BBC Music Magazine

[Bryn]

Possibly because your postman beat mine by 10 minutes, I suspect.

Still not sure if you intended to say that the word priceless does not apply to this CD, though.
Why is it NOT (arguably) priceless?

(Admittedly, it's not really gripped my attention so far, but I'm only into track 2!)

Just a play on words. That's why I aimed to start the first sentence with "Priceless", thus slipping in the upper case for the initial letter. Of course, the publishers also claim that the cover disc comes free with the magazine, whereas I tend to think of it as the other way round.

[Pulcinella]

Just a play on words. That's why I aimed to start the first sentence with "Priceless", thus slipping in the upper case for the initial letter. Of course, the publishers also claim that the cover disc comes free with the magazine, whereas I tend to think of it as the other way round.

Aha!
Now I get it.
Shame your typo threw me, as that's really pretty good!


I see that the next issue's CD is Bird (though not Byrd, presumably) related, with RVW's Lark and Warlock's Curlew.

[Serial_Apologist]

Aha!
Now I get it.
Shame your typo threw me, as that's really pretty good!


I see that the next issue's CD is Bird (though not Byrd, presumably) related, with RVW's Lark and Warlock's Curlew.

Maybe Charlie Parker???

[Bryn]

Looks like the BBC Music Magazine is out to upset Christians with its new front cover headline "Wagner's RING" "Inside the greatest story ever told. . . "

[smittims]

Oh dear. I suppose it illustrates the folly of over-using words like 'greatest'.

I know the Ring contains much wonderful music but is it really a 'great' story'? Much of what happens lacks credibility and I sometimes wonder if there is a single really sympathetic character in the whole thing; at least in 'Parsifal' there are some well-meaning people who are actually kind on occasion.

[Old Grumpy]

Looks like the BBC Music Magazine is out to upset Christians with its new front cover headline "Wagner's RING" "Inside the greatest story ever told. . . "

I suspect the majority of Christians are unperturbed by such hyperbole, other than a few Daily Telegraph readers and Pensacola residents!

[alywin]

Just because it was the title of a film, I don't see why Christians should be offended by that.

[Bryn]

Just because it was the title of a film, I don't see why Christians should be offended by that.

QED. Glad to see Old Grumpy has his or her irony detector switched on. I did blow the whistle on my comment.

[Pulcinella]

Surely if Christians had anything to get offended about, it would have been the fact that the word story was used (for the film).
I would have thought (even way back then before the fundamentalists took hold) that they'd have wanted it described as the truth.

[Bryn]

Surely if Christians had anything to get offended about, it would have been the fact that the word story was used (for the film).
I would have thought (even way back then before the fundamentalists took hold) that they'd have wanted it described as the truth.

Etymologically, "story" is the truth.

[Pulcinella]

Etymologically, "story" is the truth.

Fair comment: Italian storia is their word for history.