The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[oddoneout]

As you'd just mentioned Sir JG reading a bit of Milton, I was assuming that by Il Penseroso you were referring to the Milton poem. If you'd made it clear you meant an aria/scena or whatever from an opera I would have accepted the term 'Number'. (I thought we were just getting bleeding chunks from poems )

It was the Friday poem slot and the schedule does say extracts; it was preceded and succeeded by pieces from Handel's il Penseroso de il Moderato.

[antongould]

Alkers getting very excited about playing “all 23 minutes” of Glenn Gould and Wagner .........

[underthecountertenor]

Alkers getting very excited about playing “all 23 minutes” of Glenn Gould and Wagner .........

...and then dropped a classic (FM) ‘O Mio Bambino Caro’ bomb.

[LMcD]

I have to confess that, never having seen the title written down, I always wondered how 'bambino' came to be translated as 'daddy'.
Yet another example, were it needed, of the countless rewards to be enjoyed from membership of the Forum.

[Zucchini]

babbino for Christ's sake

[LMcD]

babbino for Christ's sake

(Oh dear) Yes, I know...now.

[cloughie]

(Oh dear) Yes, I know...now.

As you say L McD there is a lern(er)ing curve on there boards!

[Joseph K]

Who else thinks Elizabeth Alker has a nice voice?

[LMcD]

As you say L McD there is a lern(er)ing curve on there boards!

I should explain that I'm one of those people who can't always follow what's going on in any opera if it's sung in foreign. For years, I believed Denis Norden when he translated 'Donna e mobile' as 'my girl friend's got a scooter'.

[Serial_Apologist]

I should explain that I'm one of those people who can't always follow what's going on in any opera if it's sung in foreign. For years, I believed Denis Norden when he translated 'Donna e mobile' as 'my girl friend's got a scooter'.

Must have been before mobile phones then...

[LMcD]

Must have been before mobile phones then...

I heard him crack this joke in an episode of 'My Music', on which he appeared between 1956 and 1988. I didn't realize that the programme's first chairman was John Arlott.
We used to pop round the corner from our flat (well, room) in Warwick Road to see the programme being recorded at the Commonwealth Institute.

[cloughie]

I heard him crack this joke in an episode of 'My Music', on which he appeared between 1956 and 1988. I didn't realize that the programme's first chairman was John Arlott.
We used to pop round the corner from our flat (well, room) in Warwick Road to see the programme being recorded at the Commonwealth Institute.

1956?

[french frank]

1956?

My Word!

[cloughie]

My Word!

1967 was the year 'My Music' started.i

[french frank]

1967 was the year 'My Music' started.i

Yes, My Word! was 1956 to 1988.