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  • amateur51
    • Nov 2024
    #1

    Birtwistle's Minotaur going cheap at ROH

    Sir Harrison Birtwistle's acclaimed opera The Minotaur is being performed at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden London as in this link ...

    http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/the-minotaur-by-stephen-langridge?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2012_Nov_Minotaur_IMP&utm_content=version_A&emailsource=14793


    A tremendous piece and Sir John Tom revisits his triumph in title role ... unmissable at these prices
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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26514
    #2
    Minotaur going cheap?

    Sure that's a Minotaur, Ams?








    (Just getting my coat.... )
    "...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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    • amateur51
      #3
      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      Minotaur going cheap?

      Sure that's a Minotaur, Ams?







      (Just getting my coat )
      Who's a pretty boy then?!

      Isn't that pic more relevant to a piece by ... Cage?

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      • MrGongGong
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 18357
        #4
        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
        Who's a pretty boy then?!

        Isn't that pic more relevant to a piece by ... Cage?
        no that's a famous 16th Century composer who did a few church thangs

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        • Flosshilde
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 7988
          #5
          Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
          no that's a famous 16th Century composer who did a few church thangs
          Polyphony?

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26514
            #6
            Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
            Polyphony?
            Good one Flossie!!
            "...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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            • MrGongGong
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 18357
              #7
              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              Good one Flossie!!
              what is Andrew up to these days ?

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26514
                #8
                Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                what is Andrew up to these days ?
                "...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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                • MrGongGong
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 18357
                  #9
                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  Norwegian Blue conductor of choral music ................. 7 letters

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26514
                    #10
                    Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                    Norwegian Blue conductor of choral music ................. 7 letters

                    Of course!
                    "...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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                    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                      Gone fishin'
                      • Sep 2011
                      • 30163
                      #11
                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                      Good one Flossie!!
                      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                      • Flosshilde
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 7988
                        #12
                        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                        Originally Posted by Caliban
                        Good one Flossie!!
                        Most kind of you both, but I should apologise for the size of the image. A smaller one - a parakeet, perhaps? - would have been better.

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                        • Hornspieler
                          Late Member
                          • Sep 2012
                          • 1847
                          #13
                          Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                          Who's a pretty boy then?!

                          Isn't that pic more relevant to a piece by ... Cage?
                          When my son's Maths teacher asked him to describe a polygon he suggested an empty parrot cage.

                          HS

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26514
                            #14
                            Originally posted by Hornspieler View Post
                            When my son's Maths teacher asked him to describe a polygon he suggested an empty parrot cage.

                            HS
                            An oldie but a goodie!! I'm sure the teacher was suitably appreciative!
                            "...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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                            • David-G
                              Full Member
                              • Mar 2012
                              • 1216
                              #15
                              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                              Sir Harrison Birtwistle's acclaimed opera The Minotaur is being performed at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden London as in this link ...

                              http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/the-minotaur-by-stephen-langridge?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2012_Nov_Minotaur_IMP&utm_content=version_A&emailsource=14793


                              A tremendous piece and Sir John Tom revisits his triumph in title role ... unmissable at these prices
                              I already have a ticket. Though I shall be going with some fear and trepidation...

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