David Owen Norris at his finest

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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26538
    #1

    David Owen Norris at his finest

    Interesting programme at crack of dawn on R4 this morning, about Counterpoint. Presenter Mark Tully takes the subject wider than just music (into poetry, religion etc), but the bedrock of the programme is provided by DON ... the high point being when he explains the structure of the first Two-Part Invention by singing his analysis to the music as he plays it

    BBC Radio 4 - Something Understood, Counterpoint
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07mw2s5
    Composer David Owen Norris explains and plays musical counterpoint to Mark Tully.


    Great stuff.... although I do find Mark Tully’s delivery rather ponderous. Mind you, he is in his mid-80s, to be fair. (The programme is a repeat, but I don’t know from when, and I can’t find that it’s been mentioned on the Forum before.)
    "...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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  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
    Gone fishin'
    • Sep 2011
    • 30163
    #2
    - just caught (this morning, morning's minion*) the last ten minutes or so of this. Very good - well worth hearing, DON at his very best.


    (* - the relevance of this aside becomes clear once you've heard the programme. )
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    • Nick Armstrong
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      • Nov 2010
      • 26538
      #3
      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
      - just caught (this morning, morning's minion*) the last ten minutes or so of this. Very good - well worth hearing, DON at his very best.


      (* - the relevance of this aside becomes clear once you've heard the programme. )


      Did you go back and listen to the singalong?
      "...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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      • teamsaint
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 25210
        #4
        thanks Cals, look forward to catching up on that during the week. Sounds excellent.

        radio 4 you say ?.....

        ( looks like it might have been 07 August 2016 originally.)

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        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
          Gone fishin'
          • Sep 2011
          • 30163
          #5
          Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
          ( looks like it might have been 07 August 2016 originally.)
          Yes - I think that Something Understood was cancelled/decomissioned a year or so ago.
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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163
            #6
            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            Did you go back and listen to the singalong?
            Do you mean the "the first three notes at half the speed and up-side down" bit? Ingenious

            (Incidentally - I don't think that there's a hyphen in his name?)
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            • Nick Armstrong
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              • Nov 2010
              • 26538
              #7
              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
              Do you mean the "the first three notes at half the speed and up-side down" bit? Ingenious

              (Incidentally - I don't think that there's a hyphen in his name?)
              Yes... and well-spotted, Wilson
              "...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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