Archive-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 10:55:51 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 21:54:41 -0400 From: Patricia Ruggiero Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Richmond ball To: English Dance Message-ID: <000a01c387be$fa94fd30$61b0bc3f-AT-g9tfz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Does anyone have information on this: date, contact person for registration, location? Thanks! Pat ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 10:55:54 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 21:54:49 -0400 From: Patricia Ruggiero Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Mr. Beveridge's Maggot To: English Dance Message-ID: <000b01c387be$ff3b53c0$61b0bc3f-AT-g9tfz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT This, for some friends -- is this tune recorded on any CD? (We don't seem to have it in our collection.) Thanks. Pat ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 11:18:05 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 12:16:27 -0600 From: Anita Klein Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Mr. Beveridge's Maggot To: ruggierop-AT-earthlink.net, ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT You can find Mr. Beveridge's Maggot on "English Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master, 1651-1703" by the Broadside Band. >>> ruggierop-AT-earthlink.net 09/30/03 06:54PM >>> This, for some friends -- is this tune recorded on any CD? (We don't seem to have it in our collection.) Thanks. Pat ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 11:35:56 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 14:35:49 -0400 From: Torbin Zimmerman Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Mr. Beveridge's Maggot To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <143C0530-F43E-11D7-AAB1-000393ADEE78-AT-sympatico.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Mr. Beveridge's Maggot can be found on: "English Country Dances", The Broadside Band and "Pat Shaw's Playford", The Assembly Players Torbin Zimmerman On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 09:54 PM, Patricia Ruggiero wrote: > This, for some friends -- is this tune recorded on any CD? (We don't > seem > to have it in our collection.) > > Thanks. > > Pat > ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 11:43:40 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 11:43:18 -0700 From: Sharon Green Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Mr. Beveridge's Maggot To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20031001113944.02b605e8-AT-popserver.panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT At 09:54 PM 9/30/2003 -0400, you wrote: >This, for some friends -- is this tune recorded on any CD? (We don't seem >to have it in our collection.) A version of Mr. Beveridge's Maggot is on the Assembly Players' CD "Pat Shaw's Playford." [It's an AAB version rather than the AABB version in Shimer & Keller's "Playford Ball."] Happy dancing, Sharon ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 13:39:06 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:37:43 -0400 (EDT) From: MWebbTaylor-AT-aol.com Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Richmond ball To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <1c4.f9c7580.2cac9517-AT-aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_(ID_CLdA2fVsJtPjQmGPdQfLTg)" --Boundary_(ID_CLdA2fVsJtPjQmGPdQfLTg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT In a message dated 10/1/03 2:05:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ruggierop-AT-earthlink.net writes: > Does anyone have information on this: date, contact person for > registration, > location? > > Thanks! > > Pat > > The Richmond Ball is Saturday, November 1, from 6-11PM, including a full dinner at the break. The musicians are Steve Hickman, Marty Taylor, and Lynne Mackey. The contact people are Linda McDonald (804) 744-3264 or Vada Powers (804) 320-1495. --Boundary_(ID_CLdA2fVsJtPjQmGPdQfLTg) Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT In a message dated 10/1/03 2:05:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ruggierop-AT-earthlink.net writes:


Does anyone have information on this: date, contact person for registration,
location?

Thanks!

Pat



     The Richmond Ball is Saturday, November 1, from 6-11PM, including a full dinner at the break.  The musicians are Steve Hickman, Marty Taylor, and Lynne Mackey.  The contact people are Linda McDonald (804) 744-3264 or Vada Powers (804) 320-1495.  --Boundary_(ID_CLdA2fVsJtPjQmGPdQfLTg)-- ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 15:30:46 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:30:12 -0400 From: Patricia Ruggiero Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: RE: Richmond ball To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <000c01c3886b$942de5e0$6068bc3f-AT-g9tfz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_(ID_u3A1G/7Xavog5WtsP6GUOQ)" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_u3A1G/7Xavog5WtsP6GUOQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Thanks, Marty! We may see you there. Pat (and Howard) The Richmond Ball is Saturday, November 1, from 6-11PM, including a full dinner at the break. The musicians are Steve Hickman, Marty Taylor, and Lynne Mackey. The contact people are Linda McDonald (804) 744-3264 or Vada Powers (804) 320-1495. --Boundary_(ID_u3A1G/7Xavog5WtsP6GUOQ) Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Thanks, Marty!  We may see you there.
 
Pat (and Howard)
 
 
    The Richmond Ball is Saturday, November 1, from 6-11PM, including a full dinner at the break.  The musicians are Steve Hickman, Marty Taylor, and Lynne Mackey.  The contact people are Linda McDonald (804) 744-3264 or Vada Powers (804) 320-1495. 
--Boundary_(ID_u3A1G/7Xavog5WtsP6GUOQ)-- ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:03:43 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 19:03:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Englshdnc-AT-cs.com Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Richmond ball To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU CC: ruggierop-AT-earthlink.net (Patricia Ruggiero) Message-ID: <151.24bdf0f4.2cacb72e-AT-cs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_(ID_nO/WSgjmOXXcmyfmmOpqUw)" --Boundary_(ID_nO/WSgjmOXXcmyfmmOpqUw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Can you elaborate where exactly the ball is and provide a flyer or details? Many thanks, Al Has this been posted on Bob Chapman's vintage dance email list? --Boundary_(ID_nO/WSgjmOXXcmyfmmOpqUw) Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Can you elaborate where exactly the ball is and provide a flyer or details?
Many thanks,
Al

Has this been posted on Bob Chapman's vintage dance email list? --Boundary_(ID_nO/WSgjmOXXcmyfmmOpqUw)-- ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:12:55 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 19:12:23 -0400 From: Patricia Ruggiero Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: RE: Richmond ball To: Englshdnc-AT-cs.com, English Dance Message-ID: <001a01c38871$78cd5370$6068bc3f-AT-g9tfz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_(ID_ulc37EBmFTV9UDTayYyVFg)" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_ulc37EBmFTV9UDTayYyVFg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT If you're asking me (Pat), no, I can't. I intend to contact Linda M. later this evening and ask her to send me a registration form. In previous years the ball has been held at a country club in Richmond, Virginia. I have no knowledge of the vintage dance list. Pat Can you elaborate where exactly the ball is and provide a flyer or details? Many thanks, Al Has this been posted on Bob Chapman's vintage dance email list? --Boundary_(ID_ulc37EBmFTV9UDTayYyVFg) Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
If you're asking me (Pat), no, I can't.  I intend to contact Linda M. later this evening and ask her to send me a registration form.
 
In previous years the ball has been held at a country club in Richmond, Virginia.
 
I have no knowledge of the vintage dance list. 
 
Pat
Can you elaborate where exactly the ball is and provide a flyer or details?
Many thanks,
Al

Has this been posted on Bob Chapman's vintage dance email list?
--Boundary_(ID_ulc37EBmFTV9UDTayYyVFg)-- ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:31:16 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:29:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing Subject: RE: Richmond ball To: Patricia Ruggiero CC: Englshdnc-AT-cs.com, English Dance Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Message-ID: <01L1BKG6EG1K95MO5V-AT-SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: message/rfc822 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The last four postings on "Richmond Ball" have all contained HTML. I repeat (from September 23): Please do not post HTML ("rich text", "enhanced text") to the list. If you don't know how to keep your mail client from sending HTML, check out this web page: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html The page explains in detail what's wrong with HTML for email. It then explains how to turn off HTML and MIME encoding for some 50 different email clients, which will probably include yours. -- Alan (ECD listowner) -- =============================================================================== Alan Winston --- WINSTON-AT-SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not SLAC or SSRL Phone: 650/926-3056 Paper mail to: SSRL -- SLAC BIN 99, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025 =============================================================================== ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:14:44 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 21:14:12 -0400 From: Patricia Ruggiero Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: RE: Mr. B's Maggot To: English Dance Message-ID: <003101c38882$7d7a9f20$6068bc3f-AT-g9tfz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Thanks to all who supplied names of recordings for this. I'll pass the info on to the friends who inquired. Pat ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 06:07:32 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 09:06:41 -0400 From: Mary Beth Goodman Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: itunes Music Store To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU CC: Ron Goodman Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT whooo hoooo! Bare Necessities "Take A Dance" hits the iTunes Music Store - downloadable music for $.99 cents a song. ECD has hit the mainstream. Now to get the rest of them up there! (and correct the spelling of Fandango). Made my day totally. -- Mary Beth Goodman Quilter http://www.quiltr.com All mac, all the time. Coming to you live from Jaguar. ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:02:02 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:03:01 -0400 From: Loretta Holz Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Are new Boston Centre CDs available yet? To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Does anyone know when the new Boston Centre CDs Volumes 7 and 8 will be available? I just checked the BC website and this is what it says---> The Boston Centre is producing a series of compact discs, "The English Country Dance Collection," featuring Bare Necessities. Volume 5, "At Home," is now available. This CD contains a selection of 22 dances suitable for a small gathering, such as in your home. Volume 6, "At the Ball," will be available in summer 2002. Loretta ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:22:42 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 17:20:43 -0400 From: Terence Gaffney Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Are new Boston Centre CDs available yet? To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <47C67AAB-F51E-11D7-A205-000393B84248-AT-research.neu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 02:03 PM, Loretta Holz wrote: > > Does anyone know when the new Boston Centre CDs Volumes 7 and 8 will be > available? I just checked the BC website and this is what it says---> > > The Boston Centre is producing a series of compact discs, "The English > Country Dance Collection," featuring Bare Necessities. Volume 5, "At > Home," is now available. This CD contains a selection of 22 dances > suitable for a small gathering, such as in your home. Volume 6, "At the > Ball," will be available in summer 2002. > > Loretta > > I'm happy to announce that on Wednesday Oct. 22 we will have a CD release party for Vol 7 "By Request" with all 4 of Bare Necessities playing and Gene Murrow, our series producer, leading. The plan is to have some CDs to sell at the dance, so they'll be available then if not earlier. The dance will be at the Park Avenue Church in Arlington. Directions to the Church can be found at our web site at :http://www.cds-boston.org/english.html. CDS-Boston is also sponsoring a Birthday Celebration for George Fogg on Saturday October 18. George is turning 75 this month, so we wanted to have a party to celebrate his many contributions to ECD as a leader, producer and dance scholar. Although it doesn't show up on liner notes or bibliographies, those who know George know that his warm and welcoming nature has been a great asset to the Boston Centre, and is not the least of reasons to celebrate his career. Music will be provided by Ken Allen, Vince O'Donnell and friends, admission is $8, all profits go the EFDSS, one of George's favorite charities. The dance will start at 8pm at the Church of Our Savior in Brookline. (http://www.cds-boston.org/brookline.html) Best, Terry ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:23:25 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 17:19:44 -0400 (EDT) From: David.Millstone-AT-valley.net (David Millstone) Subject: Re: Mr. Beveridge's Maggot To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Message-ID: <31963617-AT-enfield.VALLEY.NET> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT It's also recorded on the Claremont Country Dance Band's album, "Popular English Country Dances of the 17th and 18th Centuries." David ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 01:16:00 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 01:15:18 -0700 From: "Gary D.Shapiro" Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: itunes Music Store To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT References: At 9:06 AM -0400, on 10/2/03, Mary Beth Goodman wrote: >whooo hoooo! > >Bare Necessities "Take A Dance" hits the iTunes Music Store - >downloadable music for $.99 cents a song. > >ECD has hit the mainstream. > >Now to get the rest of them up there! (and correct the spelling of >Fandango). Made my day totally. "English Country Dances" is there now too. Dick's Maggot is displayed as "D**k's Maggot." You know, until I saw that, it never occurred to me that that tune and dance had anything to do with the slang term for the male sexual organ. They've faithfully reproduced the typo from the "English Country Dances" CD for the track that the band is named for. And from TAD, Knives and Forks is Knives and Fork. I've sent corrections. -- Peace, Gary ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 08:30:25 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:29:09 +0000 (GMT) From: gmurrow-AT-juno.com Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Are new Boston Centre CDs available yet? To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <20031003.082935.11279.59260-AT-webmail02.lax.untd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT The manufacturer is shipping on October 16th, with copies going to Boston Centre,the CDSS bookstore, and the band, among other places. They should arrive a day or two after shipment. You won't want to miss this one, especially with the _scandalous_ (and entirely true) story of "In the Fields of Frost and Snow." On to Volume 8! Gene ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 09:09:44 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 12:08:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Dfhart24-AT-aol.com Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Are new Boston Centre CDs available yet? To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <10c.2a190266.2caef910-AT-aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_(ID_7yY4/GJuamOkVdloVMS2Fg)" --Boundary_(ID_7yY4/GJuamOkVdloVMS2Fg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT In a message dated 10/3/2003 11:47:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, gmurrow-AT-juno.com writes: > You won't want to miss this one, especially with the _scandalous_ (and > entirely true) story of "In the Fields of Frost and Snow." > Okay, I'll bite. . . You gonna explain this??? - dfh --Boundary_(ID_7yY4/GJuamOkVdloVMS2Fg) Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT In a message dated 10/3/2003 11:47:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, gmurrow-AT-juno.com writes:

