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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 02-20-15  22:54 <=-

 ML>> I have recently been informed that the seal meat was
 ML>> not in proper condition. As it was, I don't see any
 ML>> amount of treatment or spice doing much to help.
 NB>> Might you try it again, if assured that it was indeed in proper
 NB>> condition another time...?  :)
 ML> If it smelled better than this unfortunate animal, sure.

Maybe you'll actually like it then... ;)
 
 ML>>> Whereas in the case of ghost peppers, that's not quite true.
 NB>>> True... had there been more of it, it might really have packed a
 NB>>> wallop... 
 ML>> I will (someday) go to Popeye's and see what the fuss is about.
 NB>> As long as it's still available by the time you get there... ;)
 ML> And if it's not, then it must have been a "who cares"
 ML> phenomenon after all.

A just for the publicity stunt...  :)

 ML>> Problem is that fried chicken thighs are about as good a
 ML>> food as you can have, and Popeye's version is usually
 ML>> pretty close to the top of the heap. So I'll be making a
 ML>> sacrifice to test out the new product. It's not like the
 ML>> olden days when if a meal didn't please me I could afford
 ML>> the stomach and pocketbook space to just have another.
 NB>> A single thigh is available there... and only a couple bucks.. ;)
 ML> So I can get two thighs or one thigh plus a small order
 ML> of something that likely will disappoint. Tough choice.
 
But at least less of a sacrifice than forgoing the thigh entirely.. ;) 

 NB>> Yours does seem a little more so... the uni-grounded ones are about
 NB>> what I was expecting...  And just what benefits does such a club
 NB>> afford...? 
 ML> Alcohol at popular prices in a genteel setting I guess.
 ML> Ours offers a score of concerts annually, to which one may
 ML> bring a guest for a small fee, maybe $20 or 25, or less
 ML> than half what a concert of comparable quality would cost
 ML> out in the real world. Plus, afterward, there are snacks.
 ML> Used to be Welsh rabbit and oysters on the half-shell, but
 ML> the oysters were abandoned as an austerity measure during
 ML> World War II. After that it was Welsh rabbit and beer, but
 ML> newer administrations have seen fit to alter the fare, and
 ML> Welsh rabbit nights happen only a couple times a year.

Ah.  The modernization affected that, too... Is the Welsh rabbit worth
your pills...?  :)
 
 NB>> Is your club specifically for Harvard musicians, or more widely
 NB>> Harvard... at least, that is, as originally set up...?
 ML> Back in the 19th century, Harvard didn't offer music training,
 ML> and this organization was set up to lobby, as it were, for a
 ML> music department. Eventually such a department was set up, and
 ML> by any sensible view that would have been a perfect time to
 ML> wind up the club's affairs, but no, the members had had such
 ML> fun that it was decided to keep it going and find other worthy
 ML> windmills to tilt at. Good thing, as it started the first
 ML> chamber music concert series in the country as well as the first
 ML> professional orchestra in the country (which was disbanded and
 ML> folded into the Boston Symphony when that group was founded in
 ML> 1881). As it became more distant from its roots, its membership
 ML> was expanded from Harvard musicians to Harvard people interested
 ML> in music to collegiate people interested in music, plus some
 ML> professional musicians, to what it is today, a bit of a mess but
 ML> becoming more influential in the music world.

So it's been a good influence over the years...  :)  Were the original
members Harvard musicians, or just Bostonians interested in adding music
to the curriculum at Harvard...?  :)

 ML> In addition, traditionally the membership was made up of wealthy
 ML> WASPs from Beacon Hill (as was the rest of Harvard), but
 ML> gradually that was eroded: first Jews, then non-Harvards, then
 ML> all sorts of riffraff. 

I suppose the wealth is where the influence was seen to be coming
from...  :)

 ML> My friend Jack was president of the club in the '80s
 ML> and had the avowed goal of increasing diversity in the ranks. I
 ML> was the third Asian member (the first was Seiji, the second a
 ML> guy named Felix Chow); when I joined there were a few women, to
 ML> whom membership was opened (aside from the aforementioned Luise
 ML> Vosgerchian) a year before my class; also one black member,
 ML> T.J. Anderson, a music professor at Tufts - Roland Hayes and I
 ML> believe Paul Robeson had been guests but were not offered
 ML> membership.

An exclusive crowd...  :)  Burton was asking after you, when we met for
lunch at Fu's... I told him of your concert, he remarked on how well
regarded you are in each of your various spheres...  ;)  We had a nice
visit, btw, and they quite enjoyed the repast as well as the chance to
get together...  :)

ttyl       neb

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