Originally posted by mercia
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Someone's going to tell me that Foyle is not pronounced foil.
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Not me, mercia. We have a lough here called Lough Foyle. It's Irish of course - Lough Feabhail - Feabhal's lough. Don't know who Feabhal was, but his name in the genitive case would be pronounced fo-wayl (approx); we Derrianians say 'Foil'. -
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Ah! If there's an opportunity for an unfunny pun, I'm your man!Originally posted by jean View Post
(Mind you, be thankful I didn't pursue the "Kitty Foil" idea - would put cat lovers off their Sunday roast!)[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Originally posted by mercia View Post
How very dare you! I've seen some very deft punning in one or two of the more winding corridors of the Forum!
And I think I was responsible for attempting to derail things with mention of Michael Kitchen.
Foyled again...
"...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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with the aluminimum of effort....Originally posted by Caliban View Post
How very dare you! I've seen some very deft punning in one or two of the more winding corridors of the Forum!
And I think I was responsible for attempting to derail things with mention of Michael Kitchen.
Foyled again...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.Comment
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Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
"...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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...and back to the subject. The Telegraph article had Tom Service...
...which just about sums up the film.quite understandably, swinging by a Viennese coffee house and sampling some Mozart chocolate balls.Comment
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What is 'quite understandably' supposed to imply?Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
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.Comment
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Dress sense has been mentioned before.
If order not to be "stuffy", one does not have to be "scruffy".Comment
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I'm even more intrigued to learn that the programme was 'neither idle iconoclasm nor comprehensive autobiography.'Originally posted by french frank View PostWhat is 'quite understandably' supposed to imply?
Would any sort of autobiography have been appropriate in this context?Comment
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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.Comment
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I would have loved a Mozart autobiography!
Forewarned by the comments here, I watched the programme - and found it not nearly as bad as I'd been expecting.
And not nearly as good as it could have been.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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R2 Simon Mayo finished tonight with a totally stunning reworking of Mozart's Rondo alla Turca sung by Cleo Laine and backed by John Dankworth. 6. 55 p.m. and worth iPlaying. Now that IS singing, and I bet WAM would have loved it.Comment
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Getting back to Mr Hazlewood: he did the 3-part docu-drama The Genius of Mozart in 2004. On BBC Two. Presumably the BBC thinks the latest exercise is the intellectual bee's knees for the aficionados, so goes on BBC Four.
It's not that I would grumble about a TV prog. about Mozart, but why another TV prog. about Mozart?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.Comment
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Originally posted by french frank View Post
I'm sure there's always room for good programmes about Mozart. But this just wasn't.Comment
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