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07/07/11 - NNHS
Newsletter - “If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.”
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Gustav Mahler |
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
We celebrate
this birthday together here every year.
http://nnhs65.com/07-07-06-NNHS-Gustav-Mahlers-146th-Birthday.html - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen N:o 2: Ging heut' Morgen übers Feld
http://nnhs65.com/07-07-07-NNHS-Gustav-Mahlers-147th-Birthday.html - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen N:o 3: Ich hab' ein glühend Messer
http://nnhs65.com/07-07-08-NNHS-Gustav-Mahlers-148th-Birthday.html - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen N:o 4: Die zwei blauen Augen
http://nnhs65.com/07-07-09-NNHS-Gustav-Mahlers-149th-Birthday.html - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen N:o 1: Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht
http://nnhs65.com/07-07-10-NNHS-Gustav-Mahlers-150th-Birthday.html - Symphony No. 1 in D Major,
Movement 1
BONUS #1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nslBGQ2Ij40 -
Mahler: Symphony No. 4: Movement 1 - Part 1 of 2, Leonard Bernstein conducting
the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
BONUS #2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri4JU6W-Kro - Mahler: Symphony No. 4: Movement 1 - Part 2 of 2, Leonard Bernstein conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler:
Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer, he acted as a bridge between the 19th century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 the music was discovered and championed by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century...
A technical device much used by Mahler is that of "progressive tonality", which Deryck Cooke describes as "the procedure of resolving a symphonic conflict in a different key from that in which it was stated"[139], and which is often used "to symbolise the gradual ascendancy of a certain value by progress from one key to another over the whole course of a symphony".[142] This technique was also used by Mahler's Danish contemporary Carl Nielsen. Mahler first employed the device in an early song, Erinnerung ("Memory"), and thereafter used it freely in his symphonies. For example, the predominant key of the First Symphony is D major; at the beginning of the Finale, the "conflict" movement, the key switches to F minor, and only after a lengthy battle gets back to D, near the end. The Second Symphony begins in C minor and ends in E flat.[139] The movements of the Fifth Symphony progress successively from C-sharp minor to A minor, then D major, F major and finally to D major.[119] The Sixth Symphony, unusually for Mahler, begins and ends in the same key, A minor, signifying that in this case the conflict is unresolved.[143]
NEWBIES:
1.
Peggy Johnson Janke ('60) of OH
- 07/06/11 - "Sign me up!":
Hi!
I'm Peggy Sue Johnson Ritger Janke, Class of 1960. Please add me to your email newsletter list, the list of classmates, and anything else you got going on, short of my volunteering for something. I'm still in the boonies of Ohio, but will be moving back to VA when/if I can ever get my house sold. peg |
Welcome aboard, Peg!
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Volunteer??
Not to worry!
1. Appreciate the beauties of classical music. (He preferred playing his admirable classical record collection at full volume.) 2. Anything worth doing is worth doing right. (Perfectionism is its own justification and own reward.) 3. Never forget that the Holocaust was real. (He knew all too well; he was present at the liberation of at least one Nazi concentration camp.) 4. Avoid all associations with and investigations into Rosicrucians. (No explanation was ever offered for this one, but he was quite vehement on the subject.) 5. Always do your duty to the utmost, but never volunteer. (I think this was an Army thingie...) Of course, now that I
think of it, I kinda-sorta volunteered to do what I'm doing here, but,
ah, well, nevermind!
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THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:
Happy Birthday today
to
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09 - 11 -
13 - James Stidham ('57) ! Many Happy
Returns,
One and All!
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TODAY IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES: From http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/This%20Day/thisday0707.htm - INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: Sunday, July 7, 1861 |
From
Aretie Gallins Patterson
('59) of TN -
07/06/11 - "Birthday":
Hi, Carol.
My birthday is July 11, 1941. I'm going to be 70! Can't believe it!
Anyway just wanted to confirm the date since the page said, "possibly."
I enjoy the site. One of these days I'll get
around to sending some more of my stories.
Love ya!
Aretie Gallins Patterson
AHA!
So Plaxo was
telling the truth - WHOO-HOO!
Thanks
so much, Aretie!
And you know what this means?
It means you're only 15 days older than
my sister, Eleanor Buckley Nowitzky
('59) of NC,
and
I'm having great difficulty believing that
either of you is actually hitting that Magic Number; it just doesn't seem
possible, somehow. Of course, I still think of everyone as being about
18.....
http://www.nnhs65.com/Happy-Birthday.html
We'll look forward to hearing more of your great stories; I've
really missed hearing from you!
