#conductor ralph

[eye-candy-film-enjoyer]

Wes Anderson Movies + Text Post Christmas Edition!

Come together: a fashion picture in motion

I hope you all have a very happy holiday!

[criesinvarable]

WIP for some fanart for wreck it ralph based on the dinner scene from Pearl

some context for what i have changed in this idea:

Instead of turbo killing animals on the farm like pearl does, he kills his fans (the faceless background characters in his game) that come up to try to cheer him up after losing races.

Everything else stays pretty much the same with the exception that turbo doesnt have a lover and at the end felix arrives to see why turbo hadn't left his arcade for a long ass time.

Not sure who the conductor would be but im 100% certain that mitzy would be one of the road blasters characters.

[powderblueblood]

@vvitchwords: Oh my god, PLEASE may I request Ronnie Ecker with 'Did you know that cigarettes are a shield against meaningful interaction with people?'

200 CIGARETTES SENTENCE PROMPTS!

you stiffen up a little against the outer wall of the hideout, giving this girl a once-over. she's dressed like a child's cartoon of a train conductor, with her overalls and her peaked cap and her little festive bandanna tied around her neck-- so not the clientele you were expecting when you agreed to see some metal band at the shittiest dive bar your hometown had to offer.

"maybe i want to shield myself against meaningful interaction with people?" you retort through a pointed cloud of smoke. "not that it's exactly plentiful around here..."

"ah!" the girl, with her hands shoved in her overall pockets says--again, she's wearing overalls, "i see the ghost of shitty new years eve has visited you too!"

complete with ghostly voice affectation. who the fuck is this person.

"what?"

why are you smiling.

"i don't-- i don't know what that was," she clears her throat, dodging another exhale from your cigarette. you chuckle a touch, which pulls her eyes from the pavement and back onto you. this smile twists around her mouth, like it's a piece of wire she can't get untangled quick enough and she's kind of panicking about it.

"you here to see this band?" you ask, narrowing your eyes. because it really, really doesn't look like her scene.

"um," she says, kinda high pitched, "yeah? technically?"

"oof. sounds like they suck, the way you just said that."

she cringes in a way you can't quite decode. "like not-- not terrible, but not... a hundred percent in the pocket, either." a beat. "but hey, can you blame 'em? they're filling in. main act cancelled."

"oh? who was the main act?"

"pest control," this girl nods. "they never showed up, even though there's probably roaches, so they had to open the bar anyway. so. that's why--"

that gets you; a giggle pushes past your lips and you push off the wall, crushing your cigarette under your heel. "you're kinda funny."

"please, kinda funny is my father's name!" and she physically cringes again, eyes wincing closed and everything-- warmth pricks at your chest. she's... "ronnie. sorry. i'm ronnie."

"ronnie. right. i'm--"

but before you can tell her, through the swinging doors leading into the bar comes some dude with an incredibly on theme haircut for a place like this. "ron, the fuck! it's ten-- don't tell me you're out here ralphing again."

through gritted teeth, she's all, "eddie. i was not--"

fucking guy, this eddie, turns to you. "was she? because you can tell me-- i mean," his stare gets a little slicker, "you can tell me, sure, you can tell me whatever you w--"

"wrong tree, buddy," you clarify for him.

eddie flattens his mouth and nods, fairly respectfully. he ushers ronnie inside with a pull on her wrist and you decide to follow them, because, sure, weird energy, but it was the most energy you'd been able to squeeze out of tonight.

"you guys must really love this band..."

eddie is shoving ronnie towards the stage, like, really shoving her. but when he hears that, he pivots toward you.

"love the band? sweetheart, we are the band."

your eyebrows shoot up towards your hairline and you guffaw, looking to ronnie. she's climbing over her drumset (clumsily, shit knocking everywhere), shrugging with a drumstick in either hand.

