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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostA bit of civilisation and culture restored this week, esp. appealing perhaps for Welsh Forumites - Welsh actor Paul Rhys. An appealing and modest character, judging by this morning's outing.
(Good actor too - amazing as Edgar / Poor Tom in the Ian Holm 'Lear' I went to several times at the NT )
Switching if I may to Thropps beloved music map of Britain - today's caller was, to me at least, interesting about a piece Herbert Howells composed for a particular church who felt their choir wasn't up to it but HH refused to compromise. The caller, who I think was the present vicar of the church and SMP got very excited that the score was in biro. Sara dropped in that she had sung in a recording of the work and then audience participation kicked in and we learnt the scores for several of Brian's symphonies were also in biro..........
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Originally posted by antongould View Posttoday's caller was, to me at least, interesting about a piece Herbert Howells composed for a particular church who felt their choir wasn't up to it but HH refused to compromise. The caller, who I think was the present vicar of the church and SMP got very excited that the score was in biro. Sara dropped in that she had sung in a recording of the work"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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amateur51
Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View PostSir Herbert Gussett? Outraged of Tumbridge Wells? What a delicious idea! We should all put fingers to keyboard and type the most inane request we can thing of! Perhaps for the 'musical map' we could nominate a choir of church mice in the loft of St. Swithens in Devizes.
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I notice that on the 'Essential Classics' web page this week the guest is one 'Prof. Germaine Greer'. The BBC these days seems to have an obsession with the title 'Prof.' (sic). On TV almost every presenter of a factual programme, it seems, has to be a 'Prof.' to give the programme credibility. They don't seem to have noticed that with academic inflation almost anyone these days is a 'professor' at some 'university' or other. (Will Self is soon to be a 'Professor of Contemporary Thought'; Tracey Emin is a 'Professor of Drawing'.) Will Sarah Walker greet Germaine Greer with 'Good Morning, Professor'? Laughable. Many of my most inspiring and learned university teachers were not even a 'Doctor'.
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So what is this "Baroque Bite" segment that suddenly appeared today around 11.40? There I am enjoying the Schumann Violin Concerto, only to be jolted immediately afterwards by a cheeky little featurette on castrati, (which has been done to death over the last couple of weeks). I switched off pretty quickly -- yet another interruption to the dwindling flow of music. I wish I didn't get so angry about it, but I still have vestiges of feeling for this once great station.
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meles
I can't tell you how much I am looking forward to tomorrow's Baroque japes on R3 for Red Nose Day...
Oh yes, I can. Not at all.
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I see Rob's got that Great British charlatan, Alain Lobotomy on this week. No doubt the unthinking man's 'thinking man' has a new book to flog.
An execrable fraud whose profound philosophical insights make my navel fluff look well-read. Keep churning out the cod-philosophy long enough, though, and the Establishment will surely award you an OBE, even if it is for "services to omphaloskepsis". You can always help yourself to his nuggets for free here: https://twitter.com/alaindebotton Caveat Lector: Kafka's diaries, it isn't.It loved to happen. -- Marcus Aurelius
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Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View PostI see Rob's got that Great British charlatan, Alain Lobotomy on this week. No doubt the unthinking man's 'thinking man' has a new book to flog.
However I did have the misfortune to catch the two 10.30 slots so far this week. The discussions did seem to be the most vacuous we've so far had, poor old Rob raising random 'concepts' resulting in meaningless abstract blather, the connection with the music being obscure to me. I found it very strange.
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostI didn't know you had quite such trenchant views on M. Le Botomy....
However I did have the misfortune to catch the two 10.30 slots so far this week. The discussions did seem to be the most vacuous we've so far had, poor old Rob raising random 'concepts' resulting in meaningless abstract blather, the connection with the music being obscure to me. I found it very strange.
were they playing in , say, a dentists waiting room,or similar?
Just asking, like!
Have a nice day now.
Edit: Makes my Schumann box set look like a good investment. poor old Rob Cowan. What a Waste, as Ian Dury one said......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 teamsaint View PostPhilosophically speaking, Mr Monitor, how is it possible to catch 2 whole half hour slots by " Misfortune"?
were they playing in , say, a dentists waiting room,or similar?
Just asking, like!
I stuck with them in the hope of something more illuminating ... coupled with a sort of fascination which developed, as to how bizarre and vacuous they were.
It is my misfortune to be optimistic, and fascinated by the bizarre, it would seem....
PS Thanks for asking, like!"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostThey were on at a time I wanted to listen to Radio 3.
I stuck with them in the hope of something more illuminating ... coupled with a sort of fascination which developed, as to how bizarre and vacuous they were.
It is my misfortune to be optimistic, and fascinated by the bizarre, it would seem....
PS Thanks for asking, like!
I am almost tempted to tune in tomorrow after that, although it coincides with my main appointment of the morning.....work eh?....
[B]"optimistic, and fascinated by the bizarre...."[/B]
Is there not some pithy german word/phrase that covers this state of mind?!Last edited by teamsaint; 19-03-13, 17:30.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 teamsaint View Post"optimistic, and fascinated by the bizarre...."
Is there not some pithy german word/phrase that covers this state of mind?!
Using 'pithy' in the Germanic sense of 'very very long and multisyllabic'...
But I know what you mean. Don't they just make it up as they go along and jam stuff together? So I reckon you'd get away with:
Optimismusundabsonderlichkeitfaszination
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Anna
I've just had a look at Alain de Botton's latest Tweet and it says "Paradox of the sulk: 'If I have to spell this out to you, you're not someone I want to be understood by.'
And, children, we all know a song about that, don't we?
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Originally posted by Caliban View Post
Using 'pithy' in the Germanic sense of 'very very long and multisyllabic'...
But I know what you mean. Don't they just make it up as they go along and jam stuff together? So I reckon you'd get away with: Optimismusundabsonderlichkeitfaszination
I have loved those words since my grandparents returned from a nice holiday in Germany in 1974 with a gift to love for ever .....a genuine adidas bag with the wording "1974 Fusballweltmeisterschaft" emblazoned on it. Perfection.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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