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Skriven 2014-10-07 20:28:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: institutions 62
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 10-05-14  01:25 <=-

 ML>> From what I read, the feathers being ruffled related partially
 ML>> to his being a crypto-communist or something. Based on various
 ML>> sources it sounds as if he was loved or hated pretty equally.
 NB>> From what I was hearing that sounds about right, particularly the
 NB>> loved/hated bit.  
 ML> I don't understand any of it. But then whenever there's
 ML> a musicians vs. board conflict, I tend to knee-jerkedly
 ML> take the former side, even though my own activities are
 ML> gravitating in the other direction these days.

I would probably generally knee-jerk the same way, given that most of my
RPO friends have been musicians, not board...  :)

 ML>>> swivel-hipped pretty boy direction. Trouble in paradise.
 NB>>> Christopher Seaman was a tough act to follow...  ;)  I suspect the
 NB>>> PowersThatBe are trying for reaching a different population segment,
 NB>>> possibly younger...
 NB>> The new one, Ward Stare, is a local boy made good.  I finally saw his
 NB>> picture, in the October WXXI program guide... looks like a pretty boy,
 NB>> but hopefully will be a better conductor..  :) 
 ML> Not too optimistic on this - we had our Keith Lockhart,
 ML> who never improved.

They have to start somewhere..  (G)   I'll have to ask Mommy what she
thought of Ward... she just went to a concert with him conducting..  :)

 NB>>  Mommy wasn't at all impressed with
 NB>> Arild, from the very beginning... she always thought he
 NB>> was trying to play to the audience, not conduct the music.
 ML> The funny thing is that some of the musicians were saying
 ML> the exact opposite. Perhaps he tried to sell his rather
 ML> unpopular musical choices too much?

I don't think it was the choices so much... His greatest fans, from what
I understood, were with those that were also part of the Chamber Music
Society... He continued to conduct them... or at least was supposed
to... I remember something about him leaving them high and dry at some
point, before they had expected him to leave...   Mommy didn't have much
bad to say about his musical choices... there's always some things being
programmed that she doesn't care so much about, but she rather enjoyed
most of the women's music that was programmed, for instance..  I was
there for the concert with Clara Schumann's piano concerto, and that was
very well received...  :)   We enjoyed it too..  ;)

 ML>> The way I see it if Fidelity and Charles Schwab go under,
 ML>> we'll need a lot more than FDIC to keep the country running.
 NB>> That being somewhat the thinking behind the big bank bailouts...  But
 NB>> you may well be right.  :)
 ML> It's like hiding behind a rock. If the rock is big enough,
 ML> it should take the brunt of whatever you're hiding from,
 ML> and if it doesn't, you'd have been toast anyhow.

Point.
 
 ML>> We've seen that they won't let the exceedingly dieworthy
 ML>> 500-lb gorilla Bank of America go down, and that's my third,
 ML>> used only for the smallest liquid transactions.
 NB>> I've got one credit card with them... had been from a different bank,
 NB>> and that one had been taken over by them... 
 ML> That's why I have a BoA affiliation - used to be SeaFirst,
 ML> before that it was some small bank, but of course there
 ML> were numerous buyouts and takeovers and what have yous.

Over the years, quite some...!  For most of the banks now in
existence, actually...  :)

 NB>>> I'd endorse credit unions as a solution, too... Over the years,
 NB>>> all my regular bank accounts were shifted to ESLFCU
 ML>> English as a Second Language?
 NB>> Originally Eastman Savings and Loan Bank, or ES&L, and when they went
 ML> Oh, that. I actually thought to myself "Eastman School of
 ML> Laziness," but at the time I was too polite to say it.

One can find many a possibility...

 ML> Dairy Free Chicken Liver Mousse
 ML> 1/3 c Madeira, Marsala or Sherry
 ML> 1/2 c apple cider (of course you may substitute wine)

Did you add that parenthetic note or was it in the original...?

 ML> Put it into a plastic tub or any bowl and let it
 ML> cool down in the fridge. Serve with sliced apples
 ML> and sliced baguette toasted if you like.

I'd find some nice pears, I think... ;)

ttyl         neb

... The pinata smiled, not realizing kids would beat him with a stick.

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