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Skriven 2008-01-06 17:52:37 av Carol Shenkenberger (6260.cooks)
    Kommentar till text 277 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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 >  CS> Oh, I like that idea!  One of many but a good one!  I bet there's
 >  CS> enough other folks who know those areas and the good stomping grounds,
 >  CS> we'd be fine for a day <g>.
 > 
 > Let's see what the alternatives are, and if people choose to
 > go with this one, we can work on it.

Sure!  No rush.

 >  I really DO love orchestras and classical
 >  CS> music.  It may sound a little silly but I took a class in college (had
 >  CS> to have an arts elective) in 'music appreciation' and gained a love for
 >  CS> classical.  Ok, oddball classical too as I love gregorian chant.  I
 >  CS> dont have a real 'favorite' among the types, just liked them.
 > 
 > Funny what a blanket term "classical" has become: Gregorian is of
 > course ancient religious music (maybe oddball is a good way of
 > putting it). Originally, "classical" meant concert music mostly of
 > the 18th into the early 19th century. Then it started spreading
 > both directions (earlier to the baroque and rococo periods and later
 > through the romantics, impressionists, and so on); most recently I
 > guess it has come to mean all serious or at least "non-popular"
 > music.

Oh, impressionists.  Naw, thanks but most of those I didnt like all that
much.  I wouldnt want to sit through an evening of that.

 >  CS> Cool!  Free waterfront ones here too but I dont know if it's anything
 >  CS> classical.  Just lots of fireworks over the ocean.
 > 
 > I thought everyone did the 1812 Overture with their fireworks.

Maybe!  But Don's not into fireworks much (Vietnam vet) so we generally stay
home.  It used to be really bad, and I'd find him hiding under the bed but
now he's happy to see them from a distance, usually with a beer in hand <g>.

I'm also a little uncomfortable with them except over the ocean or a
waterway.  I've seen too many leaf fires from fire crackers, usually in some
innocent bystanders yard several doors down from the ones 'just having some
fun' and not thinking about how dry it is at that season here when they set
them off pointed away from their *own* yard.
               xxcarol
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