or, perhaps the death of the paper letter entirely.
It is ironic that in an age when almost everyone has a printer, and Microsoft Word, the paper letter is in decline.
Archive for June, 2010
Before buying a second hand car the wise man should investigate it’s history…
I Dream of Jeannie (but not in 1965)
Published June 3rd, 2010 in john mccormack and tenors. 0 CommentsI dream instead of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
It has been belted out by Robert Wilson, who sounds like the kind of chap who doesn’t need accompaniment, a fine voice. Was he Scotland’s answer to Irelands Count John McCormack?
He had excellent diction, his version of So Deep is the Night is definitive, 1m 20s onwards is fascinating for the controlled emotion.
Joseph Schmidt - Una furtiva lagrima
Josef Schmidt (1904 – 1942) was a Jewish tenor and actor. He was born in Austria-Hungary, later Romania, and now part of Ukraine (The borders of Europe certainly changed alot in the past century)
As a child of musical parents, young Josef was influenced by many cultures. In addition to his native Yiddish, he learned Hebrew and became fluent in Romanian, German, French and English.
Ironically, Josef Schmidt enjoyed his greatest successes during the rise of the Nazis, who subsequently prohibited Jewish artists and writers from working. In 1937, he toured the United States and performed in the Carnegie Hall. The Nazis banned him from performing in Germany and Austria, but he was still very much welcome in The Netherlands and Belgium.
In 1939, he visited his mother for the last time. When the war broke out that year he was caught in France by the German invasion. He attempted to escape to the United States but, unfortunately failed. Making a dash for the Swiss border, he was interned in a Swiss refugee camp near Zurich in October 1942. He had been already in frail health. Harsh camp life and lack of medical care brought about a fatal heart attack on November 16, 1942. He was only 38 years old.
He had a sweet lyric tenor voice with an easy high register, sailing up even to a high D. His warm timbre was perfectly suited for the melodies of Schubert and Lehár. His popular song recordings were the best-sellers of that age.
Today a lot of visitors will try to reach your site by typing in your domain from memory, this is called “type-in traffic”.
So ensure you site is accessible without the www. subdomain.
As someone said elsewhere on the web ‘www is deprecated‘
Arcoroc… France
Published June 3rd, 2010 in generic trademark, building a brand and brand names. 0 CommentsSome brands are familiar, you’ve known them all your life.
Arcoroc is a brand of drinking glass, some would say it is The Brand. I’m surprised people don’t ask for an Arcoroc of water when theirm are thirsty.
The brand was Arcoroc “launched in 1963 for use in restaurant industry”, so that means the glasses in my house must have been “acquired” from a Restaurant at some point? I have no comment.
It truly is the Armitage Shanks of the Kitchen.
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