The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[vinteuil]

More banjo music this morning ..... hope E_A heard it .......

... but I think it was a true 'banjo' this morning - Béla Fleck? -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo

- rather than the hybrid 'banjolele' sported by Geo: Formby -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo_uke

Does this make it any better?

I think I prefer the ukulele -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlo1VYSmv7Q

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[Bryn]

... but I think it was a true 'banjo' this morning - Béla Fleck? . . .

A very fine artist. I missed whatever was spun this morning, not his Concerto, I presume.

[antongould]

... but I think it was a true 'banjo' this morning - Béla Fleck? -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo

- rather than the hybrid 'banjolele' sported by Geo: Formby -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo_uke

Does this make it any better?

I think I prefer the ukulele -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlo1VYSmv7Q

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I stand enlightened .....

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Have we sunk to the level of the new Radio 3, discussing the same kind of trivia?

[vinteuil]

Have we sunk to the level of the new Radio 3, discussing the same kind of trivia?

... I bridle at the view that this is trivia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornbostel%E2%80%93Sachs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organology

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[Eine Alpensinfonie]

... I bridle at the view that this is trivia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornbostel%E2%80%93Sachs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organology

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I stand corrected, but you know what I mean.

[Lat-Literal]

It was good to hear "Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este" almost following on from the last very nice piece on TTN "Six Epigraphes Antiques" this morning.

And I especially enjoyed F.L. Dunkin Wedd's "Saltash" from "Three Brunel Crossings" which was new to me.

He got the bridge and the train and even the water of the Tamar spot on in its remarkable sound.

Is he related to Patricia Dunkin Wedd?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpKUZV0R3-A

(I love the Chagall windows and McCabe isn't all bad)

[kernelbogey]

Martin Handley is my favourite Breakfast presenter by a long way. But it does grate when he says 'I'll see you next Saturday,' when of course that is one thing that he won't be doing.

[LMcD]

Nice to hear a 'bleeding chunk' of Mahler ('Urlicht' from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn') other than the Adagietto from the 5th Symphony!
Incidentally, regarding the previous message, I share KB's admiration for Martin Handley.

[gurnemanz]

Nice to hear a 'bleeding chunk' of Mahler ( from) other than the Adagietto from the 5th Symphony!

I wouldn't quite take 'Urlicht' as an example of a bleeding chunk. To me, doing single songs from a cycle is not like extracting a single movement from a symphony or sonata.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I wouldn't quite take 'Urlicht' as an example of a bleeding chunk. To me, doing single songs from a cycle is not like extracting a single movement from a symphony or sonata.

Hmmm ... interesting philosophical point, gurne; would it be a "bleeding chunk" if it were extracted from the Second Symphony, rather than from Das Knaben Wunderhorn?

[cloughie]

Hmmm ... interesting philosophical point, gurne; would it be a "bleeding chunk" if it were extracted from the Second Symphony, rather than from Das Knaben Wunderhorn?

...and are Blumine and the Sym 10 - Adagio, works in themselves or bleeding chunks?

[Serial_Apologist]

Hmmm ... interesting philosophical point, gurne; would it be a "bleeding chunk" if it were extracted from the Second Symphony, rather than from Das Knaben Wunderhorn?

Wasn't Urlicht a bleeding chunk taken by Mahler from its original context and plonked into the second symphony? (Or am I on shaky ground here?)

[Serial_Apologist]

...and are Blumine and the Sym 10 - Adagio, works in themselves or bleeding chunks?

It was too late for Mahler to decide, in the case of the Adagio!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Wasn't Urlicht a bleeding chunk taken by Mahler from its original context and plonked into the second symphony? (Or am I on shaky ground here?)

There's quite a bit of the Resurrection that's based on material Mahler had written earlier - the First Movement a rewriting of Totenfeier, the Third based on St Anthony Preaches to the Fishes, as well as Urlicht ... it's like Berlioz's Fantastique or Ives' Fourth in that respect.

I've never done a bar-by-bar comparison of the Knaben and Resurrection "Urlichts" - and I don't know if I'd be able to tell the difference between them. (Which was why I openly pondered the trivial "philosophical" point I suggested this morning. )