Recent content by campy

I liked both shows.

I nominate the Negroni.

Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, from San Francisco Opera, is playing on my local NPR affiliate.

If trolleys come back to Brooklyn, they should also bring the Dodgers back to dodge the new trolleys! :D

Just as a guess, could it mean his suit coat was double-breasted?

Right now, a selection of works by Johann Sebastian Bach performed by a jazz combo.

The town where I now live was LYric 6 also! :D I remember using the exchange name instead of the digits when I was growing up. It was PYramid 1 where I lived then.

Richard Wagner, Tristan und Isolde. The Saturday afternoon broadcast from Lyric Opera of Chicago on my local public radio station.

Suite from the 1931 ballet Belkis, Queen of Sheba by Ottorino Respighi. From a Chandos CD by Geoffrey Simon &the Philharmonia Orchestra.

I made us Sidecars lat night. They turned out great! I must have hit the proportions just right. Too bad I don't remember what they were ... :(

Wow, I love that Carbon color. Oh, Santa ...?

Martinis tonight. I'm using Tanqueray gin and Stock vermouth these days, with an olive.

James Horner: The Rocketeer E. W. Korngold: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex F. Waxman: Taras Bulba J. Goldsmith: The Blue Max E. Bernstein: The Ten Commandments

"Funeral March" from Dom Sebastien by Gaetano Donizetti. Played by the US Marine Band, a free download from their website.

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8, in the Günter Wand performance recorded live at Lubeck cathedral.Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie. Any recording.Johann Strauss II: Emperor Waltz.Randall Thompson: Symphony #2, Leonard Bernstein and the NY Philharmonic on Sony.