September 25
As summer begins to heat up in Vacationland USA, we continue our quest to catch up with events gone by. ~ Me
You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet. ~ Gerry Mulligan
[This was the swan song for our long-time local trumpeter, Bill Riggs. Long since retired as a teacher in the Alexandria school system, he has played with many bands over the years as someone who can “fill in the blanks” absent music crib notes. He and Anne are moving to Northfield to be closer to the younger generations of the family. He will be missed (as I recall, this photo is on loan from Michael Tisserand) . . . ]
There’s a quality to the sound of a trumpet that you can really twist for any kind of sound and mood that you want to create. ~ Alexandre Desplat
July 11
I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw. ~ Jimmy Breslin
[Bill and company, i.e., Tuesday Nightclub, for what may have been the final performance of the group at the Garden Bar . . . ]
A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk. ~ Alec Guinness
Life is like a trumpet – if you don’t put anything into it, you don’t get anything out of it. ~ William Christopher Handy
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet. ~ Theodore Hesburgh
There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people. ~ George Galloway
The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra – you really need it. ~ Gerald Edelman
[The aforementioned photographer, Michael Tisserand . . . ]
The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible. ~ Wynton Marsalis
I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up. ~ Flea
My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me. ~ Garry Shandling
[“Hmmm, I wonder what this button is for?”]
Also, I’d like to play an athlete again, while I’m still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet and sing. I’d like to incorporate that into a character. ~ Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
[The Super shares a front row table with Sue and Harvey (also a retired teacher and active member of the Fat Boys Walking Club) . . . ]
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. ~ Al Stewart
The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we’ve had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world. ~ Bruce Springsteen
There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won’t. ~ Annie Lennox
[Mary Lou Thunselle often participates in such gatherings as “the girl singer” . . . ]
You’re gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you’re singing. ~ Patsy Cline
It isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re going that counts. ~ Ella Fitzgerald
I don’t try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it. ~ Norah Jones
As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me. ~ Carly Simon
Always be smarter than the people who hire you. ~ Lena Horne
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~ Judy Garland
We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that. ~ Gilbert Baker
[Bill with the aforementioned Anne Riggs, nee my high school French teacher . . . ]
Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there. ~ Barbara Walters
[Thanks for the memories . . . ]
I’ve always taken ‘The Wizard of Oz’ very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I’ve spent my entire life trying to get over it. ~ Judy Garland
Man’s greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches, ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women. ~ Genghis Khan
July 12
You might not be riding high on a great show for as long because you didn’t have people to share the joy with. ~ Aoife O’Donovan
Of course we all come to the theatre with baggage. The baggage of our daily lives, the baggage of our problems, the baggage of our tragedies, the baggage of being tired. It doesn’t matter what age you are. But if our hearts get opened and released – well that is what theatre can do, and does sometimes, and everyone is thankful when that happens. ~ Vanessa Redgrave
[I think would probably be considered the surprise hit of the season – we loved it . . . ]
Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. ~ Yasmina Reza
There’s no real theatre without taking risks. ~ Haris Pasovic
Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to. ~ Willem Dafoe
[And now for my photos . . . ]
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation. ~ Stella Adler
[The stage . . . ]
A video taped stage performance is just – you know, it’s never gonna be the same as it is if you’re sitting there live in the theatre. ~ Nathan Lane
[An after play discussion with Nicole and the actors . . . ]
Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. ~ Tom Stoppard
If I only did theatre I would have had to waitress, and I didn’t want to waitress. ~ Kim Cattrall
July 14
I’m just a garbage American who only speaks English. And a little Gollum. ~ Audrey (Ashley Parks)
[Summer movie time . . . ]
Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself. ~ G. K. Chesterton
We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box. ~ Winston Churchill
July 16
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. ~ Henri Nouwen
[Why yes, another Sunday breakfast at the golf club . . . ]
You can’t take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later. ~ Richard Roeper
[The new pro shop . . . ]
Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine. ~ Joan Collins
[Approach to the Rolling Forks Vineyard . . . ]
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others. ~ Diogenes
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. ~ Aldous Huxley
[Where we went for an afternoon of music with Anthony Miltich. That’s Anthony with his back to the camera chatting with other Alexandrians who had made the trip to Glenwood . . . ]
