutter. Yay!!! Over the next 2 weeks I'll be soaking in the sound.

Good to meet a fellow chorus member, and as a nonbeliever I never will tire of singing masses, glorias and requiems.

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This week the Cleveland Orchestra is performing music by Ravel: Suite from Mother Goose, Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, and the complete ballet music from Daphnis and Chloé; I'll probably go Saturday night.

Wow, I miss Cleveland's music. Enjoy!!!

Who is conducting Cleveland Symphony Orchestra now? Who is playing piano?

@gamajun2002us Franz Welser-Möst has been the music director since 2002 although Matthias Pintscher will be guest conductor this weekend. Jean-Yves Thibaudet will play piano.

@josh_karpf My daughter attended Oberlin, and got to hear the Cleveland Orchestra in Finney Chapel. We also went to hear them in Severance Hall one time when we visited her. George Szell turned that symphony into a legend. And we got to hear them in Davies Hall (San Francisco) too, when they visited in honor of the San Francisco Symphony's 100th birthday in 2011. They performed Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy, I'll never forget it!

The Cleveland Orchestra is playing my favorite music. I love Ravel!!!!!!!! His harmonies were adapted by early jazz musicians here - so he has influenced our jazz music in big way.

In my youth I spent two whole summers as a student high up in the magnificent Berkshire mountains at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony, Every day I heard the orchestra rehearsing and playing heavenly music at night. The student orchestra was made up of the finest young artists from around the world and major conductors emerged from this situation. There was a composers department headed by Aaron Copland. I was in the Opera Department but did sing sometimes with the choral department. Leontine Price was there about to go into the Met. Leonard Bernstein was the head of the whole thing in addition to being its major conductor. Guests appeared such as Artur Rubinstein. Listening to music under the tall swaying pines under the stars was heaven.

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I am culturally deficient this week ...nothing planned for a while. As a season ticket holder for the San Francisco Symphony, I dearly love Brahms and Strauss. And as a chorister, I've sung the German Requiem and Alto Rhapsody a number of times. Recently, we heard Strauss' Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life) performed magnificently at Davies Hall. There's nothing quite like live symphonic music, is there!

Sounds wonderful! With all that you have experienced, you have culture to spare!

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This week I will curse the foul and cold weather exclusively in French. If it continues into next week I'm hauling out the big guns and cutting loose in German- culture be damned! I'm not a winter person. 🙂

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Wish I were there Aimez-vous Brahms? Oui and Strauss, too.

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Do you ever go to the free concerts at ASU, put on by the music department?

I haven't as of yet, but I hope to soon.

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I stream accuradio.com online and listen to Chopin as often as pop genres.

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I’m going to watch Songcatcher.

[imdb.com]

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