Building a Library - General Discussion

[Alison]

Si pecar fuera virtud
Todos seriamos Santos.

[Roslynmuse]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcYTifM1IW8

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Would that it were, would that it were...

Robert Robinson (or possibly Stephen Fry as Robert Robinson)

[vinteuil]

Would that it were, would that it were...

Robert Robinson (or possibly Stephen Fry as Robert Robinson)

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[Hitch]

I toyed with the idea of re-naming it.
Open to suggestions of a revised title

Rebuilding Building a Library?

[LMcD]

If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well
It were done quickly.

Macbeth

Is this the first occasion on which the same Shakespeare play has been mentioned twice in one day on the Forum? There's a reference to 'night's black agents' in the lively(!) discussion of a new recording of Beethoven's 7th symphony.

[Serial_Apologist]

Si pecar fuera virtud
Todos seriamos Santos.

If our peckers were virtuous
We would all be saints.

[LMcD]

If our peckers were virtuous
We would all be saints.

Wouldpeckers necessarily want to be seen as virtuous?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I toyed with the idea of re-naming it...

Open to suggestions of a revised title

I've tinkered with the subjunctive grammar.

[verismissimo]

The original thread has multiple resonances - not so easy to replicate. And, correct or not, 'were' is not current usage.

[Pulcinella]

The "How BaL could be improved" thread?

No real point in being too nostalgic: we ought to think about how it could be improved from its current format.
Publishing the shortlist in advance is one suggestion that's been made (and endorsed by makropulos in post #28; he might be able to make such a recommendation on our behalf).

[Barbirollians]

I suppose publishing the shortlist could be a double edged sword “ what Richter and Horowitz not included I am not bothering to listen! “

[Nick Armstrong]

The "How BaL could be improved" thread?

No real point in being too nostalgic: we ought to think about how it could be improved from its current format.
Publishing the shortlist in advance is one suggestion that's been made (and endorsed by makropulos in post #28; he might be able to make such a recommendation on our behalf).

[gurnemanz]

I mostly enjoy BaL nowadays for any new insights into interpretative options. I remember Laura Tunbridge doing Dichterliebe last year. At one point she fascinatingly played the same very short phrase about half a dozen times one after another, each fully convincing its own different way.

With so much increased availability in most cases, via streaming and download, BaL can only be taken for what it is - one person's recommendation from a necessarily limited shortlist .... alas with superfluous twofer interjections.

[Petrushka]

The "How BaL could be improved" thread?

No real point in being too nostalgic: we ought to think about how it could be improved from its current format.
Publishing the shortlist in advance is one suggestion that's been made (and endorsed by makropulos in post #28; he might be able to make such a recommendation on our behalf).

There is far too much nostalgia in all walks of life in this country, and I'm as guilty as anyone sometimes, but agree that there is little point in it. Also agree with an advance shortlist but expect howls of outrage from those whose favourites have been unceremoniously dumped, again some of them might be mine.

[richardfinegold]

If I were a carpenter
And you were a lady,
Would you marry me anyway,
Would you have my baby?

- Joan Baez??

Tim Hardin