I enjoyed the Debussy-Beamish movement from La Mer but wish Suzy had played the whole work. What an annoying format.
Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Originally posted by LMcD View PostI think it's meant to be 'accessible', but ends up sounding patronising.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 LMcD View Post'Yes ma'am, certainly ma'am'.
She reminds me more than a little of the fearsome schoolteacher in 'The Singing Detective'.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostPah! SK is feeble - Janet Henfrey was genuinely scary! (In that role, a reprise from the earlier Stand Up, Nigel Barton! - I once had lunch with her [and several others] at a Brecht conference in the early '90s: she's lovely!)Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... tho' I prefer arrogance to chumminess.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 PostOn the whole I prefer the opposite, on the grounds that some presenters one warms to naturally and others one doesn't; so sometimes chumminess is less grating. Arrogance is universally unattractive.
Well quite.
The world isnt really in need of more arrogance, is it?
R3 chumminess is fine, if it is of the well informed kind.
Like RC , in fact.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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