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Ok, not technically, but yeesh...who decides what to put on the sleeve of the typical classical music album?
Another HvK/VPO and yep, every bit as good as the others.
And boobies!
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Follow Ups:
Bacon...and boobies!
...my ideal date circa 1970.
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Surly.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Or a stooge named Curley.
And please--stop calling me "Shirley."
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Couldn't you find a PLAYBOY! They were pretty good in those years! I had a closet stuffed with my older brother's old ones. His legacy to me. He could have done worse!
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I had an Italian mom. One of those "death lurks just outside the door" Italian moms. The kind that would reach over and cover my eyes if anything "racy" came up on a movie screen.
Swear she had radar more advanced that anything NASA ever used. Could detect smut at 100 paces. No Playboy or Penthouse was ever crossing our threshold.
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Luckily, I lived on the second floor. Except when I was sick, my mother rarely went up those stairs. Hence, privacy. The magazines were well hidden. In later years it was even possible to sneak marijuana up there. My mom didn't have radar, but she did have an amazing sense of smell. Luckily, she didn't know what marijuana smelled like....
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It seems that the Stereo Treasury Series folks were just re-issuing older recordings, at a discount, from the Decca catalog without regard to slick marketing, promotion and artwork.
They used a bunch of stock art laying around in the archives that they "thought" was apropos.
I have a copy of Sibelius' Symphony No. 2 on Chesky, has a picture of a couple sailboats out of the water next to what might be a frozen fjord.
IIRC, one of the other Cheskys I have, there's a painting of a cottage in the mountains on the front of the sleeve. Is that supposed to be where the composer wrote this? Did he vacation there?
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7 is my least-favorite of LvB's symphonies.
It's the banal "Irish Washerwoman" music.
That's a totally clueless LP cover.
Speaking of clueless covers:
Telarc's Robert Shaw Brahms German Requiem CD had for a cover a crop of a dark Spanish-style painting of the dead Jesus being taken down from the Cross.
In art history, that is called a "Deposition Scene."
TOTALLY effin effin CLUELESS.
Brahms wrote his "Vernacular Language" (meaning not Latin!!!) Requiem from scratch, NOT modeling the Roman-Mass KGCSAD Ordinary, but choosing his texts from Testaments Old and New SPECIFICALLY to avoid references to Jesus, His Passion, His Sacrificial Atonement, and His Resurrection.
Totally.
There is not a shred of Jesus (except perhaps vague OT prefigurements) in Brahms' German Requiem, which Brahms later thought better of; he wished he had called it a Human Requiem.
Because by "German," Brahms was not referring to his occasionally TOXIC German Nationalism ("Triomphlied"), but rather to the fact that he was turning his back on the Latin Ordinary.
And, the singers were singing in German. Even if the performance were to be taking place in, O, I dunno, Belgium?
ciao,
john
...or a painting of 19th Century toffs having a party somewhere.
Always good for a laugh.
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