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  • cloughie
    Full Member
    • Dec 2011
    • 22110

    Originally posted by ahinton View Post
    You got it! It's more like Richard Strauss than Richard Strauss could be! I've played it to at least a couple opf dozen people over the years and they've all identified it as Strauss, although a few have added "but what is it?"...
    A lovely piece isn't it - I think I first heard it on CD Masters in the good old days of radio 3!

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    • ahinton
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 16122

      Originally posted by cloughie View Post
      A lovely piece isn't it - I think I first heard it on CD Masters in the good old days of radio 3!
      Indeed it is wonderful! - but it almost tells me how a composer born in the 1880s and not in Germany seemed to know how to be Richard Strauss better than the real one did!

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      • oddoneout
        Full Member
        • Nov 2015
        • 9135

        Originally posted by ahinton View Post
        You got it! It's more like Richard Strauss than Richard Strauss could be! I've played it to at least a couple opf dozen people over the years and they've all identified it as Strauss, although a few have added "but what is it?"...
        Was it just me or were there distinct shades of Till Eulenspiegel in there?

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        • DaisyDog
          Full Member
          • Jun 2016
          • 54

          Yeh! How about vegetarian composers...

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            Originally posted by DaisyDog View Post
            Yeh! How about vegetarian composers...
            As soon as we reach the fiftieth anniversary of the partial decriminalization of vegetarianism, I'm sure the Beeb will mark the occasion accordingly.
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • Old Grumpy
              Full Member
              • Jan 2011
              • 3594

              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
              As soon as we reach the fiftieth anniversary of the partial decriminalization of vegetarianism, I'm sure the Beeb will mark the occasion accordingly.

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              • antongould
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8774

                "I was on the radio ..........introducing hits by Rick Astley and Wet Wet Wet. I’d just turned 21 ...... "

                A fine pedigree indeed but who I wonder .... ?????

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                • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                  Gone fishin'
                  • Sep 2011
                  • 30163

                  Originally posted by antongould View Post
                  "I was on the radio ..........introducing hits by Rick Astley and Wet Wet Wet. I’d just turned 21 ...... "
                  A fine pedigree indeed but who I wonder .... ?????
                  What what what what what?!
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                  • Richard Barrett
                    Guest
                    • Jan 2016
                    • 6259

                    Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
                    I am pretty certain that I care not two hoots if Szymanowski was a gay man
                    If you were a gay man yourself (I think I can safely assume from your comment that you aren't) you might see that knowledge as welcome evidence that, while homosexuality has been denigrated and until recently punished by society, gay people have always been numbered among creative artists, in which capacity they've been able to express themselves in ways denied by the prejudice and lack of understanding characteristic of the societies they had to live in. The rolling back of discrimination against homosexuality is one of the few hopeful developments we see in society in recent decades, and it's a very big deal to a lot of people (and not only gay people). Why is something like this so hard for some people to understand and empathise with? (same with the Chineke Prom concert)

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                    • cloughie
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22110

                      Originally posted by antongould View Post
                      "I was on the radio ..........introducing hits by Rick Astley and Wet Wet Wet. I’d just turned 21 ...... "

                      A fine pedigree indeed but who I wonder .... ?????
                      Is this one of your AA conundrums?

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                      • french frank
                        Administrator/Moderator
                        • Feb 2007
                        • 30206

                        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                        Is this one of your AA conundrums?
                        More a PT conundrum.
                        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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                        • antongould
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8774

                          Originally posted by french frank View Post
                          More a PT conundrum.

                          I pinched it from ff's right wing journal .... As you are a Rik Astley fan cloughers she might send you the link ......

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                          • boilinthebag
                            Full Member
                            • Aug 2017
                            • 15

                            Tis our Petroc getting Wet Wet Wet
                            Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative

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                            • antongould
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8774

                              Originally posted by boilinthebag View Post
                              Tis our Petroc getting Wet Wet Wet

                              Indeed and it was good to have a Christmas Carol this morning ......

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                              • french frank
                                Administrator/Moderator
                                • Feb 2007
                                • 30206

                                Originally posted by boilinthebag View Post
                                Tis our Petroc getting Wet Wet Wet
                                'Tis indeed Petroc on his early years at Classic FM, celebrating its 25 years on air this month.

                                The Spectator is not accessible to those who don't subscribe, but my cuttings manager copied it for me and I knew Lord Gould would be interested as he is Petroc's No. 1 fan.
                                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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