New Sub-Forum: Composers

[BBMmk2]

I better begin ones on Bantock & Bax!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I better begin ones on Bantock & Bax!

Hmmm. Y'know when I said I was sworn only to use my superpowers in the fight against evil ...

- just joshing, Bbm; do, please.

Meanwhile - where's the Poulenc Thread, ts?

[Pulcinella]

I discovered I had a new superpower ... there'll be no stopping me now!


Except that I can't change the way they appear on the "index/contents" list without changing the name of the Thread from that which the original poster gave it - and I think that that would be an excessive abuse of my new superpowers which I've sworn only to use in the fight against evil. Not to mention a diabolical liberty!

Oh, it's evil to discriminate between composers and have some surname only and others with forenames.
I'm sure that the friendly folk on here (even if they started the threads) would not object to some (school) uniformity (tuck that shirt tail in, Bach Minor!) and allow you free rein; not so sure about the unfriendly folk though!
Go on, be a devil; you know you want to, really.

[Richard Tarleton]

A brilliant idea ferney, the forum at its best, we'll put a link to the sub-forum on the FoR3 site very shortly, I expect.

Dowland, perhaps? Some recent interest shown! There was also this excellent thread, about his BAL (just for a spot of EM balance, you understand!)

[Dave2002]

Existing Threads are being copied to the new Forum - there are about twenty Bruckner Threads around in the Waiting Room (and many many thanks to Andrew for all his work so far).

Are threads being copied, or moved? The concepts are a bit different, and the consequences also.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Are threads being copied, or moved? The concepts are a bit different, and the consequences also.

The Theory is that Threads devoted to individual composers (or comparisons between composers) shall be moved, unchanged to this new sub-Forum, possibly with the Thread title altered to show clearly which composer(s) is/are being discussed. This is what has mostly been going on so far - individual composer Threads have been gathered here. (It's taking some time - I'm new to this aspect of administration, and haven't yet got complete control of my sheepdogs.)

The next stage will be to go through other Threads and isolate any posts which contain interesting information about composers, which would not be clear from the Thread title. These posts will be copied and moved to here - so that some posts will appear twice in different "folders". All suggestions from Forumistas for such individual posts will be gratefully accepted - and, of course, some such posts will be overlooked in the urban sprawl of the Forum archives.

New Threads on composers Forumistas wish to start can be done so whenever they so wish; indeed, I am delighted to see that this has already started to happen. teamsaint's Poulenc Thread is eagerly anticipated, as (no doubt) are Bbm's Bantock and/or Bax Threads by many Forumistas. New contributions to old Threads are also very welcome - as are Forumistas' contributions to the new Threads.

For now, I'm avoiding Threads/Posts dedicated specifically to concerts/broadcasts/recordings of individual works, as these are easily found in the various already-existing sub-Forums - but some of these posts might be copied here where they raise matters that might be useful to highlight about the composer(s) concerned.

The new Forum will provide an Index so that discussions about individual composers can be more quickly found, it highlights specific topics about composers, and it encourages discussion of individual composers whose work isn't the immediate subject of performance and/or recording. Any Forumista unsure where to post a new Thread can basically post it on any suitable sub-Forum - if any Admin is seen by other Forumistas to be required, I shall look after it.

[Beef Oven!]

ferney - big thanks for all your work (and whoever else behind the scenes!), looking great.

[ahinton]

ferney - big thanks for all your work (and whoever else behind the scenes!), looking great.

Seconded!

[french frank]

ferney - big thanks for all your work (and whoever else behind the scenes!), looking great.

Apart from Andrew taking care of the technicalities, I think it's all ferney! Now featuring on the FoR3 homepage as the forum 'hot topic'

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Are threads being copied, or moved? The concepts are a bit different, and the consequences also.

I've moved a few of them.

[jayne lee wilson]

Just browsing through the composers list etc... excellent work, yes... great idea & execution, thanks...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I've moved a few of them.

Many, many thanks, Alpie

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Just browsing through the composers list etc... excellent work, yes... great idea & execution, thanks...

The idea was BeefO's - the technical aspect was provided by Andrew(and a special thanks to him for working out how to arrange the Threads alphabetically, rather than chronologically) - initial batch of Threads moved here by Alpie (which I hadn't known - I thought Andrew had done this) - credit taken by myself! (Actually, once I'd persuaded myself that I wasn't going to lose Threads in cyberspace, I went bananas transferring them. They're getting a little unwieldy - I'm going to see if there can be "folders" of Threads, each self-contained, but under a general heading of (say) "Bruckner" on this sub-Forum. The main point is to make the posts easier to find than was the case when they appeared under the different sub-Forum headings. That seems to be working.)

[BBMmk2]

It's an absolute tour de force!

Many thanks to Ferney and Alpie and anyone else who has worked behind the scenes! :)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Many, many thanks, Alpie

And to you too.