Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 05-26-19 23:18 <=-

Oh, generally... It WAS a wedding after all, with all on best behaviour... ;)

You do run in a classier circle than mine!

Most of them were family... They'd have to live with me afterwards
still.... ;)

There is that.
Did you prepare more for the ones who were closer
to you?

Not really.... Some of them challenged me more by their choices... but
that also happened once with a non-family member...

In general, I found myself playing better for clients
to whom I was more favorably inclined because they
were simpatici or knew music or paid double.

As with my piano teaching, I didn't really have a lot of gigs or
students... just enough to have a steady trickle (not even a stream)...

marry my daughter. As well as numerous arguments and
even a minor altercation or two. The coolest thing was
when I was leading a quartet that had been paid by the
bride's father, and he requested an aria from a Puccini
opera where the girl dies.

Isn't that the case in all the Puccini operas....? ;) Maybe he just thought it a very romantic aria....

It was a rather grim aria (forget which) where
the girl was basically coughing up blood while
she sang (but it wasn't Boheme).

Oh, how romantic.... Was Traviata Puccini...?

More Power to him.... ;)

You and the Ruths, sneaking references in to which
the moderator offers a myopic if not blindblind eye.

I was referring to the organist, not anything religious (this time, anyway)... E. Powerful, as he's sometimes referred to as.... :)

I used to play occasionally with his successor
at the church in Brookline, and people there
called him, well, less favorable things, but don't
ask me what.

Ok, I won't... ;) He did have a varied reputation... :)

he'd hiss over to her something like, Ginny! ONE two
three ONE two three - loud enough for people in the
audience to notice sometimes. But in this case it was
almost invariably his fault. The best defense is a good
offense. Playing with these people was never a great
pleasure.

What petty people... no I imagine it wouldn't be a pleasure... :(

What I did for love ... .

Indeed. ;)

My friend Jackie once suggested that I should be
a gigolo, as it would be more fun for not much
more self-abasement.

She did have a point....

One of my taglines when I had taglines was a bit long
but said to the effect of some say things are revolutionary
when they are merely revolting.

Stolen.

Fashion it into taglineable material
and it's yours.

I did.... see below... (G)

One problem of course is that scientists are affected
by the same selfish desires and aspirations that any
other professional is guided by - including politicians.
priests, physicians, prostitutes, provisioners.

Such a list... (G)

Chefs, clerics, captains, ... .

Nice additions... ;)

Singers, stockbrokers, and sound engineers.

Indeed.

Saccharin works best in cooperation with other
sweeteners. Of course sugar is the best of these.

And one might as well just use sugar... possibly just slightly reduce
it, if one is worried about the carbs or whatever...

Most of the zero-Calorie sweeteners put
regular sugars in to mellow out the
artificiality; they used just under the
amount that would deliver enough carbs to
be reportable.

Wouldn't they need to be listed in the ingredients still, though...?

... The best Scottish food is the kind you drink.

The Scots were proud of their historical alliance
with the French, which brought haute rather than
oat cuisine to that blasted part of the world.

How much of that stayed, though....? :)

The Scots think a lot.

Jim Weller seemed to think so, too... :)

ttyl neb

... Some say things are revolutionary when they are merely revolting

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