[It was quite windy that day, Anthony used an overturned table as a wind block . . . ]
Either give me more wine or leave me alone. ~ Rumi
[The aforementioned Anthony at work . . . ]
I drink and I know things. ~ Tyrion Lannister
Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you. ~ William Shakespeare
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. ~ Oscar Wilde
[The Super checks out overhead Italian satellites, positioning to fraudify the 2024 elections . . . ]
A man’s got to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another drink. ~ W.C. Fields
[As Lake Minnewaska naps in the background . . . ]
There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne. ~ Bette Davis
[Leaving the winery via the long road, Selnes, down to the lake . . . ]
A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. ~ Henry David Thoreau
There’s only one way to tackle life, enjoy a day at the beach, and jump into a Great Lake: Headfirst! ~ Viola Shipman
[Minnewaska lakeshore drive . . . ]
Do lovely was the loneliness of a wild lake. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
[Peters Sunset Beach Resort, long a local area landmark . . . ]
Real freedom lies in wilderness, not in civilization. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
July 18
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter. ~ John Burroughs
[Summer in the backyard . . . ]
I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid. ~ Jimmy Buffett
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. ~ John Lubbock
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. ~ Anton Chekhov
I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
[Meanwhile, back at Theatre L’Homme Dieu . . . ]
I love you more than anybody in the world… I love you for millions and millions of things, clocks and vampires and dirty nails and squiggly paintings and lovely hair and being dizzy and falling dreams. ~ Dylan Thomas
[The actors, rather well-known in Minnesota . . . ]
My blind eyes are desperately waiting for the sight of you. You don’t realise of course, E.B., how fascinatingly beautiful you have always been, and how strangely you have acquired an added and special and dangerous loveliness. ~ Richard Burton
Meg Ryan was nice [ in When Harry Met Sally] … the writing was good … but it was really kind of a boy’s club, I mean, there was Bruno Kirby, Rob Reiner, Billy Crystal – talk about your testosterone trio! ~ Carrie Fisher
I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics. ~ Hope Solo
When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To break the monotony, I would sing a few songs here and there between the playing. I sang things I had known over the years. I wasn’t trying to give it any special treatment, just singing. I noticed thereafter people started requesting more singing, and it was just one of those things. ~ Nat King Cole
A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we’re doing in a trio format. ~ Branford Marsalis
I don’t want to live – I want to love first, and live incidentally. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald
[The stage, unattended . . . ]
I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough. ~ Franz Kafka
[Theatre executive director Nicole Mulder “sets the stage . . . “]
You made me happy and you made me laugh, and if I could do it all over again, I would not hesitate. Look at our life, at the trips we took, the adventures we had. As your father used to say, we shared the longest ride together, this thing called life, and mine has been filled with joy because of you. ~ Nicholas Sparks
[A reunion of two former Hoosiers (photobombed by a local celebrity) . . . ]
You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don’t light a match when you kiss me. ~ Jon Bon Jovi
[Mr. Shelby with some of the theatre’s finest . . . ]
My number-one website is brainpickings.org. It opens you up to different authors and gives insights into the literary world. Reading about the love letters novelist Vladimir Nabokov wrote to his wife Vera blew my mind. Fascinating. ~ Brie Larson
[Don and Nicole . . . ]
My dream as a child was to play with a bass player like Ray Brown, who played with the Oscar Peterson Trio. The feeling I had listening to his work was almost carnal, so to actually play for him was earth-shattering for me. ~ Diana Krall
[Mr. Shelby joined the band for a little post-play entertainment . . . ]
I believe the core of most of us women is very simple. We want to feel appreciated, acknowledged, and something as simple as flowers with a little note or some love letters goes a long way. ~ Yolanda Hadid
[These people were all subsequently recaptured and returned to custody after a 20-county search . . . ]
July 19
I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet. ~ Henny Youngman
[Wednesday night fine dining at the golf club . . . ]
I like to be home on a Friday night. I don’t go out. I don’t go to clubs. It’s not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. ~ Kaley Cuoco
[Don’cha just love eating your food container?]
July 20
I started out with a carpet-cleaning business. Then I had a lunch wagon business, where you pull up and serve food. Then I had bars and then restaurants. ~ Mike Lindell
[The new adjunct to the Garden Bar on 6th – just across the street . . . ]
When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig – 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon, I ended up playing in all the bars within driving distance of Abbott, Texas. ~ Willie Nelson
It’s okay to look at the past and the future. Just don’t stare. ~ Lisa Lieberman-Wang
Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired. ~ Michel Tournier
Up Next: Still in the catch up mode . . .
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