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bngbuck
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USA
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 Posted - 11/26/2007 : 09:04:35
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I thought it would be nice to begin the Holiday season with a clip of the new opera, O'Reilly vs. Mackris.O'Reilly v. Mackris is the new work by Igor Keller. The oratorio (which is basically an opera
without the scenery), is for a 31-piece chamber orchestra, 32-voice chorus and three soloists,
directed by Kris Falk.
The libretto is comprised of the original court document and O'Reilly's on-air settlement
announcement. Imagine a two-hour neo-baroque extravaganza including seven chorales, two
madrigals, three choruses, four recitatives, two instrumental entrances and numerous arias
dedicated to the sexual exploits of the most popular man in cable news. |
Kind of like "The Messiah", only with a real religious icon as protagonist, Bill O'Reilly! Telling the ageless story of the immaculate deception of Andrea Macris and gloryfying the sacred story of Billo's shower fantasies involving incense, myrhh, and loofah's, culminating in a anointing of falafel!
Genuflect, cross yourselves, and go to one of the Greatest Stories ever Told!
[Fixed some forum code. //Dr. Mabuse]
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Edited by - Dr. Mabuse on 11/26/2007 18:43:33
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 11/26/2007 : 09:57:00 [Permalink]
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Though (neo) Handel in style, it's also in the tradition of (P.D.Q.) Bach. What a sophisticated parody on such a consummate jerk.
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Diversity, independence, innovation and imagination are progressive concepts ultimately alien to the conservative mind.
"TAX AND SPEND" IS GOOD! (TAX: Wealthy corporations who won't go poor even after taxes. SPEND: On public works programs, education, the environment, improvements.) |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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 Posted - 11/26/2007 : 18:49:02 [Permalink]
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Oh my gosh! There is no such thing as enough warning for that one. Igor Keller is obviously a protégé or at the very least really really likes Peter Schickele as Chippewa mentioned in his reference to PDQ Bach.
I just fell off my chair laughing. Now I must send the clip to everyone I know… Oh to hear all of it…
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Starman
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Sweden
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 11/30/2007 : 02:04:52 [Permalink]
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Classical music, sex, loofas, what more could an audience want?
I do falafel for poor O'Reilly, though.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 11/30/2007 : 13:40:50 [Permalink]
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YO and then some, bngbuck!
With that magnificent work of vocal and orchestral Art, you sir, are surely winnning the hearts and minds of stubborn skeptics everywhere.
I sent this O'Really(?) Opera link to one of my friends who does an opera show on public radio. I asked him how long would I have to wait to hear him broadcast it, advising that he would see a great ratings increase----just before he's sacked. (I don't believe the fine gentlemen singer is referring to a cat, do you think?)
Picky as all skeptics are, one tiny correction in your groovy post:
the oratorio by Herr Handel is "Messiah," sans le article.
Dick Wagner must be rolling over in his crypt.
Orwellingly Yurz.
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"The modern conservative...is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
If dogs run free
Then what must be,
Must be...
And that is all
--Bob Dylan
The neo-cons have gotten welfare for themselves down to a fine art.
--me
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights."
--J. Paul Getty
"The great thing about Art isn't what it give us, but what we become through it."
--Oscar Wilde
"We have Art in order not to die of life."
--Albert Camus
"I cling like a miser to the freedom I lose when surrounded by an abundance of things."
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"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 11/30/2007 : 15:00:23 [Permalink]
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I bow to your, and wiki's, musical scholarship credentials. After a rather long lifetime of referring to the only piece of religious music I ever really enjoyed as "The Messiah", I really was unaware that Handel himself did not use the article in the title of his oratorio. Thank you for the correction.
I have to amend the above with some other exceptions. Some of JS Bach's liturgical music contains beautiful melody and power. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring comes to mind. Hopefully in brass, woodwinds, harpischord, and strings sans choir. Also beautiful in an organ transcription - as is the Tocatta and Fugue in D minor, a strictly secular piece popularized in Disney's Fantasia of long ago!
Incidentally, OY, I just received the two disc set of "Mackris v O'Reilly" in its entireity! I will be sending it to Kil in a few days after my family and I view it. I asked Kil to pass it on to any that are interested, so contact him and get on the list! Anyone else interested, contact Kil! |
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 11/30/2007 : 19:15:59 [Permalink]
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This latest Tom Tomorrow O'Reilly jab just in (on Olbermann Friday night!)
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O'Reilly as sexual predator - the Opera!
