5/27/06 "Il pochi il fiero i blabbermouths" We *will* sail again Part 9

[CajunGirl2]

Don't mind him - he was brain dead for the past two years - we found it at Michael's this November - we put Maggie's soccer team action photos in them...There were all the standard sizes for photos.

So would it work for the door signs? Or would it be 8x10 instead of 8.5x11?

Ang

 

[mickeymo]

Not sure I knew there were words to that song.

Ang

I didn't either - until I googled "Pomp and Circumstance" on a whim...

http://www.elgar.org/3pomp-b.htm

In America today the tune of the trio from Pomp and Circumstance No. 1 is just as familiar as it is in Britain, but the words are virtually unknown. The tune has become virtually synonymous with school graduation exercises in North America. How did this come about?

Transatlantic involvement with the March began on 28 November 1902, when Elgar’s great American champion, Theodore Thomas, conducted the Chicago Orchestra in its U.S. première at the Auditorium Hall in Chicago. Several further performances followed, but it was not until 1905 that the work was first heard at an American graduation.

With the establishment of the Enigma Variations and The Dream of Gerontius as works of genius, Elgar began to receive many requests from the United States to visit and perhaps conduct some of his works. Elgar resisted these requests at first, but in August 1904, his great American friend, Samuel Sanford, Professor of Applied Music at Yale University, told the 47-year-old composer that he would receive a wonderful reception if he visited the United States. This led Elgar to change his mind and early in 1905 he received an official invitation from Sanford to stay with him at his home in New Haven which he accepted on 17 February. Then, on 15 May, at Sanford’s prompting, Yale University invited Elgar to receive an Honorary Doctor of Music on 28 June.

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Although there were thirteen other candidates for honorary degrees, Elgar was the only one to be awarded a Doctorate of Music. Now dressed in Yale’s magnificent scarlet robes with white facings, he was introduced by Professor Williston Walker who said: ‘We would ask that Yale do her part to express the admiration of America for his talents and service by conferring upon Sir Edward Elgar the degree of Doctor of Music, already his by gift of the English Universities, and thus do herself the honour of enrolling him among her graduates.’

Following his words, Professors Sanford and Schwab hooded the candidates. The Yale Alumni Weekly subsequently reported that: ‘the occasion was notable not only on account of the many distinguished Americans who received honorary degrees from Yale during the morning, but because of the presence of Sir Edward Elgar, England’s foremost musician ... His name was received with unusual demonstration.’

The ceremony concluded with Martin Luther’s Eine Feste Burg and the Benediction before the guests left the hall to Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 played by the orchestra. The impression that the work had on the assembled audience led to its gradual adoption by other prestigious American universities: Princeton in 1907, Chicago in 1908, Columbia in 1913, Vassar in 1916 and Rutgers in 1918. By the mid-1920s it was being performed by many others, and today it is heard at graduation ceremonies throughout the country, both at colleges and at high schools.

The reason for the popularity of the march has to do with Elgar's ability to invent melodies that convey a complex of emotions. The tune manages to sound triumphant, but with an underlying quality of nostalgia, making it perfectly suited to a commencement that marks the beginning of one stage of life, but the end of another.



And in my best Paul Harvey voice "....And know you know the rest of the story...."

 

[kikipug]

Don't mind him - he was brain dead for the past two years -

Grad school has a way of doing that to people!!!! (Especially when coupled with working full time and trying to maintain some semblance of family life!!!)

 

[mickeymo]

So would it work for the door signs? Or would it be 8x10 instead of 8.5x11?

Ang

You could always leave a margin and trim it to fit the pocket...that would probably be simplest...(I think the 8x10s ran about $2...)

 

[ohiominnie]

Did you say mousse???

No, silly, that's MOOSE!!! This is what she puts in her hair......MOUSSE:

 

[mickeymo]

Grad school has a way of doing that to people!!!! (Especially when coupled with working full time and trying to maintain some semblance of family life!!!)

It's awesome what he accomplished and still made time for the family! Now, he's wandering around in the evenings like a lost little puppy - he doesn't quite know what to do without study material...

