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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.
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).
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).
"...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..."
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.
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.
"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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