Ravel Day

[teamsaint]

too much chat?
I don't think so. I have this afternoon learned from KD that there are childlike elements in his music.."and he WAS very tiny".


You don't have to think before you open your mouth on national radio........but it helps.

Right. Back to CDs.........at least I can play the sheer genius of the Piano trio complete, and not hear it in BCs, as it was performed on the Lunchtime Concert recently.

[mercia]

........ whereas actually he was very tall, and there are no childlike elements in his music. Frustrating when they can't get basic facts right I agree.

[cloughie]

........ whereas actually he was very tall, and there are no childlike elements in his music. Frustrating when they can't get basic facts right I agree.

I 'd give her the benefit of the doubt with Mother Goose and L' Enfant et les sortilège peut-etre!

[french frank]

........ whereas actually he was very tall, and there are no childlike elements in his music. Frustrating when they can't get basic facts right I agree.

Were the two facts (as quoted!) intended to be connected? He was 5ft 3 1/4 ins small, so it's no surprise that his music seems to have a child's perspective?

[Beef Oven!]

too much chat?
I don't think so. I have this afternoon learned from KD that there are childlike elements in his music.."and he WAS very tiny".


You don't have to think before you open your mouth on national radio........but it helps.

Right. Back to CDs.........at least I can play the sheer genius of the Piano trio complete, and not hear it in BCs, as it was performed on the Lunchtime Concert recently.

I agree, not too much chat. It's been marvellous. We've either got all the music, or have access to it, so it's nice to have a magazine.

And ts, you can emphasise with R, as a fellow gravity sufferer :wink eye:

Back to the music...........

[teamsaint]

I agree, not too much chat. It's been marvellous. We've either got all the music, or have access to it, so it's nice to have a magazine.

And ts, you can emphasise with R, as a fellow gravity sufferer :wink eye:

Back to the music...........

assuming you mean "empathise", well not really, I am AT LEAST an inch and a half taller that Ravel was. So all I have to do now is knock out a truly great Ballet score, some of the finest chamber music ever written , and a few catchy piano tunes.........

But back to the music of the vertically challenged French person.......

[Beef Oven!]

assuming you mean "empathise", well not really, I am AT LEAST an inch and a half taller that Ravel was. So all I have to do now is knock out a truly great Ballet score, some of the finest chamber music ever written , and a few catchy piano tunes.........

But back to the music of the vertically challenged French person.......

I still haven't got used the Mac's over aggressive spell-check! Yes, of course I meant 'pathise.

Looking down on R? .....tut, tut.

[Don Petter]

There is SO MUCH CHAT!
Blimey!!

Play the frigging MUSIC!!

Exactly so! I tuned in four times this afternoon on getting back in the car. Only once did I hear any Ravel - the other three were in full chat mode and were immediately switched off. (If I want to hear deep philosophical backgrounds I'll go back to France Musique. )

[mercia]

Were the two facts (as quoted!) intended to be connected? He was 5ft 3 1/4 ins small, so it's no surprise that his music seems to have a child's perspective?

that is what has been suggested, more than once, by different people, today

[french frank]

that is what has been suggested, more than once, by different people, today

But I don't think he was so very small, judging by the average height of Frenchmen by birth cohorts, Appendix 2: 5' 5.5" in 1875 (DoB)

[mercia]

a shame no-one told him that, his music could have been so much better

[teamsaint]

that is what has been suggested, more than once, by different people, today

it is certainly the connection that KD was suggesting.

It strikes me as being a stupid and subtly prejudiced connection, but then us shorties tend to be either over sensitive, or have Napoleon complexes, or , as it turns out, child like perspectives.

Give me strength. She is now on " ignore, along with jeremy "dimwit" vine.

That 35 CD Verdi set is going to be useful in the afternoons.

[cloughie]

a shame no-one told him that, his music could have been so much better

Why? what's wrong with it?

[cloughie]

it is certainly the connection that KD was suggesting.

It strikes me as being a stupid and subtly prejudiced connection, but then us shorties tend to be either over sensitive, or have Napoleon complexes, or , as it turns out, child like perspectives.

Give me strength. She is now on " ignore, along with jeremy "dimwit" vine.

That 35 CD Verdi set is going to be useful in the afternoons.

I think I'd rather be insulted by KD than be subjected to 35 CDs of Joe Green!

[mercia]

#88 - nothing - just my little joke. I love his music whatever his stature, mode of dress, sleeping habits, sexual proclivities etc. etc. etc. ........ all those things that 'experts' always find so significant .......... but turn out not to be