"sorry for what you're about to hear, i guess?"

your grin softens at her; eyes bright and eager and you really actually have decided that you would like to look at 'em a little longer. good thing the night's still young.

"i mean-- better than pest control, right?"

[projazznet]

Hubert Laws – The Chicago Theme

The Chicago Theme is an album by flautist Hubert Laws recorded at Rudy Van Gelder’s Studio in New Jersey in 1974 and released in 1975 on the CTI label.

Hubert Laws – flute, arranger Randy Brecker – trumpet Michael Brecker – tenor saxophone David Sanborn – alto saxophone Bob James – keyboards, arranger, conductor Don Grolnick – piano, clavinet Joe Beck, George Benson, Eric Gale, Richie Resnicoff, Phil Upchurch – guitar Doug Bascomb, Ron Carter – bass Stanley Clarke – electric bass Steve Gadd, Andrew Smith – drums Ralph MacDonald – percussion Harry Cykman, Gayle Dixon, Max Ellen, Paul Gershman, Emanuel Green, Harold Kohon, Charles Libove, Harry Lookofsky, David Nadien, Matthew Raimondi – violin Al Brown, Manny Vardi – viola George Ricci, Alan Shulman – cello

[lesser-known-composers]

Henriëtte Bosmans (1895-1952) - Piano Concertino (1928)

Pianist: Ralph van Raat

Orchestra: Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor: Etienne Siebens

[baeddel]

Nero's display picture is the actor Jackie Gleason protraying a character called Ralph Kramden in a TV show called the Honeymooners. i think choosing an avatar is for most forum users a kind of personality fashioning; the reader is expected to interpret something about the picture's nature and infer a connection with something about the user. this is why tumblr's 'mature content' prison can feel so devastating; bound, shaved, marked and castrated, you scarcely recognize yourself in your own posts. when it happened to me a friend sent an ask saying that they missed "the lore that little anime girl on the corner adds to [my] essays" (click). so how do you interpret Nero with Nero's display picture? i see four options: (i) i interpret Nero in light of the actor Jackie Gleason—the finely dressed Old Hollywood actor who we remember from the Hustler and as the conductor of the orchestra on Music for Lovers Only, (ij) i interpret Nero in light of the character Ralph Kramden, the (according to the wiki, click) brash, impulsive, short-tempered bus driver from the Honeymooners (the Unofficial Honeymooners Site, click, which either plagiarizes or is plagiarized by Wikipedia, goes on to link, as a demonstration of his personality, a video compilation of Every Fat Joke From the Classic 39 Episodes, which you can watch if you so desire, click), (iij) i interpret Nero in light of the dramatic sequence which Gleason is performing, the narrative of the episode, the artistic purpose it achieves, whatever the character presently says in the scene and so forth, or (iiij) i interpret Nero without any reference to the actor, character or show implicated by the picture, but instead purely by the force of the gesture in its immediacy, in this case a man pretending to hang himself, his mouth open in grotesque asphyxiation, similar to the chilling silent scream of Mother Courage interpreted by Helene Weigel (click).

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Reviews for Week 36, 2023

Decoding semantic representations in mind and brain. Frisby, S. L., Halai, A. D., Cox, C. R., Lambon Ralph, M. A., & Rogers, T. T. (2023). Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27(3), 258–281.

The two tales of hippocampal sharp-wave ripple content: The rigid and the plastic. Hall, A. F., & Wang, D. V. (2023). Progress in Neurobiology, 221, 102396.

Transcranial electrical stimulation: How can a simple conductor orchestrate complex brain activity? Krause, M. R., Vieira, P. G., & Pack, C. C. (2023). PLOS Biology, 21(1), e3001973.

Cancelling cancellation? Sensorimotor control, agency, and prediction. Press, C., Thomas, E. R., & Yon, D. (2023). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 145, 105012.

