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Skriven 2014-12-13 14:50:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: noises 421
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-11-14  16:40 <=-

 NB>> The war horses...  Catch the attention of the masses...  :) 
 NB>> Some I like, generally in small doses though...  There's so
 NB>> much else to hear... :)
 ML> This is not to say that they're all devoid of appeal,
 ML> though much of that appeal may be the thrill of vast
 ML> forces and many decibels. I mean, the Royal Fireworks
 ML> Music and Messiah drew audiences as much for spectacle
 ML> as anything else (wasn't the former that featured a
 ML> barge blowing up in the Thames because of an ordnance
 ML> miscalculation, or was the Water Music?). 

I think it was Royal Fireworks... no ordnance involved with the Water
Music...  That just got played to death as they moved up and down the
Thames...  ;)

 ML> Speaking of
 ML> which, I just got finished with a number of performances
 ML> of Messiah, which felt like a death sentence - I never
 ML> liked that piece, and for me, the value of Handel's
 ML> music is in inverse proportion to the number of players
 ML> (I almost said "voices," but that too). This may have a
 ML> little of the junior sophisticate "dahling, I've had
 ML> just too much Messiah this season," but I think a lot
 ML> of my antipathy has roots in valid aesthetic judgment.

Dunno...  I rather enjoy hearing it once a season... I've sung parts of
it for some service or other, and played transcriptions of parts of it,
likewise... But, like so many other pieces, it does get overexposure,
especially at this time of year, when everybody and his cousins have to
put on their own production...  :)  Not unlike Pachelbel's (in)famous
Canon...  ;)
 
 NB>> I rather enjoy it on occasion, also...  It's on the same level
 NB>> with carob vs chocolate... not a substitute, but fine on its own
 NB>> merit... :)  White "chocolate" isn't chocolate, but it can be
 NB>> tasty all the same, sometimes as a foil for a nice chocolate.  :)
 ML> I don't remember if I said this, but carob's unappeal
 ML> to me rests on its coarse texture, probably unfixable
 ML> without appeal to a surplus of fat, as well as its
 ML> frankly vegetal odor. 

Probably can't fix that all that well... Never really paid attention to
the vegetal odor... Just never felt it to be a proper substitute for
chocolate...  Recently, though, I decided that Lori's carob coated malt
balls were a better flavor mix than the dark chocolate coated ones... 
Probably had more to do with the malt than anything else...  :)

 ML> Oh! a seasonal ontopicizer -
 ML> Title: Soynog
 ML> Categories: Beverages, Holidays

Sigh...  Looks nasty-ish...  

 ML> If you want that slippery taste of "real" eggnog then just add more
 ML> oil, but I think is better to simply allow your taste preferences to
 ML> adapt and come to enjoy this soynog on its own terms   :-)
 ML> posted by Ted Wayn Altar in REC.FOOD.VEG

Carob has more going for it.  ;)   This looks like a margarine... ;)

ttyl         neb

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