Profile on Gord - Good Times - Dec issue
 

it's a Canadian publication for 'Successful Retirement'

I can't find the Profile section online here

http://goodtimes.ca/table/index.asp


not much new but here's some new trivia, to me anyhow:

Which four G&S operettas did GL participate in during high school?

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scan it..
lol

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i could probably do that quicker than typing it (unless i put letters on the ivories)

lol

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DUH.

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I am guessing that one of them must be Pirates of Penzance (sp). The Mikado?

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hey, 2 down:) 2 to go...

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well, there would still be typos:cool:

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Now I'm obsessed. "Annie Get Your Gun"? "The Student Prince"?

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I didn't see they were all Gilbert & Sullivan. I withdraw the last 2 guesses. Don't know anymore G&S.

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times up... and you win, M:)

(i'd not heard of either of your correct guesses...just the TBJ one....we did Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma, etc, etc, but no G+S

...fun times and early Sat morn rehearsals...

always fun blowing into a trombone with very, very dry mouth following late, late Friday eve rabble 'rousing)

ok, henjoy...

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btw, lee valley is also a national treasure

it's like Consumers Distributing and the LCBO used to be....ya know, come in and look through the catalogue and display samples, then fill out those little cards (as if you're playing an old board game) with mini golf pencils, then take a number and when it's called you step up and give the old guy or gal your card then pay and they hand all your stuff to you at the next counter...it's simpler than it sounds

or you can go to Walmart or Home Depot and pick out yer stuff as well as bar code swipe it and all that...i always have to hit the Help button cos it tells me there's stuff in the bagging area when there's actually nothing at all, and vice versa ...agh, Medic!

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Thank you so much for scanning and posting the article! If I adored him before, I adore him even more now - I'm a sucker for someone who uses the phrase "shake the paw". I would so love to go to Toronto for the May concerts!

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I love Lee Valley! That place is awesome to wander thru. I used to get their catalogue and would spend hour looking thru it..
I like the auto checkouts..fun stuff..
I miss Consumers Distributing...great place to shop.

Gord didn't say "Ya gotta love The Leafs!"
lol

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if he only knew how disobedient most of us can be, lol

your welcome, M....yeah, great name...if that's a hard "a" in syllable two, i've never known anyone with that name

btw, i like LV so much that it seems i posted that page twice and omitted this one!!!! lol...it has the mention of his 'transposing'...that's something i get into also but not for pay...some get off on crosswords to keep the mind sharp, i seem to thrive on transposing (but not on the fly, amidst a jam)...i tip my cap to folks who transcribe at the individual note level (ie. GordisKing)

btw, if Gord is Leadfoot then i am Sludgefeet:cool:

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i notice this site not only gives you page one of various scores for free (often that's all many need to get the ball rolling) BUT it will transpose up or down with a click of the mouse...i love Bb

http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic...n=MN0059728_U3

well, let's face it, i am now basically entirely redundant....lol

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just catching on to that now are you??
lol
;)

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not just me, but all men, LOL

i'm sure is just being witty, but i don't see how tranposing is like a binomial theorem...Gord is still trying to master the slide rule:)

the transcribing ability is something to be envied...what i'd give to have his ears...or rather, his astute listening ability...and i'll bet it's been even sharper since '82

i'll bet he's all over Mer and co to keep those amps and iPods below 11....i don't know if there's a scent to be treasured more than our hearing:cool:

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http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/...s-to-your-mind
By Oakland Ross
Feature Writer

It looks like a stylized human eye, and it’s called a fermata.

When placed above a musical note on a page of sheet music, this curious little symbol indicates to singers or players that they may hold that particular note pretty much as long as they please.

The result can be gorgeous, deeply surprising and yet somehow inevitable.

If the tone is especially high or very low or produced with conspicuous intensity, it might well qualify as a “money note,” a somewhat crass term for a wonderful sound that was coined by Canadian music producer David Foster.

At the time, he was working with Barbra Streisand, she of the mighty lungs and origami-like articulation.

If music were a drug, then money notes would be illegal.

This is a story about some of the amazing things that music does to your mind, perhaps never more so than at this festive time of year, when songs seem to find us everywhere.

“We evolved as a musical species,” says Takako Fujioka of the Rotman Research Institute, who is exploring music as a form of therapy for elderly stroke victims in Toronto. “Do animals do music?”

It seems they do not.

“Songbirds have great songs,” says Fujioka. “But animals from monkeys to dogs all prefer silence if they have a choice.”

They don’t know what they’re missing.

PART ONE: JOY A MYSTERY TO SCIENTISTS

Of music’s nearly countless pleasurable effects, few are more potent than those auditory orgasms called money notes.

When Streisand or someone like her lends her vocal cords to such a sound, the effect is not only emotional, it’s physical. You get shivers up and down your spine. The hairs stand up at the back of your neck.

“What happens has to do with millions of synapses in your brain,” says Mervon Mehta, executive director for performing arts at Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music. “There are certain things that happen in our brains when certain chemicals are released.”

Those chemicals are known as endorphins — a.k.a. endogenous morphine — a group of natural substances that block pain and promote bliss. Their release can be triggered by physical exertion, laughter, love-making — and music.

“We’re drawn to money notes because that’s what we want to hear,” says Ranil Sonnadara, a researcher at the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind in Hamilton. “The brain says, ‘Wait a second . . . ’ It’s that extreme satisfaction.”

Think of Cèline Dion suddenly switching keys in the third verse of My Heart Will Go On, a sonic effect that temporarily transforms normal human brain tissue into sugar pie.

That’s amore — and money — all in one.

This, or something like it, has been going on for centuries, and probably much, much longer.

Many experts believe that humans developed music well before they got around to language. For eons, people did not talk to each other — they sang. This may partly explain why music plays such a pervasive role in all human societies today. It’s genetic.

And it’s the money notes that seem to matter most of all.

David Foster may have invented the term, but the phenomenon has been familiar for years, as much a feature in classical music as it is nowadays in pop.

“Anything by (Richard) Wagner is pretty heavy on money notes,” says Sonnadara, speaking of the German composer who died in 1883.

Bel canto opera of the mid-19th century often featured arias with explosive high Cs or other equally stirring effects designed to fill the theatres. Both Handel and Bach made liberal use of techniques that would qualify nowadays as money notes.

Music also has an extraordinary ability to evoke memories, which may explain why songs such as Christmas carols tend to become so closely associated with annual traditions.

When we sing Silent Night, we are not merely crooning a beautiful melody. We are remembering every Christmas we have known.

There may not be an evolutionary advantage in that, or even a money note, but it definitely enriches the season, giving multiple hearts all the more reason to go on.

“Without music,” says Mehta, “our civilization wouldn’t have survived as long as it has.”

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nice article...

i could have passed on the pic...at first i thought it was from a gay magazine

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yeah, pic was kinda icky..