Happy Birthday Dash..Our Man Of EVERY Hour~!!

[SBP]

I'd sing you Happy Birthday Dash, but trust me here, you might find yourself wishing for advanced age....especially the hearing impairment part~!! ;)

Wishing you all the best, my friend, now and in the many, many, many, many, etc....(Get the point yet~?) years that I hope you will grace us with your presence, poetry and wisdom~!! :cool:

Peace & Love & Spankings 2 U~!!

[Daniel]

Happy Birthday Dash!

Though we have not met in person, I am honored to say that I know you. Your kindness, generosity, sheer poetry of expression and being, light the Path for many. I salute you on your natal day. Many have have all that you desire and more. Many blessings to you.

[Jennifer5]

Happy :aparty: Birthday!!!

Hope you had a great day!

[Dash]

:weee:

Yay!! [wiggles his toes in glee]

I sure do luz ya'll!!:love: :love:

[tdogg]

Happy Birthday Dash! :aparty:

Hope you had a great day and took time to celebrate. You are WAY too young to sit around and ponder your age!!! :magic:

T

[Jennifer5]

:magic: :sing: :smashy:... I think they added the new smilies just for you!

not this on though.... unhappy doesn't sound like you....:unhappy:

[Daniel]

Michelangelo- Eight Sonnets- The Essential Gay Mystics

I see your fair face, my dearest Lord,
That which in life I cannot fitly tell.
Your soul already, though flesh holds it still,
Has many times ascended to its God.

And if the vulgar and malignant crowd
Misunderstand the love which which we're blest,
Its worth is not affected in the least:
Our faith and honest love can still feel proud.

Earth is the meagar source of all that we
Can know while still fleshbound. To those who see
In the right way, it gives copiously.

All that we have of wisdom and of faith
Derives from earth, and if I love you with
Fervor, I shall reach God and find sweet death.

Edward Carpenter- Love's Vision-The Essential Gay Mystics

All night in each other's arms,
Content, oeverjoyed, resting deep deep down in the darkness,
Lo! the heavens opened and He appeared-
Whom no mortal eye may see,
Whom no eye clouded with Care,
Whom none who seeks after this or that, whom none who has not escaped from self.

There- in the region of Equality, in the world of Freedom no longer limited,
Standing as a lofty peak in heaven above the clouds,
From below hidden, yet to all who pass into that region most cleary visible-
He the Eternal appeared.

[Zerbie]

Oh how beautiful! Poetry for our poetic one!!!!

Yes, Dash, you're a young one (not much older than me I think.) Wha'cha worryin' about? This's no time for an age crisis!

Very happiest of birthdays. I'll sing ya a high C. :sing: :magic: :aparty: :weee: :rainbow:

Hey it would be great if we got to meet and sing together someday, us loudmouths!

Happy one to ya, dear Dash.

:love: :love: :love:

[SBP]

....one to "grow" on, but it sounds like your mom's already got THAT covered with her chocolate cookies~!! ;)

Peace & Love 2 U~!!

[Lydia]

Happy birthday, Dash. :)

[NathanATX]

feliz cumpleanos! :aparty: :aparty: :weee: :weee: :weee:

[Jamie McDaniel]

Yes, happy birthday, Dash. Is it today or was it yesterday? Are you a guy, who was born in July? Or was it August, when into the world you were thrust?

[SBP]

Yes, happy birthday, Dash. Is it today or was it yesterday? Are you a guy, who was born in July? Or was it August, when into the world you were thrust?

..are you gonna' get a present like the one Mr. Jamie got~??? :eek:

[Dash]

..are you gonna' get a present like the one Mr. Jamie got~???

I WISH!!!!:rainbow:

Yes, happy birthday, Dash. Is it today or was it yesterday? Are you a guy, who was born in July? Or was it August, when into the world you were thrust?

Momma kicked me outta my first home on July 31st. I hadn't even been there a year when I got evicted! :injured:

Hey it would be great if we got to meet and sing together someday, us loudmouths!

