[LUTE] Re: Torah
I am literally crushed. (But I will nevertheless keep on putting the heaviest volumes on the lower shelves in my house, just in case God sends the Big One to California). On 8/1/19 2:30 PM, howard posner wrote: On Aug 1, 2019, at 2:10 PM, Alain Veylit wrote: This 19th century pianist and composer died crushed by the fall of his private library's (heavy) bookshelf as he was trying to reach the Torah on the top shelf? Not to be a killjoy, but: "He remained a strict member of the Jewish faith in which he had been brought up, and was widely read in classical and biblical lore. This may account for the story, which seems to have no basis of truth, that he died under a collapsed bookcase; de Bertha’s account of his death mentions no such incident. --Hugh McDonald in Grove To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[LUTE] Re: Torah
Yes, it was definitely the Talmud that Alkan was almost certainly not trying to reach when the bookcase almost certainly did not fall on him. While Tristan has a point, facetious I’m sure, about the collective weight of the Talmud being potentially fatal, it’s a bunch of volumes, so if it falls on you it’s more like, say, the New Grove than a big rock. > On Aug 1, 2019, at 11:12 PM, Alain Veylit wrote: > > I think you are right about the Talmud. My memory of the episode is murky as > Hell! Well, it happened in 1888, so you must have been very young. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[LUTE] Re: Torah
I think you are right about the Talmud. My memory of the episode is murky as Hell! On 8/1/19 2:20 PM, Tristan von Neumann wrote: This is a legend about Charles Valentin Alkan. I don't really know if it's true though :) It was probably the Talmud which has enough weight to crush you. No need for the shelf. On 01.08.19 23:10, Alain Veylit wrote: Since Howard mentions the Torah and jeopardy, here is our summer quiz/jeopardy question: This 19th century pianist and composer died crushed by the fall of his private library's (heavy) bookshelf as he was trying to reach the Torah on the top shelf? (High aspirations sometimes get you crushed under the weight...) Alain On 8/1/19 1:14 PM, G. C. wrote: Ha-ha :)) Way too rich for my intelligence Howard. I'm afraid I don't have the necessary "anglican" baggage to get those answers. In another vein, the 50th aniversary of the Woodstock festival got cancelled! I don't mind about Miley Cyrus, but Santana 50 years later would surely have been historically correct. Best G. On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 10:04 PM howard posner <[1]howardpos...@ca.rr.com> wrote: > On Aug 1, 2019, at 10:42 AM, G. C. <[2]kalei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Always happy for answers And I'm happy to oblige with some of my favorite answers: "It's in his kiss" "O, reason not the need: our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous." "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh" "Put a piece of cheese on the floor and you'll find out." "!" "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the entire Torah; the rest is commentary. Go learn." "I knew if I stayed around long enough, something like this would happen" No prizes will be awarded for knowing the questions; this isn't "Jeopardy!" To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:howardpos...@ca.rr.com 2. mailto:kalei...@gmail.com 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[LUTE] Re: Torah
Thanks. The Talmud gets two points. :) On 8/1/19 2:21 PM, [1]terli...@aol.com wrote: Alkan of course... but I heard it was the Talmud that did him in. Sent from AOL Mobile Mail Get the new AOL app: [2]mail.mobile.aol.com On Thursday, August 1, 2019, Alain Veylit [3] wrote: Since Howard mentions the Torah and jeopardy, here is our summer quiz/jeopardy question: This 19th century pianist and composer died crushed by the fall of his private library's (heavy) bookshelf as he was trying to reach the Torah on the top shelf? (High aspirations sometimes get you crushed under the weight...) Alain On 8/1/19 1:14 PM, G. C. wrote: >Ha-ha :)) >Way too rich for my intelligence Howard. I'm afraid I don't have the >necessary "anglican" baggage to get those answers. >In another vein, the 50th aniversary of the Woodstock festival got >cancelled! I don't mind about Miley Cyrus, but Santana 50 years later >would surely have been historically correct. >Best >G. > >On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 10:04 PM howard posner ><[1][4]howardpos...@ca.rr.com> wrote: > > > On Aug 1, 2019, at 10:42 AM, G. C. <[2][5]kalei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >Always happy for answers > And I'm happy to oblige with some of my favorite answers: > "It's in his kiss" > "O, reason not the need: our basest beggars > Are in the poorest thing superfluous." > "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh" > "Put a piece of cheese on the floor and you'll find out." > "!" > "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the > entire Torah; the rest is commentary. Go learn." > "I knew if I stayed around long enough, something like this would > happen" > No prizes will be awarded for knowing the questions; this isn't > "Jeopardy!" > To get on or off this list see list information at > [3][6]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >-- > > References > >1. mailto:[7]howardpos...@ca.rr.com >2. mailto:[8]kalei...@gmail.com >3. [9]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- References 1. mailto:terli...@aol.com 2. http://mail.mobile.aol.com/ 3. mailto:al...@musickshandmade.com 4. mailto:howardpos...@ca.rr.com 5. mailto:kalei...@gmail.com 6. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 7. mailto:howardpos...@ca.rr.com 8. mailto:kalei...@gmail.com 9. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[LUTE] Re: Torah