For those of you just joining us, Aretie was not only my sister's friend and classmate, she was also my eleventh grade U.S. history teacher - and I still have to struggle to call her by her first name! ‹(•¿•)›
From Domi O'Brien ('64) of NH - 07/06/11 - "Irish
Blog-- stars (and stripes)":
Stella, Étoile, Estrella, Stea … Réalta! Posted: 20 Jun 2011 01:47 AM PDT
(le Róislín)
Sandwiched between Lá na Brataí (an American holiday celebrated on June 14th) and Lá na Saoirse (4 Iúil) might be a good time to talk about “réaltaí agus riabha” (stars and stripes). So we’ll take a sos (break) from the díochlaontaí for a while, and address, first, the “réalta” component. The “riabha” will have to wait for another blog. An interesting aspect of the word “réalta” is that it is completely separate from both series of cognates for “star” in the Romance and Germanic languages. Often words for things that our ancestors held in common (sun, moon, stars, horses, cows, mothers, fathers, etc.) are quite similar as you traverse the Indo-European panorama of languages. So you may have recognized “stella” (Laidin, Iodáilis), “étoile” (Fraincis), “estrella” (Spáinnis), or “stea” (Rómáinis), in the title of this blog, but “réalta” clearly just “doesn’t belong.” How ‘bout the Germanic series: “stjerne” (Danmhairgis), “steorra” (SeanBhéarla), “ster” (Ollainis), and “stern” (Gearmáinis), mar shampla. Again, a lot of internal consistency, but nothing resembling the Irish “réalta.” It’s not as though the word “star” is the only one that presents us with this quandary. While the word for “sun” is also fairly consistent throughout the Indo-European languages (sol, sole, soleil, soare, haul, heol, solnce, and, most historically of all, suar in Sanskrit, etc.), Irish gives us “grian,” perhaps based on a word that means “heat.” For “moon,” we bridge the gap a bit. The most widely used Irish word, “gealach” (moon, lit. bright thing), is not tied into the Indo-European set, but there is a second Irish word, mostly reserved for literary usage, “luan,” which is tied in with “luna,” “lune,” etc. Some of this linguistic uniqueness is due to Ireland being an island, with some natural isolation, but some of it is simply inexplicable, with origins lost in the mists of preliterate prehistory. In certain other cases, though, Irish clearly shares its vocabulary with other Indo-European languages (capall, horse, cf. caballus, cheval, caballo, ceffyl, etc., and máthair, mother, cf. mater, mère, madre, and Sanskrit “matar-,” etc.). Whenever this linguistic sharing occurs, it certainly makes vocabulary-building easier. Where it exists in Irish, I’d say relish it. Where it doesn’t, with words like “réalta” (or “grian” or “gealach,” etc.), it just makes the challenge of learning Irish all the more interesting, doesn’t it? Do we have any idea about the history of the word “réalta?” There is at least one theory – that’s it’s a compound of very old forms of the words “rud” (thing) and “glan” (clean, bright, pure). Seems plausible to me, though probably hard to prove. Getting back to “réalta” itself, the plural is “réaltaí.” It’s a 4th declension noun, so (hurá!), the endings for possessive forms are the same as the singular and plural forms themselves. It’s feminine, so to describe a star further, you could say: an réalta bheag an réalta mhór an réalta gheal an réalta thimpholach etc. To make the same phrases plural, you’d say: na réaltaí beaga na réaltaí móra na réaltaí geala na réaltaí timpholacha etc. All well and good, and quite predictable. To show possession: méid na réalta, the size of the star ainm na réalta, the name of the star méid na réaltaí, the size of the stars ainmneacha na réaltaí, the names of the stars Some related words are: réalteolaí, astronomer réalteolaíocht, astronomy réalta, star (in movies) sár-réalta, super-star (celebrity) réiltín, starlet, also, an asterisk réaltbhreac, star-spangled (lit. star-specked, since the actual word for a “spangle” in Irish is “spaglainn”!) réaltbhliain, sidereal year réaltbhuíon, constellation réaltfhisic, astrophysics. One of my favorites is: réaltóireacht, star-gazing, which also means “mental confusion” and “absent-mindedness.” And so, would that last entry shed some new light on how to translate the intriguingly named “starry-gazy pie” into Irish? It’s actually a Cornish specialty, as immortalized in at least one children’s book, The Mousehole Cat, but that’s no reason for it not to have an Irish name. If “starry-gazy pie” sounds delightfully philosophical, it’s actually quite a down-to-earth phenomenon. The “starry-gazy” aspect is caused by