Thanks to the beauty of airtravel, one can have breakfast in one place, lunch in another, and dinner in yet another place anywhere at all. And sometimes, you might get so very, very fortunate so as to have a freshly-made meal shipped to you from a faraway place that very day so you can stay put wherever you might be and still have an incredible gastronomical experience.
Well, what you see below was breakfast that came all the way from Florida to Michigan in a matter of two hours. And what’s more– it was made by my impossibly gorgeous and talented mother. A breakfast fit for a king is what she sent us: Parathas, Keema, and Masala Shrimp.
The Symphony No. 88 in G major (Hoboken 1/88) was written by Joseph Haydn. It is occasionally referred to as The Letter V referring to an older method of cataloguing Haydn’s symphonic output.
The symphony was completed in 1787. It is one of Haydn’s best-known works, even though it is not one of the Paris or London Symphonies and does not have a descriptive nickname.
The work is in standard four movement form and scored for flute, two oboes, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, continuo (harpsichord) and strings.
1.Adagio – Allegro 2.Largo 3.Menuetto: Allegretto 4.Finale. Allegro con spirito
The first movement begins with a brief introduction which quickly settles to the dominant chord to prepare for the main body of the movement. The strings open the Allegro stating the main theme and the rest of the movement develops from there, with almost every statement deriving from a previous idea.The exposition is monothematic and the development continues to make use of that single melodic idea. In the recapitualation, the initial statement of the theme is embellished by a solo flute.
The slow movement in D major consists mainly of embellishments of the legato oboe theme which opens it, though every so often is punctuated by chords played by the whole orchestra. After hearing this slow movement, Johannes Brahms is said to have remarked, ‘I want my Ninth Symphony to sound like this’. It is the first of Haydn’s symphonies to use trumpets and timpani in the slow movement. Mozart had previously used trumpets and timpani in the slow movement of his Linz Symphony.
The minuet is in G major. The trio has an unusual feature to it: after stating a rather simple theme, the fifths held in the bassoons and violas shift down a fourth in parallel, an effect typically avoided by the classical composers.
The finale is a sonata-rondo, with the rondo theme first presented in binary form. The first section of this is noteworthy for ending on unusual cadence on the mediant. A “perpetual-motion finale,” it is considered one of the most cheerful Haydn ever wrote.
A very vibrant and cosmopolitan city that I have had the pleasure of traveling to. Check out the photo gallery courtesy the National Geographic Traveler magazine. Click on the link below the photo to go directly to the NGT site.
P.S. One of those tall buildings in the harbor is the Grand Hyatt Hotel– I highly recommend it for the next time you find yourself in that city!
So, we recently had an old-fashioned birthday sleepover party at the house– for a bunch of teenage girls (one of whom belongs to me) with not-so-bird-like appetites. Which is actually terrific, because I am never at a loss for ready-made-pop-in-the-oven-finger-lickin’-good finger foods. Here’s what took about 45 minutes to make, and about as much time to finish off. See for yourself in the slideshow below. Details on the items is below the show.
What you see is what you get: Pizza, Toquitos, Mushroom Fritters, Chili-Lime Chicken Wings, two kinds of Quiche, Potato Wedges, and Sun Chips. The cake goes without saying, of course, and can only be imagined (because it was so divine!), and what do you wash this all down with? Pop, of course!