You won't want to miss this one, especially with the _scandalous_ (and entirely true) story of "In the Fields of Frost and Snow."


Okay, I'll bite. . .  You gonna explain this??? - dfh --Boundary_(ID_7yY4/GJuamOkVdloVMS2Fg)-- ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 18:43:43 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 21:05:57 -0400 From: Gene Murrow Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: [SPAM:##] Re: Are new Boston Centre CDs available yet? To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <20031003.212450.-33789.6.gmurrow-AT-juno.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT I do explain it, in the liner notes... You'll just have to buy the CD [he said, coyly :-) ] Besides, you'll then get to hear "Red and All Red" played by the BN's. It's as beautiful as ECD gets. Gene On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 12:08:48 -0400 (EDT) Dfhart24-AT-AOL.COM writes: In a message dated 10/3/2003 11:47:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, gmurrow-AT-juno.com writes: You won't want to miss this one, especially with the _scandalous_ (and entirely true) story of "In the Fields of Frost and Snow." Okay, I'll bite. . . You gonna explain this??? - dfh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Permanent address: - for your Address book ISP of the moment: - "Reply" button destination ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 02:28:49 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 02:26:09 -0700 From: Vickie Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: SoCal Playford Ball photos To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT There are four pages of photos (83 photos in all) of last nights Southern California Playford Ball available for your viewing pleasure beginning at: http://englishcountrydancing.org/playford2003.html Best regards, Ed ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 02:37:48 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 02:37:34 -0700 (PDT) From: jberger-AT-sbcglobal.net Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Yahoo! Auto Response To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <200310050937.h959bYUu020681-AT-nospam1.slac.stanford.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/PLAIN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT I'll be out of the office starting on October 5, returning on October 21. I'll respond to all email when I return. -- Jonathan E. Berger Attorney at Law -------------------- Original Message: X-Rocket-Track: 2: 100 ; SERVER=66.163.174.38 Return-Path: Received: from vmf-ext.prodigy.net (EHLO vmf.prodigy.net) (207.115.63.92) by mta803.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 05 Oct 2003 02:37:33 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [134.79.18.85] Received: from nospam1.slac.stanford.edu (nospam1.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.18.85]) by vmf.prodigy.net (8.12.9/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h959bVSL082190 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 05:37:32 -0400 Received: from ssrl04.slac.stanford.edu (ssrl04.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.33.14]) by nospam1.slac.stanford.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id h959SiUu020490; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 02:28:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-ecd-AT-ssrl04.slac.stanford.edu) X-ListName: Discussion of modern and historical English Country Dance Warnings-To: <> Errors-To: owner-ecd-AT-ssrl04.slac.stanford.edu Sender: owner-ecd-AT-ssrl04.slac.stanford.edu Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 02:26:09 -0700 From: Vickie MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/PLAIN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT I'll be on vacation from October 5 through October 21. I'll respond to all email when I get back. -- Kalia Kliban kalia-AT-sbcglobal.net -------------------- Original Message: X-Rocket-Track: 1: 100 ; SERVER=66.163.174.36 Return-Path: Received: from vmf-ext.prodigy.net (EHLO vmf.prodigy.net) (207.115.63.92) by mta813.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 05 Oct 2003 02:39:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [134.79.18.85] Received: from nospam1.slac.stanford.edu (nospam1.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.18.85]) by vmf.prodigy.net (8.12.9/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h959ddSL147358 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 05:39:39 -0400 Received: from ssrl04.slac.stanford.edu (ssrl04.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.33.14]) by nospam1.slac.stanford.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id h959SiUu020490; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 02:28:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-ecd-AT-ssrl04.slac.stanford.edu) X-ListName: Discussion of modern and historical English Country Dance Warnings-To: <> Errors-To: owner-ecd-AT-ssrl04.slac.stanford.edu Sender: owner-ecd-AT-ssrl04.slac.stanford.edu Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 02:26:09 -0700 From: Vickie MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_(ID_lNnFD5dZROBjKEr21O4r0w)" --Boundary_(ID_lNnFD5dZROBjKEr21O4r0w) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Last month I posted a message that Byron Buck, for many years an active dancer in the New York area and at Pinewoods, had passed away in August. Here are the details on the memorial service: On Sunday, October 19, 2003 at 4:00 p.m., the service will be held at Upper Ridgewood Community Church which is located at Hillcrest and Fairmount Roads, Ridgewood, New Jersey. Travel directions from New York City: Take Rte. 4 West to Rte. 17 North and take the exit, Linwood Avenue West / Ridgewood. Follow Linwood Avenue to a "T" intersection (approx. 1 ˝ miles). Turn right onto Oak Street and go to the blinking light. Turn left onto Glen Avenue, go under the RR overpass and take the second right turn, Hillcrest Road. Take Hillcrest Road for less than half a mile to Fairmount Road. The church is at the intersection of Hillcrest and Fairmount. Memorial contributions may be made to the Southern Poverty Law Center or Oxfam America. Further questions may be addressed to Byron's daughter, Cecily Buck, at 973-423-4394. Beverly Francis --Boundary_(ID_lNnFD5dZROBjKEr21O4r0w) Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Last month I posted a message that Byron Buck, for many years an active dancer in the New York area and at Pinewoods, had passed away in August.  Here are the details on the memorial service:

On Sunday, October 19, 2003 at 4:00 p.m., the service will be held at Upper Ridgewood Community Church which is located at Hillcrest and Fairmount Roads, Ridgewood, New Jersey.

Travel directions from New York City:

Take Rte. 4 West to Rte. 17 North and take the exit, Linwood Avenue West / Ridgewood.
Follow Linwood Avenue to a "T" intersection (approx. 1 ˝ miles).
Turn right onto Oak Street and go to the blinking light.
Turn left onto Glen Avenue, go under the RR overpass and take the second right turn, Hillcrest Road.
Take Hillcrest Road for less than half a mile to Fairmount Road.  The church is at the intersection of Hillcrest and Fairmount.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Southern Poverty Law Center or Oxfam America.  Further questions may be addressed to Byron's daughter, Cecily Buck, at 973-423-4394.

