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I found thing (both concealed and in plaintext), object, device, article, entity, matter. Then it got late and I got tired and gave up. Which is also the reason I never found a subtle way of inserting something about "pictures of red Eric Kunstler conducting" into my after-rehearsal babbling a few posts above, somewhere between the large organization and the small audience..
"Antarctica" ! Even better! Good thinking ! I'm impressed ! I s'pose if an onnicle is long enough, you can find just about anything in it. A little like the Infinite Number of Monkeys.
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"Antarctica" ! Even better! Good thinking ! I'm impressed ! I s'pose if an onnicle is long enough, you can find just about anything in it. A little like the Infinite Number of Monkeys.
Thanks for not making fun of my attempt and making me smile, but I can see that your find is much better.
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I found thing (both concealed and in plaintext), object, device, article, entity, matter. Then it got late and I got tired and gave up. Wow! You found most of them! only one left is (ooh I like this new clicky thing!) Well I wasn't anticipating that anyone would find anything in that rubbish, but obviously it wasn't too bad 
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…our annual Messiah performance goes up on Saturday, rehearsals all week...no time to spare. The sponsoring body is named Music Worcester, a relatively large organization, but I'm afraid it's going to produce a small audience this year.
You did right to continue on without me. (But if you search, and eliminate all the extraneous stuff, I did squeeze in a very primitive onnicle here.) ...never found a subtle way of inserting something about "pictures of red Eric Kunstler conducting" into my after-rehearsal babbling a few posts above, somewhere between the large organization and the small audience… So. Performance was last night. Well received, I would say; after three standing-O curtain calls the conductor did something I've not seen before in 36 years of performing Messiah: he called for an encore, and repeated the entire Hallelujah chorus, with audience sing-along. And they did. Here's a review of the concert in our local newspaper; please feel free to ignore it. It's written in "critic-speak" - for example, "brisk and energetic" means "too fast" but everybody seemed to like it anyway. Then today we did selected choruses, at the Worcester Art Museum. Followed by a few carols. Smaller group, piano accompaniment, VERY different acoustics. Interesting contrast. Now I get to breathe again. At least until January, when it's off to Haydn's The Creation for mid-March. In the meantime the oniclette above still stands.
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Ooh! I was just going to ask you how it went! Thank you! Great review! To what do you attribute this aspect?
never has the group sounded as polished and professional as it did Saturday.
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Sounds like a real great event and a super review. I love this time of year where live music is to be found in many places.
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Me too!
Unfortunately you newspaper review will not come through,
the review of the event, wofa...
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Well you have to read it Luke....such fine praise.
So I'm posting the whole thing.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Worcester Chorus gives rich rendition of 'Messiah'
By Joyce Tamer TELEGRAM & GAZETTE REVIEWER
WORCESTER — In April 1742, a music reviewer writing about a performance of Handel's "Messiah" for the Dublin Journal stated, “Words are wanting to express the exquisite Delight it afforded the admiring crowded Audience.” The same could be said of the performance of "Messiah" given by the Worcester Chorus under the auspices of Music Worcester Saturday evening in Mechanics Hall.
In the 13 years this reviewer has listened to performances by the Worcester Chorus, never has the group sounded as polished and professional as it did Saturday. The quality of sound through all the voice parts was rich and relaxed, with beautifully shaped vowel sounds and exquisite phrasing. In the polyphonic sections, each vocal part was well-delineated, creating a clear and transparent texture, and in the unison or homophonic parts of the work the chorus sang with a beautiful blend of voices.
Director Christopher Shepard set a brisk pace in the opening Sinfonia and maintained the energetic and buoyant character throughout. The chorus, too, retained its intensity and focus and responded to Shepard's conducting with sensitivity. The balance between the orchestra, soloists and chorus was excellent and it is a tribute to all the performers involved in Saturday's performance that a work so familiar sounded so fresh and interesting.
The small orchestra, assembled especially for this concert, accompanied capably for an ensemble that is not accustomed to playing together, though there were some problems with intonation in the violins.