fish heads sticking up through the pie’s crust, as if they’re gazing at the sky. So despite its celebrated iconic Cornishness (featured in Poldark, etc.), it also showed up in the New York Daily News’s series, “Yuck! Disgusting Things People Eat!” based on Neil Setchfield’s book of the same name (tagairt thíos A quick search through all the dictionaries, online and hard-copy, that I have at my disposal fails to yield a name for this pie in Irish, or for that matter, even in Cornish. So may I suggest, for Irish, *pióg réaltóireachta? Part of me keeps wanting to specify the main ingredient, typically pilséir or scadáin, but I have to remind myself that the English name doesn’t specify the fish either, so, just “starry-gazy,” no details! And may I inquire of any cainteoirí Cornaise on this list, if they know how to say “starry-gazy” pie in Cornish? Just curious! As for “star-spangled,” to return to our flag theme, there is at least one other way that this concept has been expressed in Irish: gealréaltach (lit. brightly-starred). Generally, when using either “réaltbhreac” or “gealréaltach,” the basic word for “flag” (bratach) is used. The English phrase “star-spangled banner” feels extra poetic, substituting “banner” for “flag.” In Irish however, the most specific word for a “banner,” is “meirge” (also a “standard” or “ensign”), but I don’t see any evidence of it in discussion of the American “Stars and Stripes,” or in fact, of the American national anthem. And finally, foláireamh homagraif. There is another word in Irish, réalta, which is an adjective meaning “real” or “developed” (in photography, etc.). This is based on the verb “réaladh” (to make clear or manifest, to develop). No relation to réalta (star) – it’s just that the “–ta” ending of this adjective mimics the “–ta” ending of the noun. Next up, “riabha,” and perhaps some other vexillogical vagaries. SGF, ó Róislín. Gluais: bratach, flag; brateolaíocht, vexillology; foláireamh, an alert; pilséar, pilchard; saoirse [SEER-shuh] freedom, independence; scadán, herring; timpholach, circumpolar Nasc don tsraith sa New York Daily News: |
Thanks so much for this
fascinating lesson, Domi!
We strive to educate as well as
amuse!
I was also delighted to see the reference
to
Poldark
(1975)
one of my very favorite offerings from PBS.
From Jay Styles ('68) of VA - 07/06/11 - "Lone
Sentry":
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
Thomas Jefferson
IN GOD I TRUST!
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AMEN! Thanks, Jay
Sweetie!
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From My Husband, Paul Harty (Bardolph HS, IL - '61) of IL - 07/06/11 -
"Number 70 - A Veteran's Story":
Thanks so
much,
Dools!
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oooooooooooooooooooooo JOKES A collector of rare books ran into an acquaintance who told him he had just thrown away an old Bible that he found in a dusty, old box. He happened to mention that Guten-somebody-or-other had printed it. "Not Gutenberg?" gasped the collector. "Yes, that was it!" "You idiot! You've thrown away one of the first books ever printed. A copy recently sold at auction for half a million dollars!" "Oh, I don't think this book would have been worth anything close to that much," replied the man. "It was scribbled all over in the margins by some clown named Martin Luther." ooooooo The summer after college graduation, I was living at home, fishing in the daytime, spending nights with my friends-generally just hanging out. One afternoon my grandfather, who never went to college, stopped by. Concerned with how I was spending my time, he asked about my future plans. I told him I was in no hurry to tie myself down to a career. "Well," he replied, "you better start thinking about it. You'll be thirty before you know it." "But I'm closer to twenty than to thirty," I protested. "I won't be thirty for eight more years." "I see," he said, smiling. "And when will you be twenty again?" ooooooo Q: What do you call a haunted wigwam? A: A creepy tee-pee. ooooooo Remembrance Day Remembrance Day was coming up, and the nursery school teacher took the opportunity to tell her class about patriotism. "We live in a great country," she said. "One of the things we should be happy is that, in this country, we are all free." One little boy came walking up to her from the back of the room. He stood with his hands on his hips and said "I'm not free!" Taken aback by the boy's positive attitude, she said, "well, at your age I will admit that you are not allowed to do anything you want, but what I meant is that your family can do anything