User talk:Springeragh/Archive 24

Shiny things

Well, thank you for the shiny award, but it took me about 30 seconds: copy, paste into http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/html2wiki/ , click "convert", copy, paste into Word, replace nowiki tags with nothing, replace / with nothing, copy, paste in Wikipedia, save :) Renata (talk) 03:42, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Still, it took about 1& or 2% of the time it would have taken me. :) —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  03:44 9 March, 2008 (UTC)

Hi There

I love Ireland

Oh wiki your so fine your so fine you blow my mind (talk) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and Happy editing!
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lol

Thank you, as ever, for looking out for me :) - Alison ^❤ 04:41, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh you're welcome. Not much slips past me, but I'm hoping to not be diagnosed with OCD until I'm at least thirty five or forty…;) —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  15:33 11 March, 2008 (UTC)

I actually stared at the screen thinking for thirty minutes thinking "hmm, how can I automate this?" Will ^(talk) 23:17, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh but then I miss the pleasure of what I just did yesterday (every March now), and setting it back every October. ;) —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  23:19 11 March, 2008 (UTC) unless you were talking about my page…

Actually, this template. Will ^(talk) 23:23, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I see. —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  23:23 11 March, 2008 (UTC)

Which is way better than the old way of guessing the week number, and whether it was a Sunday... Will ^(talk) 23:24, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

More editing of the template! Now I've done it for your cousins in the north. Will ^(talk) 23:33, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes, quite. —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  23:28 11 March, 2008 (UTC)

Re:whats this about?

its about whatever you want it to be about (thats why its fun). feel free to add whatever you want. Evaunit♥666♥ 01:20, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

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Ooh, green

I'm upset I can't pinch you now :(. Oh, and email :) Will ^(talk) 14:31, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Ha. What I forgot to put in the edit summary is that I actually did it thinking of you. ;) —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  16:12 17 March, 2008 (UTC)

Wishing you a happy Saint Patrick's Day

Even though I don't hold very much to the "luck of the Irish," oh well. Good day, mate. bibliomaniac15 Midway upon life's journey... 04:54, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Happy Saint Patrick's Day to you yoo my friend. It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know? Cheers! :) Dfrg_msc 05:49, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Happy St. Patrick's Day Cliff. You forgot to put a St. Patrick's Day template on my talk page. Are we still friends? Or you forgot about it? Have a nice day. :) King Lopez ^Contribs 09:15, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

+ Added myself back here. I hope you don't mind. King Lopez ^Contribs 09:29, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

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Happy (late) St. Patrick's Day & Easter!

Sorry I haven't gotten to this sooner, I've not been around at all these last few months. It's not like I can't or shouldn't, I've just kind of gotten into other stuff. ANYhow, thanks for the Happy [Days]; I hope you enjoyed yours as much as I did mine. I also had not noticed this edit, I'm greatly appreciative. Wishing you well, tennisman 14:41, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Same birthday?

Heh... along with Maria Anna Mozart, Emily Brontë, Henry Ford, Clive Sinclair, The Terminator, Kate Bush, Lisa Kudrow, Sean Moore, Christopher Nolan, Hilary Swank, Ian Watkins, Jaime Pressly, and Sean Dillon... plus a number of other (apparently) notable figures... quite a list, huh? --Vox Humana 8' 14:54, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

I knew about all the ones I didn't eliminate. Oh and I was also born on the 48^th anniversary of Elvis' debut. —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  04:50 3 April, 2008 (UTC)

An early April Fool?

GRR. You're not the first person to point out that I've got a day ahead of myself. I feel such an idiot :( --Voxpuppet (talk • contribs) 13:27, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

belated thanks

Hi Spring, thanks for the holiday greetings while I was away! Love, Kyoko 10:57, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Mengele would be more appropriate

Sorry, in-joke between me and Snopake, bless her heart. Nice use of the word "shitface". I'm proud. ;) Sceptre ^(talk) 08:02, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

I…um…learned from Elara. ;) It's interesting, because sometimes (as you've noticed) I use slightly looser language on the net than I would in real life, but in real life I only swear when, well for example if somebody was threatening my daughter or sister or mother or pretty much anyone in my family, I would likely lose it and indulge my taste for the verbal colour palette. Apart from that, any young kids could listen to what I say during the course of my day. —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  18:28 8 April, 2008 (UTC)

Aprils Fool's is over, btw ;) Sceptre ^(talk) 18:38, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

I thought about that last night before I went to bed (I think I was working on a Word document) but then I never changed it. Stupid —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  18:41 8 April, 2008 (UTC)

I so should get a talk radio spot. "Sceptre: the guy who tells it as it is". Unlike propaganda machines like good old Bill O'Reily. Sceptre ^(talk) 00:13, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Rachawesome!

