pbs-the nat'l parks

On Oct 2, 12:38*pm, "Fred" wrote:
On 30-Sep-2009, jeff wrote:

anyone else watching this? *episode 3 had a segment on early 20th
century park travelers and "collectors"...the gehrkes!

jeff

I saw the episode on Glacier.
Great footoage of some of our nearby inns lodges and chalets.
There is a some talk on my music groups re the soundtrack which must be
stunning with atrists like Jay Unger and Molly Mason, Peter Ostroushko etc.

Ken Burns commissions and uses his musicians well.
Some of his soundtracks have blown me away

Agreed. Probably the best of what he does. Ashoken Farewell, written
for his Civil War series, is, far and away, the most requested piece
at any gathering of fiddle players (don't know about violinists).

All in all, however, I find this National Park series to be a bit too
fawning and saccharine. Yes, it is lovely.........but, hey, enough.

cheers

oz, who has been to most of them, but finds The Blackfoot Reservation,
near Glacier, to be better than any.

On 2-Oct-2009, MajorOz wrote:

Agreed. Probably the best of what he does. Ashoken Farewell, written
for his Civil War series, is, far and away, the most requested piece
at any gathering of fiddle players (don't know about violinists).

All in all, however, I find this National Park series to be a bit too
fawning and saccharine. Yes, it is lovely.........but, hey, enough.

cheers

oz, who has been to most of them, but finds The Blackfoot Reservation,
near Glacier, to be better than any.


On 2-Oct-2009, MajorOz wrote:

Agreed. Probably the best of what he does. Ashoken Farewell, written
for his Civil War series, is, far and away, the most requested piece
at any gathering of fiddle players (don't know about violinists).

All in all, however, I find this National Park series to be a bit too
fawning and saccharine. Yes, it is lovely.........but, hey, enough.

cheers

oz, who has been to most of them, but finds The Blackfoot Reservation,
near Glacier, to be better than any.

In The soundtrack for the sries Ashokan Farewell is written by and
performed by Jay Ungar - altho is origins may lie elsewhere-
Jay Ungar & his wife Molly Mason are great - check out Lover's waltz!
( I will send it to you if you want )

BTW Fiddles and violins sre the same - for me - I pay bluegrass and some
classical- I tend to call bluegrass, swing and jazz violins as- fiddles
Classical violins are the same - Violin is in the fiddle family of horsehair
bowed string insstruments - I interchange the names


All in all, however, I find this National Park series to be a bit too
fawning and saccharine. Yes, it is lovely.........but, hey, enough.

cheers

oz, who has been to most of them, but finds The Blackfoot Reservation,
near Glacier, to be better than any.

I cocur w both of these astute .observations

Thanks
Fred

On Oct 2, 7:48*am, wrote:
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 09:07:00 -0700 (PDT), Jack wrote:
On Sep 30, 9:33*pm, jeff wrote:
anyone else watching this? *episode 3 had a segment on early 20th
century park travelers and "collectors"...the gehrkes!

jeff

This PBS Gerhke was Edward not George, he of the ******* split cane
fly rod, Gink, and Xink fame and notorious for years on this group.
Edward was born in Wisconsin in 1906. George was born in 1933.

Did Edward, by any chance, single-handedly take out the Kaiser and the boche
over the Danube, nearly naked and alone, with nothing but his trusty
Sopwith-CamelFokker, a blazing Tommy gun, and his sidekick best pal, Tom Mix...?

TC,
R

Moron.

g.

On Sep 30, 10:19*pm, "Fred" wrote:
On 30-Sep-2009, jeff wrote:

Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com rec.outdoors.fishing.fly:493633

anyone else watching this? *episode 3 had a segment on early 20th
century park travelers and "collectors"...the gehrkes!

jeff

Speaking about nuts *.... and goats er... I mean ah...
I think that from what I have gleaned fron this ng
I am glad he checked out befo' I checked in

Fred

That's because you're a moron and don't have any respect for your
betters.

g.

On Sep 30, 10:24*pm, wrote:
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 03:19:21 GMT, "Fred" wrote:

On 30-Sep-2009, jeff wrote:

Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com rec.outdoors.fishing.fly:493633

anyone else watching this? *episode 3 had a segment on early 20th
century park travelers and "collectors"...the gehrkes!

jeff

Speaking about nuts *.... and goats er... I mean ah...
I think that from what I have gleaned fron this ng
I am glad he checked out befo' I checked in

Oh, Freddy my lad, you and his Georgeship would have made a pair...maybe even a
flush...

Idiot.

g.

On Oct 13, 5:30*pm, wrote:
Ashokan Farewell was written for the closing of a dance/music camp Jay
Unger attended in NY near the Ashokan reservoir. *Sounds period to the
civil war but is a great modern song. *Several versions of lyrics are
available to it.
_________

Good thing you requested that this message not be archived. That kind
of talk can get a boy into a heap of trouble around these parts. But
the locals got short memories. Um.....which should not be confused
with mammaries.

g.
who has seen some of these boys and been impressed.