that is legal. Now, do you understand that you are free?" "No -- I'm NOT free," he said looking up defiantly, "I'm four!" oooooooooooooooooooooo Random Fact: Kentucky Fired Chicken's famous advertising slogan "finger lickin' good" was translated in Chinese as "eat your fingers off." oooooooooooooooooooooo Dreams... "Dreams are the seedlings of reality." ~ James Allen oooooooooooooooooooooo Brain Scrambler I may run rings around you Or escape your clutching grip Or leave a treacherous trail That gives a sudden slip. (If you're not careful!) You always end up winning, While I shrink with each new meet: Our bouts will be my ruin, But you'll come out smelling sweet. What am I? oooo ooooo ooooooo oooooooooo oooooooooooooo Answer: A bar of soap. oooooooooooooooooooooo A Young Spirit It was my daughter’s 21st birthday. Dinner was finished and cake and ice cream were about to be served. As I looked out on my three grown children I was amazed at how quickly the years had gone by. My youngest was now 18 years old. My daughter was a college graduate. My oldest boy was 23 and getting older every minute. Just thinking about it I could feel my hair getting thinner and grayer and my wrinkles getting deeper. I dragged my aching, aging body into the bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror. Yes, the hair was thin and gray. The face and forehead were wrinkled a bit. The few extra pounds of middle-age were showing in places. Then I gazed into the eyes staring back at me from the mirror and I saw him: a young spirit shining out of them from deep within me. He was the spirit that still delighted in the twinkling lights of the fireflies every Summer. He was the spirit that still soared along with the birds in the morning sky. He was the spirit that still thought the laughter of a child was the most beautiful music in the world. He was the spirit that had always known that bodies are temporary but that life is eternal. He was the spirit that had always tried to keep one foot in the wonder of childhood and one foot in the love of Heaven. I smiled back at that shining spirit and took my youthful soul back out to the kitchen table to join my forever young children in some red velvet cake and vanilla ice cream. I thanked God too for reminding me that I will always be young no matter how old I get. Always remember who you really are. You are a beautiful, shining, loving soul. You are blessed by Heaven and loved by God. You are both eternal and forever young. You can never grow old unless you let yourself. May all your days be blessed with youth, laughter, and joy then. May all your years be full of loving God, yourself, and others. ~ Joseph J. Mazzella ~ You can get Joseph Mazzella's book, "WALKING THE PATH OF LOVE," at http://www.amazon.com [ by: Joseph J. Mazzella Copyright © 2011 (joecool@wirefire.com) -- {used with permission} ] |
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From Joan
Lauterbach Krause ('60) of VA -
07/06/11 - "Noah's Ark":
Check out this page! http://milescooley.com/mc/ecards/cards/2
SUCH FUN!
Thanks, Joan!
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Symphony No. 4, Movement 1
Composed by Gustav Mahler (07 July 1860 - 18 May 1911), 1888
Midi of
Mahler's Symphony No. 4, Movement 1 (unknown sequencer) courtesy
of
http://www.classicalmidi.co.uk/mahler.htm - 07/07/11
First Image of Gustav Mahler courtesy of http://www.classical-composers.org/comp/mahler - 07/07/06
Second Image of Gustav Mahler courtesy of http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4801501 - 07/07/06
Red and Blue Diamond Divider Line clip art courtesy of http://www.wtv-zone.com/nevr2l82/bars18.html - 07/05/07
Animated "NEW" clip art courtesy of http://gifsnow.com/ - 03/07/06
John Marshall High School's Justice Scale clip art courtesy of
Cheryl White Wilson (JMHS - '64) of VA - 10/13/05 (replaced 02/23/09)
Thanks, Cheryl!
Animated Army Flag clip art courtesy of http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/KevsGifsGalore/Patriotic.html - 06/18/03
Animated Tiny
Birthday Cake clip art courtesy of
Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of
VA - 08/31/05
Thanks, Sarah Sugah!
Navy Seal clip art courtesy of http://www.onemileup.com/miniSeals.asp - 05/29/06
Ferguson High School's Anchor clip art courtesy of Steve Silsby (FHS - '72) of NC - 12/14/05
Marine Corps Seal clip art courtesy of the late Herbert Hice of MI - one of my Famous Marines
who served in the South Pacific during WWII.
Kilroy Face courtesy
of
5kidz2many of MO -
01/24/10
Thanks, Rhonda!
Animated BOO-HOO
courtesy of Glenn Dye ('60) of TX - 08/28/09
Thanks, Glenn!