:sing: O soave fanciulla...O dolce viso di mite circonfuso alba lunar. In te ravviso, il sogno ch'io vorrei sempre sognar! Laaaaaa la laaa laaaa la la laaa dee dee dee dum dee dumm laa laa laaaa

I'd love to sing with my loudmouth friends! (We don't have to do Bohème either. Hahah!)

Daniel!! How did you know that I like Michelangelo's poetry?!! :aparty: His poems were the first that I ever really read for myself. All started cuz...well...see I was originally gonna be an architect...three years in college before I changed majors, and I wrote a paper on Michelangelo and came across his beautiful poems to Tommaso Cavalieri... ANYWAY... Very important time then for me to have a gay hero and Michelangelo fit the bill quite nicely. Still took me a long time to really get cool with myself, but...

Not so familiar with Carpenter's poetry...but it's lovely.

I gotta find a place to use the "smashy" smiley myself, Jennifer. Thanks for breaking it outta the box for me!

Thanks guys! You make me feel so good! :love: :love:

[keltic63]

happy birthday!!!!

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[Daniel]

Daniel!! How did you know that I like Michelangelo's poetry?!! :aparty: His poems were the first that I ever really read for myself. All started cuz...well...see I was originally gonna be an architect...three years in college before I changed majors, and I wrote a paper on Michelangelo and came across his beautiful poems to Tommaso Cavalieri... ANYWAY... Very important time then for me to have a gay hero and Michelangelo fit the bill quite nicely. Still took me a long time to really get cool with myself, but...


Intuition. Folly. Lucky Guess. I dunno. Chalk it up to that still small voice that I can hardly hear myself sometimes. All I know is it felt right (that's how we know we're gay right?)

So- Michelangelo made you want to be an architect? Or the other way around? Confused. But happy to count you a fellow musician- we are architects of the air- making glorious castles of sound that touch people were architects of stone only dream of.

Edward Carpenter: a man who was very comfortable in his skin at a time not long after the trials of Oscar Wilde.

[Vanessa White]

HAPPY,HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY, AND DEFINITELY MORE HAPPY (I guess you probably get the point.....)

Hope it was one of the best- you deserve it!!!!!!!!!!:love: :love: :love:

[Zerbie]

:sing: O soave fanciulla...O dolce viso di mite circonfuso alba lunar. In te ravviso, il sogno ch'io vorrei sempre sognar! Laaaaaa la laaa laaaa la la laaa dee dee dee dum dee dumm laa laa laaaa

I'd love to sing with my loudmouth friends! (We don't have to do Bohème either. Hahah!)

.Thanks guys! You make me feel so good! :love: :love:

:sing: Ahhhhh tu sol commandi amor!!!!!!!! :sing:

Ya know, while we're being all psychic with each other's faves, that is my FAVORITE moment of Boheme that you quoted right there. But I'm not much of a Mimi voice. Hmm, what else is there for soprano and tenor?

Do you sing the Duke of Mantua? We could do the Duke/Gilda duet, from the beginning of the scene up through the presto that ends the act. My hubby can be coach/accompanist. :smashy: There, now we've got one tenth of a recital planned! :lol: :lol: :lol: Then pull Daniel in for some bari/bass stuff, lotsa possibilities there, solos, duets, I'm sure somewhere in the rep there's a trio . . . Omigosh, I'm lovin' this!! :lol:

Seriously, though, speaking of music and speaking of Michelangelo, are you aware of Ben Britten's settings of the Michelangelo poems for tenor voice? Somewhere I've got a recording with Peter Pears (who else?). I assume you know 'em, but just in case you aren't, you might want to go check 'em out.

Oh Keltic - meant to say, that is the freakin' funniest thing!!!! ROFLMAO!

[Jennifer5]

I WISH!!!!:rainbowI think we all do...


