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Skriven 2014-08-14 11:07:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: wanderings 777
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 08-10-14  23:53 <=-

 ML>> such a great accompanist that he taught the subject both
 ML>> at Boston University and I believe the New England
 ML>> Conservatory: on occasion he was known to rescue a horrid
 ML>> performance by an untalented nobody and turn it into a
 ML>> work of art.
 NB>> Now THAT is a talented accompanist.  :)   It is, after all, somewhat
 NB>> the job of the accompanist to help the soloist shine, but few can well
 NB>> accomplish that all the same, even with a fairly good soloist...  :)
 ML> His fellow pianists spoke of him with something approaching
 ML> awe; normal musicians respected him; normal concertgoers
 ML> barely noticed he was there.

Sounds about right...  Also sounds like someone I'd have liked to have
met...  :) 

 ML>> M. Gulbins Organ sonata 3 in Bb.
 ML>> Might have interested you more, but I wasn't going to
 ML>> shell out E22 for something that we were going to sit
 ML>> through at most half of. 
 NB>> I don't think I'd've shelled out E11 for that either... although parts
 NB>> are indeed interesting, and I might well have sat through the whole
 NB>> thing... the last on the list is totally unknown to me... 
 ML> I don't know who M. Gulbins was or is but didn't care to
 ML> spend the do-re-mi to find out.

Someday, maybe, we'll find out... ;)
 
 ML>> For a free concert I might have been willing to put E5
 ML>> a head into the kitty, but more than twice that, neh.
 NB>> Free's good...  ;)  I went to a free concert in Peebles (Scotland)
 NB>> when I was there for a weekend and had an evening with time on my
 NB>> hands...  Got a splendid picture of a double rainbow while waiting
 NB>> for the doors to open, too...  :)
 ML> The psychology of free concerts is interesting.
 
Getting something for nothing...?   :)

 ML>> Yay, no thanks to United. And the flight attendant looked
 ML>> bemused at all of this, and I remarked to her, screws up
 ML>> your manifest, doesn't it, and she said yes. But she
 ML>> cheered up and the crew gave us decent service (not hard
 ML>> to do, as we slept most of the flight).
 NB>> I suppose that placated flyers are easier to deal with than
 NB>> worrying about a messed up manifest...  Nice that it all worked
 NB>> out eventually...  ;)
 ML> The manifest conversation was at least somewhat jokey, though
 ML> the crew don't really enjoy dealing with such things.
 
Possibly the fact that you at least recognised the fact that it made
more work for them along with the solving of the issues at hand helped
soothe her feelings... ;)

 ML>> Luckily these Dutch cities that I haven't explored
 ML>> before have made a very good adventure of it.
 NB>> That's a good thing... :)
 ML> It's been a really good thing. Makes one almost want to
 ML> live in northern Europe, but it's really expensive. And
 ML> you wonder if the Netherlanders are becoming sort of like
 ML> the Eloi.

Considerations...  ;)

 ML>> quickly, drop by tablespoons onto buttered wax paper. Makes 1 1/2 - 2
 ML>> dozen pralines. BUT DON'T EAT THEM! Crumble coarsely and measure out
 ML>> 3 1/2 cup of the crumblies for this ice cream.
 NB>> That could be hard to do... not eat the pralines... (G)  But one
 NB>> could eat the leftovers after measuring out the amount for the ice
 NB>> cream, I'd think...  ;)   Or, I suppose, if one was very good at
 NB>> resisting the temptation, one could save the remainder for sprinkling
 NB>> atop the finished ice cream when serving... ;)
 ML> Yesterday I posted a recipe that used original praline as
 ML> an ingredient, the way it was meant to be. You caramelize
 ML> some sugar and throw nuts into it - making no attempt to
 ML> make it into candy a la brittle or like what we have come
 ML> to know as pralines. The purpose was to add the flavor of
 ML> nuts and burnt sugar to a dessert, and the stuff isn't
 ML> particularly tempting on its own.

Yes, I noticed that one...  Dunno, one might still be tempted to nibble
at it, just not quite so strongly as the candy pralines...  :)

ttyl        neb

... The trouble is that you think you have the time.

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