Beverly Francis




 --Boundary_(ID_lNnFD5dZROBjKEr21O4r0w)-- ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:13:28 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 15:09:43 -0400 (EDT) From: CPChurchOffice-AT-aol.com Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Dance 11/11Delaware and Maryland Ball 11/14 with Shepherds Crown To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <7d.3f16a84b.2cb70c77-AT-aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Christ Presbyterian Church Elkton, Maryland Invites you to two evenings of Traditional English and Scottish Dance Featuring Shepherd’s Crown a traditional dance band from England Dance: Tuesday, November 11, Ball: Friday, November 14, 2003 7:00 PM to 10:30 PM Locations: Please note that each dance will be held in a different hall, town, and even state! Tuesday November 11: Great Hall, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 276 S. College Avenue, Newark, Delaware Friday, November 14, Fellowship Hall, Elkton Presbyterian Church 209 E. Main Street, Elkton, Maryland Dances will include English and Scottish Traditional Dances English Country Dances, Playford, Contra, and Ceilidh dances No partner is necessary Dances will be taught and called Dress: Tuesday: relatively informal Friday: Festive formal attire, period and folk costumes are welcome but not required Comfortable shoes and clothing, are recommended for these active dances – Remember, dancing gets warm! RSVP: Margaret Talbot, 5800 Telegraph Road, Elkton, MD 21921 Phone :410 398-3192 e-mail: offlist to viacharis-AT-comcast.net ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 18:45:26 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 21:45:15 -0400 From: "Registrar, Washington Spring Ball" Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: 18 Annual Washington Spring Ball - May 15, 2004 To: ECD Listserv - Posts Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20031009214014.00af4a00-AT-63.122.103.10> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Dear fellow ECD-ers Mark you calendards - the 18th Annual Washington Spring Ball will be conducted in the Washington DC area on May 15, 2004. Details are in the works and we'll publicize them when the planning has progressed. Contacts for the ball: Email registrar - Roger Broseus, Roger-AT-just.net or call the ball Chair - Tom Spilsbury, 301-585-7857. Best regards, -- Roger W. Broseus Registrar, 16th Annual Washington Spring Ball ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:55:23 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:55:43 +0100 From: Colin Hume Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: GUSTO Conference To: ECD Mailing List Message-ID: <20031010225543.193323-AT-colin-hume> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT I have at last written up the proceedings of the last GUSTO Conference, on the theme of The Tingle Factor. Read all about it at http://www.withgusto.freeserve.co.uk/gconf4.htm The next GUSTO Conference is on the theme of Improving your performance. The Conference will be held on Sunday April 4th 2004 at Hedgerley Village Hall, Bucks, probably starting at 10am. Tea, coffee and lunch will be provided. I've put a map on the web site. Bruce Hamilton, top caller and teacher from California, will be running part of the proceedings. Half of the conference will focus on dancing, the other half on calling, so don't feel there's nothing for you if you're not a dancer. The conference is aimed at GUSTO tutors, but if anyone else would like to attend please contact Wendy Knight on wendy-AT-gcknight.demon.co.uk and she will try to fit you in. Equally if you have ideas about what should be on the agenda, or would be interested in running or helping to run a session, please tell Wendy. Colin Hume Email colin-AT-colinhume.com Web site http://www.colinhume.com ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 11:34:52 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:32:51 -0500 From: Paul Stamler Subject: St. Louis Joint English-Scottish Event Oct. 18th To: ecd list Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Message-ID: <000501c391b8$699cce80$9169550c-AT-paulstam> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Hi folks: The Highland Mist Scottish Country Dancers and the St. Louis English Country Dancers present a British Isles Country Dance Evening, featuring dances from both sides of the border, this Saturday night, October 18th, from 7:30 - 10:30 pm. The event will be held at Brentwood Congregational United Church of Christ, 2400 S. Brentwood Blvd. (at Brentwood & Litzsinger) in the community of Brentwood (an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis, MO). Music will be provided by the Original Speckled Band and Peat Fire Flame; dance leaders will include Peter Wollenberg, Doug Schneider, Missy Reisenleiter, Rebecca Taylor and Paul Stamler. All dances will be taught and walked through. Fancy dress (your definition) encouraged but not required; there will be a contest to pick the gentleman and lady deemed "best-dressed" (the judges' definition). Thanks to the Scobis Co. for the stained-glass awards. The floor is linoleum over concrete, so we suggest well-padded shoes. Please bring snacks to share at the break. The cost is $15.00 per dancer. Partners and reservations not required. For more information call or e-mail Paul (info below), or check out the St. Louis English Country Dancers' website (also below). A splendid time is guaranteed for all. Paul J. Stamler 314-664-9207 pstamler-AT-pobox.com http://members.aol.com/paradiseMO/english.html ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:41:01 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 17:40:45 +0000 From: Margherita Davis Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: CD Release: The Bonds of Harmony. Music for dances of Fried Herman. To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT We did it! After much planning and work, it gives me great pleasure to announce the release of the new CD, The Bonds of Harmony. Music for dances by Fried de Metz Herman. The recording is by Hudson Crossing: George Davis, violin, viola; Sue Polansky, clarinet; Cara Schuman, recorders, flute & tin whistle and Cynthia Shaw Simonoff, piano. Tunes on the CD are: Gotta Dance - By George! Ponderosa Pine Satisfaction The Introduction Green Leaves A Very Shadow Randolph Farewell Litchfield Sundays Yola's Invitation Bonds of Harmony Opal Circle Dance of the Lakes 3D Waltz Thursday Mixer A companion booklet of dance instructions is also available. There will be a CD Release Party in Stockport, NY, called by Fried this coming Saturday, October 18. For more information on the dance, go to http://home.earthlink.net/%7Emandgdavis/dancdate.html For more information on the band, the CD liner notes, ordering information and (so far) one clip of the first track, go to: http://www.HudsonCrossing.org Margherita ******************************************************** Margherita Modica Davis NYC: (212) 724-1707 margheritad1-AT-hotmail.com Upstate: (518) 828-6181 mandgdavis-AT-earthlink.net mmodica1-AT-yahoo.com http://home.earthlink.net/~mandgdavis/ ******************************************************** _________________________________________________________________ Never get a busy signal because you are always connected with high-speed Internet access. Click here to comparison-shop providers. https://broadband.msn.com ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:10:42 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:10:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Barbara Ruth Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: CD Release: The Bonds of Harmony. Music for dances of Fried Herman. To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <20031017011029.28209.qmail-AT-web13609.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT --- Margherita Davis wrote: > After much planning and work, it gives me great pleasure to > announce the > release of the new CD, The Bonds of Harmony. Music for dances by > Fried de Metz Herman. > There will be a CD Release Party in Stockport, NY, called by Fried > this coming Saturday, October 18. And for those who can't make it to Stockport, there will be a special session celebrating the CD release at the NOMAD festival November 15-16 in our NEW LOCATION in New Haven, CT, with Fried calling and Hudson Crossing playing. For the time, and details of who else among your favorite English dance leaders and musicians will be at NOMAD, visit our website and download the schedule grids. http://www.geocities.com/nomadfest/ ===== It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy. --William Safire, 1989 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:06:54 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:05:21 -0400 From: Terence Gaffney Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Cd release party for "By Request" with Gene Murrow To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <7987D275-00CC-11D8-B934-000393B84248-AT-research.neu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT The Wednesday Dance in Boston is having its first party dance of the season this Wednesday, Oct 22. We'll be celebrating the release of volume 7 in the Bare Necessities-Boston Centre CD series. The tunes for this disk are requests from leaders across the country, so we called it "By Request". Music will be by "Bare Necessities" (who else?); as a special treat, we'll have the producer of the series, Gene Murrow, leading. Gene should have some amusing observations about some of the tunes, and of the group's experiences producing the 7 CDs so far. The attendance of our out of town guests always makes these party dances a treat. I hope to see many of you Wednesday. The dance will be at the Park Avenue Church in Arlington, and starts at 7:30. Directions to the Church can be found at our web site at :http://www.cds-boston.org/english.html. Best, Terry Gaffney ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:02:20 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 07:45:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Country Dancers of Westchester Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: CDW Dance Party - Note Date To: ECD List Message-ID: <20031022144537.87211.qmail-AT-web12206.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Beverly Francis emcees Country Dancers of Westchester's Halloween dance party with music by Margaret Ann Martin and friends. The date is this Saturday, October 25, and dancing is from 8pm to 11pm at the Church in the Highlands, White Plains, NY. NOTE WELL: The date changed after the publication deadline for "CDSS News." Plan accordingly! Get complete information at the C.D.W. website: http://www.geocities.com/cdwestchester/ Admission is $10.00 for members; $12.00 for others. The usual great refreshments at the break. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:02:28 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:13:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Barbara Ruth Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Looking for Housing in Boston - (mostly) off-topic To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <20031021141314.77760.qmail-AT-web13601.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT ECD Friends, I beg your indulgence for using the list this way. I may be relocating to Boston for a year. I know the housing market there is expensive, and that will play a role in my decision. I would be looking for a room to rent, furnished, and I'd probably be gone at least half of the weekends. I figure this is the best way of networking with people who might have or know of something suitable. If you do, please reply off-list. Of course one of the appeals of Boston would be the opportunity to attend both the Arlington and JP dances, so this isn't entirely off-topic. Barbara ===== It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy. --William Safire, 1989 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:02:44 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:03:36 -0400 From: Allison M Thompson Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: [SPAM:#] The Blind Harper Dances To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <20031022.140337.-349989.46.AllisonThompson-AT-juno.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT I am very pleased to announce the publication of The Blind Harper Dances, a collection of modern English country dances set to tunes by the blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan. An international effort, this collection contains 54 dances composed by 22 distinguished choreographers from 4 countries. Some of these dances are well known on one side of the Atlantic but not the other; many have never been published before. The Blind Harper Dances also contains biographical information on Carolan and his patrons, poems set to his tunes, and an exciting essay on Carolan's harp and harp technique by harper Ellen Tepper. Tunes, with chords, are included. The Blind Harper Dances is US $22.00 plus $3.00 S&H in the continental US (other purchasers can contact me for shipping options and rates). It will be carried by CDSS as well as Cotswold Music and other distributors and can also be ordered from me via the Squirrel Hill Press website (http://www.musicsleuth.com/sqpress) Happy Dancing! Allison Thompson Pittsburgh PA p: (412) 422-7265 e: allisonthompson-AT-juno.com ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:03:02 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:11:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Pearl Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: CDS Boston Centre English Dance Collection VOLUME 7 "By Request" has been released! To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <20031021161143.74963.qmail-AT-web12301.