Michelle Graveline performed admirably on both the harpsichord and organ, and Jonathan Clark's trumpet playing was outstanding, especially in the Air, “The trumpet shall sound ... ”
The choruses in "Messiah" are interspersed with many recitatives and arias and these were capably handled by the evening's soloists.
Gina Beck conveyed the wide range of emotions required throughout the oratorio. Her clear, bright soprano voice, filled with radiant joy, was especially touching in the three recitatives in Part One in which the angels appear to the shepherds. Krista River possesses a lovely mezzo-soprano voice which she uses to great effect. However, it seemed that the parts, which Handel wrote interchangeably for contralto or countertenor, were a little low for her range and required a heavier tone quality. The two male soloists were outstanding. Charles Blandy possesses a clear, focused, gorgeous tenor voice which he uses with keen intelligence and musicianship. His stunning rendition of the opening recitative, “Comfort ye ... " set the tone for the rest of the evening. Robert Honeysucker's rich bass voice and commanding presence in all of his arias and recitatives, but especially in the final Resurrection recitative and aria in Part Three, were riveting and revelatory.
The audience for this concert was one of the quietest and most attentive groups encountered at Mechanics Hall. They showed their appreciation with a lengthy standing ovation, which brought the soloists and Shepard back for several bows. Graciously responding to the prolonged applause, Shepard turned to the orchestra to signal an encore and invited the audience to join in if they knew the tune. And so we all lustily - and quite capably - sang a repeat of the Hallelujah chorus. It was a wonderful evening.
You have a right to feel very proud Wofa but I still say...pity you were not aloud to make/broadcast any recordings.
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Thanks Candy.
Truly magnificent words: fitting praise for what must
have been a truly awesome performance. Scored praise
in all areas. Thanks, again.
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Okay, only six days old. It's been moved off the page and out of sight, thanks to your kind comments, but I owe you one! …our annual Messiah performance goes up on Saturday, rehearsals all week...no time to spare. The sponsoring body is named Music Worcester, a relatively large organization, but I'm afraid it's going to produce ...insert "pictures of red Eric Kunstler conducting" into my after-rehearsal babbling a few posts above, somewhere between the large organization and the small audience… a small audience this year. You did right to continue on without me. (But if you search, and eliminate all the extraneous stuff, I did squeeze in a very primitive onnicle here.) It should be relatively easy to find. Never could figure out whether he was German or English. And apparently, neither could he. Maybe it should have been "not a very large or generous organization" instead of what's there.
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Maybe it should have been "not a very large or generous organization" instead of what's there.
Are you refering to Georg Friedrich Händel? Or George Friedric Handel?
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Yes. Both. Neither. All of the above. Some other combination.
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I think, and I have for some time been thinking this, but cant get it straight....that there is an Onamography to be solved here  If someone could just post it, by itself, I might have a better chance of working it out! Wolfa!
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…our annual Messiah performance goes up on Saturday, rehearsals all week...no time to spare. The sponsoring body is named Music Worcester, a relatively lar ge organization, but I'm afraid it's going to produce ...insert "pictures of red Eric Kunstler conducting" into my after-rehearsal babbling a few posts above, somewhere between the large organization and the small audience… a small audience this year. You did right to continue on without me. (But if you searc h, and eliminate all the extraneous stuff, I did squeeze in a very primitive onnicle here.) The medium is the message!
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The medium is the message! You were just tooooo clever, hiding it in there. the post made complete sense too me...I wasn't looking at it as part of the game. Good capture Bran 
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I watched the musical Sweeney Todd the other day and loved it. But how can that be, when it was a horror and the main theme running though it was cannibalism...oh, and love lost. A story of revenge.
Below is new OMINICLE to be solved....a quorum of 12.
