The Hall of Fire

Those are very pretty, Elentári! Thanks for the links.

I only know L'enfance by name, I've never heard it, and I didn't know there was anything that famous by Peter Cornelius. I know his name as a composer, but don't think I know any of his works (or didn't till now ).

Ah - thanks, Nin!

(One wonders why the publishers chose to miss the Christmas business for the DVD, though.)

Ok, Christmas is over, but I thought I should add Bach's Christmas Oratorio to the list. :D About half a dozen listenings are a minimum during Advent and Christmas for me, normally. :D I totally swoon for "Messiah", too, of course, and I certainly listen to the first part of it numerous ti...

I loved this movie, Lurker. :D I thought it was a lot more respectable than "Fahrenheit", for example, which (although I liked it, too) did admittedly have a number of frivolously manipulative moments. The most moving bit, for me, was where the workers seize the factory to get their pay an...

You guys already have it on DVD? I'd meant to get it for Christmas but was told the DVD will only be out in spring here. :| Loved the movie, too, and cried a lot, but in a good way. :) Sure, there were some moments that were a bit too cartoony (the air-battle for example), but that didn't spoil the ...

Why did it astonish you? I think he is awesome, but I wonder how he can be translated. There are so many word-games and so many anagrams in his books, if it's well-translated, the ranslator must be awesome too. I really, really like Moers. Well, like I said, I don't think he's bad, but I don't thin...

Just throwing in another vote for anything by Lindgren for children. :D Though I'm not sure if 11 isn't already too old for her. Nin, yep, I couldn't believe it when I noticed that Moers of all people gets translated so much. (Not that I think he's bad, just that there's a lot of great stuff that do...

Pearly Di wrote:Oh, and Rachmaninov's Vespers. I have the recording done by the Corydon Singers, which I can't recommend highly enough. Such magnificent music, and so haunting and worshipful.

I have to admit I'd never heard of it before we started rehearsing it.

A puppy, Prim? Hehe, sweet!

Crucifer, it may be easy to sing the notes, but it's still not easy to sing them well.

I've been listening to Russian Orthodox music for years now: Well, it's not male voices only, but very beautfully Russian, too - we did some pieces from Rachmaninov's "All Night Vigil" for our concert a month ago. Apparently one of the most famous ones of them: http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Pearly linked me here. :) I think this would be pretty cool for the moot. :D Maybe not the whole five hours, but excerpts for sure. :) I've watched the first two episodes so far and thought the Bilbo-Gollum meeting was genuinely scary. Gollum as a real person is so much more frightening than as a CG...

It looks like they really mean to go ahead with it. :shock: :D A Home for Hobbits City presents model for new musical theatre. (Summary of main points of the article)... the design shows a parabolic shaped building with concave walls. Seating for 1800 people is planned, building is planned to start ...

LOLOL, I'd not meant to look in here again, but it only takes a certain dose of alcohol (which always makes me very favourably inclined to all mankind, just as described in the Ode to Joy, which is really a drinking song, if you read all the verses, but that's just btw), old threads revived with int...

Alatar, true, but none of the 'concerts' that you describe are actually proper music-making. They are, as you say, for people who expect pre-packaged things, mass-events. It's ok, I suppose, for these audiences, but not for anyone who wants to hear music, rather than entertainment. So, I do hope tha...

hobby, this is a weird thing that I only just realized, but Les Misérables doesn't have an English title, even published in English translation ( Amazon link ). Other French classics have translated titles, but not this one. Weird, isn't it? With the unease English speakers often have with "fo...

But none of them sounds silly. :P (Ok, "The Rings" is a bit weird, but I've never heard that, and it still works under the normal abridging traditions, though dropping the "the" would be more logical.) On messageboards, you usually do some acronym thing (LOTR), and in the theatre...

I'm debating with myself whether it's worthwhile getting it [the CD-Cruc] It is. Galadriel's songs, in particular, are absolutely fantastic, and the Hobbit's song, while certainly not as emotionally effective as the live version, still brings tears to my eyes. Thanks, Crucifer, that sounds good! :)...

First, did you know there was three soundproof rooms backstage? The full orchestra aren't in the pit. The percussion section is in a soundproofed room, as is the Brass section, and there's another room for the offstage vocalists, all cue'd by live camera to the conductor. Everything you hear is pla...

That's Teh Awesome, Alatar!11 :D What other sort of backstage things did you see? (Or are you sworn to secrecy? ;) ) (I've just gone through the past pages of this thread, to see if you'd talked about it before, and saw the post with the pics - very nice! :) But there's no report to go with them. :p...

ANTHY! *saaaaaaamoooooooOOOOOOOOOOoooooooch* :hug: Tsktsktsk, look at the disorder in this thread! :P :grouphug: I really do hope the DVD comes out, because I can't pronounce "Köln" any more. It'll come back to you. It's like riding a bike. :P Hehe, Rowan, yep, musical-moot! :D If they go ...