Mariannes Motifs

Early Classical Music Free Amazon Download

This is a great one - the whole album is free MP3 download from Amazon right now.  I particularly like track 3 Basse Danse, "La Magdalena."  Wonderful for a lullaby for the kids.

Ben has taken to listening to his MP3 player before he goes to sleep.  He has a really nice one that Grandpa gave him for his birthday last year that has a speaker built in so he doesn't have to wear headphones if he doesn't want to.  I love the way Ben puts himself to sleep.  He is growing into such a nice sweet boy.

Down with the Sickness

Last night after the kids went to bed Jin and I played rock band until the wee hours of the morning.  I particularly enjoyed playing Down with the Sickness, by Disturbed.  I think this song is very cathartic. 

Just in case you need a laugh here is a fan made Alvin and the Chipmunks style version of Down With the Sickness.

What kind of sickness you may ask?  Not mesothelioma.

Wa-Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah

Vote for Juliana's Video on Unavision

My co-worker Juliana is in a Univision Contest to be in "Objetivo Fama" (like a Spanish American Idol)

You can listen to her video on the web and vote for Juliana! Here are some instructions from her for those who don't read Spanish -

Now there is 10 videos not 20 and I am still in the contest thanks to your votes so please keep voting and telling everyone you know!!!

Please vote for me every day until May 18^th, 2008, so I can win the contest!> You can watch the video too, just click on it, my husband acts on it…

This also gives you the opportunity to win $10,000. I am the only one representing Georgia on this contest!!!! If I win I get to participate in Objetivo Fama (like American Idol in Spanish). http://www.univision.com/content/channel.jhtml?chid=6&schid=10589&secid=11974

Here is the translation for the information you have to fill out to vote:

Nombre: Name
Apellido: Last name
Sexo: Gender
Fecha de nacimiento: Date of birth
Direccion: Address
Ciudad: City
Estado: State
Codigo posta: Zip code
Telefono: Phone #

On the right side just put NO, so you don’t receive information from them on your e-mail. Then accept (Aceptar) and click on the red sign that says “envia tu voto” Thanks!

Juliana

MET LIVE in HD - Saturday, March 15 - Peter Grimes

MET LIVE in HD - Saturday, March 15 - Peter Grimes

What a goose-bump inducing thought - people all over the world gathering together in movie theaters to watch a live performance of the Metropolitan Opera presented in HD with fantasic theater sound quality. 

List of Participating Theaters

Description of this week's Opera

Peter Grimes (new production) – Britten

LIVE - Saturday, March 15, 2008 (1:30 pm – Eastern Time)

ENCORE – Sunday, March 16, 2008 (3:00 pm – Eastern Time)

Running time: 3 hours, 45 minutes. 2 intermissions

 
Peter Grimes is under investigation for unthinkable transgressions, yet Benjamin Britten’s probing exploration of the nature of guilt and judgment implicates an entire fishing village. Director John Doyle, a Tony Award® winner for his interpretation of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, makes his Met debut answering the challenges of this modern masterpiece. Tenor Anthony Dean Griffey takes on the complex title role. The riveting Patricia Racette plays Ellen Orford, the woman who refuses to abandon him. Featuring what may be 20th-century opera’s most impressive tenor role, Peter Grimes, with its sweeping orchestral beauty, will be an engrossing and haunting theatrical journey.

 Conductor Donald Runnicles; Production John Doyle; Patricia Racette, Anthony Dean Griffey, Anthony Michaels-Moore

 

Mercury Opera Guild featured in Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

My Dad, Art Axelrod, is a board member of the Mercury Opera Guild in Rochester, NY.  They are a young opera organization that brought together groups that had brought opera into the city, and organized trips to regional opera houses.  Now, they stage their own performances multiple times a year!

Another thing they do is community education.  My Dad does opera talks at local libraries and other sites around town.  They were written up in the paper  - here is a link to the story.

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008801230308

The Police are coming to Atlanta Nov 17th

Oh My Gosh!!! I am so excited I can't even tell you.  The Police tour is coming to Atlanta on November 17th. 

I must have tickets!  They go on presale June 30th at 10:00 am.  I hope Best Buy will have the presales codes for this one like they have for the others.     This is like a birthday present from Sting.  (Yesterday was my birthday)

I have been waiting HOPING that they would tack additional dates on the end of the tour because why would they not come to beautiful sunny Atlanta?  Yes, I am giddy like a school girl, and I just don't care.  I lurve the Police.  They were my hight school band crush and I saw them in like 1983 two times at least.  I know I saw them in Rochester and Syracuse.  I can't quite remember if I saw them any other time.  I was such a fan I have a Police scrap book of articles, photos, ticket stubs, etc.