4th November Composer of the Week Dame Ethel Smyth

[salymap]

[QUOTE=Bax-of-Delights;349618]If no-one has yet encountered "Hilda Tablet" you really should listen to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLgkixlJttE

I notice all the other episodes are now on Youtube.

Ahem, I mentioned Henry Reed's wonderful progs a few weeks ago and no-one seemed to know about it.

My problem is getting Youtube to work on this computer. I'm very keen to hear those programmes as I remember what fun they were.

Anyadvice over Youtube would b e welcome but I'm no techy

[Bax-of-Delights]

salymap:
Sorry - I hadn't seen your earlier reference to Henry Reed's programmes.

Concerning your problem about viewing Youtube. I've just googled the probem and found this answer:

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First clear your cache & cookies and then restart your computer.

To clear your cache ...
FireFox: Tools > Clear Private data > check cache and cookies and click "Clear Private Data Now"

Internet Explorer 7: Tools > Delete Browsing History > Delete Files, Delete cookies

Then, If that doesn't help you YouTube suggests you uninstall Adobe's flash player using Adobe's uninstall tool, restart your computer and then reinstall the flash player (it's a really good idea to always do that instead of just trying to update it). ...


YouTube Help Center: "The video won't play—what's wrong?"

"Videos on YouTube are streamed through an Adobe Flash player. For the best viewing experience, we suggest you install the latest version of Adobe Flash after removing any old versions you’ve installed.

Please completely uninstall Flash before reinstalling the latest version.

To uninstall Flash, please follow Adobe’s instructions, listed here: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgeba...

Once you're done, restart your computer and follow Adobe’s instructions for reinstalling Flash: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/...

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Hope you manage to get on to Youtube soon. The Reed programmes are hilarious!!

[salymap]

This is creepy -B-o-D I posted to thank you asI gota message to say the page for Adobe was not known.

Things like that happen a lot since the latest BT takeover.

I hope you receivethis,

Saly

[Bax-of-Delights]

This is creepy -B-o-D I posted to thank you asI gota message to say the page for Adobe was not known.

Things like that happen a lot since the latest BT takeover.

I hope you receivethis,

Saly

Received and understood.

Hope you can get the Youtube plays now.

[EdgeleyRob]

You rotten lot. People didn't smile in photos 150 years ago and she was a country woman who dressed to suit herself.

Beecham would be proud of you - at least he was wrong about her love life

They are being a bit harsh.

She loved dogs,wrote terrific music,she'll do for me.

Another great show today,lunch hours at work have rarely been so enjoyable.

[salymap]

Yes Rob, I prefer her chamber and orchestral music to the vocal/choral works which don't come through to me ATM.

And a reli is putting all the progs onto a video for me - I can 'listen again'

[Barbirollians]

I think that the serenade and the concerto for violin and horn are superb pieces - a Chandos recording from 10-15 years ago is very much well worth getting.

[Stunsworth]

Smyth was someone I knew of, but had heard nothing by. This week's COTW has been something of a revelation. Time to dig out some recordings on Qobuz.

[EdgeleyRob]

Smyth was someone I knew of, but had heard nothing by. This week's COTW has been something of a revelation. Time to dig out some recordings on Qobuz.

There's quite a bit in the Naxos Library too.
It's been the most interesting COTW in a long while.

[ardcarp]

I've really enjoyed this week's CotW too. Dame Ethel is certainly not the figure of fun many of my generation had supposed at one time, and is revealed as a serious, prolific and sometimes original voice in English music. One tiny quibble. Today Donald played the Gloria from her Mass setting, saying how unconventional and 'typical of Dame Ethel' it was to make the Gloria the final 'movement'. Well yes, but, the Anglican Book of Common Prayer made a point of putting the Gloria at the end of the Holy Communion service, and I dare say this would have seemed a perfectly natural place for it, in staunchly Protestant England anyway.

[Master Jacques]

I've really enjoyed this week's CotW too. Dame Ethel is certainly not the figure of fun many of my generation had supposed at one time, and is revealed as a serious, prolific and sometimes original voice in English music. One tiny quibble. Today Donald played the Gloria from her Mass setting, saying how unconventional and 'typical of Dame Ethel' it was to make the Gloria the final 'movement'. Well yes, but, the Anglican Book of Common Prayer made a point of putting the Gloria at the end of the Holy Communion service, and I dare say this would have seemed a perfectly natural place for it, in staunchly Protestant England anyway.

Indeed. Rubbra, by the way, does the same (and for exactly the same reason) in his only Anglican mass, the wonderful Missa cantuariensis from the late 1940's.

[EdgeleyRob]

If you didn't catch this it's being repeated this coming week.

[Nick Armstrong]

Loved Sean Faffery's hand-over to CotW this evening... featuring the music of:

Dame Ethel Smile



Made me smyth, anyway.

[EdgeleyRob]

Loved Sean Faffery's hand-over to CotW this evening... featuring the music of:

Dame Ethel Smile



Made me smyth, anyway.

Easy peasey picture quiz,Ethel Smyth and ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Easy peasey picture quiz,Ethel Smyth and ?

... a Horn player punching her in the back of the head?