One of my faves. BTW, thought you'd appreciate more César Cui in it. Thank me later.(-: Jonyungk (talk) 04:28, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Cui only exists in hell (where he deserved to go), where he runs a conservatory. —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  04:32 13 April, 2008 (UTC)

Nothing more about the symphony? Perhaps I have given Cui more than his due. Jonyungk (talk) 21:46, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps. —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  00:53 17 April, 2008 (UTC)

Doee this mean I'm in the Rachdoghouse? I suspect you're really piussed off about this. If that's the case, it's like Andy M and the Mahler 2nd Symphony—why do anything on it? It'll all get undid anyway. Jonyungk (talk) 04:07, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh no, don't worry about that. Sure, Cui pisses me off, but in order to keep NPOV I suppose we should include some of his comments. I guess I could have sounded less curt there, but I didn't want to make an idiot of myself by soapboxing for thirty lines. :) —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  00:53 22 April, 2008 (UTC)

Well, that's understandable. You should perhaps save something for Pitts Sanborn's comments on the Rachmaninofff Fourth Concerto. :) Jonyungk (talk) 17:12, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

…which actually isn't that bad of a piece—I just happen to like the other three better. ;) —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  00:14 23 April, 2008 (UTC)

For me it's tempting to skip all four and head straight for the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Jonyungk (talk) 00:55, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Which I have also done. I have a six-CD set of Vladimir Aškenazy with André Previn conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. It has (this is all, I think)

Piano Concerto No. 1

Piano Concerto No. 2

Piano Concerto No. 3

Piano Concerto No. 4

Piano Sonata No. 2 ("why not No. 1 as well?" I asked when it came in the mail)

Suite No. 1

Suite No. 2

Russian Rhapsody

Preludes Opp. 3 #2; 23; 32

Etudes-Tableaux, Opp. 33 & 39

I think there might be one more thing, but maybe that's all. —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  23:00 23 April, 2008 (UTC)

Nice set. I have the "Trio" box set of Ashkenazy playing

Piano Concerto No. 1

Piano Concerto No. 2

Piano Concerto No. 3

Piano Concerto No. 4

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Variations on a Theme of Corelli(The piece you were trying to remember?)

Piano Sonata No. 2

Nobody seems to do the First Sonata—it's big, extremely taxing and hard as hell to hold together. Olli Mustonen recorded a version recently that works for me. Sergio Fiorentino also recorded it but it didn't work that well for me—strange since I like most of the other Rachmaninoff pieces I've heard him play. Jonyungk (talk) 00:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

That must be the same set I have. And the Corelli Variations were the one I couldn't remember. :) —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  01:04 24 April, 2008 (UTC)

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something from the real Kyoko

Awww, Spring, thank you! *hugs back* --Kyoko 13:46, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Btw, Spring, you can easily ask a steward to rename the imposters :) Sceptre ^(talk) 14:22, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I was planning to; I just haven't gotten around to it. And you're very welcome, Kyoko. :) —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  02:30 25 April, 2008 (UTC)

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How much do you like Shosty?

I don't remember working as hard on an article on a piece of music as I have on the Lenningrad Symphony off-and-on the last couple of weeks. Funny thing is, I didn't rewrite the article—just added onto what was already there and NPOV'd much of the rest. Funny, huh? Jonyungk (talk) 05:37, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

I like his music just fine, I just don't have any recordings so I almost never listen to it. —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  21:53 27 April, 2008 (UTC)

e-mail

Hi Spring, check your e-mail. It's not urgent, but it's something you should probably follow up on. --Kyoko 21:37, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

I did. :) —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  00:27 1 May, 2008 (UTC)

Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich)

Thanks for looking this over. (: Jonyungk (talk) 05:12, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

