Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 22, 2019

Thanks for this rare moment !

Dude….hum Copeland’s 3rd Symphony…FF4tCM is woven throughout.

I’m liking her even more. You go girl! She’s on to you Caulfield.

And Caulfield knows more than any real 2nd-grader would know.

And starting to show superiority about it.

Well, there’s my earworm for this morning.

I kind of prefer the version by Styx.

I think they both respect each other.

I saw ELP back when, I prefer their version too.

The teacher teaches!

Looks like Caulfield just got a warning.

ooooh She knows ELP.

5 points for Mrs. Olsen!

ELP Live in Montreal 1977: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMuePyV1nr8

And the crowd goes wild! Thank you, Mr Mallett!

OLSEN SCORES!! Caulfield is left on first, holding his hat.

I just fell in love with Mrs. Olsen!

Had to look this up yesterday on iTunes Continuing my education with cartoons Who would have thunk it

That is a major shut down.

Nailed it.

Just listened to them both again, and I still like Copland’s original version better. ELP’s version has more energy, but less texture and complexity. Good adaptation of a “classic”, but it misses what Copland was trying to express, IMHO.

Thanks, Jef. hadn’t heard the EL&P version.

Kids are amazed adults actually know so much.

Arguing the ELP vs Bernstein arrangements – could I feel more dated?! Especially with Keith and Greg now gone . . .

“Whoa. You know more than I thought.”

Teachers usually do, Caulfield.

Caulfield spends much more time trying to avoid schoolwork than he would spend if he would just do the work! As smart as he is, he could just breeze through quizzes and homework, and have a lot of free time for his own interests.

In my dorm, we used to play The Ride of the Valkyries on the first day of finals. At high volume. In unison (all the amps driven by one person’s turntable (yeah, that long ago). At 7:00 a.m.

Now that gets your blood pumping.

Very disappointed such a smart comment mis-credited the original, but the ELP version is, indeed, amazing.

“oh, what a lucky man he was.”

And people thought “Bohemian Rhapsody” would be too long at six minutes.

Laughed out loud – And I agree, the ELP version is great.

I just love timpani – especially as I enter the shop at work.

Hopes were slightly raised when I saw "Copland’ on a movie theater marquee. The fact that Sylvester Stallone starred tipped me that it was a shoot-em-up with a short O rather than a biopic with a long O.

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I don’t have musical performance rituals like Caulfield, but I have I guess a version of what the baseball teams call “walk-up music,” where the home-team batters get to strut to the plate to a, well, fanfare of their choosing.

Somehow my life has worked out such that my days get going early and up to speed fast. A lot of my big events, shoot, even training or the workday, take place shortly after a ridiculously early wake-up call. And whatever you think about “morning people,” getting up that early in general is difficult business. Rising that early to do something that scares you to death requires some arrangements. Enter the phone, with its alarm clock programmable to any song you care to pay Apple for. If I know it’s going to be A Day, I’ll set my alarm accordingly.

An incomplete list:“Fanfare for the Common Man,” of course. I have the Bernstein ringtone but I’ll wake up to the full cover by Emerson, Lake and Palmer.If I’ve a tough work day coming up and need to ease into a ton of writing, it’s Lyle Lovett’s “In My Own Mind.” Plant ‘em in the springtime, pick ‘em in the summer.Breath-control exercises, that curious melding of combat and calm, begin with Jack Johnson’s “Drink the Water.”If I’ve got inertia to overcome, John Mellencamp’s “Your Life is Now” speaks for itself. And it’s gorgeous.“Lust For Life” by Iggy Pop. I mean, duh.But if I need to wake spoiling for a fight with myself or with outside forces, it’s Springsteen all the way. “Born to Run” is cliche, but some cliches are righteously and rightfully earned. If you haven’t heard “Further On” (or the rest of The Rising), now, that’s visceral fighting music. But for the serious cases, when you not only need the energy to fight but a reason to, that’s what you save “Badlands” for.

I’m curious, and genuinely, seriously interested: When you’ve got to get up and head to battle, to return with your shield or on it, what’s on your alarm? Or in your head?

If I want references to 70’s rock bands, I’ll go read “Nancy”…oh…..wait a minute….never mind…

That’s a teacher who was born in my era!

Well, when she’s right, she’s right.