The Hall of Fire

The A's made up for last night's drubbing by winning it in the bottom of the ninth this evening, 4-3. As was the case on several occasions last year, the dramatic game-winning hit came off the bat of utility infielder...

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A-Rod can hit all the grandslams he wants...against other teams! :x Zito is getting off to another rough start I see. He got hammered his first few outings last year before righting the ship. The man just could not throw strikes this evening. :neutral: The good news is that there are still 161 games...

There's always someone around to provide an informed correction! My pleasure, good lady. :) They didn't have electronic amplification back in the 18th and 19th centuries, so naturally they had to design performance halls to enhance sound. You'll note older churches and cathedrels have that classic ...

MaidenOfTheShieldarm wrote:Do they really not use lavalier or overhead mics? I find that suprising.

Opera houses are designed so that microphones are not necessary. It's all in the acoustics.

It makes me happy to remember the fun Connie and I had getting to the hotel and meeting up with Allison and the rest of Urban Tapestry and singing for hours in the hotel room... That's what I was referring to a couple of posts ago when I mentioned the "memorable experience". You'll cheris...

Maybe there just are a lot of rich people around who still treat opera as a social duty and hence fill the seats. However, as long as opera is a way for the rich to show off, it's making it a posh affair, and putting of normal people. I definitely think that there is some of that going on. There ar...

I think I'd be willing to pay up to, say, 30 USD to see Paul McCartney. I don't think you could have purchased one of the (admittedly overpriced) T-shirts for $30, let alone a ticket to see him perform! :rofl: Opera tickets are very expensive, too. My wife and I had subscriptions to the San Francis...

But I read on TORC that it's $125 to see the musical - and no way would I spend that much for any entertainment! For any entertainment? Not even...PAUL MCCARTNEY?! My wife and I paid $300 US for a pair of tickets to see Sir Paul perform in Oakland, California two years ago. It was the first perform...

It's interesting, too, to consider Melian's influence on Thingol. Before becoming entranced, Thingol had intended to return to Aman where he had gone as an emissary of the Quendi along with Finwë and Ingwë. When Thingol disappeared, many of the Teleri refused to leave Middle-earth without him. Inste...

That's quite a write-up, Sassafras! :clap: The only thing I can think to add is that Melian also played an important role as mentor to Galadriel. Galadriel used the power of Nenya, one of the Three Rings that Celebrimbor hid from Sauron, to protect Lothlórien, similiar to the Girdle of enchantment t...

We are ultimately dependent on 50 actors and musicians to tell the story rather than technology... That could be read two ways. One could see that as the producer downplaying the gadgetry in his own production, but it could also be a dig at Peter Jackson's heavy reliance on digital imaging and the ...

Thanks for the link to the video, Alatar! :) "Musical theatre is a high risk investment." Why does that line remind me of when Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees so that he could finance No, No, Nanette ? :shock: Hopefully the company won't lose their mithril c...

I'd watch your One Man Bombadil show! ;) All right! :hug: Anybody else? Tickets are going fast! :D I found a link to this (London?) Times Online article at TORN: First Night reviews . That article had a link to this DEMO RECORDING . One of the links MithLuin provided above had this MUSIC SAMPLE .

So Bombadil gets cut out once again, eh? Well, that settles it! I'm going to create my own... ONE MAN BOMBADIL SHOW! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v702/OldTomBombadil/bombadil.gif Seriously, that's a shame that Gandalf is so poorly cast. That tells you something about show business, which is, ve...

I'm not sure how "The Ring of the Nibelung" story traditionally goes, but in Wagner's opera Siegfried reforges his father's sword, Nothung.

I seem to recall a certain Ranger of the North in LOTR wielding a re-forged sword as well.

I enjoy poetry, especially poetry put to music. Eighteen years ago I became acquained with the songs of Gerald Finzi set to the poems of Thomas Hardy. My favorite Hardy poem, and one that touches me very deeply, is this: The Sigh Little head against my shoulder, Shy at first, then somewhat bolder, A...

Here's a big vote for

PURPLE

Excellent analysis, Mith. :wave: You mentioned Frodo's possession of the Ring as a possible magnifier of his mental abilities. Remember, too, that Elrond, Galadriel, and Gandalf possessed Rings of Power. Perhaps the 3 Elven Rings magnified their mental abilities? While reading Mith's post I thought ...

Faramir does not need a character arc. Faramir is not Boromir, although the film blurs the distinction between the brothers. By softening Boromir and hardening Faramit the moral difference between them becomes moot so that they are almost interchangeable. I totally agree with this analysis. I will ...

Few communities will do anything of substance outside of giving people the day off. Dr. King died in 1968 at a time when the Civil Rights movement was in crisis and badly divided over goals, strategies and tactics. Dr. King didn't just "die", he was assassinated. There's a pretty big diff...