Velvet Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 October 22nd at 4th Stage at the NAC is a concert featuring the teachers from the Ottawa Folklore Centre. As many of you know, I've been teaching there for quite a while, and I love the place to death, but I gotta gush one more time:The playing level of the teachers at the OFC is really quite astounding (and humbling), and there is going to be some seriously heavy playing going on at this show. There is almost 50 teachers at OFC and the concert will feature a myriad of ensembles involving probably twenty of so teachers. This show will feature a huge variey of music, I hope to see some of you there. I'll be playing guitar on a klezmer piece written by Kurt Walther along with Sarah Ross on fiddle and Kurt on bass.Tickets are $15 I think, and I suppose they are available at OFC and the NAC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 I wont be able to come in for it, but i told some people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 That sounds really cool... I have other plans but I will pass on the info to people that might be interested.Thanks for the heads-upad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms.Huxtable Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 Bump. I hope we're back from Vermont by then.Break a leg Velvet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im going home Donny Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 shoot velveeta....this I should realy make alas I doubt I can...honestly. Have a great time! Break both yer legs buddy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted October 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 Wow, you guys are mean.Go break your own legs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timouse Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 i expect that you know theat they mean well...funny that "break a leg" in this context is actually a good thing, where in the rest of life, it's generally not.from the interweb: There is a superstition in the theatre that wishing an actorgood luck "tempts the gods" and causes bad luck, so negativeexpressions are substituted. In French one says _Merde!_ ("Shit!")when an actor is about to go on stage. The German expression is_Hals und Beinbruch_="neck and leg fracture" (_Bein_ used to mean"bone" in German, so the translation "neck and bone break" may becorrect if the expression is sufficiently old). The leadingtheory is that the English expression came from the German, possiblyvia Yiddish. Other suggested origins are: John Wilkes Booth, theactor who broke his leg shortly after he assassinated AbrahamLincoln in 1865; the great French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who "hadbut one leg and it would be good luck to be like her"; wishingsomeone a "big break", that is, good luck leading to success; andthe Hebrew _hatzlacha u-brakha_ = "success and blessing". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted October 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 Yet another vain attempt at humor. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 I was just thinking that the phrase, "Break a leg!" doesn't actually specify whose leg is to be broken...Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneMtn Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 I have a client in a personal injury action as a result of a broken femur. He's also an actor. I wasn't quite sure what to wish him the last time he went to an audition. (I'm not making this up.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timouse Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 Yet another vain attempt at humor. Sorry. [color:purple]purple font is your friend. actually that shouldn't be in purple as it was not meant sarcastically...but whatever. you get the idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im going home Donny Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 haha...no worries timmy...Velveeta knows we <3 him and I know he <3's us. Guess I ought to figure out the coloured stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted October 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Oh, I just love the purple font. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneMtn Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Was that meant to be in purple? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted October 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 No, but it was sarcastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 we're too cool (read: old) to mess around changing font colours. heh hehok i'm probably the only one laughing. cuz it's true... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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