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 4.9

Beer Birthdays

Ralph Thrale (1698)

Mathias Meller (1827)

Johann Sedlmayr (1846)

Otto Schinkel Jr. (1869)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Steve Gadd; jazz drummer (1949)

Hugh Hefner; publisher (1926)

Earl "Curly" Lambeau; Green Bay Packers coach (1898)

Tom Lehrer; mathematician, singer, pianist, comedian (1928)

Edward Muybridge; photographer (1830)

Famous Birthdays

Jay Baruchel; actor (1982)

Charles Baudelaire; French poet (1821)

Jean-Paul Belmondo; actor (1933)

Ward Bond; actor (1903)

Julian Dash; jazz saxophonist (1916)

Antall Dorati; orchestra conductor (1906)

Elle Fanning; actor (1998)

Robert Helpman; dancer, actor (1909)

Jenna Jameson; porn actor (1974)

Katsuni; French porn actor (1979)

Frank King; cartoonist (1883)

Michael Learned; actor (1939)

Leighton Meester; actor (1986)

Cynthia Nixon; actor (1966)

Carl Perkins; rock singer (1932)

Paulina Porizkova; model (1965)

Dennis Quaid; actor (1954)

Paul Robeson; singer, actor (1898)

Alden Roche; Green Bay Packers DE (1945)

Avery Schreiber; comedian (1935)

Charles Steinmetz; Prussian scientist (1865)

Kirsten Stewart; actor (1990)

Art Van Damme; accordionist (1920)

[gorewound]

Okay I want more and more different kinds of therapy groups in the Wreck It Ralph universe.

Various characters from violent games expanding their horizons with crafts and hobbies.

An employment education program for racing game characters to prepare them for life outside of a car (Guy in a full firesuit and helmet gesturing at a fax machine and asking "How high should I rev this to shift it into Send?")

A guy dressed as a train conductor lacks the appropriate animations to say that he feels like he lacks agency in where his life is going. Zoom out to a room full of t-posing farmers, construction workers, bus drivers, and other heavy equipment operators all agreeing vehemently.

[ulkaralakbarova]