I had a vague recollection of having heard my friend, Olivera Markwick, speak of a hair-raising ordeal she had once while driving a taxicab. A retired doctor from the infirmary, popp in shortly after a lunatic had escaped from custody and held several patients hostage. The psychic, a goliath of a man, thought he was bulletproof. American police quickly evacuated the west side. Story-lines in the papers were full of how the assassin gin' in the raincoat had been captured. Much praise went to, my friend but she said she did little,
the chummy, fair ladykiller had calmly flagged down the taxi and got in the back seat, she recognised him straight away from the pictures broadcast hourly on the TV. As the sound of death metal music blared from the speakers, she devised a plan and speed away, breaking as many traffic laws as possible, hoping to get the right attention, while seemingly doing as the yeggman ordered. Now she was able to breathe a sigh of relief as Super, WI Zardo Fozzil, locked the handcuffs on the hapless captive, ratcheting them tighter to insure escape this time was impossible. And she felt like a vigintillion king after getting the reward.
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Oliver
Hair
Cabaret - nicely hidden!
Taxi
Mary Poppins
Fame
West Side Story
Singin' in the Rain
My Fair Lady
[Broadcast Hour]
Taxi (again)
[Gasman]
[Hey, Eggman!]
Wizard of Oz
[Vera]
Lion King
I think that's all twelve, plus four random Infinite Monkeys just happened to be there. (I was looking for Rent, but couldn't find it, so I tore my garments.)
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wonderful effort Wofa, and so quick too.
it took me most of yesterday morning, on and off to fit the words into a 'some what' believable story...how did you rate my effort?
yes Cabaret was right for the hiding..... I think the combination of consonants and vowels helped.
is TAXI a musical?
well there are two more I put in, shall I reveal them?
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........ (I was looking for Rent, but couldn't find it, so I tore my garments.) RENT.....well if only I had known of it. Funnily enough...I watched 'La bohème' on TV on Xmas Day and then read up on the story later on the internet....but I didn't see any reference to the musical.
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I'd say leave them a little longer for someone else to have fun with.
And no, Taxi isn't a movie. The Eggman is something out of the Beatles, no? More of the Infinite Number of Monkeys rearing their ugly heads.
How do we make these things? and how do we spot the hidden words? Opposite sides of the same coin, I would say.
One hint is to find a nonsense word, like Fozzil or WI Zardo; that beckons: "Look here for a word fragment!" "Chummy fair ladykiller" was another.
Dividing the word helps a lot. "Olivera" and Hair were intact, easy to spot as long as you know those are names of shows. "Cab-a-ret" was split and flowed naturally, as you point out. The elegance of the puzzle may be enhanced by selecting the target with this in mind. Like my hunt for Rent. (Maybe we can get our children to pay it? Also, I'd like my kids to live really close to me,** even after they've grown up and moved out...Each airplane ride to visit makes me nervous.)
When I did my George Frederick Handel it was much easier. (Had to be, as I said, I don't have much imagination.) I had only three words to sneak into a longer conversation. Even there, the business of "of red Eric Kunstler" was awkward, arbitrary-sounding, and alerting, if you turn on your incongruity sensors...
**(divided even more fiendishly - Have you ever visited Tripoli? Very friendly city, in spite of its history and the Barbary Pirates...)
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You did really well, wofa...
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Maybe, but we're still two shows short of a quorum...
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yes...one is hidden very well..a modern musical/film
the other is in plain view and maybe the most well known of the 12.
have a go at finding them Luke.
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yes...one is hidden very well..a modern musical/film
the other is in plain view and maybe the most well known of the 12.
have a go at finding them Luke. I guess I have to confess that I've never followed this onicle thread, I don't know the roolz nor do I have the directions as to what to do. Sorry. Perhaps if you share......... The quorum business escapes me.
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quorum = the minimum number needed to conduct business. My Latin fails me here and I'm too lazy to LIU even though I'm sitting at the computer. A genetive case pronoun along the lines of "to whom, plural" or something.
What we're seeking in this onnicle are the names of musical plays and/or movies, buried among the distraction of a story of greater or lesser relevance. We've been told there are twelve, So far we've identified ten.