If only your last name was Edge

:P Sceptre ^(talk) 13:28, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

. . . right . . . :P —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  04:09 4 May, 2008 (UTC)

RachSymOne

Been (obviously) adding, finding out more about the piece and the first performance, but I'm quickly hitting a dead end on where or whether to go from here. Could you please look and give me your two cents' worth? Since we both love this piece, thought you wouldn't mind. Thanks! Jonyungk (talk) 03:09, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Well? (: Jonyungk (talk) 19:43, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

I'll probably have to look over it again—I was busy today. Unless not that much has changed since I last copy edited it… —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  03:47 9 May, 2008 (UTC)

Never mind—don't worry about it. Jonyungk (talk) 00:05, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Woot?

I hope so ;) Sceptre ^(talk) 22:39, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

You take things too literally and too soon. ;) —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  23:53 22 May, 2008 (UTC)

Well, I don't need love to unite with me. All I need is a longcoat and/or a cape, and BAM! I'm an anime cliché. Sceptre ^(talk) 00:02, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Tuba cruft?

You seem to be one of the only musically informed (judging by your edits) editors of the Tuba article. I suspect that many of the composers listed in the "Roles" section are either not all that notable, or are not even composers, but just the names of some middle-schooler's friends. Not knowing very much about the tuba or the repertoire, I thought I'd ask you to check it out or help find a knowledgeable tubist to help. Any ideas? - Special-T (talk) 01:49, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

You mean this section?

(===Roles===) An orchestra usually has a single tuba, though occasionally a second tuba is required. It serves as the bass of the brass section, as reinforcement for the strings and woodwinds, and as a solo instrument.

The Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz was the first major work orchestrated for tuba. It was originally scored for two ophicleides, but Berlioz changed it after hearing the newly invented tuba. Other composers also composed influential parts for the tuba, including:

• Maurice Ravel (Pictures at an Exhibition - Bydlo)
• Richard Strauss (Also sprach Zarathustra, Eine Alpensinfonie).
• Shostakovich (Fifth symphony).
• Stravinsky (The Rite of Spring).
• Edgard Varèse (Déserts).
• Richard Wagner (Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Ride of the Valkyries).
• Sergei Prokofiev (Fifth Symphony).
• George Gershwin (An American in Paris)
• Howard Shore (Music from The Lord of the Rings)

Concertos have been written for the tuba by many notable composers, including Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edward Gregson, John Williams, Alexander Arutiunian, James Woodward, Eric Ewazen, James Barnes, Martin Ellerby, Rober Jager, Alexej Lebedjew, Philip Sparke, and Bruce Broughton. Tubas are also used in concert bands, marching bands, and in drum and bugle (and drum and brass) corps. In British style brass bands, both E-flat and B-flat tubas are used and are normally referred to as basses.

—  $PЯINGεrαgђ  04:08 26 May, 2008 (UTC)

Yes - the pieces named seem a little arbitrary (do they all actually feature some "top-10" tuba part?), but mostly the list of composers of tuba concertos needs a going-over by someone familiar with the literature. - Special-T (talk) 04:33, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Possibly, but my thinking is that if the link is blue (which all but two of them are), then they're probably notable enough to be in the list. I also know from other material that at least Vaughan Williams, Willians, and Woodward actually did write concerti. —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  04:42 27 May, 2008 (UTC)

A couple of them (Barnes & Woodward, I think) lead to disambiguation pages which don't include a composer in the list; Broughton is a film composer, and his article that reads like a press release. It seems that, with such a short list, there are undue weight and possible COI issues. I'll remove the redlinks and bad links for now. Thanks for your help. - Special-T (talk) 11:27, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

OK, let me look at it…there does indeed appear to be no composer by the name of James Woodward, however James Barnes is one (look at the list); was born in 1949. —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  19:31 28 May, 2008 (UTC)

I did a little trimming - my remaining concern is whether these are indeed the composers who should be on a very short list of composers of tuba concertos. Thanks a lot for your help. - Special-T (talk) 19:45, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

YouTube Stupidities -_-

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zzMcDc5S9mM

I think that the guy who posted the second comment down needs to get some brains. ♥ Fredil 19:10, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

…and a comfit. —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  20:25 1 June, 2008 (UTC)