> On Aug 1, 2019, at 2:10 PM, Alain Veylit wrote: > > This 19th century pianist and composer died crushed by the fall of his > private library's (heavy) bookshelf as he was trying to reach the Torah on > the top shelf? Not to be a killjoy, but: "He remained a strict member of the Jewish faith in which he had been brought up, and was widely read in classical and biblical lore. This may account for the story, which seems to have no basis of truth, that he died under a collapsed bookcase; de Bertha’s account of his death mentions no such incident. --Hugh McDonald in Grove To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[LUTE] Re: Torah
This is a legend about Charles Valentin Alkan. I don't really know if it's true though :) It was probably the Talmud which has enough weight to crush you. No need for the shelf. On 01.08.19 23:10, Alain Veylit wrote: Since Howard mentions the Torah and jeopardy, here is our summer quiz/jeopardy question: This 19th century pianist and composer died crushed by the fall of his private library's (heavy) bookshelf as he was trying to reach the Torah on the top shelf? (High aspirations sometimes get you crushed under the weight...) Alain On 8/1/19 1:14 PM, G. C. wrote: Ha-ha :)) Way too rich for my intelligence Howard. I'm afraid I don't have the necessary "anglican" baggage to get those answers. In another vein, the 50th aniversary of the Woodstock festival got cancelled! I don't mind about Miley Cyrus, but Santana 50 years later would surely have been historically correct. Best G. On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 10:04 PM howard posner <[1]howardpos...@ca.rr.com> wrote: > On Aug 1, 2019, at 10:42 AM, G. C. <[2]kalei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Always happy for answers And I'm happy to oblige with some of my favorite answers: "It's in his kiss" "O, reason not the need: our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous." "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh" "Put a piece of cheese on the floor and you'll find out." "!" "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the entire Torah; the rest is commentary. Go learn." "I knew if I stayed around long enough, something like this would happen" No prizes will be awarded for knowing the questions; this isn't "Jeopardy!" To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:howardpos...@ca.rr.com 2. mailto:kalei...@gmail.com 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[LUTE] Re: Torah
Alkan of course... but I heard it was the Talmud that did him in. Sent from AOL Mobile Mail Get the new AOL app: [1]mail.mobile.aol.com On Thursday, August 1, 2019, Alain Veylit wrote: Since Howard mentions the Torah and jeopardy, here is our summer quiz/jeopardy question: This 19th century pianist and composer died crushed by the fall of his private library's (heavy) bookshelf as he was trying to reach the Torah on the top shelf? (High aspirations sometimes get you crushed under the weight...) Alain On 8/1/19 1:14 PM, G. C. wrote: >Ha-ha :)) >Way too rich for my intelligence Howard. I'm afraid I don't have the >necessary "anglican" baggage to get those answers. >In another vein, the 50th aniversary of the Woodstock festival got >cancelled! I don't mind about Miley Cyrus, but Santana 50 years later >would surely have been historically correct. >Best >G. > >On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 10:04 PM howard posner ><[1][2]howardpos...@ca.rr.com> wrote: > > > On Aug 1, 2019, at 10:42 AM, G. C. <[2][3]kalei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >Always happy for answers > And I'm happy to oblige with some of my favorite answers: > "It's in his kiss" > "O, reason not the need: our basest beggars > Are in the poorest thing superfluous." > "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh" > "Put a piece of cheese on the floor and you'll find out." > "!" > "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the > entire Torah; the rest is commentary. Go learn." > "I knew if I stayed around long enough, something like this would > happen" > No prizes will be awarded for knowing the questions; this isn't > "Jeopardy!" > To get on or off this list see list information at > [3][4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >-- > > References > >1. mailto:[5]howardpos...@ca.rr.com >2. mailto:[6]kalei...@gmail.com >3. [7]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- References 1. http://mail.mobile.aol.com/ 2. mailto:howardpos...@ca.rr.com 3. mailto:kalei...@gmail.com 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 5. mailto:howardpos...@ca.rr.com 6. mailto:kalei...@gmail.com 7. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[LUTE] Re: Torah
Since Howard mentions the Torah and jeopardy, here is our summer quiz/jeopardy question: This 19th century pianist and composer died crushed by the fall of his private library's (heavy) bookshelf as he was trying to reach the Torah on the top shelf? (High aspirations sometimes get you crushed under the weight...) Alain On 8/1/19 1:14 PM, G. C. wrote: Ha-ha :)) Way too rich for my intelligence Howard. I'm afraid I don't have the necessary "anglican" baggage to get those answers. In another vein, the 50th aniversary of the Woodstock festival got cancelled! I don't mind about Miley Cyrus, but Santana 50 years later would surely have been historically correct. Best G. On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 10:04 PM howard posner <[1]howardpos...@ca.rr.com> wrote: > On Aug 1, 2019, at 10:42 AM, G. C. <[2]kalei...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Always happy for answers And I'm happy to oblige with some of my favorite answers: "It's in his kiss" "O, reason not the need: our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous." "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh" "Put a piece of cheese on the floor and you'll find out." "!" "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the entire Torah; the rest is commentary. Go learn." "I knew if I stayed around long enough, something like this would happen" No prizes will be awarded for knowing the questions; this isn't "Jeopardy!" To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:howardpos...@ca.rr.com 2. mailto:kalei...@gmail.com 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