A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Steve Lopez: Robert Downey Jr. Nathaniel Ayers: Jamie Foxx Mary Weston: Catherine Keener Graham Claydon: Tom Hollander David Carter: Nelsan Ellis Adam Crane: Michael Bunin Jennifer Ayers: LisaGay Hamilton Leslie Bloom: Rachael Harris Curt Reynolds: Stephen Root Flo Ayers: Lorraine Toussaint Cheery Lab Tech: Jena Malone Troubled Woman: Octavia Spencer Young Nathaniel: Justin Martin Bernie Carpenter: Kokayi Ampah Paul Jr.: Patrick Tatten Marisa: Susane Lee Mayor Villaigosa: Marcos De Silvas Harry Barnoff: Ilia Volok Julliard Conductor: Mike Nowak Angry Homeless Man: David Jean Thomas Uncle Tommy: Lemon Andersen Homeless Transvestite: Kevin Michael Key Barely Dressed Woman: Moya Brady LAMP Homeless Guy: Orlando Ashley Leon: Artel Great Shouting Woman: J.J. Boone LAMP Advocate: Annie McKnight Homeless Lady: Bernadette Speakes Leeann: Anna Levin Steve: Steve Foster Teresa: Vivian George KK: Kevin Cohen Courtney: Courtney Andre Detroit: Teri Hughes Linda: Linda Harris Bam Bam: Albert Olson Melissa: Melissa Black Mama Grouch: Valarie Hudspeth Darryl: Darryl Black St. Kiana: Kiana Parker Hazard: Hazard Banner Russell: Russell Brown Jackie: Jacqueline Sue West Ashley: Joyre Manuel Singing Woman: Lorinda Hawkins Annette: Annette Valley Patrick: Patrick Kelly Quiana: Quiana Farrow Globe Lobby Guard: Tony Genaro Atheist: Charlie Weirauch Cop with Tents: Wayne Lopez EMT #1: Joe Hernandez-Kolski Winston Street Cop: Noel Gugliemi EMT #2: Paul Cruz Homeless Man: Wil Garret EMT #3: Halbert Hernandez Construction Worker: Alejandro Patiño Homeless Woman #1: Karole Selmon Neil: Rob Nagle Cello Donor: Patricia Place Enraged Homeless Man: Ralph Cole Jr. Reception Nurse: Gladys Khan ER Nurse: Palma Lawrence Reed Laid-off Employee: Isabel Hubmann Homeless Woman #2: Bonita Jefferson Winston Street Prostitute: Eshana O’Neal Young Jennifer Ayers: Myia Hubbard Miss Little John: Iyanna Newborn Beauty Shop Girl: Bronwyn Hardy News Editor: Troy Blendell Jennifer’s Son: Nick Nervies Editor: Paul Norwood Sign Spinner (uncredited): Wally Lozano Film Crew: Screenplay: Susannah Grant Unit Production Manager: Patricia Whitcher Casting: Francine Maisler Art Direction: Greg Berry Producer: Gary Foster Author: Steve Lopez Director: Joe Wright Editor: Paul Tothill Costume Design: Jacqueline Durran Production Design: Sarah Greenwood Makeup Department Head: Ve Neill Producer: Russ Krasnoff Still Photographer: François Duhamel Production Coordinator: Robert Mazaraki Hair Department Head: Gloria Pasqua Casny Music Editor: Dominick Certo Director of Photography: Seamus McGarvey Set Decoration: Julie Smith Script Supervisor: Kerry Lyn McKissick Original Music Composer: Dario Marianelli Post Production Coordinator: Adam Cole Stunts: Shirley Smrz Stunts: C.C. Taylor Stunts: Hannah Kozak Hairstylist: Lisa Marie Rosenberg Stunts: Allan Graf Stunts: Jim Wilkey Stunts: Aaron Toney Stunts: Gregg Smrz Stunts: Todd Schneider Stunts: George Marshall Ruge Stunts: Chad Randall Stunts: Robert Nagle Stunt Coordinator: Scotty Richards Stunt Driver: Ed McDermott II Stunts: Marilyn Miller Stunts: Sean Graham Stunts: Jalil Jay Lynch Stunts: Kevin L. Jackson Stunts: Kofi Elam Stunts: John T. Cypert Stunts: Greg Wayne Elam Stunts: Chino Binamo Stunt Driver: Michael Caradonna Stunt Driver: Norman Epperson Stunts: Daniel W. Barringer Stunts: Greg Fitzpatrick Stunt Coordinator: Mickey Giacomazzi Stunts: Peter Weireter Stunts: Hollis Hill Stunts: Keith Woulard Stunts: Angela Meryl Stunts: Danny Wynands Stunts: Kortney Manns Stunts: Michael Maddigan Stunts: Kofi Yiadom Stunt Driver: Allan Padelford Stunts: Thomas DuPont Stunts: Jason Cekanski Stunt Driver: Scott Alan Berk Movie Reviews:

[shades-of-black-entertainment]

Dreamgirls (2006)

With a spotlight on: JENNIFER HUDSON

Cast includes: Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Anika Noni Rose and Jamie Foxx as Curtis Taylor Jr.

DREAMGIRLS BEGINNINGS: At the start Dreamgirls was a project set for plus sized actress Nell Carter. Tom Eyen (Playwright) and Henry Kreiger (Conductor) worked with Carter on a 1975 musical (The Dirtiest Show In Town) and her performance inspired a play about black singers. Originally called One Night Only then Project # 9

Nell was joined by Sheryl Lee Ralph and Loretta Devine. However Carter left Project # 9 for a role on soap opera Ryan's Hope in 1978. So the project was on indefinite hold.

