Bit more Baldwin

[Buddy2]

1 hour ago, AdamSmith said:

Is it art compared with the above and their like?

We will soon be admiring Willy Wonka.

 

1 hour ago, AdamSmith said:

Is it art compared with the above and their like?

We will soon be admiring Willy Wonka.

The Wizard of Oz and R & H musicals, Oklahoma, South Pacific, Carousel.

 

Life lessons about bravery, spouse abuse and racial discrimination. Universal themes.

Frankly, I am not surprised you would compare The Wizard of Oz with Willy Wonka. Sad.

[AdamSmith]

56 minutes ago, Buddy2 said:

 

The Wizard of Oz and R & H musicals, Oklahoma, South Pacific, Carousel.

 

Life lessons about bravery, spouse abuse and racial discrimination. Universal themes.

Frankly, I am not surprised you would compare The Wizard of Oz with Willy Wonka. Sad.

I love The Wiz etc.

But for Christ’s sake. To say stage/screen musicals are on the same level as Dostoevsky et al. as works of art...

[Buddy2]

5 hours ago, AdamSmith said:

I love The Wiz etc.

But for Christ’s sake. To say stage/screen musicals are on the same level as Dostoevsky et al. as works of art...

You keep contradicting yourself. I like and appreciate Dostoevsky as much as you.

You compared "The Wizard of Oz" to "Willy Wonka." Now you love "The Wizard of Oz."

 

[Buddy2]

R & H invented the American musical. That is, lyrics and music that add to the story.

[AdamSmith]

On 7/24/2020 at 12:18 PM, Buddy2 said:

R & H invented the American musical. That is, lyrics and music that add to the story.

My beef is that American musicals take very fine story lines but them set them to the most schlock music.

The direct inverse of what, say, Italian opera does. 

For which one can of course also complain.

[Buddy2]

1 hour ago, AdamSmith said:

My beef is that American musicals take very fine story lines but them set them to the most schlock music.

The direct inverse of what, say, Italian opera does. 

For which one can of course also complain.

Interesting that one thinks Richard Rogers, Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne  composed second rate music.

Perhaps Cole Porter  George Gershwin   were  second rate too.

Gershwin told Merman to never take a singing lesson.

Edited July 26, 2020 by Buddy2

[AdamSmith]

2 hours ago, Buddy2 said:

Interesting that one thinks Richard Rogers, Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne  composed second rate music.

Perhaps Cole Porter  George Gershwin   were  second rate too.

Gershwin told Merman to never take a singing lesson.

Well, if you think they hold up against Mozart, Verdi, Rossini, Puccini, Bellini, et al., then good for you.

[Buddy2]

5 hours ago, AdamSmith said:

Well, if you think they hold up against Mozart, Verdi, Rossini, Puccini, Bellini, et al., then good for you.

Opera isn't new, around for centuries.

 

The Broadway musical is relatively new..

Showboat and Oklahoma

Broadway performer are far better actors/actresses

And I enjoy opera too in New York, Chicago, Vienna, Munich, Paris, Prague and Sydney

Edited July 26, 2020 by Buddy2

[Buddy2]

Adam, your friend, Liam, has started Organ 2 on the other site,  a companion to his other thread Organ 1.

[AdamSmith]

7 minutes ago, Buddy2 said:

Adam, your friend, Liam, has started Organ 2 on the other site,  a companion to his other thread Organ 1.

This epochal event which will overturn the known universe has me up in arms.

[Buddy2]

5 hours ago, AdamSmith said:

This epochal event which will overturn the known universe has me up in arms.

Good, I shall keep you informed on Liam.

[Lucky]

39 minutes ago, Buddy2 said:

Good, I shall keep you informed on Liam.

Why?

[AdamSmith]

1 hour ago, Lucky said:

Why?

Because life is nothing without a little comic relief? 

[Buddy2]

On 7/27/2020 at 11:02 AM, AdamSmith said:

Because life is nothing without a little comic relief? 

You could have spoken up about Larstrup/Liam but did not to save threads about the organ (and other names for the organ thread). Now Liam is posting on the other site.

[AdamSmith]

8 hours ago, Buddy2 said:

You could have spoken up about Larstrup/Liam but did not to save threads about the organ (and other names for the organ thread). Now Liam is posting on the other site.

This comment is not comprehensible to me.

And what happens on the other site is of utter disinterest.

[Buddy2]

53 minutes ago, AdamSmith said:

 

And what happens on the other site is of utter disinterest.

But, you still have friends at the other site where you were well liked my many people, including me.

[AdamSmith]

1 hour ago, Buddy2 said:

But, you still have friends at the other site where you were well liked my many people, including me.

Come over here then and let us continue interacting.

The snake venom over there became too much.

[Buddy2]

12 hours ago, AdamSmith said:

Come over here then and let us continue interacting.

The snake venom over there became too much.

Not everyone wants to constantly read complaining  about "snake venom over there."

 

Try to move on to Oz, the read hero as a site owner.

[AdamSmith]

7 hours ago, Buddy2 said:

Not everyone wants to constantly read complaining  about "snake venom over there."

Then don't.

How simple is that?

[Buddy2]

46 minutes ago, AdamSmith said:

Then don't.

How simple is that?

Yet another question at the end of a comment.

 

Why?

 

[AdamSmith]

1 hour ago, Buddy2 said:

Yet another question at the end of a comment.

 

Why?

 

Very good! 

[Buddy2]

11 hours ago, AdamSmith said:

Very good! 

We have wasted too much time on Larstrup/Liam 

 

All you had to do was read the comments of @TotallyOz

[Latbear4blk]

 

 

[AdamSmith]

2 hours ago, Latbear4blk said:

 

 

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Mahalia

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq5aEwtvdRI

 

[AdamSmith]

On 8/2/2020 at 7:57 PM, AdamSmith said:

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Mahalia

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq5aEwtvdRI

 

Amazing Grace

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJg5Op5W7yw