Mozart at McDonalds

[ahinton]

A bit of the old Ludwig Van? Oh my brothers........ oh the irony........

Why not Strauss's Bürger als Edelmann suite, or Grétry's opera Andromaque - or even Cardew's Bun No. 1 (which I'd have assumed Bryn might have suggested by now)?

[EdgeleyRob]

I read about this here.

Apparently it's to discourage the riff raff (as Basil Fawlty would say).

Well it's not working,they let me in.
After a day of boring work meetings (NO LUNCH)myself and a couple of colleagues decided to pop in for some crap food and a moan about said meetings.

[MrGongGong]

A bit of the old Ludwig Van? Oh my brothers........ oh the irony........

[Bryn]

The entrance hall of Hounslow West Tube Station usually has classical works playing over the 'Tannoy' at moderate sound levels - mainly Beethoven.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The entrance hall of Hounslow West Tube Station usually has classical works playing over the 'Tannoy' at moderate sound levels - mainly Beethoven.

Not "Tannoyser"?

[ahinton]

The entrance hall of Hounslow West Tube Station usually has classical works playing over the 'Tannoy' at moderate sound levels - mainly Beethoven.

I wonder why "mainly Beethoven"? - and why "Hounslow West"? - and does anyone appear to take any notice or be otherwise affected by it? Is there any reliable documented evidence that it discourages the riff-raff by encouraging in some of their number the desire to use Hounslow Central instead?

I recall years ago David Matthews saying (though with what degree of seriousness I'd prefer not to hazard a guess) that, as a composer, one knows that one has made it when invited to be a castaway on Desert Island Discs, to which I replied "no - one knows that one has made it as a composer when someone chooses one of one's works to take to that mythical island"; perhaps, however, one has only really made it as a composer once one's work has been relayed across the "Tannoy" at Hounslow West Tube altough, should that ever happen to mine, I can imagine the Piccadilly Line being emptied of customers before they even become passengers and TFL's buses all becoming full beyond bursting point.

Speaking of the London Underground, I always thought that the advertising slogan for it from many years ago "it's quicker by tube" was in fact for an IVF clinic...

[ahinton]

Not "Tannoyser"?

Brilliant! (though don't call Bryn "Sir"; he might not like that!)...

Reminds me en passant of the response of a disgruntled audience member at a production of Siegfried at ROH being roundly berated when his mobile went off; "come on - gimme a break - it is a Ring tone, after all!"...

[EdgeleyRob]

Not "Tannoyser"?

Best on the thread so far

[LeMartinPecheur]

Bleedin' obvious innit.

Pancakes with Butter, Maple Syrup and Bacon and the TV Weatherman a la David Bedford.

Oh, and a side-dish of chips. Mucho presto por favor.

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That's how much brass?!?

[cloughie]

Pizza Hut on Hen's Legs?

Then a Great Chicken Kiev

[french frank]

Then a Great Chicken Kiev

(Though I'm not sure that they serve a Big Mac Kiev or Kentucky Fried Kiev?)

[ahinton]

(Though I'm not sure that they serve a Big Mac Kiev or Kentucky Fried Kiev?)

Oh, for God's sake don't encourage them - either of them! - especially given the shaky position of Kiev itself these days (one to which the relaying of Mozart over loudspeakers anywhere is unlikely to improve matters)...