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT The much-anticipated new release by Bare Necessities in the Boston Centre's English Country Dance Collection is now available! Entitled "By Request," it contains selections that you, on the ECD list, and other influential leaders have requested be set down into polystyrene, or whatever CDs are made of. Volume 7 contains: Jaque Latin Red and All Red Dover Pier Gypsy Round In the Fields of Frost and Snow Albany Assembly Perpetual Motion Cupid's Garden When Laura Smiles (featuring vocal by Jeanne Morill) Midnight Ramble Gigue for Genny The Collier's Daughter Ramsgate Assembly Ore Boggy Mrs. Savage's Whim Until the cds-boston website is updated, this webpage will serve to have SOUND SAMPLES and track listings for the entire series: http://webpages.charter.net/saep/Dan/ECD/ You may obtain the CD for this (and others in the series) from: The musicians: Earl Gaddis, Mary Lea, Peter Barnes, Jacqueline Schwab The producer: Gene Murrow Selected dealers: CDSS (US), Folk Arts Center of New England (US), AADS (Belgium), Cotswold Music Society (UK) among others __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:03:25 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:54:43 -0400 From: "Emily L. Ferguson" Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: dance conference in England, Fall '05 To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT References: <7987D275-00CC-11D8-B934-000393B84248-AT-research.neu.edu> MUSIC AND DANCE CONFERENCE AUTUMN 2005 CENTRE FOR DANCE RESEARCH ROEHAMPTON UNIVERSITY OF SURREY FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT, OCTOBER 2003 In collaboration with the Society for Dance Research and Princeton University's Music Department, the Centre for Dance Research at Roehampton University of Surrey will host a conference on music and dance in autumn 2005. Along the lines of the two previous international conferences at Roehampton ('Following Sir Fred's Steps: A Conference Celebrating Ashton's Work' (1994) and 'Preservation Politics' (1997)), there will be a weekend of activities, with invited speakers, a call for papers, and practical demonstrations involving the dance profession. The Royal Ballet, with whom Roehampton has strong connections, has already agreed in principle to be involved. The conference will have a very broad cultural and historical scope, welcoming a variety of styles and approaches, social and theatre forms, education and training. Our only thematic guideline is that all contributions should move across the disciplinary 'divide'. Roehampton is already a recognised international centre for cross-disciplinary work in music and dance, and the rapidly increasing number of people entering and publishing in this field demonstrates an energy and vitality that calls for conference celebration and debate. We extend a particularly warm welcome to our colleagues in music and musicology and are delighted to be organising a third conference in collaboration with the Society for Dance Research and our first with Princeton. More information and a call for papers will follow in 2004. Stephanie Jordan Conference Chair and Research Professor in Dance -- Emily L. Ferguson mailto:elf-AT-cape.com 508-563-6822 New England landscapes, wooden boats and races, press photography http://www.vsu.cape.com/~elf ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:03:00 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 20:55:13 -0500 From: Bill McDonald Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Origin of the name "The Physical Snob" To: ECD List Message-ID: <000001c39908$e2e40bd0$6401a8c0-AT-BILLSPC> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Undoubtedly the many scholars on this list know the "story" behind the title of The Physical Snob (Fallibrome Collection). If I ever knew, I've forgotten (a condition that I encounter with increasing frequency!). I would love to (re)learn who (or what) the title is referencing (hopefully nobody on this list ). I'm calling this dance for a group of teens this weekend and can assume (naturally enough) that they will ask. This time I'll write it down. All pointers, suggestions and comments are eagerly solicited. Thanks in advance, McDjr ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 23:35:15 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:38:00 +1000 From: Earthly Delights Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Trying to contact To: "ECD-AT-ssrl04.slac.stanford.edu" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Hi, I'm trying to contact Ken McFarland in Alaska of Fairbanks English Country Dancers, except that his email keeps bouncing. I'm trying to reply to a message he sent us. Is anyone able to let him know? Warmest Regards, Aylwen Garden ------------------------------------------ Earthly Delights - music, dance & costumes http://www.earthlydelights.com.au ------------------------------------------ ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 07:44:18 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:44:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Terence Gaffney Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Looking for Housing in Boston - (mostly) off-topic To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Dear friends, I'm always happy to help dancers re-locate to jamaica plain, which is where I live in Boston. if you want to try Arlington, I'm happy to pass your request on to someone in our group who lives there. Best, terry On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Barbara Ruth wrote: > ECD Friends, > I beg your indulgence for using the list this way. I may be > relocating to Boston for a year. I know the housing market there is > expensive, and that will play a role in my decision. I would be > looking for a room to rent, furnished, and I'd probably be gone at > least half of the weekends. I figure this is the best way of > networking with people who might have or know of something suitable. > If you do, please reply off-list. > > Of course one of the appeals of Boston would be the opportunity to > attend both the Arlington and JP dances, so this isn't entirely > off-topic. > Barbara > > ===== > It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy. > --William Safire, 1989 > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > http://shopping.yahoo.com > ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 07:48:40 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:55:42 -0400 From: "Michael J. O'Connor" Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: No Feet To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <009a01c39975$bbb17b20$75e27ad1-AT-oemcomputer> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_(ID_wNRLJkf4bzVMVQqBJsMsMg)" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_wNRLJkf4bzVMVQqBJsMsMg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT At two dance events in the past two weeks, I have noticed the glorious absence of feet. At True Brit two weeks ago, Beverly Francis was leading a session, and when she stopped her calling there we were, maybe 80 of us (I think there were three lines), dancing to no sounds other than beautiful music. It was almost spooky not to hear the constant background skritch skritch skritch, but uplifting, too. Last weekend Scott Higgs was calling at Amherst, and it was practically the same experience except that, with a smaller hall, there were maybe only 50 or so dancers. As there was little overlap in the two groups, this must mean there are at least 120 dancers in this area who are light on their feet. It is so unusual an experience that I wonder if there is some sort of virus going around? It made me think of the time Helene Cornelius was teaching Heidenroslein, I think it was, and when she explained the part about the men side-stepping left and the women side-stepping right in front, she added "That's usually done: Step, scrape, step, scrape." One of the few examples I can think of in which a leader taught a style point (a) very effectively (b) in only seven words (c) with humor and (d) by referring directly to an unstylish dance practice. To pursue the medical question, have others experienced this same virus elsewhere? --Boundary_(ID_wNRLJkf4bzVMVQqBJsMsMg) Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
    At two dance events in the past two weeks, I have noticed the glorious absence of feet.  At True Brit two weeks ago, Beverly Francis was leading a session, and when she stopped her calling there we were, maybe 80 of us (I think there were three lines), dancing to no sounds other than beautiful music.  It was almost spooky not to hear the constant background skritch skritch skritch, but uplifting, too.  Last weekend Scott Higgs was calling at Amherst, and it was practically the same experience except that, with a smaller hall, there were maybe only 50 or so dancers.  As there was little overlap in the two groups, this must mean there are at least 120 dancers in this area who are light on their feet.
    It is so unusual an experience that I wonder if there is some sort of virus going around?  It made me think of the time Helene Cornelius was teaching Heidenroslein, I think it was, and when she explained the part about the men side-stepping left and the women side-stepping right in front, she added "That's usually done: Step, scrape, step, scrape."  One of the few examples I can think of in which a leader taught a style point (a) very effectively (b) in only seven words (c) with humor and (d) by referring directly to an unstylish dance practice.
    To pursue the medical question, have others experienced this same virus elsewhere?
--Boundary_(ID_wNRLJkf4bzVMVQqBJsMsMg)-- ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:01:38 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:51:29 -0400 From: Terence Gaffney Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: No Feet To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <62ADEEFC-0568-11D8-B934-000393B84248-AT-research.neu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT When people know the dance, they scrape less. When they are just learning a new dance, they scape a lot. On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 10:55 AM, Michael J. O'Connor wrote: >     At two dance events in the past two weeks, I have noticed the > glorious absence of feet.  At True Brit two weeks ago, Beverly Francis > was leading a session, and when she stopped her calling there we were, > maybe 80 of us (I think there were three lines), dancing to no sounds > other than beautiful music.  It was almost spooky not to hear the > constant background skritch skritch skritch, but uplifting, too.  Last > weekend Scott Higgs was calling at Amherst, and it was practically the > same experience except that, with a smaller hall, there were maybe > only 50 or so dancers.  As there was little overlap in the two groups, > this must mean there are at least 120 dancers in this area who are > light on their feet. >     It is so unusual an experience that I wonder if there is some sort > of virus going around?  It made me think of the time Helene Cornelius > was teaching Heidenroslein, I think it was, and when she explained the > part about the men side-stepping left and the women side-stepping > right in front, she added "That's usually done: Step, scrape, step, > scrape."  One of the few examples I can think of in which a leader > taught a style point (a) very effectively (b) in only seven words (c) > with humor and (d) by referring directly to an unstylish dance > practice. >     To pursue the medical question, have others experienced this same > virus elsewhere? ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:23:54 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:20:52 -0400 (EDT) From: TOMAAA-AT-aol.com Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: No Feet To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <14c.25beb909.2cc94bd4-AT-aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_(ID_J1S2h/73YLIYomKBSiEcXQ)" --Boundary_(ID_J1S2h/73YLIYomKBSiEcXQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I began to experience the same thing, but later I realized I'm losing my hearing. --Boundary_(ID_J1S2h/73YLIYomKBSiEcXQ) Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I began to experience the same thing, but later I realized I'm losing my hearing. --Boundary_(ID_J1S2h/73YLIYomKBSiEcXQ)-- ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:37:56 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:37:13 -0400 (EDT) From: BSDieter-AT-aol.com Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: No Feet To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT When I first learned to dance English country dancing, I remember Christine Helwig, in her gentle way, halting a dance and requesting, with a smile, that we try the dance again, but without a sound of feet. What a pleasure to dance and hear only the music as one moved with the flow. Margery Potter also taught us to move quietly, as did Fried. I believe one must be taught to move this way, and appreciate doing so. ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:38:34 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:38:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Vincent Subject: Re: No Feet To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Message-ID: <20031023153819.34735.qmail-AT-web12204.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT More the absence of hard-soled shoes than of feet, as it's hard to dance without those clever little primate hooves. :) Also can be due to fatigue level: Perky dancers don't drag their feet. Toss a sliding-step dance in at the end of a long summer's evening and you might see skid marks all over the floor. --- "Michael J. O'Connor" wrote: > At two dance events in the past two weeks, I > have noticed the glorious absence of feet. At True > Brit two weeks ago, Beverly Francis was leading a > session, and when she stopped her calling there we > were, maybe 80 of us (I think there were three > lines), dancing to no sounds other than beautiful > music. It was almost spooky not to hear the > constant background skritch skritch skritch, but > uplifting, too. Last weekend Scott Higgs was > calling at Amherst, and it was practically the same > experience except that, with a smaller hall, there > were maybe only 50 or so dancers. As there was > little overlap in the two groups, this must mean > there are at least 120 dancers in this area who are > light on their feet. > It is so unusual an experience that I wonder if > there is some sort of virus going around? It made > me think of the time Helene Cornelius was teaching > Heidenroslein, I think it was, and when she > explained the part about the men side-stepping left > and the women side-stepping right in front, she > added "That's usually done: Step, scrape, step, > scrape." One of the few examples I can think of in > which a leader taught a style point (a) very > effectively (b) in only seven words (c) with humor > and (d) by referring directly to an unstylish dance > practice. > To pursue the medical question, have others > experienced this same virus elsewhere? > ===== Tom Vincent I looked up the definition of 'liberal' in a Random House dictionary. It gave the synonyms for 'liberal' as 'progressive', 'broad-minded', 'unprejudiced', 'beneficent'. The antonyms it offered: 'reactionary' and 'intolerant'. -- Walter Cronkite www.deanforamerica.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:10:32 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:09:20 -0600 From: Anita Klein Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Feet with Humor To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT This thread reminds be of the first LA Playford Ball. The floor was quite sticky. I'll never forget the sound of 50 pairs of feet going shploik-shploik as they unstuck themselves from the floor during Ashford Annivery. :-) >>> tomrvincent-AT-yahoo.com 10/23/03 08:38AM >>> More the absence of hard-soled shoes than of feet, as it's hard to dance without those clever little primate hooves. :) Also can be due to fatigue level: Perky dancers don't drag their feet. Toss a sliding-step dance in at the end of a long summer's evening and you might see skid marks all over the floor. --- "Michael J. O'Connor" wrote: > At two dance events in the past two weeks, I > have noticed the glorious absence of feet. At True > Brit two weeks ago, Beverly Francis was leading a > session, and when she stopped her calling there we > were, maybe 80 of us (I think there were three > lines), dancing to no sounds other than beautiful > music. It was almost spooky not to hear the > constant background skritch skritch skritch, but > uplifting, too. Last weekend Scott Higgs was > calling at Amherst, and it was practically the same > experience except that, with a smaller hall, there > were maybe only 50 or so dancers. As there was > little overlap in the two groups, this must mean > there are at least 120 dancers in this area who are > light on their feet. > It is so unusual an experience that I wonder if > there is some sort of virus going around? It made > me think of the time Helene Cornelius was teaching > Heidenroslein, I think it was, and when she > explained the part about the men side-stepping left > and the women side-stepping right in front, she > added "That's usually done: Step, scrape, step, > scrape." One of the few examples I can think of in > which a leader taught a style point (a) very > effectively (b) in only seven words (c) with humor > and (d) by referring directly to an unstylish dance > practice. > To pursue the medical question, have others > experienced this same virus elsewhere? > ===== Tom Vincent I looked up the definition of 'liberal' in a Random House dictionary. It gave the synonyms for 'liberal' as 'progressive', 'broad-minded', 'unprejudiced', 'beneficent'. The antonyms it offered: 'reactionary' and 'intolerant'. -- Walter Cronkite www.deanforamerica.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:18:04 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:17:47 +0000 From: Orly Krasner Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: [SPAM:#] The Blind Harper Dances To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Dear Allison-- I received my copy of _The Blind Harper Dances_ yesterday, for which many thanks! It looks wonderful and I can't wait to go through it more carefully. Now that I'm apprentice teaching, I'm always on the lookout for unfamiliar repertoire. Of course, the first piece I looked at was my own. . . I was so chagrined when I first realized that Hewlett had been used before I wrote "Evergreen," but I feel much better now that I see that Planxty Irwin is even more popular--and at the highest choreographic echelons no less! And it was heart-warming to have "Evergreen" and "Orliana" cross-rerenced (which reminds me that I owe Charles a letter, too!). I didn't realize that you were also planning a CD to accompany the volume--I don't envy you having to make the repertoire choices for that, but what a joy playing that music will be! How is that part of the project coming along? Hopefully we'll actually meet on the dancefloor someplace sometime so that I can swap these virtual hugs and congratulations for the real thing! --Orly (shamelessly taking advantage of the reply key to thank Allison and plug the volume to the list at large ) _________________________________________________________________ Fretting that your Hotmail account may expire because you forgot to sign in enough? Get Hotmail Extra Storage today! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:46:54 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:47:21 -0400 From: Daniel Pentlarge Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: RE: No Feet To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Dancing as I often do in a hall with a somewhat creaky floor, I have sometimes noticed at quiet moments in the music in certain dances, that the choreography has a kind of inevitability that means that all dancers fall into step, and one hears only unison stepping as we tread the measures of the dance. I'm not speaking, mind you, of shuffling or foot dragging, but the sound of a whole group of dancers, stepping as one. I find that pretty magical, and I *love* hearing *that*. Daniel Pentlarge ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:36:47 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:36:13 -0400 From: Cara Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: RE: Feet with Humor To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sticky floors . . .hmmmm . . .doesn't that de-FEET the purpose? ;-p -- C -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecd-AT-ssrl04.slac.stanford.edu [mailto:owner-ecd-AT-ssrl04.slac.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Anita Klein Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 12:09 PM To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Subject: Feet with Humor This thread reminds be of the first LA Playford Ball. The floor was quite sticky. I'll never forget the sound of 50 pairs of feet going shploik-shploik as they unstuck themselves from the floor during Ashford Annivery. :-) >>> tomrvincent-AT-yahoo.com 10/23/03 08:38AM >>> More the absence of hard-soled shoes than of feet, as it's hard to dance without those clever little primate hooves. :) Also can be due to fatigue level: Perky dancers don't drag their feet. Toss a sliding-step dance in at the end of a long summer's evening and you might see skid marks all over the floor. --- "Michael J. O'Connor" wrote: > At two dance events in the past two weeks, I > have noticed the glorious absence of feet. At True > Brit two weeks ago, Beverly Francis was leading a > session, and when she stopped her calling there we > were, maybe 80 of us (I think there were three > lines), dancing to no sounds other than beautiful > music. It was almost spooky not to hear the > constant background skritch skritch skritch, but > uplifting, too. Last weekend Scott Higgs was > calling at Amherst, and it was practically the same experience except > that, with a smaller hall, there were maybe only 50 or so dancers. As > there was little overlap in the two groups, this must mean > there are at least 120 dancers in this area who are > light on their feet. > It is so unusual an experience that I wonder if > there is some sort of virus going around? It made > me think of the time Helene Cornelius was teaching > Heidenroslein, I think it was, and when she > explained the part about the men side-stepping left > and the women side-stepping right in front, she > added "That's usually done: Step, scrape, step, > scrape." One of the few examples I can think of in > which a leader taught a style point (a) very > effectively (b) in only seven words (c) with humor > and (d) by referring directly to an unstylish dance > practice. > To pursue the medical question, have others > experienced this same virus elsewhere? > ===== Tom Vincent I looked up the definition of 'liberal' in a Random House dictionary. It gave the synonyms for 'liberal' as 'progressive', 'broad-minded', 'unprejudiced', 'beneficent'. The antonyms it offered: 'reactionary' and 'intolerant'. -- Walter Cronkite www.deanforamerica.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:54:50 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:54:30 -0400 (GMT-04:00) From: Patricia Ruggiero Subject: Re: Trying to contact To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Message-ID: <13214437.1066931675726.JavaMail.root-AT-fozzie.psp.pas.earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT My posts to him keep bouncing, too. Can that happen when a mailbox becomes "full" (asks this technodud). He's been away for about two weeks, in China, and wasn't going to have access to his email. He was supposed to return around 10/21, two days ago. I'm hoping to have a confirming email from him about the Scotland trip. As soon as I hear from him, I'll immediately send him a reply. If that goes through, I'll let him know that others have been trying to reach him. Pat -----Original Message----- From: Earthly Delights Sent: Oct 23, 2003 2:38 AM To: "ECD-AT-ssrl04.slac.stanford.edu" Subject: Trying to contact Hi, I'm trying to contact Ken McFarland in Alaska of Fairbanks English Country Dancers, except that his email keeps bouncing. I'm trying to reply to a message he sent us. Is anyone able to let him know? Warmest Regards, Aylwen Garden ------------------------------------------ Earthly Delights - music, dance & costumes http://www.earthlydelights.com.au ------------------------------------------ ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:57:33 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:54:50 -0400 From: "Emily L. Ferguson" Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: GUSTO Conference To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT References: <20031010225543.193323-AT-colin-hume> I'm just now getting to reading some of Colin's postings about these very interesting GUSTO conferences and I notice there's no report from one about 6 months ago. Colin, did it happen and what did you do about a report? Learning styles and tingle factor! What neat subjects! -- Emily L. Ferguson mailto:elf-AT-cape.com 508-563-6822 New England landscapes, wooden boats and races, press photography http://www.vsu.cape.com/~elf ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:10:15 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 18:09:51 +0000 From: Orly Krasner Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: No Feet To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT >When people know the dance, they scrape less. When they are just learning a >new dance, they scape a lot. > What Terry says is partly true, but some dances do seem to bring out the "step-scrape" effect more than others. I was just lamenting this the other day during "Bare Necessities," for example. Those "quiet" moments are rare and magical indeed! --Orly _________________________________________________________________ See when your friends are online with MSN Messenger 6.0. Download it now FREE! http://msnmessenger-download.com ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:16:57 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:16:37 -0400 (GMT-04:00) From: rbailey-AT-supernet.com Subject: New Years Eve Ball in New Castle DE To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Message-ID: <10726399.1066936600235.JavaMail.root-AT-daisy.psp.pas.earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Reservations are now being accepted for the New Years Eve Colonial Ball in New Castle, Delaware. 