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(Fred Arbogast's  Comments,  Photos,  Videos  &  Music)

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12/20/13 -  New Rosignol HP Pursuit skis, wow!  They're fast and stable . . . good thing, eh?

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12/27/16 - Here I am on a cornus at Bear Valley.  Of course I didn't jump off and ski down the hill from that point . . . that would be crazy.  But a good photo anyway, eh?

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12/7/13 - This is me and son-in-law, Roland after skiing "our asses off" at Bear Valley.

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1/15/15 - This is the photo for our Christmas Letter last December.  Here I am with, "Frosty" and my wife, Sandy.

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9/26/11 - Leland, Sandy and me at home.  Lee, RIP, is an old friend from way back in high school.  He used to take me to high school in his car when he was a senior and I was a freshman.

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1/29/11 - Here I am (white hat) with my oldest son, David, and his two sons, Reid with the football and Tim sitting down.  All this with the statue of Mark Twain (of the "Jumping Frog of Calaveras County") in the sitting position..

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8/12/14 - This is Sandy and I entertaining guests at dinner.  I think they were her brother and wife.

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8/17/10 - Here I am at a reunion with "my sisters" . . . really my 1st cousins (Lettie Jo, Mary Lynn and Beth) whom as kids we grew up together in Oakland, CA, way back in the 1940s.

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Dad sang The Lords Prayer with Mom accompanying on the Stalwart Drive Piano

during their October 1975 Delaware visit.

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Mom performed "Kitten on the Keys" and a couple of slip-ups started Dad cackling.  All of us couldn't hold back laughing including Mom, so I recorded

 "The Laughing Piano" at Stalwart Drive in 1975.
Above, Mom's and Dad's 60th Wedding Anniversary Celebrating on our 1994 Cambria Trip

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7/6/14 - The Arbogast Family in the West.  This was a gathering when my youngest son, Paul (in the middle) the trombone player, visited from the East Coast.  Left to right we have, Amy (youngest daughter), me (Fred), Josette (grand daughter), Peter (brother), Char (Peter's wife), Paul, David (oldest son), Jeaneva (grand daughter), Reid (grand son), Erin (oldest daughter), Tim (grand son), Micaela (grand daughter) and Mary (David's wife).  Paul plays with The Midtown Men, who were "The Jersey Boys" on Broadway.  Click the link to see them perform and see Paul playing the trombone.

  

Bear Valley, California
At the top of Monte Wolfe Trail
Great Snow Conditions for the Skiers going Downhill
February 20, 2011

 

 

  

Home in Angels Camp, California
Up here in the Sierra Nevada Foothills
A "Walkabout", Flowers, and Inside the Housel
May 21, 2011

 

 

Act 1 Scene 3 - Winterstürme Wichen Dem Wonnemond Act 2 Scene 1 - Nun Zaume Dein Ross...Hojotoho...Wo In Bergen
Act 3 Scene 1 - Hojotoho! Hojotoho! (Ride Of The Valkyries) Act 3 Scene 3 - In Festen Schlaf Verschliess' Ich Dich

Dad met Birgit Nilsson and somehow obtained her autograph written on the Cover of this 1969 Vinyl Record

  

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Johann Sebastian Bach's Four Great Toccatas and Fugues were recorded in October 1973 in the Münster of Freiburg, Germany on its Four Antiphonal Organs simultaneously by E. Power Biggs.  Once, I had the vinyl record below which was a quadraphonic recording, but of course I had to put it on tape with only two channels.  Just "Ripped" it  off of the TEAC reel today (4/25/20), and it still sounds pretty good.  If you have a "woofer", you will get the full impact of being right inside of the Freiburg Münster.  Now, I've got it again . . . and so do you!

 

Once-upon-a-time, Adrienne and I were touring Europe, came down the Rhine, then through the Black Forest, and finally to Freiburg one Sunday.  It was near noon, church service was getting out, and we noticed a side door to the big Cathedral, or properly . . .  the Münster, where a few people were entering.  We followed and for sure the postlude organist was playing, big time.  My God . . . the hair on the back of my neck stood straight up.  The sound was something I never heard before, and I'll never forget the feeling.  (probably at least 6 seconds of reverb . . . awesome!)

 

So this recording takes me back to that moment, probably in the late '80s or early '90s.  So the following is what I was able to recover from the tape reel.  Hope you enjoy!

Toccata And Fugue In D Minor, BWV 656 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:39

Toccata And Fugue In F Major, BWV 540 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15:25

Toccata And Fugue In D Minor, "Dorian", BWV 538 . . . . . . . . .13:10

Toccata And Fugue In C Major, BWV 564 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15:00

Play Bach - Biggs - The Four Great Toccatas and Fugues in Freiburg

   

   

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