here's a question:- what's the connection between Tetrazzini (the dish) and Alfred Hitchcock?
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here's a question:- what's the connection between Tetrazzini (the dish) and Alfred Hitchcock?Last edited by mercia; 15-12-11, 19:31. -
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Here we go....Originally posted by vinteuil View PostGiuditta Pasta
Everyone's a comedian already.
Jenny Lind Soup looks to be a rather back-handed tribute: bland and creamy...
However, full marks for the Ulysses reference, mercs! 
Intriguing, the Tetrazzini-Hitchcock link: shall investigate..."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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And rather pompous, wordy stuff it is too!Originally posted by austin View Post
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Well to get back to the concert for a moment, I've just got round to reading the Opera Britannia review and for my money he nails it as far as the tempo was concerned, less politely than me.Beethoven’s 7th Symphony...... the latter absolutely D.O.A, I’m afraid, the sort of leaden, leathery trudge through poor old Ludwig that one might have thought nigh-on forty years of historically-informed performance practice would have eradicated for good (but evidently not).Comment
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Spooky. I had a nightmare last night, of which I still recall the horror, that I was just going on to conduct Beethoven 7 and the hall was full of expectant concert-goers.Beethoven’s 7th Symphony...... the latter absolutely D.O.A, I’m afraid, the sort of leaden, leathery trudge through poor old Ludwig that one might have thought nigh-on forty years of historically-informed performance practice would have eradicated for good (but evidently not).
Are you sure it was Eschenbach conducting?
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Originally posted by french frank View PostSpooky. I had a nightmare last night, of which I still recall the horror, that I was just going on to conduct Beethoven 7 and the hall was full of expectant concert-goers.
Are you sure it was Eschenbach conducting?
You must have had a very good bald wig on, if it was you!
Up there on the podium, you looked exactly like Patrick Stewart...
... who was in the audience!
Spooky!!!"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I remember wailing, 'But how will I know when to turn over the page?' and then woke up suddenlyOriginally posted by Caliban View Post
You must have had a very good bald wig on, if it was you!
Up there on the podium, you looked exactly like Patrick Stewart...
... who was in the audience!
Spooky!!!
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It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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I've had a dream where I had to conduct Mahler 3... i remember time leaking away in the days before, I hadn't bought the score, I hadn't bought the baton.... it was the day of the concert... tick tock... the orchestra were on stage...Originally posted by french frank View PostI remember wailing, 'But how will I know when to turn over the page?' and then woke up suddenly.
Then I woke up...
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I can remember Eschenbach in the early seventies appeared at each concert with his hair a different colour (especially the Proms: black then blonde then multicoloured). Fiddle with it too much and it all falls out!!
"OOH! I am a bitch!"Comment
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Rene Pape has also had a cake made in his honour; the Rene Cake made by a Japanese HotelOriginally posted by Caliban View Post
"I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
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Yes I have an LP of him and Justus Franz playing Mozart duets - sitting there on the cover with identical brown turtle-necks and haircuts, looking like, well I leave it to your imagination. Actually they look a bit creepy.Originally posted by Chris Newman View PostComment
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You mean this one I presume!!!Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
The Stuttgart Stranglers....
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Eek - no not that one, but similar. They're sitting side by side, Franz simpering, Eschenbach looking positively sinister.Originally posted by Caliban View PostYou mean this one I presume!!!
The Stuttgart Stranglers....
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