May 30May 30 I found myself on fat-finger spell check in the middle of an e-mail and was interrupted by a female friend of mine who comes most every day to help me clean, and was living with me since this past October, until about a week ago when she got her own place, (Jackie, who my piano sonata is dedicated to) and what I returned to was Whither in the livin. It was to her and I was talking about cleaning, and I was saying "whether in the living room or in the computer room." When the curtain is lifted in Act 1 of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, the prince Tamino is being chased by a giant slithering snake, when the Queen of the Night's Three Warrior Hunettes armed with bows slay the snake and rescue Tamino. He didn't know what he was getting into! He fell in with the Königen der Nacht. How much sense does the plot of Die Zauberflöte make? About as much in English as in German: absolutely none.I was communicating with Jackie and got stopped by that "writher in the livin" but it got me to thinking...Writher, Slither; that Schlang chasing Tamino was just slitherin' in the livin! Those Three Warrior Hunettes perforated him and ruined his day. If I were a snake, I would be slitherin' in the livin' too! 🤣 Edited June 7Jun 7 by Churchcantor
May 30May 30 Author Was also researching Mozart's famous "CHUCK MUCK" letter, to his first cousin he called Bäsle who he was well, at 22 in 1778, and the rest of the letter has some particularly scatological puns that I will leave out, but is very long in a big text wall, because he was to be going to see her soon, and the rest is very well written, but MUCK, CHUCK! –MUCK! –SUCK—O CHARMANTE! Mozart was just punning on a certain English cuss word beginning with F that he particularly liked! Mozart liked English and always wanted to learn it. He loved to say "good night" to his family every night and giggle at it, though Gute Nacht is almost the same!Muck, Chuck! | Mozartrazom Edited June 7Jun 7 by Churchcantor
May 30May 30 Author What MUCK! –SUCK—O CHARMANTE! MUCK, SUCK! You know what pleases me! means I will leave to you guys! 🤣📯🎷🎤😘🎺🔔😎 Edited June 7Jun 7 by Churchcantor
June 5Jun 5 Author Anyway, the woman in the first post is Jackie, who my piano sonata is dedicated to, and she thought this was funny.On 5/30/2026 at 10:04 AM, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:lolYou are the composer/pianist on here I would most like to meet, and you have to be in Hong Kong! Long swim. All I know about Hong Kong is from James Clavell books, like Tai Pan and Noble House! They are very good books about westerners trading in Hong Kong in the 1840s and 1960 respectively. If you ever get to DC, I'm about two hours south. Edited June 5Jun 5 by Churchcantor
June 5Jun 5 5 hours ago, Churchcantor said:All I know about Hong Kong is from James Clavell books, like Tai Pan and Noble House! They are very good books about westerners trading in Hong Kong in the 1840s and 1960 respectively.Haha Hong Kong is now getting "from chaos to order" and "from order to prosperity" so it will be very different from the books you read then 😗
June 5Jun 5 Author 6 minutes ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:Haha Hong Kong is now getting "from chaos to order" and "from order to prosperity" so it will be very different from the books you read then 😗Oh, I am sure!
June 6Jun 6 Author 16 hours ago, Churchcantor said:Oh, I am sure!Is this where you are?Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts - Wikipedia
June 6Jun 6 Author I AM 57 and well-read, so I know about the 150-year lease after the Opium Wars by the British Empire 1847-1997 and all that, but I have not yet swum there from the east coast of Virginia! 🤣
Thursday at 08:56 PM1 day Author Three Warrior Hunettes? Not half so bad as Wagner! Spiky horn leather hats! I love his music, but his last opera (Music Drama, so he could kick me were he alive, here, at least!) Parsifal is all about Racial Purity! Hitler loved it, his favorite opera. Wagner didn't like Jews, but was at least civil towards Jews, and worked with them. A Jewish person could have played in his orchestra, and if they played well, he didn't mind. His operas are too long, but then again, I even find Mozart operas to be too long. Weber's Der Freischütz is the ideal, my favorite opera. Caspar was such an incompetent warlock! The Devil himself even did not find him to be of any use...Der Freischütz Ernst Kozub Arlene Saunders Edith Mathis Hans Sotin Gottlob Frick HamburgFootnote: Parsifal overuses the Dresden Amen! Too many times, I think in various keys...I have the score.AMEN DI DRESDAAnd Mendelssohn was of Jewish extraction, but became a Reformed Christian. His grandfather Moses Mendelssohn was a famous Rabbi and scholar!Peace I leave with you (Felix Mendelssohn)Adolf Hitler didn't like Mendelssohn, still technically Jewish. He missed out...just listen to the violin concerto!Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (with Score) Edited Thursday at 09:43 PM1 day by Churchcantor
Thursday at 09:11 PM1 day Author Ah, Wagner!What's Opera, Doc? (1957) Opening and ClosingVery hard to find the entire cartoon, Warner Brothers' best cartoon, and maybe the best Bugs Bunny cartoon, even if you pay. Go figure... Edited Thursday at 09:17 PM1 day by Churchcantor
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