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  • Pianorak
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 3127

    IIRC he auctioned his cello for charity years ago!
    My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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    • Bryn
      Banned
      • Mar 2007
      • 24688

      Originally posted by Pianorak View Post
      IIRC he auctioned his cello for charity years ago!
      He can still play the instrument and, like his hero Terry Milligan, the trumpet, though he does not, of course, blow his own. Heaven forfend!

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      • Pianorak
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 3127

        Originally posted by Bryn View Post
        He can still play the instrument and, like his hero Terry Milligan, the trumpet, though he does not, of course, blow his own. Heaven forfend!
        My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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        • gradus
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 5607

          Originally posted by Bryn View Post
          He can still play the instrument and, like his hero Terry Milligan, the trumpet, though he does not, of course, blow his own. Heaven forfend!
          Would that be Spike?

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          • Bryn
            Banned
            • Mar 2007
            • 24688

            Originally posted by gradus View Post
            Would that be Spike?
            Terence Alan Milligan KBE, indeed.

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            • David Samuels
              Full Member
              • Jan 2019
              • 5

              In late December 1997, MB interviewed a 112 year-old Viennese percussionist named Manfred Sturmer (AKA John Sessions) who had many scurrilous stories about Brahms, Clara Schumann, Wagner, Richard Strauss, et al. The whole programme was played straight, to the extent that many people (including some of my acquaintance) thought it was real. It was the funniest Private Passions ever broadcast.

              Sadly, I can find no trace of it anywhere. Does anyone have any knowledge of this particular episode and why it might have disappeared?

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 30281

                Originally posted by David Samuels View Post
                In late December 1997, MB interviewed a 112 year-old Viennese percussionist named Manfred Sturmer (AKA John Sessions) who had many scurrilous stories about Brahms, Clara Schumann, Wagner, Richard Strauss, et al. The whole programme was played straight, to the extent that many people (including some of my acquaintance) thought it was real. It was the funniest Private Passions ever broadcast.

                Sadly, I can find no trace of it anywhere. Does anyone have any knowledge of this particular episode and why it might have disappeared?
                It's certainly listed by the genome, 12 noon. What else did you want to know?
                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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                • Richard Tarleton

                  I remember it, and I seem to remember there was at least one more spoof with John Sessions, albeit not as funny.

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                  • gradus
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 5607

                    Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                    I remember it, and I seem to remember there was at least one more spoof with John Sessions, albeit not as funny.
                    From memory it was a spoof Sir Thomas Beecham but I've forgotten the name used.

                    Those Sessions programmes were very funny, time for a new one?

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                    • kernelbogey
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 5745

                      I don't listen regularly to this but I usually find the exposure to someone's personal tastes quite interestingly confrontative. I liked hardly any of Peter Tatchell's choices today but I learned a great deal more about someone who has been in the news for decades, and his choice of music. This is in itself uplifting - the human connection to the choices - even when one doesn't like the music.

                      The series has occasionally had its deeply moving moments.

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                      • LMcD
                        Full Member
                        • Sep 2017
                        • 8458

                        Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                        I don't listen regularly to this but I usually find the exposure to someone's personal tastes quite interestingly confrontative. I liked hardly any of Peter Tatchell's choices today but I learned a great deal more about someone who has been in the news for decades, and his choice of music. This is in itself uplifting - the human connection to the choices - even when one doesn't like the music.

                        The series has occasionally had its deeply moving moments.
                        Recorded this while watching the amazing goings on in Yokohama. Michael Berkeley always manages to get the best out of his guests, I think.

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                        • Pulcinella
                          Host
                          • Feb 2014
                          • 10921

                          Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                          Recorded this while watching the amazing goings on in Yokohama. Michael Berkeley always manages to get the best out of his guests, I think.
                          Haven't listened for a while; I gave up as I found him rather too 'knowing' (verging on patronising when dispensing his own wisdom) and rather too frequently reminding us that Britten was one of his godfathers.
                          But generally more interesting guests and music than on Desert Island Discs, I think, where the castaway seems too often to have to show that they are just ordinary like the rest of us, and so need The Lark Ascending and the Fanfare for the common man with them in their isolation.

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                          • kernelbogey
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 5745

                            A remarkable programme in which the guest is David Nott, a Welsh surgeon who has worked in many war zones over numerous years. Extraordinarily humblling.

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                            • oddoneout
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2015
                              • 9184

                              Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                              A remarkable programme in which the guest is David Nott, a Welsh surgeon who has worked in many war zones over numerous years. Extraordinarily humblling.
                              I heard this first time around and it was no less moving repeated. A bonus for me was hearing the original piano and violin version of Lark Ascending.

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                              • kernelbogey
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 5745

                                Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
                                I heard this first time around and it was no less moving repeated. A bonus for me was hearing the original piano and violin version of Lark Ascending.
                                I had a strong feeling that I had heard this programme before: not stated to be a repeat in the Sounds website, nor in the back-announcement at the end of the progamme.

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