Sad day for the USA
02-09-09, 08:50 PM
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Now that you are a citizen do not let the American Dream within you die and get some false sense of entitlement like so many of us who were born here. Welcome Citizen Scrapmetal!
02-09-09, 11:32 PM
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Also Kubelik's 1954 recording, one of the best, and last, monophonic recordings, with the Chicago Symphony:
02-10-09, 10:37 AM
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In my case, it's partly because of the country's history, but largely because I've loved Czech music since I was a child. It's hard not to like a people who took to Mozart as the Czechs did - the composer described audiences in Prague as "Figaro-mad" - and who wrote music that so wonderfully described their countryside:
The big 'tune' in Vltava, or, to use the German name for the river, Moldau. It's one of a set of six symphonic poems in Smetana's Ma Vlast ("My Country"). It's one of my favorite compositions, and when I read the post announcing ScrapMetal's new citizenship, I played a recording of the work in his honor.
The big 'tune' in Vltava, or, to use the German name for the river, Moldau. It's one of a set of six symphonic poems in Smetana's Ma Vlast ("My Country"). It's one of my favorite compositions, and when I read the post announcing ScrapMetal's new citizenship, I played a recording of the work in his honor.
Now, me - I hack out a pretty good rendition of Dicky Betts, Eric Clapton, etc., using an old Les Paul but I can't read a note.
02-10-09, 10:59 AM
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I've managed to forget the little I learned in my childhood piano lessons.
02-10-09, 02:09 PM
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Gentlemen, I am touched and impressed!
02-10-09, 02:20 PM
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Not all Americans are cultural neanderthals who go loudly stomping through Europe with straight white teeth.
I find it ammusing that the New Europeans immigrating to the US seem to be in pursuit of a member of the opposite sex, rather than a job or new start in life. You are the third in two months that have said they got married, or are planning to marry an American. One is from Sweden, the other is from Austria. Now you. No mention of the classic myth that life is tough in the Old World.
From what I've seen, those people have it pretty good over there. It would have to something very compelling - like love - to get anyone to heave-ho and cross the The Pond.
Good luck, and welcome to the Boiling Pot.
I find it ammusing that the New Europeans immigrating to the US seem to be in pursuit of a member of the opposite sex, rather than a job or new start in life. You are the third in two months that have said they got married, or are planning to marry an American. One is from Sweden, the other is from Austria. Now you. No mention of the classic myth that life is tough in the Old World.
From what I've seen, those people have it pretty good over there. It would have to something very compelling - like love - to get anyone to heave-ho and cross the The Pond.
Good luck, and welcome to the Boiling Pot.
02-10-09, 02:59 PM
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Not all Americans are cultural neanderthals who go loudly stomping through Europe with straight white teeth.
I find it ammusing that the New Europeans immigrating to the US seem to be in pursuit of a member of the opposite sex, rather than a job or new start in life. You are the third in two months that have said they got married, or are planning to marry an American. One is from Sweden, the other is from Austria. Now you. No mention of the classic myth that life is tough in the Old World.
From what I've seen, those people have it pretty good over there. It would have to something very compelling - like love - to get anyone to heave-ho and cross the The Pond.
Good luck, and welcome to the Boiling Pot.
I find it ammusing that the New Europeans immigrating to the US seem to be in pursuit of a member of the opposite sex, rather than a job or new start in life. You are the third in two months that have said they got married, or are planning to marry an American. One is from Sweden, the other is from Austria. Now you. No mention of the classic myth that life is tough in the Old World.
From what I've seen, those people have it pretty good over there. It would have to something very compelling - like love - to get anyone to heave-ho and cross the The Pond.
Good luck, and welcome to the Boiling Pot.
When you come from a small country, you tend to remember achievements to kinda put it on the map for people from a big country. I always say - we export beer and hockey players
Actually I stopped doing it, after hearing Canadian listing guys from Canada who made it in USA. I realized nobody really cares for it
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02-10-09, 08:19 PM
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I married in 94 and we moved in 97, it took a long time to convince me to move. I never had a reason to go before - just like you said.
When you come from a small country, you tend to remember achievements to kinda put it on the map for people from a big country. I always say - we export beer and hockey players
Actually I stopped doing it, after hearing Canadian listing guys from Canada who made it in USA. I realized nobody really cares for it
When you come from a small country, you tend to remember achievements to kinda put it on the map for people from a big country. I always say - we export beer and hockey players
Actually I stopped doing it, after hearing Canadian listing guys from Canada who made it in USA. I realized nobody really cares for it
02-10-09, 11:35 PM
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I married in 94 and we moved in 97, it took a long time to convince me to move. I never had a reason to go before - just like you said.
When you come from a small country, you tend to remember achievements to kinda put it on the map for people from a big country. I always say - we export beer and hockey players
Actually I stopped doing it, after hearing Canadian listing guys from Canada who made it in USA. I realized nobody really cares for it
When you come from a small country, you tend to remember achievements to kinda put it on the map for people from a big country. I always say - we export beer and hockey players
Actually I stopped doing it, after hearing Canadian listing guys from Canada who made it in USA. I realized nobody really cares for it
