The Deaf Singing To The Deaf

We Santa Claus re-gifted the above artifact to 5.11 year old Prince C-Nut last week.

It was my wife's when she was a kid so it has to be 20-25 years old. Guess what, it still works!

Mrs. C-Nut played a (very) little when she was a youngster; I played nothing at all and thus could never even read music. Though I was the one who remembered *Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge* and *F A C E* from my 7th grade otherwise forgettable, government school music class.

Parental lessons have already begun. We've got the introductory books and of course there're plenty of resources online. I intend to learn alongside. We'll see how far we can go absent costly, professional instruction...

Picture Notes For The Musically Illiterate

I thought this was pretty cool - especially since, in the course of getting my kids started down this path, I'm trying to educate myself on the basics:

When My Wife Divorces Me....

....And I get married again:



So what's more improbable, that my wife leaves me?

Or that I find a willing replacement outside of the mail-order pool?

Remember, wise men have long said, that a second or third marriage represents the triumph of hope over experience!

The Side Effects Of A Little Learning

I know very little about the fine arts. I guess it wasn't a big deal for college admissions in 1992, ergo my high school didn't bother us with them.

Over the last couple of years I have taken it upon myself to broaden my horizons and learn a little about classical music. (Will Durant is the one who piqued my interest.)

Lo and behold I discovered that Adagio for Strings WAS NOT a score composed for Oliver Stone's Oscar-winning movie Platoon.

It was in fact composed in 1936 by Samuel Barber, fifty years before the movie. From Wikipedia link above:

Barber's "Adagio for Strings" originated as the second movement in his String Quartet No. 1, Op. 11, composed in 1936. In the original it follows a violently contrasting first movement, and is succeeded by a brief reprise of this music.

In January 1938 Barber sent the piece to Arturo Toscanini. The conductor returned the score without comment, and Barber was annoyed and avoided the conductor. Subsequently Toscanini sent word through a friend that he was planning to perform the piece and had returned it simply because he had already memorized it.[1] It was reported that Toscanini did not look at the music again until the day before the premiere. [2] The work was given its first performance in a radio broadcast by Arturo Toscanini with the NBC Symphony Orchestra on November 5, 1938 in New York.



I'll bet you that many children (Taylor?) assume "Adagio for Strings" was actually composed for Seinfeld!