A year later Michael Bennett became interested in reviving Project #9

Sheryl Lee Ralph and Loretta Devine returned for workshops for Big Dreams (Project #9 new title) and several other members were cast including Nell Carter's replacement Jennifer Holliday, a gospel singer. Carter declined to return as she was starting new series for TV (Gimme A Break)

Big Dreams workshop was dealt another devastating blow when Holliday left after disliking the material because her character of Effie Melody White was set to die after Act 1. So a recast was needed. Jennifer Lewis stepped in as Effie with mild success in workshops.

Jennifer Holliday returned to what was now known as Dreamgirls. But left again when she learned her role was now second fiddle to Sheryl Lee Ralph's Deena Jones.

After getting financing Michael Bennett convinced Holliday back agreeing to rewrite the second act and building up her character.

So To All The Actresses That Played Effie after Jennifer Holliday Owe the role to Jennifer Holliday. She fought for that character and the musical and subsequent movie were better for it so hats off to Jennifer Holliday.

Back to 2006 Effie Melody White in the film adaptation. Miss Jennifer Hudson. She shined in her first movie role even winning the beginning of her EGOT with the O (as in Academy Awards or Oscar)

The scene (giffed by me) above has an angry Effie walking off as her "boyfriend" Curtis Taylor Jr. begins favoring group mate Deena and sleeping with her. Effie was later fired from the group and replaced by a secretary Michelle Morris.

A Salute To Dreamgirls & JENNIFER HUDSON.

[sgokie2024]

Benjamin Sherman "Scatman" Crothers (May 23, 1910 – November 22, 1986) was an American actor, singer, dancer and musician known for his work as Louie the Garbage Man on the TV show Chico and the Man, and as Dick Hallorann in The Shining in 1980. He was also a prolific voiceover artist, and provided the voices of Meadowlark Lemon in the animated TV version of The Harlem Globetrotters, Jazz the Autobot in The Transformers and the title character in Hong Kong Phooey.

Crothers was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. He got the name Scatman when he auditioned for a radio show in 1932 at the former WSMK in Dayton, Ohio. The director didn't think his given name was catchy enough, so Crothers quickly concocted the handle Scat Man, although this talent, scat singing, would later develop. He continued to enjoy this talent throughout his career, even teaching scat singing to college students. Later, the nickname was condensed to Scatman by Arthur Godfrey.

Crothers started his musical career as a 15-year-old drummer in a speakeasy band in his home town of Terre Haute. He played a variety of instruments, including drums and guitar, on jazz club band circuits in his early days as an entertainer. Among the people he performed for was notorious gangster, Al Capone. Crothers formed his own band in the 1930s and traveled to California with the band in 1948.

He performed in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York City. Capitol released several of his singles, including "I'd Rather Be a Hummingbird", "Blue-Eyed Sally", and "Television Blues". High Fidelity Records released his album Rock and Roll with Scatman Crothers. He went on USO tours with Bob Hope. Crothers also performed with bandleader Slim Gaillard. According to the jacket notes of the Let Freedom Sing CD set, Crothers was part of the music group The Ramparts, who sang "The Death of Emmett Till" (1955), a song by A. C. Bilbrew.

Crothers made his official debut in the movie Meet Me at the Fair. He worked in both the movies and television, often taking bit parts. He also made musical shorts and played drums with Slim Gaillard in the mid 1940s. Good friends with Jack Nicholson, he appeared in four of his films: The King of Marvin Gardens, The Fortune, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and The Shining. His later film appearances included the role of a wizened fable-telling convict in the extremely controversial Ralph Bakshi animated film Coonskin, as a train conductor in Silver Streak, as a liveryman in The Shootist, as a ringmaster of a struggling wild west show in Bronco Billy, the Baseball coach and school teacher in Zapped, an angel in Two of a Kind and finally Mr. Bloom, a magician in the guise of an old man in the "Kick the Can" segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie.

