Didn't it start out as First Tennessee before it morphed into First Horizon? First Horizon is still a standalone bank. I own shares of Regions Financial in my retirement account but Regions is based in Alabama IIRC. The sunbelt states have the strongest economy compared with most other regions of the US and banks tend to do well there ...
Not in that area. This was Athens, TN And there's no First Horizon nor First Tennessee there. We have First Horizon in Knoxville.
Don't you have the 5.1 surround set up with 60" large screen? I don't as I never did since I have small dogs at the house for much of the past 25 years ...
Yes, Oak Ridge. The Atomic City. "Born of War, Prays for Peace, built on Science for the good of mankind"
I'll leave it to Mr J to give the definitive reply, but it looks like it comes from the very large Karajan DG Complete box. I don't have it, so could be wrong.
I've only ever seen Carmen live, and it was great. At home I enjoy CDs or videos of operas, I have a lot in my collection.
That’s why I purchased the Royal Opera Blu-Ray box set (to go with a modest number of opera videos I already owned). I generallyy watch for an hour - 90 minutes in an evening, then most often the rest the following evening.
The Karajan 60s and 70s boxes each have 82 CDs, the Karajan 80s box has 78, a total of 242. Orchestral and concerto recordings only.
Thanks for the info. I think the Karajan 1960s is the only box I would not mind having since I already have many of his recordings from the 70's and 80's ...
I think it is just ironic as I have quite a few surplus amps I can use to put together a HT. The problem has always been I do not care for having 7 speakers in the living room with all kinds of cables. So I never bought the HT preamp and that is the end of my HT aspiration ... Perhaps I can go for a 3-channel setup so I can at least enjoy the 3-channel outputs from my 5.1 surround SACD's ...
I heard the concerto on the radio (well, streaming) in my car yesterday. It's a terrific performance, but the sound was so bright and brittle. I'm happy to say that this remastered version (24/192) via Qobuz sounds much better.
Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Walter Hendl Henryk Szeryng, violin Analogue Productions (RCA) [DSD64] Britten: String Quartets 1 & 3; Alla Marcia Emperor Quartet BIS Hindemith: Prelude from When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd; Symphonie "Mathis der Maler"; Symphonia Serena Sydney Symphony Orchestra & Werner Andreas Albert CPO
My wife and I went to the Museum there in 2015. A very interesting visit. She had relatives there but they've passed away now. We had been in Oak Ridge once before for a funeral at the Chapel on the Hill. I also had been there as a boy in the 60s when the Museum was in smaller quarters.
Years ago, I read the US government had supercomputers in all the nuclear weapon labs and Oak Ridge was one that had privileged access to such supercomputing facility. IIRC, Lawrence Livermore in CA. Los Alamos in NM, Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, etc. all had such access. That was way before the advent of personal computing ...
Enesco: Romanian Rhapsody No. 2 D Major, Op. 11 Brahms: Hungarian Dances Variations on a Theme of Haydn, Op. 56a
Argonne's IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer. Argonne National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy - Fostering Discoveries Faster: Mira at ALCF The Blue Gene/Q supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory debuted as the world's third fastest supercomputer. It is capable of 10 quadrillion floating-point operations per second and is entirely devoted to scientific research. Quadrillion is 1 followed by 15 zeros ...
Now playing Graupner Das Leiden Jesu I - Passion Cantatas I for a second listen @Jamsterdammer, JS Bach SMP is too long and I am shooting for Passion Cantatas I ...
PP Scenes from the Kalevala Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk Pretty good, though Klami's Suite feels longer than it needed to be. The best work here is Sibelius', as expected, but Madetoja's Kullervo was very nice as well. Well recorded, not essential. Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras Volume 1 (nos 2-3-4) Jean Louis Steuerman (piano), São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP), Roberto Minczuk Wow! This is amazing, lively, powerful music, especially the 2nd and 3rd. Really helped to maintain my concentration last afternoon. Highly recommended , the whole 7cd set with the choros in fact. Why is this not played more often? I can hazard a few reasons: 1. Non-European composer 2. From the 20th century. 3. Non-standard nomenclature (what are Bachianas?) 4. Classic case of the composer who composed too much, which scares of neophytes. 5. Oh, and the album cover really doesn't help take this music seriously.
