Originally posted by Roger Webb
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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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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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Originally posted by french frank View Post
........Doctors are a race apart: they adopt illegibility as a qualification for prescribing.
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Originally posted by Roger Webb View Post
Who wrote '......she had the neat handwriting of the illiterate'? Sounds Shavian. Whereas my Doctor ( a 'grownup' with impeccable musical taste) of many years wrote in hieroglyphics which somehow our local chemist had always deciphered correctly....I hope!
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Originally posted by LMcD View Post
I found this phrase referring to a chap called Parsons in Orwell's 1984.
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Originally posted by Opinionated Knowall View Post
Brewing industry I believe. Back to Adnams!
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Originally posted by Roger Webb View PostWell I just ruined my reputation on this site with this morning's Playlist! I thought Fiona Talkington was in the chair next week - might give her a go too!
Edit No, you're right it's Georgia...what a disappointment!live performances conducted by Neville Marriner to mark the centenary of his birth
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Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
Fiona's doing the afternoon shift. The programme will apparently feature I know the R3 definition of live differs from what many understand in general use, but the idea of NM conducting performances to mark his centenary takes that to the next level, as they say.
The afternoon spot is adept at pretending what are commercially available recordings eg BBC Phil. recorded in Manchester and usually on Chandos, are their own specially recorded Perfs - a small step to passing them off as 'live'.
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Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
It is. My first job after school was in a public library that had a Whitbread brewery at the back of it, and every now and then a truck would arrive to collect the drums of spent yeast. The library offices and work spaces were on the first floor at the back and got the full benefit of the smell when brewing was getting underway, which mostly didn't get through to the library space itself fortunately. Depending on timing and wind direction there would be an added olfactory assault from the curry house also in the vicinity, getting ready for the evening's offerings.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
Fiona's doing the afternoon shift. The programme will apparently feature I know the R3 definition of live differs from what many understand in general use, but the idea of NM conducting performances to mark his centenary takes that to the next level, as they say.
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
Unless ,like me , you believe that Sir Neville , one of the most recorded artists in history, is in many ways immortal and therefore eternally live .
I suppose I should just accept that the online content is rubbish, and curb my brain's tendency to go down the rabbit holes of literal interpretation - even if they are sometimes entertaining.
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Originally posted by oddoneout View PostIn memory perhaps, but the thought of a sort of classical Phantom of the Opera conducting concerts doesn't quite do it for me - and does it work even if not all the performers "believe"? The other "face value" interpretation - that he specially recorded a set of performances to be archived for his centenary - is just repugnant and even more unlikely?
I suppose I should just accept that the online content is rubbish, and curb my brain's tendency to go down the rabbit holes of literal interpretation - even if they are sometimes entertaining.
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Originally posted by oddoneout View PostIn memory perhaps, but the thought of a sort of classical Phantom of the Opera conducting concerts doesn't quite do it for me - and does it work even if not all the performers "believe"? The other "face value" interpretation - that he specially recorded a set of performances to be archived for his centenary - is just repugnant and even more unlikely?
I suppose I should just accept that the online content is rubbish, and curb my brain's tendency to go down the rabbit holes of literal interpretation - even if they are sometimes entertaining.
The radio says “That was the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields ..”
The parrot interrupts and completes with “conducted by by Sir Neville Mariner.”
That’s immortality …
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