Source: Hollywood Walk of Fame/Wikipedia

[dweemeister]

“MGM Jubilee Overture” – performed by the MGM Symphony Orchestra; conducted by Johnny Green

This medley overture was performed in 1954 for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s 30th anniversary. In the days of the old Hollywood Studio System, all of the major studios* – MGM, Warner Bros., Paramount, Columbia, RKO, and Universal – had their own symphony orchestras. These orchestras recorded every film score that each studio churned out (feature films and short films alike). As the studio best known for their musicals, the MGM Symphony Orchestra was arguably the best of them all, boasting world-class instrumentalists that rivaled all but the very finest orchestras in the world.

Needless to say, these studio orchestras took on a lot of work and the studios wanted only the best musicians they could get. The composers, lyricists, orchestrators, and musicians were all under contract to the studio. This set-up no longer exists in Hollywood as studios dealt with tighter profit margins in the 1960s, changing musical tastes during that decade, and the fact that modern Hollywood studios produce far fewer movies every year than they did during Hollywood's Golden Age. These days, studios prefer to hire composers/lyricists/orchestrators and musicians on an individual basis.

Almost all of the original conductors' and instrumental sectional scores to all of this music were destroyed in the early 1970s when then-MGM owner Kirk Kerkorian decided to slowly convert MGM into a real estate company. To save costs, he approved of the near-complete disposal of the studio’s music library – thrown into a landfill now underneath a golf course. Kerkorian, for copyright purposes, allowed MGM musicians to jot down piano reductions of one piece of music for every MGM movie before the original scores were to be disposed.

The songs featured in this overture are listed below along with the films they featured in: 1:20-2:09: “Singin’ in the Rain” from various films; first introduced in The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929), best known for its use in Singin’ in the Rain (1952) 2:09-3:19: “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” from Born to Dance (1936) 3:19-3:49: “Broadway Rhythm” from The Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) 3:49-4:30: “The Last Time I Saw Paris” from Lady Be Good (1941) 4:30-5:11: “Temptation” from Singin’ in the Rain (1952) 5:11-5:47: “Baby It’s Cold Outside” from Neptune’s Daughter (1949) 5:47-6:37: “Be My Love” from The Toast of New Orleans (1950) 6:37-7:03: “The Trolley Song” from Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) 7:04-7:30: “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe” from The Harvey Girls (1946) 7:30-7:58: “The Donkey Serenade” from The Firefly (1937) 7:58-8:57: “Over the Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz (1939) 8:57-9:24: Conclusion

Composers: Nacio Herb Brown, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Frank Loesser, Nicholas Brodszky, Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane, Harry Warren, Rudolf Friml, Herbert Stothart, and Harold Arlen

* For those wondering where Disney is among the listed major studios, RKO distributed many of Disney’s films until the 1950s and Disney would not be a major studio until the late ‘80s/early ‘90s.

[e-dress]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: "A Tribute to Ralph Vaughan Williams" Symphony No. 9 in E Minor Sir Adrian Boult.

[projazznet]

Hank Crawford – Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing

Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing is a soul-jazz album by saxophonist Hank Crawford, released in 1975 on Kudu Records. Hank Crawford – alto sax Jerry Dodgion – flute, tenor sax Joe Farrell – flute, tenor sax Pepper Adams – baritone sax Romeo Penque – baritone sax Jon Faddis – trumpet, flugelhorn Randy Brecker – trumpet, flugelhorn Alan Rubin – trumpet, flugelhorn Hugh McCracken – guitar Richard Tee – keyboards Bob James – keyboards, arranger, conductor Ron Carter – bass Gary King – bass Bernard Purdie – drums Idris Muhammad – drums Ralph MacDonald – percussion

[lesser-known-composers]

Hamilton Harty (1879-1941) - Violin Concerto in D minor (1908)

1. Allegro deciso 2. Molto lento 3. Allegro con brio

Ralph Holmes, violin

Ulster Orchestra, Bryden Thomson, conductor