10 pm until 1 am. Most dance selections will be English country dances of the 18th century. Period attire preferred; modern fancy/festive or black tie acceptable. $20 per person for reservations made by 12/15; $25 per person thereafter. Music by Robert Mouland; dances led by Tom Vincent. A nice addition to the dance evening is dinner before-hand at the Arsenal Restaurant or Jessops Tavern, both within walking distance. Reservations required for dinner (make them early--the restaurants fill). Phone (302) 328.1290 for info and/or ball reservations. Laura Bailey Lancaster, PA ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:20:57 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:20:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Barbara Ruth Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: No Feet To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <20031023202040.57818.qmail-AT-web13601.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT --- "Michael J. O'Connor" wrote: > At two dance events in the past two weeks, I have noticed the > glorious absence of feet. At True Brit two weeks ago, Beverly > Francis was leading a session, and when she stopped her calling > there we were, maybe 80 of us (I think there were three lines), > dancing to no sounds other than beautiful music. EVERYTHING about True Brit two weeks ago was glorious (including the weather - whoever you guys had working on that, get them again next time!) A huge thank you to all the folks who put in the time and energy to make it happen. On the subject of feet, every so often the inestimable Marshall Barron who leads the music at the New Haven dance will say to the dancers "It would be lovely to not hear the sound of scritch, scritch" at which point everyone starts picking up their feet, whereupon she says to us "You all sound wonderful!" Being told you sound wonderful by Marshall Barron is an experience to be savored. Having this occasional reminder has gotten me into the habit of picking up my feet when I chassee. Barbara ===== It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy. --William Safire, 1989 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:55:22 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:54:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Barbara Ruth Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Elm City Assembly (aka New Haven Ball) To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <20031023205437.65612.qmail-AT-web13601.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Announcing the 6th Annual New Haven ECD Ball, Saturday, January 24, 2004 Those wishing to attend can print out the following registration form, or if you prefer something less messy, contact me directly and I will email it to you as a Word attachment. I apologize that circumstances have kept me from updating and placing this on the web site. I look forward to seeing many of you there! Barbara Elm City Assembly A Mid-Winter Celebration of English Country Dance Saturday, January 24, 2004 7:00 to 11:00 p.m ~~ St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church, 830 Whitney Ave., New Haven, CT ~ Master of Ceremonies: Graham Christian Music by The Playford Consort: Marshall Barron, Phoebe Barron, Grace Feldman, Margaret Ann Martin Advance Registration Required: $28 per person for registrations received by December 24, 2003 $30 for registrations received after December 24, 2003 Dances will be walked-through briefly and prompted. Attendees should have sufficient ECD ability to know the basic figures and able to dance them when prompted without further explanation, able to learn novel figures quickly, and reliably able to find their place without needing direction from others. Registrations will be accepted in the order received. Later registrants, of either sex, may be wait-listed. Avoid disappointment by registering promptly. Multiple individuals at the same address may register on one form. Please include an email address if you have one. Acceptances, dance instructions, directions & map will be sent via email. Formal program booklets will be available at the door. Formal, period, or fancy attire appropriate. Contributions of fruit or a dessert are welcome. For further information: Barbara Ruth (203) 777-5114 or barbararuth-AT-rocketmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Elm City English Dance Ball 2004 Registration form Name(s) (as they will appear on name tags) Address Zip Phone (day)_________________________ (evening) email Number of registrants -AT- $28 each _______ -AT- $30 each _______ Total included ____________ Please Include Checks Payable to: New Haven Country Dancers Mail to: Helen Davenport-Senuta, 1058 Plymouth St., Windsor, CT 06095 _________(number) wishing home hospitality _________(number) of guests I / we can offer hospitality (please mention any special circumstances, e.g. pets, pet allergies, smoking/no smoking, etc. on back) ===== It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy. --William Safire, 1989 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:05:03 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 19:04:25 -0400 (EDT) From: CPChurchOffice-AT-aol.com Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: New Years Eve Ball in New Castle DE To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <3e.369d8b13.2cc9b879-AT-aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Hello Laura, I received your pdf and have printed it out for distribution. It looks good. I may run into some persuasive teenagers..... but will probably still go to Dover, we'll see how persuasive they can be : ) Margaret ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:27:46 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:27:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Graham Christian Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: feet... To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <20031023232731.99264.qmail-AT-web20604.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT I remember having heard Fried Herman say that Pat Shaw said (we're now firmly in the realm of oral tradition) that the impulse for our movement should come from the back of the foot. Meaning, I believe, that you're *on* it; it's impelling you forward and up. ("There he is, chiming in again...!") G ===== Graham Christian "They love dance well that will dance among thorns." __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 19:08:01 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:07:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "Roger W. Broseus" Subject: Sounds of Feet (Only) To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT A few years ago I attended a dance party at a friend's house. We danced two rounds of St. Margaret's Hill without music . . . all you could hear was the sound of feet (quietly) dancing. Nice. -- Roger W. Broseus, CHP, PH.D. ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 20:38:26 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:41:15 -0700 From: Mary Devlin Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Dances for The Fezziwig Ball To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Hi everyone, I've had a request for help from a director with Corbett Childrens Theatre, a community theatre in rural Multnomah County, Oregon. She is directing Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" and researching English Country dances for an important scene, "The Fezziwig Ball". She's looking for appropriate dances to use, and I'm sure that one constraint is the need to use recorded music. In addition, the actors won't have a great deal of time to learn dancing. I thought a quick way to help her get started would be to ask for your assistance. What would you suggest she use that would be easy, the approximately right time period, and for which music has been recorded? Would you please reply to me off-list -- mary-AT-mdevlin.com If you all want to know what people say I will compile it into one posting for you. Thanks in advance for your help! This will be much more helpful than things I come up with on my own. Mary ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:33:51 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:33:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Andy Peterson Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: No Feet To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <20031024043339.67961.qmail-AT-web20010.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT --- Orly Krasner wrote: > Those "quiet" moments are rare and magical indeed! I remember _many_ years ago going to a Boston Wednesday night dance and during the waltz at the end of the evening there was no scraping of feet at all! It was so noticable that people commented on it after a while. Andy in Portland __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:51:21 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:50:59 -0700 From: Jon Berger Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Dances for The Fezziwig Ball To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <3F98BDC3.8070704-AT-sbcglobal.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT References: Mary Devlin wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've had a request for help from a director with Corbett Childrens Theatre, > a community theatre in rural Multnomah County, Oregon. She is directing > Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" and researching English Country dances > for an important scene, "The Fezziwig Ball". She's looking for appropriate > dances to use, and I'm sure that one constraint is the need to use recorded > music. In addition, the actors won't have a great deal of time to learn > dancing. > > I thought a quick way to help her get started would be to ask for your > assistance. What would you suggest she use that would be easy, the > approximately right time period, and for which music has been recorded? The one that immediately springs to mind is Sir Roger de Coverley, which I believe is actually mentioned by name in the Fezziwig's section of "A Christmas Carol." There must be a recording of the music somewhere, though I couldn't tell you where, but actually pretty much any tune would work, since the dance has a strip-the-willow figure and consequently doesn't fit the tune exactly anyway. The tune is, of all things, a slip jig, but a regular double jig would really work better. -- Jon Berger http://pages.sbcglobal.net/jberger ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 07:17:53 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:17:38 +0100 From: Graham Knight Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: RE: Dances for The Fezziwig Ball To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Jon, Which version of Sir Roger do you do? My recollection is that there is no strip the willow figure. It is virtually all movements on the long diagonal, apart from the cast for the progression> Graham Knight -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecd-AT-ssrl04.slac.stanford.edu [mailto:owner-ecd-AT-ssrl04.slac.stanford.edu]On Behalf Of Jon Berger Sent: 24 October 2003 06:51 To: ECD-AT-ssrl04.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Dances for The Fezziwig Ball Mary Devlin wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've had a request for help from a director with Corbett Childrens Theatre, > a community theatre in rural Multnomah County, Oregon. She is directing > Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" and researching English Country dances > for an important scene, "The Fezziwig Ball". She's looking for appropriate > dances to use, and I'm sure that one constraint is the need to use recorded > music. In addition, the actors won't have a great deal of time to learn > dancing. > > I thought a quick way to help her get started would be to ask for your > assistance. What would you suggest she use that would be easy, the > approximately right time period, and for which music has been recorded? The one that immediately springs to mind is Sir Roger de Coverley, which I believe is actually mentioned by name in the Fezziwig's section of "A Christmas Carol." There must be a recording of the music somewhere, though I couldn't tell you where, but actually pretty much any tune would work, since the dance has a strip-the-willow figure and consequently doesn't fit the tune exactly anyway. The tune is, of all things, a slip jig, but a regular double jig would really work better. -- Jon Berger http://pages.sbcglobal.net/jberger ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 08:07:03 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 08:06:44 -0700 From: Jon Berger Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Dances for The Fezziwig Ball To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <3F994004.1080908-AT-sbcglobal.