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[teamsaint]

Cleveland is about 200 miles from Detroit, TS. Most Detroiters don't give a fig about Cleveland sports teams, although I can't speak for Beppe. One Detroiter who is an exception to that rule is named Dan Gilbert, who owns the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team.
You may have heard of a former employee of his named LeBron James. Anyway, Detroit has it's own collection of mediocre professional sports teams. Their NFL team is the Detroit Pussycats, who last one a Playoff game the year before I was born.

Just making polite American based conversation, RFG.

[richardfinegold]

Beppe, did you ever buy any records (as in lps, or as the millennials call them, "Vinyls") in Ann Arbor. When I was in school I worked in Discount Records (long gone) which was on South University, and later at Liberty Records, on Liberty Street. The latter is still there only under a different name. Perhaps our paths crossed a few decades ago

[richardfinegold]

[QUOTE=teamsaint;699924]Just making polite American based conversation, RFG.[/QUOTE

Reportedly during the height of the Cold War, the Mayor of Cleveland had huge signs constructed that could be seen from the air. One said "Chicago" with an arrow pointing towards Lake Michigan, and the other said "Detroit" with the arrow pointing in that direction. Their purpose was to helpfully guide Soviet bomber planes away from his town and to more worthwhile targets

[Beppe]

I liked this quote from the Detroit Opera site - "The Detroit Opera House has no defined dress code policy. You should dress comfortably—”life is short, opera is long,” as the saying goes. " - and the section on Dress Code!

https://michiganopera.org/detroit-opera-house/

You didn't mention the Barber of Seville, which is coming along soon I think. Perhaps not quite your thing, but it is often rather silly, and actualy quite fun.

https://michiganopera.org/ November 2018.

Do give some (all?) of the Beethoven quartets a try - particularly the Grosse Fuge and Ops 130-132 and the Rasumovsky quartets.

I usually dress the same as for the office. I like not having to wear a suit and tie.

Problem is fitting all the operas in. I like Barber of Seville, though my first watch on DVD did not click for me, then it clicked and I wen't nuts and have fist fulls of CDs and DVDs. Now I find it hard to listen to any Rossini, preferring Bellini and Donizetti.

If I had the time and spare change for it, I would do Barber of Seville, Eugene Onegin, and Hansel and Gretel at Detroit. Right now am seriously considering Eugene Onegin.

I do recall the Beethoven Grosse Fuge being quite good. Yes, i need to listen a bit to those quartets too.

[Beppe]

I do think you’re going to fit right in round here.

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?1061-Bargains

Great to see the Cleveland Browns flying.

Sort of.

Must have a decent chance today against the Raiders .
Do you follow an NFL team ?

I have to check out that bargains thread too. And any for sale threads. I can get CDs at my local library sales too. Sometimes have picked them up for 50 cents each and sold them for $2 to $3 each, though others are keepers.

I am not a football fan. In fact, not a sports fan, but for some interest in baseball.

[Beppe]

Cleveland is about 200 miles from Detroit, TS. Most Detroiters don't give a fig about Cleveland sports teams, although I can't speak for Beppe. One Detroiter who is an exception to that rule is named Dan Gilbert, who owns the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team.
You may have heard of a former employee of his named LeBron James. Anyway, Detroit has it's own collection of mediocre professional sports teams. Their NFL team is the Detroit Pussycats, who last won a Playoff game the year before I was born.
There were a lot of Detroit area sports fans here in Chicago, as one of my alumnus, the University of Michigan, was here to play another of my alumnus, Northwestern University. It was a tight game but I missed the ending as we had tickets to the CSO last night to hear Muti conduct Mozart Don Giovani Overture & Symphony #40, with Rimsky's Scherazade after the break, which was when I finally learned that the Wolverines had come back from a 17 point deficit against the spunky Wildcats.

My wife joined the Detroit Danger womens' hardball team about 10 years ago but unfortunately the team fell apart for lack of interest and she never got to play but for a tournament in South Bend, Indiana.

Dan Gilbert is really building up detroit. For me it is a problem because it is getting very congested on the freeways to get to work and there is not enough parking in Detroit.

[Beppe]

Beppe, did you ever buy any records (as in lps, or as the millennials call them, "Vinyls") in Ann Arbor. When I was in school I worked in Discount Records (long gone) which was on South University, and later at Liberty Records, on Liberty Street. The latter is still there only under a different name. Perhaps our paths crossed a few decades ago

I bought my first Handel's Messiah set there. Tried it out in the listening room. Westenburg. I have since replaced it with a CD set. I attended U of M in the 1980s.

[Nick Armstrong]

Just making polite American based conversation, RFG.

Are you a fan of Osi Umenyiora on the BBC's NFL etc shows? His solo spot about the Cleveland Browns the other week (before they started winning ) was hilarious!

Welcome Beppe - always good to have a whiff of fresh Stateside air in the corridors of the Forum