Joseph

Can there be two of them in the same land? And if so, which one ranks higher?

Hasn't an American composer written something that would be more appropriate for our 4th of July festivities?

Since you can just subtract from pi/2 or 90 or whatever, isn't the cosine key completely unnecessary?

At least that's the impression I get from the answers to Lisa's question yesterday "Why do scientific calculators have a cosine key and a tangent key but not a cotangent key?" They practically bit her head off worse than if she had asked them to do her homework for her.

But now I too am curious as to how they choose what to put on those calculators. I'm no math genius and I don't need anyone to remind me of that. So unless you work for Texas Instruments or something like that, don't bother answering this question.

I'm thinking the next pope will probably choose anything but Benedict. I know I wouldn't even consider it if I was a cardinal with a shot at becoming pope at this point in history.

Because they say every Marine is a rifleman. I don't mind going to boot camp and running and marching and rappelling, but I don't know if I care to learn to use a deadly weapon. But the Marine Band seems to me to be the most prestigious military band in the world.

(This is hypothetical at this point because I still have at least another year before I can audition for any band).

Like Symphony No. 3 is apparently "S. 3 (K. 1A3)"?

What role does the prime factorization of the integer play?

What would you do if you were in that position?

Pubbanimitta ("Foreboding") by Narong Prangcharoen is a very representative sample:

http://www.americancomposers.org/rel_unmr2011winne...

but I could have picked out just about any other.

Season 5, disc 4, "Dramma Giocoso"

In rehearsal, a singer forgets her line and the conductor has a temper tantrum. Then, the night of the concert, at the first intermission, the star violinist whom the conductor promised to make "first violin" (I know, I know, never mind that detail) goes to the roof. At the start of Act II, the singer has blood on her costume. Then the familiar Law & Order music.

Later on in the episode, a few different operas are mentioned, but it doesn't seem like any of them could be the one from the beginning of the episode.

With the divisors sorted in ascending order, e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12.

And how do you generalize it beyond 2 (obviously 1 is the certain first divisor, 2 is the likeliest second divisor)

Wasps Overture or the Tallis Fantasia? Like if they asked you, "What else by him should we play besides these same VW works we play every single week?"

A new addition to the Naxos Music Library is the so-called "Egyptian" Symphony No. 9 by Hermann Nitsch, lasting 1:41:00 in a recording by Marthe. (NML makes available CD booklets as PDFs for some recordings, but not this one). To answer Anita's side question, I would have to be extremely high (not just slightly buzzed) to listen to that whole thing in one seating. I skipped around, and it seems to me like the whole thing could be condensed to half the length, or maybe even a quarter of the length.

In between the gushing hyperbole of Marthe (the conductor—major props to the musicians who slogged through that, by the way) and the trashing hyperbole of those who bemoan that Havergal Brian's "Gothic" had to wait decades for its premiere, that Bruckner didn't even hear his Fifth played when he was alive, there has to be some kind of lesson for the real composers of today:

How can they harness whatever it is that Nitsch has tapped into to get his orchestral music played? I know at least a couple of guys who've written some great music for large orchestra, and a third who now only writes piano music because he's lost any hope of getting even the smallest ensemble to play his music.

Also, what is their opinion of the Lutherbibel?

You know, that label that records so much classical music known for its distinctive yellow insignia on the covers?

And why did he set the Psalms in German?

The clapping is by the characters in the opera.

It was a Featured Addition on the Naxos Music Library a week ago, or maybe the week before that. I listened to Act I and meant to finish it the other day but I forgot about it until now.

http://imslp.org/wiki/Talk:Vuvuzela_Concerto_(Matt...

Is there a standard way to rate encryptions?

Or in the Navy an Ensign to a Master Chief Petty Officer?

I've only heard Blomstedt with the San Francisco and Vänskä's with the BBC Scottish Symhony, and of those two I kind of like the drummer from the BBC Scottish better.