 

[TiggerInNY]

Door Sign Question -- Instead of printing on magnetic paper, could I just print on card stock, laminate it and then apply magnets? Not sure I want to try and mess with magnetic paper.

I have made a few signs using Printmaster. I tried uploading to photobucket so I could post, but they are saved with .sig and it says photobucket doesn't support it. I only made one from scratch, and the others I found that people had posted pre-made and I customized it for us. I am just not very creative, but I am working on it.

Pam, how do you "customize" the ones that other people have posted? How do you get their names off and yours on? That's a problem I've been having.

Also, when you right click on a picture, how do you save it? Do you "save picture as" or "copy"?

Thanks.

 

[needawdwtrip]

Has anyone out there "NOT" recieved thier documents yet
I'm starting to wonder if they are coming. The UPS man pulled in my neighborhood yesterday behind me. But sadly he was just torturing me

 

[chip&dale&fun]

Amanda, hope Nate is feeling better.

Stacey... Happy belated Birthday to your "Beanie"

We have 7 more Working nights before the cruise. Are we ready to go yet??? NO!!!!!!!!!! We have so much to do.

Have tried to get my non existant creativity in gear and it just aint happenin'.. Will have the Home Depot Mickey Ears on the door and probably not much else.

Yes, I too am working on the list of things to do at the office before the cruise date appears.....The list keeps getting longer....sigh!

 

[TiggerInNY]

Ok. I've got to quit messing with these door signs. It's taking over my life!!!

Here's the one that I came up with today.

Ang

WOW!!! Angie that is awesome. And very creative. It's a good thing we're not having any competition on these door signs. I'd lose for sure. Keep 'em coming. You guys are inspiring me.

 

[chip&dale&fun]

Did you say mousse???

Stacey - your haircut is way cuter than this!!!

 

[TiggerInNY]

Okay,

Maybe I am just being paranoid, but is anyone else concerned about putting their last name on a door sign. I would be worried about someone being able to then go down to the front desk and say "I am Mr. Smith from Cabin 7546 and I just locked my card-key in the room"

Again, maybe I am just too paranoid!!

No, I feel the same way. I will not put our last name on the door signs. First names, YES, last names, NO. You're not alone on this one.

HEY...A U-TOP with paranoia doing the "Virgil" thing.

 

[kikipug]

Has anyone out there "NOT" recieved thier documents yet
I'm starting to wonder if they are coming. The UPS man pulled in my neighborhood yesterday behind me. But sadly he was just torturing me

Oh Stacey.... it looks like you aren't alone....

 

[chip&dale&fun]

You could always leave a margin and trim it to fit the pocket...that would probably be simplest...(I think the 8x10s ran about $2...)

I have 8.5 x 11 binder inserts - I can put magnets on these - use the 2 door signs and then take them back out for the cruise album....yes, I know I can print them again, but more memorable if they were actually on the door....

thanks for the ideas...

 

[Coachpug]

Grad school has a way of doing that to people!!!! (Especially when coupled with working full time and trying to maintain some semblance of family life!!!)

Then what's my excuse..I didn't go to Grad school..lucky I made it out of regular college alive....

 

[chip&dale&fun]

Has anyone out there "NOT" recieved thier documents yet
I'm starting to wonder if they are coming. The UPS man pulled in my neighborhood yesterday behind me. But sadly he was just torturing me

I'd call Disney CL...


This is for you....

 

[armyfam]

Let's see if this works!

Hey, Pam,

That is terrific!

susan

ps. where'd you get the background?

 

[needawdwtrip]

I'd call Disney CL...


This is for you....

Does that truck have my documents

 

[gptmba]

Our school portion of the propertax is exhaubatant and we just got a letter last week from the county that they are assessing the house at $200 000 more than last years assessment

WOW! That's outrageous! I don't know how they can do that in good conscience; oh wait, they don't have any!

 

[BWVPam]

Karen,

I'm willing to give up the one with the Mickey-head life perservers. Do you want that one? I guess I'd have to change the wording on it since this is our first cruise. I can either send it to you as a Word doc or just print it when I print mine. PM me if you want it.

Ang

Angie -- I love the one with the life preservers -- where did you find that graphic?????