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  • antongould
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    • Nov 2010
    • 8774

    Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
    Fans of Alkers will find her on Afternoon Concert today.

    And she seems to have brought Bravo Man along with her.......
    Cheers ts thank heavens for BBC Sounds .......

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    • Pulcinella
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      • Feb 2014
      • 10872

      Originally posted by french frank View Post
      I'm just wondering, um, about Dukas - Polyeucte. Would St Polyeuctus really have been born in 259 BC?

      Died 259 AD (or Common Era as we now say) according to Wiki:

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      • french frank
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        • Feb 2007
        • 30210

        Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
        Died 259 AD (or Common Era as we now say) according to Wiki:
        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyeuctus
        Not what the presenter said! 1h 44'50" in, this afternoon. She actually described him as 'an early Christian saint' before giving us his date of death. Or was it birth? I was only listening to see if she said Duka or Dukass (answer: Dukass ) so don't know if there was a correction !
        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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        • Old Grumpy
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          • Jan 2011
          • 3594

          Originally posted by french frank View Post
          I'm just wondering, um, about Dukas - Polyeucte. Would St Polyeuctus really have been born in 259 BC?

          Thanks, FF, so I really did hear that. Hmmm.

          Mind you, would have been Old Testament...

          ...some of those guys lived a long, long time.

          OG

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          • french frank
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            • Feb 2007
            • 30210

            Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
            Mind you, would have been Old Testament...

            ...some of those guys lived a long, long time.

            OG
            Yes, but I checked. She said he died in 259 BC. If she said he was born in 259 BC, I suppose he could have lived 300 years or so and still been an early Christian saint.
            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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            • vinteuil
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              • Nov 2010
              • 12768

              .

              ... are there any BC saints? - Apart from the anomalous St Michael etc - but I never understood how Angels could really be saints...


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              • Pulcinella
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                • Feb 2014
                • 10872

                Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                .

                ... are there any BC saints? - Apart from the anomalous St Michael etc - but I never understood how Angels could really be saints...


                .
                I think that some of the OT prophets are treated as saints, or at least have churches dedicated to them.
                In Venice, I once stayed near San Moise (Moses).

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                • french frank
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                  • Feb 2007
                  • 30210

                  Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                  .... are there any BC saints?
                  .
                  Interesting point - though I think it would be odd to describe them as early Christians.

                  Were not the first of them martyrs? There was something I've now forgotten but knew last week about when they started to be canonised (after having miracles attributed to them).
                  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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                  • Eine Alpensinfonie
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 20569

                    Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                    Fans of Alkers will find her on Afternoon Concert today.

                    And she seems to have brought Bravo Man along with her.......
                    It’s like a virus.

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                    • Eine Alpensinfonie
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 20569

                      This morning we have had a rather pleasant little snippet called The Lark Ascending. I’m surprised they haven’t included it before.

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                      • LMcD
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                        • Sep 2017
                        • 8396

                        Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                        This morning we have had a rather pleasant little snippet called The Lark Ascending. I’m surprised they haven’t included it before.
                        What, ALL of it?

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                        • Pulcinella
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                          • Feb 2014
                          • 10872

                          Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                          This morning we have had a rather pleasant little snippet called The Lark Ascending. I’m surprised they haven’t included it before.
                          Damn! Missed it.
                          If they had published a playlist beforehand, I could have tuned in just to hear it.

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                          • LMcD
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                            • Sep 2017
                            • 8396

                            Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
                            Damn! Missed it.
                            If they had published a playlist beforehand, I could have tuned in just to hear it.
                            Don't worry - I'm sure Classic FM will play it at least once in the next few hours - it is, after all, NUMBER 1 in the current 'Hall of Fame' (Last year, their 'top tune' was the 1812 Overture, so all is not totally lost, perhaps).

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                            • LeMartinPecheur
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                              • Apr 2007
                              • 4717

                              Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                              This morning we have had a rather pleasant little snippet called The Lark Ascending. I’m surprised they haven’t included it before.
                              EA: you've missed out the really big news! An estimable Cornwall-based composer called Paul Drayton has arranged it (just for a lark?) for choir and solo violin, the choir singing Meredith's words. First performance shortly, somewhere in Gloucs/ Worcs I think Petroc said.
                              I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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                              • Cockney Sparrow
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                                • Jan 2014
                                • 2280

                                I'm a keen choral singer, and loathe these arrangements - Lux Aeterna (Nimrod) Agnus Dei (Barber Adagio for Strings) - and now another one to avoid.....
                                (Glad to say the choirs I sing with don't go in for these, but the offspring's choir does - had to endure Lux Aeterna three times in 18 months ).

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