I'm sure the BBC will hail this last week as a success (can you imagine anything else?). So, when will they repeat it? (I mean, 'reprise' the whole week)?
Enough Schubert
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostI now have a Schubert earworm - just a fragment of piano accompaniment that won't go away, and I've little hope of identifying the song.
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Don Petter
That is indeed a remarkable book. You wouldn't think such a simple scheme would work, but it really does!
Damn - Now you've reminded me I have to find my copy from the depths somewhere.
[I presume it's the same Denys Parsons who wrote 'Can it be True?' and all those other similar titles. Great favourites of mine, and sitting on the loo shelf under 'Humour' where they can also entertain our guests.]
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I have actually listened to more music off R3 than in recent months this week, and I believe I have captured most of the event so far on my FreeSat PVR. One thing which I've been ignorant about for many years, and indeed still am, though I think Donald M touched on it in COTW is Schubert's syphillis. Does anyone ever ask how he got it? Is it still a taboo subject? In Schubert's time there would perhaps have been more ways of contracting this than the very obvious. Indeed, it does seem that syphillis was quite prevalent before the 20th Century and the development of antibiotics.
Looks like a very nasty disease indeed - definitely one to avoid if at all possible.
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Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post[...]One thing which I've been ignorant about for many years, and indeed still am, though I think Donald M touched on it in COTW is Schubert's syphillis. Does anyone ever ask how he got it? Is it still a taboo subject? In Schubert's time there would perhaps have been more ways of contracting this than the very obvious. Indeed, it does seem that syphillis was quite prevalent before the 20th Century and the development of antibiotics.
Looks like a very nasty disease indeed - definitely one to avoid if at all possible.
* EDIT: see post 87 belowLast edited by kernelbogey; 31-03-12, 23:06.
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Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostIndeed, it does seem that syphillis was quite prevalent before the 20th Century and the development of antibiotics.
At the end of the 19th century, many people were certified as having died from GPI - or General Paralysis of the Insane. This was the result of tertiary syphilis (I had two great uncles who died of it and it was on their death certificates)
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.
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Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post...Indeed, it does seem that syphillis was quite prevalent before the 20th Century and the development of antibiotics.
Looks like a very nasty disease indeed - definitely one to avoid if at all possible.
It has always been a sexually transmitted disease, so we don't have to have much imagination to guess how Schubert got it. I have seen references to 'hereditary syphilis' in relation to Schumann, which suggests a second way of transmission, but I'm no expert.
There are loads of references in cultural history, but a favourite is the folk-song "The young sailor cut down in his prime". It was popular, and eventually crossed the Atlantic to become the cowboy ballad "The streets of Laredo". But it was originally about a young sailor who died of the pox - syphilis. "Had she but told me about it in time/I might have got tablets and pills of white mercury/But now I'm cut down at the height of my prime" [version collected in Dorset by George Gardiner].
Originally posted by french frank View PostAt the end of the 19th century, many people were certified as having died from GPI - or General Paralysis of the Insane. This was the result of tertiary syphilis.Last edited by Pabmusic; 01-04-12, 05:49.
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