No it is not at all "it".   The voice even is not attractive .   
After today I probably will move on to Swiss Classic.

He has a good radio voice and is technically well suited as an announcer. I think the main thing lacking is a feeling of warmth

Maybe I have to get used to his voice, I did not find it pleasant, sounded bored to me.

Good news: I saw the landing of the plane and called.  They were still on board but we could talk.  All is well.

I saw the landing as well and was relieved.

I'd like to suggest KDFC Classical, out of San Francisco, CA.  It's a great 24 hour FM station, with friendly hosts throughout the day.  Diane Niccolini, on midday here, is my favorite.
https://www.kdfc.com

Marilyne I listen to that station frequently and I agree with you. You recommended that station many years ago and it has been bookmarked ever since

Thanks Marilyn.  Just in time to hear my favorite Peer Gynt in there! I am smiling again

MARSGAL  thanks for that site, I have been getting my Chopin fix all afternoon.

DON  did not mean to ignore you.  I have a one track mind. One son came for a visit and I went back to Chopin. Of course I have 2 disks of Chopin music I often play during the week. Guess I will have to try listening to the X next week. No one can ever take your place there. You really enjoy the classical music you play.

MARILYN  I copied that link and will check it out soon.

I will just be going back and forth playing the station having Don's past shows

I think that Don's voice did sort of change in the Last 4 years. Got much deeper. Really became a professional. Think maybe Bubble had something
to do with it.
I put KDFC onto my destop. Seems to be a nice station. (Just not Don Talking)

2) Mozart's The Magic Flute

For once I got in before someone guessed all the ones I knew.

6) My most favorite composer, and a piece I can actually play.  Prelude #1 from Bach's Well Tempered Clavichord.

I suppose some people wouldn't understand why I  had 4 different LPs of the WTC, and now have at least that many versions on CD.  But my story is that they're all different.

PatH both your answers are correct. I was particularly impressed that you got #6.  I expected that anyone who attempted to answer would have said Ave Maria which I suppose would have been nearly correct.  For those who don't know, Charles Gounod wrote the melody to Ave Maria the superimposed it on the prelude by Bach. This you tube clip demonstrates what I mean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoMg141ud04

I will post a recap of the quiz later

Don, thanks for reminding me of the Gounod.  I had forgotten who wrote it.

I know the dragonslayer too, but you had a 2 answer limit.  If someone gets it, I want to listen to the music while they forge their sword.

Oh, I forgot that #3 was not answered. This is Act III - Siegfried of Wagner's opera, Der Ring des Nibelungen, often referred to as The Ring Cycle.

MarsGal your answer to #3 is correct. Here's a recap:

1:   In the Nutcracker ballet what creature was killed after being hit with a shoe.  MOUSE    Marilyne

2:   In what opera was a man-eating serpent defeated by three ladies MAGIC FLUTE 
PatH

3:   In what epic opera was a dragon slain by the hero.  SEIGFRIED  MarsGal

4:   Chopin created a short work which was inspired by watching a dog chase its tail.  Name that work.  MINUTE WALTZ - MarsGal

5: When he was a child of six he told Marie Antoinette that he would marry her.  It may or may not be true, but it has entrenched itself in the legends of music.  Who was this composer. MOZART  - BUBBLE

6: Prelude in C-major.  JS Bach      PatH
Well done folks!   I'll start on another one soon.

Don.  I can never remember who wrote what when it comes to classical. If I hear it playing then I can remember the name on lots.
Love the Ave Maria you just posted.  Now can anyone read the music. Something else I never could do. read notes. Quit piano early.
Now we did take Latin in school and our church was Latin when I was little and I did learn Ave Maria in Latin.  Not all of it in my head now. Surprising just how much we spent time learning in School as now slipped on buy.

I think that schools have now realized that and not long teaching many things here in the US.

Fredell Lack, Admired Violinist and Teacher, Dies at 95

Ms. Lack began touring the world as a teenager, cited for a warm and intimate style. She later elevated music studies at the University of Houston.

Today, September 1, is the birthday of Englebert Humperdink born in 1854. His only claim to fame is the music he wrote for the opera Hansel and Gretel which in turn was a play written by his sister which is based on a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.
This the overture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqeI6zvP2C4

It was also my Dad's birthday yesterday. This was one of his favorites: the Overture to The Flying Dutchman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNg07c0Mocg

André Rieu & His Johann Strauss Orchestra performing "I Will Follow Him" live in Maastricht....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqN9aS2S3L0

Now it was in our paper about a month ago that it was Humperdink's birthday. Wonder which one right.I will look it up. Love that Overture also.
Just googled and he was Born in India May 2, l936 so both times wrong. I remember reading and surprised to see In India but his name really is Arnold James Dorsey.

Jeanne, there are two of them.

Engelbert Humperdinck (composer) (1854â€"1921), German composer
Engelbert Humperdinck (singer) (born 1936), English pop singer

The composer is this one

http://www.52composers.com/humperdinck.html

Got too used to studying with Don's program. Soooooo, YouTube it is now. Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto no.2 op.18, Anna Fedorova on the piano. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEGOihjqO9w&index=20&list=PLVXq77mXV53-Np39jM456si2PeTrEm9Mj

Bubble. I had forgotten about there being 2 of them.  I was thinking of the Singer.

Let's see if this works, and if so, I can do something similar from time to time just to keep our group happy and connected.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKsHwqaIr4

Thank you, Don; The Moldau is one of my favorite pieces. 

Incidentally, Happy Retirement and I hope you enjoy yours as much as I've enjoyed my 31 years of retirement.

Mary Ann

Hi Mary Ann.  I'm happy I picked something you like.  And I forgot to mention in my original post that I can do requests as well. My only limitation is whether or not it's on You Tube or if I have it in my own collection and can record it.

Don. That is a great idea.  So much to listen to on YouTube and so each can let us know about special ones they have heard and post them. You can sort of be the DiskJocky.  may even get a Christmas Show put together. Can ask you. "Santa" to find us something we want to hear. You know the best ones.

When I was in second through fourth grade, it was an era where the music teacher traveled around the school with her big phonograph that was an old battered tan color. While the regular teacher had an hour's break, the music teacher sat at her desk in front of the room and played opera records while we sat quietly and listened.

I don't recall much more than that, don't know if there were questions, answers were given or quizzes. Not after fifty-nine years. But I still remember the stories of Peer Gynt and Peter and the Wolf. How the music brought the worlds to life and brought depth to the tale. I had been reading since I was three. But music somehow added another dimension that I really enjoyed. I hadn't thought of Peer Gynt in years, Bubble.

I like to listen, sometimes, to a group that produces "Epic" music called Two Steps from Hell. Lovely name isn;t it? Anyway, their motto is "Music Makes You Braver". If some of their music sounds familiar, it is because they specialize in movie and gaming music. I could swear I heard one of their compositions in an ad once.

Here is recording session footage of their "High C's" with the Cappellen Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGh4FcZKekA and another called "Freedom Ship". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu7kChDaySM I thought you might like to see what a recording session is like.

The room itself, while a concert hall, is optimized for recording. Check out the back wall and the fabric casing on the balconies. Also, I noted that, in most of their recording footage, the choir is in a separate room from the orchestra. What I don't know is whether they were recording at the same time or at separate times. The other thing that interested me is that all or almost all have earphones. Don, do you know what exactly they are using them for?