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  • Eine Alpensinfonie
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 20569

    Originally posted by ahinton View Post
    Oh, mon Dieu! - will we be hearing them playing the Bach double soon? - and will it feature on Strictly Dumb Prancing?...
    As far as I am aware, Clemency can play the Bach double very well indeed, but I'm a bit doubtful about KD.

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    • ahinton
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 16122

      Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
      As far as I am aware, Clemency can play the Bach double very well indeed, but I'm a bit doubtful about KD.
      Then I wish that she'd do it and other things involving the violin under her chin than what she's now known for...

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      • alycidon
        Full Member
        • Feb 2013
        • 459

        That spinning sound I can hear must be Papa Haydn in his grave after that performance of The Heav'ns are telling. Every single nuance demolished in one fell swoop. How could anyone take it that fast and expect to get away with it?
        Money can't buy you happiness............but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery - Spike Milligan

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        • cloughie
          Full Member
          • Dec 2011
          • 22110

          Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
          I would have gladly had my name read out on breakfast if it had led to some Howard Ferguson being played,but they ignored my request.
          They were probably confusing him with Maynard - blast!

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
            As far as I am aware, Clemency can play the Bach double very well indeed
            - and, like ahinton, I wish she did more of this sort of work (and the documentary she presented) than ... well, y'know ..

            but I'm a bit doubtful about KD.
            A Pasodoble Concerto, mayhap?
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • french frank
              Administrator/Moderator
              • Feb 2007
              • 30209

              Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
              I would have gladly had my name read out on breakfast if it had led to some Howard Ferguson being played,but they ignored my request.
              Is it politeness that prompts Radio 3 to acknowledge on air that someone other than the producers suggested a piece of music to be played? And is 4-10 mins of a requested piece being played on one particular day in, what?, 365 days? such an enormous enhancement to anyone's life?

              Or is it conceived as the equivalent of Andy Warhol's 'fifteen minutes' of fame: '5.3 seconds of being vaguely noticed by 19,560 Radio 3 listeners' fame?

              These are the sources of wonderment for me …
              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.

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              • ahinton
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 16122

                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                - and, like ahinton, I wish she did more of this sort of work (and the documentary she presented) than ... well, y'know ..


                A Pasodoble Concerto, mayhap?
                Or some David Matthews, given his evident obsession with tango (as heard in his fourth symphony, twelfth quartet and elsewhere - I'm sure that, if ever he writes a Requiem, he'll somehow contrive to include a tango therein...))

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                • EdgeleyRob
                  Guest
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 12180

                  Originally posted by french frank View Post
                  Is it politeness that prompts Radio 3 to acknowledge on air that someone other than the producers suggested a piece of music to be played? And is 4-10 mins of a requested piece being played on one particular day in, what?, 365 days? such an enormous enhancement to anyone's life?

                  Or is it conceived as the equivalent of Andy Warhol's 'fifteen minutes' of fame: '5.3 seconds of being vaguely noticed by 19,560 Radio 3 listeners' fame?

                  These are the sources of wonderment for me …
                  Hi ff

                  I wasn't seeking any fame or fortune.
                  Just thought Howard Ferguson deserved a place on the British composer list thingy they were doing at the time.
                  If that meant embarrassing myself on the wireless then it had to be done.
                  Alas wasn't to be.

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                  • french frank
                    Administrator/Moderator
                    • Feb 2007
                    • 30209

                    Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
                    I wasn't seeking any fame or fortune.
                    That's your trouble, ER - no ambition, you

                    Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
                    Just thought Howard Ferguson deserved a place on the British composer list thingy they were doing at the time.
                    If that meant embarrassing myself on the wireless then it had to be done.
                    Presumably because THEY want to read your name out. As someone suggested, it's their evidence that there are people listening.

                    I remember one of our number here responding on the BBC messageboard a request to ask a question for a panel on one programme. But he protested that he was withdrawing his question when it became likely that he would be having his name read out (possibly even having to read his own question) when all he'd intended was to oblige with a question. Similarly suggestions for musical works?

                    [I did once ask for a piece for Listeners' Choice, but when they said they would be playing it I couldn't bring myself to listen to the programme; I went out and tried not to think about it. But takes all sorts, as they say.]
                    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.

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26516

                      Originally posted by antongould View Post
                      .... and quite a good joke too I thought Padraig
                      I didn't quite get it... How did young anton 'catch me out' I wonder
                      Originally posted by Padraig View Post
                      You didn't get my joke, french frank.
                      Ah - I'm not alone!
                      "...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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                      • Padraig
                        Full Member
                        • Feb 2013
                        • 4220

                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        I didn't quite get it... How did young anton 'catch me out' I wonder

                        Ah - I'm not alone!
                        You know what it's like having to 'explain' a joke, Caliban?
                        If it's dead, so be it.

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26516

                          Originally posted by Padraig View Post
                          You know what it's like having to 'explain' a joke, Caliban?
                          If it's dead, so be it.
                          RIP!



                          PS There's always trouble when I have to get up early!
                          "...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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                          • Padraig
                            Full Member
                            • Feb 2013
                            • 4220

                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            [COLOR="#0000FF"]PS There's always trouble when I have to get up early! ]
                            Not from me! I'm never up in time for Breakfast! "It is far too early".

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                            • antongould
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8774

                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              RIP!



                              PS There's always trouble when I have to get up early!
                              I don't think Debussy would have got the joke either .... or have been up for Rumpole's great love CBH ....

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26516

                                Originally posted by Padraig View Post
                                Not from me! I'm never up in time for Breakfast! "It is far too early".
                                You're not joking!


                                Originally posted by antongould View Post
                                I don't think Debussy would have got the joke either .... or have been up for Rumpole's great love CBH ....
                                You speak in riddles, antonio!
                                "...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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