Examples are in my red letter sequences in recent post above - Rent, Hair, Oliver.
Why it's called an "Onnicle" escapes me. Because someone named it that, that's why, I guess.
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Did I see "Fame" just now? Des that mean we only need one more?
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Thanks for taking the time to help a "newbie" on the site.
Sometimes I feel it is just an in-club, and you either
are 'in' or not a player. I appreciate it. I know
all I have to do usually is ask, but sometimes a little
help is good too.(and I thought 'quorum' meant a minimum
number of people had to be playing.)
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Speed is a movie. Is there also a musical?
Backseat??? I don't follow all the musical-scene, but I do
enjoy them.
If following your comment above in #195438, then Speed
would fit: a movie about a bus that cannot go below
50 mph for if it does it will explode.
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Bullet, also a movie (McQueen or Eastwood) ???
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Thanks for taking the time to help a "newbie" on the site.
Sometimes I feel it is just an in-club, and you either
are 'in' or not a player. I appreciate it. I know
all I have to do usually is ask, but sometimes a little
help is good too. Gee, Luke, you've been part of this playing-with-words forum here for long enough that I don't consider you a newbie any more, not by a long shot. You're a regular old-timer by now! PS you're also the entire Board's top poster for the last 30 days - did you see that? Your hold on Newbie status is getting more and more tenuous...
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I appreciate the kind words. It is probably just me,
but being ignored periodically gave me that feeling.
Knowing you think that way make's my New Years.
Top Poster? Where is that found?
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I hardly ever looked over on that side of the screen.
For awhile I welcomed all the Newest Members, but when
I never saw them on the forum, I figured they were just
spiders or guests or something I did not understand.
I must really be getting "mouthy" to have that many posts.
Especially in 30 days. Of course most of them are
either "welcomes" probably, or posts on the Scrabble
game, or anagrams. Thanks for pointing that out. But
your words mean more, believe me. Happy New Year.
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Thanks Wofa...for explanation and examples.
Re FAME...yes that is one, but one of the 10 you found already.
And the movies like Speed + Taxi, are just coincidences......all the 12 I have hidden are musical either on stage or in movies.
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Hmmmmmm....speed, just amazed I found one. Musical: ok,
back to the drawing board. Thanks again wofa....
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Well I am totally stumped...can't find the last ones at ALL!
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......and I'll piggyback on you bex....I am stumped.
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to recapitulate :
I had a vague recollection of having heard my friend, Olivera Markwick, speak of a hair-raising ordeal she had once while driving a taxicab. A retired doctor from the infirmary, popp in shortly after a lunatic had escaped from custody and held several patients hostage. The psychic, a goliath of a man, thought he was bulletproof. American police quickly evacuated the west side. Story-lines in the papers were full of how the assassin gin' in the raincoat had been captured. Much praise went to, my friend but she said she did little, the chummy, fair ladykiller had calmly flagged down the taxi and got in the back seat, she recognised him straight away from the pictures broadcast hourly on the TV. As the sound of death metal music blared from the speakers, she devised a plan and speed away, breaking as many traffic laws as possible, hoping to get the right attention, while seemingly doing as the yeggman ordered. Now she was able to breathe a sigh of relief as Super, WI Zardo Fozzil, locked the handcuffs on the hapless captive, ratcheting them tighter to insure escape this time was impossible. And she felt like a vigintillion king after getting the reward.[/color]
contains "...The psychic, a goliath of a man..."
Now for that pesky last one...
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AHA I think I found it...maybe...
the sound of death metal music
yay!
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Thats it Bex....and I thought The Sound of Music would be the easiest to find....thats why I took the liberty of separating it between another word. To me, it still stood out.
But the prize goes to.......>>>>> Wofahulicodoc
Congratulation Wofa, on your persistence and exuberant work!
(I am participially proud of how I integrated Chicago into the mix)
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Good job, Candy.
Wofa....salud.
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So wofa's up next in the devising role then? Can't wait 
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