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT References: Graham Knight wrote: > Jon, > > Which version of Sir Roger do you do? My recollection is that there is no > strip the willow figure. It is virtually all movements on the long diagonal, > apart from the cast for the progression> Umm, you could be right. I've never actually danced it, just played it a lot. I'm reasonably sure that there was SOMETHING that involves every couple in the line dancing with the head couple, but my memory is fuzzy. My memory is very clear, though, that there's some good reason why the dance figures don't align with the musical figures. -- Jon Berger http://pages.sbcglobal.net/jberger ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 08:29:05 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 08:28:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Barbara Ruth Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Dances for The Fezziwig Ball To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <20031024152848.24346.qmail-AT-web13605.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT --- Mary Devlin wrote: > > Would you please reply to me off-list -- mary-AT-mdevlin.com > > If you all want to know what people say I will compile it into one > posting for you. I have nothing useful to say, but would like to see what our more historically-informed members have to say. These kinds of requests often generate some of the most interesting posts on this list. And as just witness the exchange between Jon Berger and Graham Knight, sometimes people's replies produce informational interactions - so I don't see any problem with replies to the list. ===== It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy. --William Safire, 1989 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 08:54:32 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:54:08 -0400 From: Christine Robb Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Dances for The Fezziwig Ball To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <20031024155408.GG32042-AT-vienna> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT References: <3F994004.1080908-AT-sbcglobal.net> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:06:44AM -0700, Jon Berger wrote: > Graham Knight wrote: > >Which version of Sir Roger do you do? My recollection is that there is no > >strip the willow figure. It is virtually all movements on the long > >diagonal, > >apart from the cast for the progression> > > Umm, you could be right. I've never actually danced it, just played it a > lot. I'm reasonably sure that there was SOMETHING that involves every > couple in the line dancing with the head couple, but my memory is fuzzy. > My memory is very clear, though, that there's some good reason why the > dance figures don't align with the musical figures. Sir Roger, as I've danced it and as written in Wilson (ca. 1815), has a figure where the top couple cross over, go around one person (two, if it's a really long line), cross back, go around one, etc., until they get down to the bottom. (Then promenade and cast off, all following.) The Haymaker's Jig, an Irish ceili dance that is very similar, has a strip the willow figure in it, instead. (And a swing rather than a two-hand turn and back-to-back/allemande.) The Virginia Reel, what I consider to be the American version, I've generally done with a strip the willow figure, but I tend to think of it as more improvisory than the other two, depending on the teacher's preferences. In my experience, there is no fundamental reason why the music and the choreography part ways, but they invariably do. The number of couples in the line will make a difference, of course, but even when the number is fixed, such as for Haymaker's Jig, which requires 5 couples (the other two are not for any particular number), I've usually found that at the end of the dance, perhaps 2 out of 6 sets are at the same spot in the dance. And Haymaker's Jig has a lines forward and back figure that makes them wait for the top of the phrase each time; the other two can start mid-way through a phrase, I believe. Christine ECD in TO http://www.interlog.com/~cedar ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 08:57:57 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:57:41 +0100 From: Graham Knight Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: RE: Dances for The Fezziwig Ball To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Yes, the top couple cast to invert the set and the other couples lead up through them. The whole dance is usually done unphrased. We have a lovely drawing from 1842(?) showing Sir Roger being danced at the end of a party. Graham Knight -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecd-AT-ssrl04.slac.stanford.edu [mailto:owner-ecd-AT-ssrl04.slac.stanford.edu]On Behalf Of Jon Berger Sent: 24 October 2003 16:07 To: ECD-AT-ssrl04.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Dances for The Fezziwig Ball Graham Knight wrote: > Jon, > > Which version of Sir Roger do you do? My recollection is that there is no > strip the willow figure. It is virtually all movements on the long diagonal, > apart from the cast for the progression> Umm, you could be right. I've never actually danced it, just played it a lot. I'm reasonably sure that there was SOMETHING that involves every couple in the line dancing with the head couple, but my memory is fuzzy. My memory is very clear, though, that there's some good reason why the dance figures don't align with the musical figures. -- Jon Berger http://pages.sbcglobal.net/jberger ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:08:10 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:04:25 +0100 From: Colin Hume Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: GUSTO Conference To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <2003102417425.900027-AT-colin-hume> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 07:00:04 PST, Emily L. Ferguson wrote: > > I'm just now getting to reading some of Colin's postings about > these very interesting GUSTO conferences and I notice there's no > report from one about 6 months ago. Colin, did it happen and what > did you do about a report? It did happen - on the theme of "Assessing your Dancers ". I didn't post a report to the ECD List because I wasn't there, but Wendy Knight wrote a report and it's available on the GUSTO web site at http://www.withgusto.freeserve.co.uk/gconf3.htm Colin Hume Email colin-AT-colinhume.com Web site http://www.colinhume.com ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:16:21 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:15:49 -0700 From: Jon Berger Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Dances for The Fezziwig Ball To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <3F995035.1060809-AT-sbcglobal.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT References: <3F994004.1080908-AT-sbcglobal.net> <20031024155408.GG32042-AT-vienna> Christine Robb wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:06:44AM -0700, Jon Berger wrote: > >>Graham Knight wrote: >> >>>Which version of Sir Roger do you do? My recollection is that there is no >>>strip the willow figure. It is virtually all movements on the long >>>diagonal, >>>apart from the cast for the progression> >> >>Umm, you could be right. I've never actually danced it, just played it a >>lot. I'm reasonably sure that there was SOMETHING that involves every >>couple in the line dancing with the head couple, but my memory is fuzzy. >>My memory is very clear, though, that there's some good reason why the >>dance figures don't align with the musical figures. > > > Sir Roger, as I've danced it and as written in Wilson (ca. 1815), has a > figure where the top couple cross over, go around one person (two, if > it's a really long line), cross back, go around one, etc., until they > get down to the bottom. (Then promenade and cast off, all following.) Actually, Dickens did a moderately ok job of describing the dance he was talking about. Here's the passage from "A Christmas Carol," which fortunately appears on the web in about a million places. I assume that what he calls "thread the needle" is what Christine described above, and what I inaccurately referred to as "strip the willow": But the great effect of the evening came after the Roast and Boiled, when the fiddler (an artful dog, mind! The sort of man who knew his business better than you or I could have told it him!) struck up ``Sir Roger de Coverley.'' Then old Fezziwig stood out to dance with Mrs. Fezziwig. Top couple, too; with a good stiff piece of work cut out for them; three or four and twenty pair of partners; people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking. But if they had been twice as many: ah, four times: old Fezziwig would have been a match for them, and so would Mrs. Fezziwig. As to her, she was worthy to be his partner in every sense of the term. If that's not high praise, tell me higher, and I'll use it. A positive light appeared to issue from Fezziwig's calves. They shone in every part of the dance like moons. You couldn't have predicted, at any given time, what would become of 'em next. And when old Fezziwig and Mrs. Fezziwig had gone all through the dance; advance and retire, hold hands with your partner, bow and curtsey; corkscrew; thread-the-needle, and back again to your place; Fezziwig cut -- cut so deftly, that he appeared to wink with his legs, and came upon his feet again without a stagger. -- Jon Berger http://pages.sbcglobal.net/jberger ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:29:15 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:28:57 -0500 (CDT) From: mgmudrey-AT-mhtc.net Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: GUSTO Conference To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <3957.144.92.125.29.1067012937.squirrel-AT-webmail.mhtc.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT References: <2003102417425.900027-AT-colin-hume> For Wendy Knight if you are on the list The Gusto Conference report that Colin Hume referred to was interesting.. The Celtic pattern problem dance looks interesting..Needless to write....I too am not acquainted with it. Celtic Pattern chosen for how dancers cope with unknown figures As the dance was unknown to the dancers and contained two novel figures - a cloverleaf circular hey and a quadruple figure of eight - it required dancers to apply their existing dance vocabulary and respond to instructions. Dancers shared their hints to others such as counting (to keep everyone together), explaining the figure differently (as a single file circle for 4 dancers), using home placesto mark stages in the figure. Each contribution required assessment of difficulties and possible solutions. Although errors were made, the figures were largely executed with success, although because of the dancers' expectations of a high standard some were not satisfied! At 05:04 PM 10/24/2003 +0100, you wrote: It did happen - on the theme of "Assessing your Dancers ". I didn't post a report to the ECD List because I wasn't there, but Wendy Knight wrote a report and it's available on the GUSTO web site at http://www.withgusto.freeserve.co.uk/gconf3.htm Colin Hume ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:44:11 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:43:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Dfhart24-AT-aol.com Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Dances for The Fezziwig Ball To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <146.1b22f578.2ccabea8-AT-aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_(ID_RuO5//CjAUtOvMOIdfm5aw)" --Boundary_(ID_RuO5//CjAUtOvMOIdfm5aw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT In a message dated 10/23/2003 11:55:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mary-AT-mdevlin.com writes: > Hi everyone, > > I've had a request for help from a director with Corbett Childrens Theatre, > a community theatre in rural Multnomah County, Oregon. She is directing > Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" and researching English Country dances > for an important scene, "The Fezziwig Ball". She's looking for appropriate > dances to use, and I'm sure that one constraint is the need to use recorded > music. In addition, the actors won't have a great deal of time to learn > dancing. > Several years ago I was asked to choreograph the same for a production of "A Christmas Carol." I decided that I cared neither for the original tune, nor the dance, and chose instead to use and teach the actors Fandango, which struck me as a whole lot more festive. I decided "festive" was more important to me than "pure." They had a truly tiny stage upon which to do this but did a credible job and each night, at the conclusion of the dance, the audience burst into applause. Cheer, Deborah, who continues to err on the side of impurity, for a cause PS - The actors practiced using a Bare Necessities tape. I was later told by the Director, who had been told by the Music Director, who had been, futilely, trying to reproduce the effect of the taped music, that the sheet music I had provided contained fewer than half the notes than were on the tape. :+) --Boundary_(ID_RuO5//CjAUtOvMOIdfm5aw) Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT In a message dated 10/23/2003 11:55:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mary-AT-mdevlin.com writes:

Hi everyone,

I've had a request for help from a director with Corbett Childrens Theatre,
a community theatre in rural Multnomah County, Oregon.  She is directing
Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" and researching English Country dances
for an important scene, "The Fezziwig Ball".  She's looking for appropriate
dances to use, and I'm sure that one constraint is the need to use recorded
music.  In addition, the actors won't have a great deal of time to learn
dancing.


Several years ago I was asked to choreograph the same for a production of "A Christmas Carol."  I decided that I cared neither for the original tune, nor the dance, and chose instead to use and teach the actors Fandango, which struck me as a whole lot more festive.  I decided "festive" was more important to me than "pure."  They had a truly tiny stage upon which to do this but did a credible job and each night, at the conclusion of the dance, the audience burst into applause.

Cheer,
Deborah, who continues to err on the side of impurity, for a cause

PS - The actors practiced using a Bare Necessities tape.  I was later told by the Director, who had been told by the Music Director, who had been, futilely, trying to reproduce the effect of the taped music, that the sheet music I had provided contained fewer than half the notes than were on the tape.  :+) --Boundary_(ID_RuO5//CjAUtOvMOIdfm5aw)-- ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:37:20 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:37:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Barbara Ruth Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Dances for The Fezziwig Ball To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <20031024193706.8263.qmail-AT-web13604.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT --- Jon Berger wrote: > Actually, Dickens did a moderately ok job of describing the dance > he was > talking about. Here's the passage from "A Christmas Carol," which > fortunately appears on the web in about a million places. And not to be outdone, here is George Elliot in "Silas Marner" on the same dance at another Christmas celebration (to be honest Dickens is the better description: Solomon Macey, a small hale old man with an abundant crop of long white hair reaching nearly to his shoulders, advanced to the indicated spot, bowing reverently while he fiddled, as much as to say that he respected the company, though he respected the key-note more. As soon as he had repeated the tune and lowered his fiddle, he bowed again to the Squire and the rector, and said, "I hope I see your honour and your reverence well, and wishing you health and long life and a happy New Year. And wishing the same to you, Mr. Lammeter, sir; and to the other gentlemen, and the madams, and the young lasses." **************** But Solomon was already impatient to prelude again, and presently broke with much spirit into "Sir Roger de Coverley", at which there was a sound of chairs pushed back, and laughing voices. "Aye, aye, Solomon, we know what that means," said the Squire, rising. "It's time to begin the dance, eh? Lead the way, then, and we'll all follow you." So Solomon, holding his white head on one side, and playing vigorously, marched forward at the head of the gay procession into the White Parlour, where the mistletoe-bough was hung, and multitudinous tallow candles made rather a brilliant effect, gleaming from among the berried holly-boughs, and reflected in the old-fashioned oval mirrors fastened in the panels of the white wainscot. A quaint procession! Old Solomon, in his seedy clothes and long white locks, seemed to be luring that decent company by the magic scream of his fiddle--luring discreet matrons in turban-shaped caps, nay, Mrs. Crackenthorp herself, the summit of whose perpendicular feather was on a level with the Squire's shoulder--luring fair lasses complacently conscious of very short waists and skirts blameless of front-folds--luring burly fathers in large variegated waistcoats, and ruddy sons, for the most part shy and sheepish, in short nether garments and very long coat-tails. ****** "The Squire's pretty springe, considering his weight," said Mr. Macey, "and he stamps uncommon well. But Mr. Lammeter beats 'em all for shapes: you see he holds his head like a sodger, and he isn't so cushiony as most o' the oldish gentlefolks--they run fat in general; and he's got a fine leg. The parson's nimble enough, but he hasn't got much of a leg: it's a bit too thick down'ard, and his knees might be a bit nearer wi'out damage; but he might do worse, he might do worse. Though he hasn't that grand way o' waving his hand as the Squire has." "Talk o' nimbleness, look at Mrs. Osgood," said Ben Winthrop, who was holding his son Aaron between his knees. "She trips along with her little steps, so as nobody can see how she goes--it's like as if she had little wheels to her feet. She doesn't look a day older nor last year: she's the finest-made woman as is, let the next be where she will." ===== It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy. --William Safire, 1989 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:51:50 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:51:24 -0700 From: Jon Berger Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Dances for The Fezziwig Ball To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <3F99ACEC.6050806-AT-sbcglobal.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT References: <20031024193706.8263.qmail-AT-web13604.mail.yahoo.com> Don't forget, if you're really going to re-create the authentic Fezziwig Ball experience, it's pretty much obligatory to have your fiddler plunge his hot face into a pot of porter especially provided for the purpose. Seriously. You could look it up. Make sure your fiddler puts his fiddle down first, somewhere well out of the way of the porter bowl, because it tends to splash. I speak from experience, having actually done this once, at (as one might expect) the Dickens Fair in San Francisco. It made a huge mess, and it turns out that Guinness into which a sweaty bearded face has been plunged is not all that pleasant to drink, but the one or two paying customers who actually remembered that section of ACC were doubtless vastly entertained. -- Jon Berger http://pages.sbcglobal.net/jberger ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:31:20 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:27:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing Subject: Re: Dances for The Fezziwig Ball To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Message-ID: <01L27R5ADBI895MQ5B-AT-SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT References: > Graham Knight wrote: > > Jon, > > > > Which version of Sir Roger do you do? My recollection is that there is no > > strip the willow figure. It is virtually all movements on the long diagonal, > > apart from the cast for the progression> > Umm, you could be right. I've never actually danced it, just played it a > lot. I'm reasonably sure that there was SOMETHING that involves every > couple in the line dancing with the head couple, but my memory is fuzzy. > My memory is very clear, though, that there's some good reason why the > dance figures don't align with the musical figures. I'm pretty sure that Dudley Laufman's rendition of Sir Roger in a book of whole set dances ("Sir Roger de Coverley's Whole Set Catalogue", I think) includes a strip-the-willow, but I've only done it in the Bay Area with a lace-the-boot. -- Alan -- =============================================================================== Alan Winston --- WINSTON-AT-SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not SLAC or SSRL Phone: 650/926-3056 Paper mail to: SSRL -- SLAC BIN 99, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025 =============================================================================== ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:57:18 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:29:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing Subject: Re: Dances for The Fezziwig Ball To: Mary Devlin CC: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Message-ID: <01L27S3PQLHU95MQ5B-AT-SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Mary wrote: > I've had a request for help from a director with Corbett Childrens Theatre, > a community theatre in rural Multnomah County, Oregon. She is directing > Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" and researching English Country dances > for an important scene, "The Fezziwig Ball". She's looking for appropriate > dances to use, and I'm sure that one constraint is the need to use recorded > music. In addition, the actors won't have a great deal of time to learn > dancing. > I thought a quick way to help her get started would be to ask for your > assistance. What would you suggest she use that would be easy, the > approximately right time period, and for which music has been recorded? I programmed a Fezziwig's Ball (for participation rather than viewing) in 1994 and 1996-1998. [The Bay Area has a Dickens Faire at which there's a solidly mid-Victorian Fezziwig's dance hall, with waltzes, polka, schottische, mazurka, Roger de Coverley, Galopede, Congress of Vienna, etc, with costumed shills of both sexes involving the paying audience in the dancing. A spinoff of that is the Gaskell Ball, which is a bi-monthly series of formal-or-period-formal participatory mid-Victorian dances that has achieved extraordinary popularity, reliably pulling in from 200 to as many as 500 dancers. At any rate, the Dickens Faire was - long sad legal story cut short - dormant through the 1990s, so there was a spot for an independent Fezziwig's ball.] Dickens Faire has been back for several years and we don't really have a niche for an independent Fezziwig's any more, so we've dropped it. If you think about it, the setting of ACC is mid-Victorian, but the events at Fezziwig's occurred in Scrooge's young manhood, perhaps 30 or 40 years earlier. So the setting of Fezziwig's ought to be roughly during the late Georgian or Regency period (strictly 1811-1820, more flexibly late 1700s - early 1800s). This gave the Bay Area English Regency Society a good excuse to get involved. These balls presume little prior knowledge on the part of the dancers, so everything had to be teachable on the fly; further, since the the last two of those balls were held as part of the program at a science-fiction convention, there was going to be a certain amount of wandering in and out, so the programs couldn't rely on figures introduced earlier - everything might have to be taught again from scratch every time. I didn't make authentic interpretation of historical dance a priority because, first, the audience didn't care, second, it would take too long, third, because there's basically no information about what people who weren't of the _ton_ were doing in terms of dance style. Would the clerks at Fezziwigs have been taking dancing lessons in youth? What about sailors, other importers, etc, etc? Was there any effort at styling or footwork other than improvised footwork? I don't think Dickens mentions any, other than the glowing of Mr. Fezziwig's calves. So: Easy dances, easy figures, no worries about footworks, many small-set dances, include much stuff published roughly in our period, but don't be rigid about it. (So some 1600s dances get a look-in.) In the event I ended up dropping some of the longways dances, which aren't phenomenally easy for non-dancers. The big _Kentish Hops_ collection was very helpful here; I also drew on the Community Dances Manuals, and a little bit on other sources. There's a bunch of free waltzes in the program even though they're Not Done in England until 1806; our common rationalization for that is excessive contact with the French and Germans, who are doing waltz-like stuff even earlier. Our bandleader found a 1770s arrangement of RdeC. We had a number of kids dancing, and it was generally big fun. Recordings exist for many of these dances, although the Kentish Hops recording by the Ring O' Bells Country Dance Band is kinda scary; drummer seems to think a strike on every beat is a good idea. (Their "Barn Dance Party" book and tape is scarier-looking (Western shirts, straw bales) but better listening - I was gobsmacked by the drum solo in the singing square version of "Hello, Mary Lou.") Finding recordings: I'm told that Gary Roodman made up a nice spreadsheet for the CDSS sales office showing all the tunes on all the recordings they sell, so CDSS can answer some queries about where to find recordings of individual tunes. (I still think we should get this hosted on the web, but I've never gotten around to setting up the database, and since I ought to be working on a web-hosted database program for work right now as I write, I'm not volunteering for anything else.) Anyway, here's the program (not the dance notes, which are available on request) for the 1998 ball, which varies little from the others. FEZZIWIG'S 1998 SET LIST At SiliCon in Santa Clara 11/28/98 FIRST SET --------- Grand March #1 (led, presumably, by Mr. and Mrs. F) waltz #1 The Waggoner (three-couple longways, easy) waltz #2 Pitt's Hornpipe (three-couple longways, 2/4, key of G, Kentish Hops) Long Odds (longways for as many as will, music in Barnes) waltz #3 [optional, quite skippable] Drops of Brandy/Strip the Willow SECOND SET ---------- Grand March #2 waltz #4 Durham Reel (longways for 4, 5, or 6 couples; vigorous) The Dressed Ship (longways duple minor) waltz #5 Capers at Canterbury (Longways for three, Kentish Hops, 2/4 time) Midnight Ramble (longways for as many as will, music in Barnes) Sellenger's Round (big circle) THIRD SET --------- Grand March #3 The Duke of Kent's Waltz (longways duple minor, easy) Kentish Freeholders (3-couple sets) Jamaica (longways duple, easy enough) waltz #6 Sir Roger de Coverly Congress of Vienna -- Alan -- =============================================================================== Alan Winston --- WINSTON-AT-SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not SLAC or SSRL Phone: 650/926-3056 Paper mail to: SSRL -- SLAC BIN 99, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025 =============================================================================== ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 09:39:30 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 08:10:41 -0400 From: Allison M Thompson Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: [SPAM:#] Sir Roger To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <20031025.123827.-345623.0.AllisonThompson-AT-juno.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sir Roger de Coverley is one of those comparatively rare dances that has many versions--I don't have my file in front of me, but I've been collecting 'em. While called the Virginia Reel by the mid-1800s (nice description by Twain on the dance in my book on Dancing Through Time), by the early 1900s in America, the dance had dropped the slip jig time. In the older versions it was usually the head lady and foot man who would advance towards each other, retire, advance & 2-hand turn; then the head man and foot lady the same. Obviously a leisurely dance. One early version I recall reading has the cavaliers forming arches with their swords (!) while the ladies process underneath. Progressive educators of the early 1900s who were pushing folk dance as good exercise as well as character building for public school girls did not considered this dance suitable for either purpose as so many children stood still during the dance. Sometime in the mid-1940s, I think, someone came up with the family-friendly version, which involves everyone dancing these simple figures with their partners. Then heads cast off (sometimes in western PA we change the music here to The Old Gray Mare), then lead up; all form arches and the heads gallop down beneath. (Many variations on this.) I have done the dance with a strip the willow figure, but I don't like to use this with children (or with some adults either) as they tend to get all confused & it takes forever. The family-friendly version is great fun & everyone knows the name of The Virginia Reel & gets all excited about it. Allison Thompson ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 10:57:39 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 13:57:49 -0400 From: John Patcai Reply-To: ECD-AT-playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: no feet To: ECD-AT-SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <002401c39b21$811a8210$0200a8c0-AT-john> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Hi - since no musicians seem to have jumped into the breach here, I thought I might add my two cents worth. In both Morris and ECD, I have found that if the musicians are inspiring, the footfalls sound as one. "Inspiring", as well as indicating a sense of lift and dance, includes the idea of a tempo that is good for the dancers. If the feet are not scraping, but the footfalls are still jangling and discoordinated, then the dancers are not dancing well to the music, and either the musicians or the dancers should change their approach. Whether it is in fact the musicians or the dancers that should change their approach is a matter of infinite debate. As a musician, I find that it is tremendous fun to change something, and hear the previously discoordinated footfalls coming into step with each other. If the musicians are playing well, and the dancers are dancing well, then the musicians become an orchestra rooted to the rhythm section of dancing feet. Regards John Patcai Date: Thu, 23 Oct 200