Thursday, October 25, 2012

This Lovely Autumn Day


An October Day
Esther Nelson Karn (1900)

'Tis sunrise o'er the eastern hills.
All hail! thou lovely morn!
Thy tender blush, thy mellow light
Proclaim "The autumn's born."
All nature is so wondrous fair,
Bedecked with golden sheen—
A fleecy cloudlet, here and there,
In azure sky is seen.

The gold and crimson leaves that give
The trees their autumn gown,
Are scattered by the gentle breeze
Upon the meadows brown.
Tho' summer flow'rs that were so fair
Have faded, one by one,
The goldenrod, in beauty rare,
Her reign has just begun.

The grapevines now are laden with
Sweet clusters, oh, so blue!
And scattered o'er the orchard ground
Are rosy apples, too.
Oh, who could sigh for summer skies,
For summer flowers and trees,
For singing birds and rainbow showers,
'Mid autumn scenes like these?

As sinks the glorious "King of Day"
A down the western sky,
He bathes the trees and hilltops in
A flood of crimson dye.
He sets the westland all aglow
Before he sinks away;
So endeth, as a beauteous dream,
This lovely autumn day.

Autumn Color Chrysanthemum Exhibition

Pictures at a Chrysanthemum Exhibition
Sherman Library & Gardens
Corona Del Mar, CA.
Sunday, 21 October 2012.

Chrysanthemum Exhibition Hall

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

The Bowers Museum Fabergé Exhibition

Pictures at the Fabergé Exhibition
Bowers Museum
Santa Ana, CA
Friday, 5 October 2012
Saturday, 19 October 2012

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was there also for a talk of her "Pin Collection." Her exhibit started on Saturday, 20 October 2012.

Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA


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Georges Bizet's Birthday Anniversary

Georges Bizet
French-born classical and opera composer
(25 October 1838 - 3 June 1875)

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Alfred Wallenstein and the London Virtuoso Symphony (1959)
- Opera "Carmen" Prelude to Act III (Bizet)

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Lenya "Pirate Jenny" Lotte Birthday Anniversary

Lenya Lotte
Mrs. Kurt Weill
Austrian-born singer and actress
She played the ex-KGB agent Rosa Klebb
in "From Russia with Love" (1963)

(18 October 1898 - 27 November 1982)

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Lenya Lotte (1955)
- Die Moritat von Mackier Messer
(Weill und Brecht)

Die Moritat von Mackier Messer
Kurt Weill und Bertholdt Brecht (1928)

Lenya Lotte
und The Turk Murphy Jazz Band (1955)

Und der Haifisch, der hat Zähne
und die trägt er im Gesicht
und Macheath, der hat ein Messer
doch das Messer sieht man nicht

An 'nem schönen blauen Sonntag
liegt ein toter Mann am Strand
und ein Mensch geht um die Ecke
den man Mackie Messer nennt

Und Schmul Meier bleibt verschwunden
und so mancher reiche Mann
und sein Geld hat Mackie Messer
dem man nichts beweisen kann

Jenny Towler ward gefunden
mit 'nem Messer in der Brust
und am Kai geht Mackie Messer
der von allem nichts gewußt

Und das große Feuer in Soho
sieben Kinder und ein Greis
in der Menge Mackie Messer den
man nicht fragt und der nichts weiss

Und die minderjährige Witwe
deren Namen jeder weiss
wachte auf und war geschändet
Mackie, welches war dein Preis

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Getting iTunes 10.7.0.21 to Wi-Fi Syn with iPhone 4S



With the advent of the new iPhone 5 and iOS 6 in September, I obligingly updated my
iPhone 4S and the iPad 3rd generation to iOS 6. Alas, the new iOS eschewed my iPod 3G, a soon-to-be digital relic. It behooved me also to update my Windows XP iTunes to version 10.7.0.21 as the new gatekeeper for iOS 6 apps. It quickly became apparent, however, the latest iTunes version was not intuned with the iPhone 4S sporting the iOS 6 system. It wouldn't recognize it as a legitimate device allowed to do iTunes Wi-Fi Sync. Thus my quest to have all three i-devices, including the problem-child iPhone 4S, wi-fi sync-able to iTunes. Getting all three devices recognized for wi-fi sync through the iTunes gateway is akin to playing the slot machine wanting three "7s" to line up. I finally succeeded in beating the odds playing against iTunes.

David Hughes Birthday Anniverary

David Hughes
English-Welsh operatic tenor
(11 October 1929 - 19 October 1972)

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David Hughes, tenor (1968)
- You Are My Heart's Delight (Lehar & Lohner)


You Are My Heart's Delight
Lehar & Lohner (1929)

David Hughes, tenor (1968)

You are my heart's delight
And where you are I long to be

You make my darkness bright
When like a star you shine on me

Shine - then my whole life through
Your life divine bid me hope anew

That dreams of mine may by chance come true
And I shall hear you whisper - I love you

In dreams when night is falling
I seem to hear you calling
For you have cast a net around me
Underneath a magic spell have bound me
Yours - yours alone

How wondrous fair is your beautiful hair
Bright lies a summer sky is the light in your eyes
Soft as the turtle dove is the voice of my love

You are my heart's delight
And where you are I long to be

You make my darkness bright
When like a star you shine on me

Shine - then my whole life through
Your life divine bid me hope anew

That dreams of mine may by chance come true
And I shall hear you ever - I love you

Wednesday, October 03, 2012

iPad 3rd Gen AT&T LTE Data Plan Cancellation Steps

Screen 1 of 3:   Two-Steps to Change or Cancel Current Data Plan


Screen 2 of 3:   Select the Option to Change of Cancel a Current Plan


Screen 3 of 3:   Select the Cancellation Option
or Change to a Different Data Plan

Make your cancel or change selection before the next month's credit card billing cycle. If changes are made after the next billing cyle starts, you are stuck with the bill for the current plan.

Tuesday, October 02, 2012

iPad 3rd Gen AT&T LTE Data Plan Sign-up Steps

Screen 1 of 5:   An iOS 6 Opening Screen
for the iPad Data Plan Sign-up


I used a different email, username, and password to separate this pay-as-you-go plan from my long-term cyclical U-verse and Internet services.



Screen 2 of 5:   Select a Data Plan and Complete the Required Information


Screen 3 of 5:   Service Agreement Cancellation Instructions
(not very useful info; see next post on data plan change or cancellation)



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