St. Euphrosynos Taverna and Ouzeri (another one!)

Have you seen any spring beauties or other flowers around? I am so happy that spring is here!!

(Resurrecting the Tavern thread….)

All4Christ said:

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Have you seen any spring beauties or other flowers around? I am so happy that spring is here!!

(Resurrecting the Tavern thread….)

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I don’t, but my wife does

prodromos said:

Alas, we are heading into Autumn this side of the pond. My wife is a Summer girl and she is not happy (above 35°C and she comes alive)

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Autumn is also one of my favorites, especially when the leaves are in the height of their color, but I understand! 35 Celsius is hot though. I love it when the temperatures are in the 70s (Fahrenheit).

The tavern thread is back ! We can now discuss who the best metal band of the 90's is, whether greek coffe is better than chemex coffee, what's the best fabric for cassocks and best film of the year

Whoa, I thought this place looked familiar!

Emmanuel-A said:

who the best metal band of the 90's

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An even toss-up between Heeresmusikkorps 5 Koblenz, which has since become Heeresmusikkorps 3000, the St. Petersburg Admiralty Navy Band*, the Band of the Belgian Guides (the last fully mounted calvary band, with very excellent orchestral quality), the Danish Life Guards band, the Band of the Coldstream Guards, the Band of the Grenadier Guards, and the very excellent brass band that was conducted into the early 2010s by an excellent conductor who is a friend of mine at Disneyland, but I’m sure it has been ruined by wokeness or soon will be since even with Bob Iger gone to the Snow White disaster, we have the problem of a huge amount of Disney stock being owned by Abigail Disney, who is a far-left liberal who opposes everything her uncle Walt stood for.

Now Walt Disney’s father and mother were socialists, and Marcelline, Kansas, was in fact founded by socialists as an attempt at socialist utopia, but failed in that respect, which is why the family moved to Kansas City, Missouri where Walt Disney had a very unpleasant time, for instance, at the age of 14 delivering newspapers on a cold winter’s night he stepped on a nail, which a doctor removed with pliers, which makes me cringe. He and his brother Roy mainly had each other as their parents, especially their father, were less than sympathetic. But with the ancestors having been socialist, it is not difficult to see how someone like Abigail Disney could be persuaded to rebuke the traditional patriotism and family values of her father.

Disney politics aside, I would also give an honorable mention to Luftwaffen Musikkorps 3 and to the Swedish Life Guards, the Danish Royal Airforce Band, and the Norwegian Royal Airforce Band, which were incredibly good.

* Lest I be accused of supporting Russia because I like a Russian military band, the conductor at the time, Commander Alexei Karabanov, who was the pupil of the Armenian composer and conductor Commander Vartan Barsegian, has along with his mentors Commanders Barsegian and V. Malgin, also incredibly talented (see Barsegian’s fugue Prelude and Fugue in E Flat Minor, or his march Armenia, my Motherland, which quotes the music of the Armenian church), have all long since retired and have reposed, except I think Commander Karabanov might still be alive; I’m not sure - I do know that the seniormost Russian military composer, Lt. General Valery Khalilov, who was born in Uzbekistan, was killed in a tragic crash while flying back from a concert in Syria 9 years ago, and is mourned by military band conductors across the world (in 2010, the US Marine Corps Band along with one of the British guards bands, I think the Grenadier bands, performed under his baton at the parade marking the 65th anniversary of the end of WWII). Also it is worth noting most of the repetoire of the St. Petersburg Admiralty Navy Band consisted of pieces that either predated the Sovietsky Soyuza or were composed by the Ukrainian military composer Semeon Tchernetsky.

best metal band of the '90s?
I assume you mean the 1890s, in which case, it undoubtedly is Sousa.
Now if we're talking the '60s, Wagner all the way.
Verdi was active at the time but I find him hit and miss.

Dewi Sant said:

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You sir have an Orthodox phronema!

Have a blessed Holy Week, people!

prodromos said:

Blessed resurrection dear friends.
Καλή Ανάσταση!

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Blessed resurrection!

Kali anastasi!

prodromos said:

Oh, and...
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Is that St Lawrence?

rusmeister said:

Is that St Lawrence?

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I hope not…

I thought more of the cake rack...turn me over, I'm not done on the other side! (I'm sure it was, looks ace btw)