Momma kicked me outta my first home on July 31st. I hadn't even been there a year when I got evicted! :injured:You told the harsh truth of life very well

[Dash]

:sing: Ahhhhh tu sol commandi amor!!!!!!!! :sing:

Ya know, while we're being all psychic with each other's faves, that is my FAVORITE moment of Boheme that you quoted right there. But I'm not much of a Mimi voice. Hmm, what else is there for soprano and tenor?

:sing: Parle moi de ma mere! Parle moi de ma mere!

Do you do Micaëla? (I don't know so much about soprano fachs, sorry...) The first act duet in Carmen is wonderful.

The Rigoletto...is that "E il sol del anima..." I've worked on that one, but never sung it.

For Daniel and I, there's "O Mimi tu piu non torni" and of course "Au fond du temple saint!" I don't know about trio stuff. Hahah!!! What fun! :weee:

Yeah...I know the Britten, but I can't say I've gotten into it yet. Britten makes me want to do my own settings of those sonnets. :p

Oh Keltic - meant to say, that is the freakin' funniest thing!!!! ROFLMAO!

:D (at least you didn't bring up Mrs. Dash!!!!:eek: )

[SBP]

[QUOTE=Dash]I WISH!!!!:rainbow:


Hmph....I bet~!! I'm sure you have quite a long list of suitors and have to use um, creative methods to keep track of them all. Go on, admit that you're just playing hard to get~! ;)


Peace & Love 2 U~!!

[Daniel]

For Daniel and I, there's "O Mimi tu piu non torni" and of course "Au fond du temple saint!" I don't know about trio stuff. Hahah!!! What fun! :weee:


Like the Bizet a lot!

Re trio. How about a little Mozart? There is the second act trio for Sarastro, Pamina and Tamino, though, of course, our dear Zerbie might be more comfortable as the Queen of the Night. After all- she IS stellar (though not a power grabbing you know what :D ). And I'm not a Real Basso-Profundo, but we could fake it I'm sure.

And there is a little known Mozart piece: Liebes Mandel, wo is's Bandel, trio for soprano, tenor, bass & orchestra, K. 441 (a sample here: http://hurl.content.loudeye.com/scripts/hurl.exe?clipid=091379401130706900&cid=600005)

And I think there is a scene from Faust....many possibilites..once one starts digging.

You know, this could be a lot of fun.

[Zerbie]

:D

Awrighty, my über-Fached niche in Soprano-dom is a lyric coloratura - meaning, the lighter voiced side of coloratura, NOT meaning a lyric with high notes.

My core role is Zerbinetta, I also do a light-voiced Queen of the Night. . . did Gilda once for the lyric-y side of things and it was a stretch, coz I belong to things of the high-flying and chirpy sort. I can sorta yodel through something like Pamina, but I think of even that as too creamy lyric for me. Give me Lakmé instead. Or the Doll. :p Don't even talk to me about Marguerite in Faust, tho I hafta say I LOooooooove that prison scene trio!!!! "Anges pures! Anges radieux! :pray: Emportez mon ame au sein des Cieux!" Gawwwwwd I would love to sing that (and hemorraghe vocal cords in the process :rolleyes: ) Yummmmmmy yummy music! If we ever did get together for a Soulforce Community operatic benefit concert (hey, idea, folks?!;) ) we could easily come up with things ideally suited to all 3 of us. (Maybe we should take this brainstorming seriously - ?)

What are your roles, Dash? And Daniel, what would you love to sing?

I will hafta check out that Mozart, Daniel, something about the title seems familiar.

Dash - Yep, I was talkin' about é il sol del anima, thank you for supplying the title. One of my FAVORITE things in the world to sing. :) I found those Rigoletto duets all got much easier to sing with the other voice there, than when practicing alone. A really gratifying sing, tho nothing - NOTHING in that score beats the quartet. (Storm Trio comes close.)

Hmmm. . .hadn't thought of the Mrs. Dash - isn't that a salt substitute? :p Man, that leaves you open for all sorts of humorous remarks. . .:lol: