dvorak's "carnival overture"

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By pez on Monday, April 9, 2001 - 04:28 pm:

    that's what we've been playing in band lately. we had a clinic today, with a conductor of a local youth orchesta (portland youth philharmonic). the concert we're rehersing for is one week from tomorrow.

    i wouldn't post any of this, except for one thing--the guy looked almost identical to john cleese and his behavior (perhaps not behavior, but his behavior style) was that of a chicken! he'd squak and jerk his head movements and so forth. i wish i had a video of this because it would be funny if he didn't work us so hard (not that we didn't need it).

By cyst on Monday, April 9, 2001 - 06:07 pm:

    "dvorak" makes me think of ISO-8859-1, which supports carkas but not haceks.

By Cat on Monday, April 9, 2001 - 06:33 pm:

    I went to a dance performance set to Scriabin piano works. It was such stunning music with this real sense of drama from passionate fury to quiet stream-like beauty. Amazing to think it came out of one instrument.

    I had to immediately buy every Scriabin CD Mark recommended.

By Nt on Monday, April 9, 2001 - 07:24 pm:

    There is no Mark. ISO-8859-1 is your mother.

    eat me.

By Nate on Monday, April 9, 2001 - 07:25 pm:

    as in Zethar and Carkas?

By Cat on Monday, April 9, 2001 - 07:39 pm:

    I don't speak geek. Translate into Australian please.

By Antigone on Monday, April 9, 2001 - 08:16 pm:

By cyst on Tuesday, April 10, 2001 - 02:08 pm:

    the hacek (pronounced "hacheck," as there's a hacek over the c) is a czech character that can't be rendered using the old HTML alphabet set (see antigone's post above).

    however, the carka (pronounced "charka," as there's a hacek over the c) can be used in old HTML. that is why you often see "dvorák" instead of "dvořák."

    I used to copyedit for a newspaper in the czech republic, so this really bothers me. I think it would be better to go with plain old "dvorak" than just "dvorák."

By cyst on Tuesday, April 10, 2001 - 02:09 pm:

    my preferred spelling of "dvorak" was rendered improperly above. probably because of ISO-8859-1. I mean, goddamn. I hate ISO-8859-1.

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