Originally posted by Anna
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I bet whoever be doing the commentsry, be getting in the way of the music! And probably 95% at St paul's wouldnt have an iota of an idea of what is playing!!Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
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I just hope that the police won't turn up at the funeral that I'll be attending on Wednesday and close it down on the basis of its running the risk of being regarded as a potential Section 5 offence...Originally posted by teamsaint View PostI will be doing a long day at work.no doubt she would have approved.
Music for the day will be punk,TMTCH (see signature) ,the specials,and so on.Comment
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Yes, it's on BBC channel 301.Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
The choice of music is impressive."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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One wonders what some of the composers would have thought of being included...Originally posted by Petrushka View PostComment
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I seem to have bungled one of my replies: this is The Choir board. Recent off topic posts have been moved to Platform 3.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.Comment
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I only saw/heard the In Paradisum and the Stanford Nunc...and that with unavoidable interruptions. Did anyone hear the whole lot, and how did the choir acquit itself?Comment
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was the Stanford Nunc composed before or after Elgar's Enigma Variations ? I don't suppose I'm the first to notice a similar pattern of notes in the Nunc bass solo to EnigmaOriginally posted by ardcarp View PostComment
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Did you do any Googling yourself? Elgar 1898-1899; Stanford in G completed October 1902.Originally posted by mercia View PostComment
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It is surprising how rarely state occasions such as this produce the best in music. But I thought to-day's selection was actually quite good although I felt that the Brahms did not sit well with the rest. S S Wesley could have slotted in here rather better. And he was English . . . .
I believe Lady Thatcher was considered unmusical which might explain why the choices reminded me of Princess Margaret's appearance on Desert Island Discs.Comment
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The keener-eyed amongst you would have noted 18 in the back row: 17 men and 1 woman alto....
Perhaps it was analogous of Lady T being the first Female PM in a man's world, but what a precedent to set!!
I have no doubt that the lady singer concerned is top-drawer, but to me this detracted from what was otherwise a ST Paul's choir at its very best.
Boys' numbers were up too (27?)...Comment
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What Wesley though? "Man that is born of a woman" perhaps??! Though that was written by SSW to fit with the Purcell Sentences.
Or "wash me throughly from my wickedness"??!
No: Brahms was a fitting piece for the occasion I felt.Comment
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How bizarre - would you have known if you couldn't see her? (She is a regular dep. at St Paul's, btw...)Originally posted by secret squirrel View PostThe keener-eyed amongst you would have noted 18 in the back row: 17 men and 1 woman alto....
Perhaps it was analogous of Lady T being the first Female PM in a man's world, but what a precedent to set!!
I have no doubt that the lady singer concerned is top-drawer, but to me this detracted from what was otherwise a ST Paul's choir at its very best.
Boys' numbers were up too (27?)...Comment
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I am aware that she is a regular dep etc and no, her contribution would most likely not detract in a musical way (she is a very able singer I am assured), BUT St Paul's' choir was alway a male choir, I thought, and even if there are 6 deps needed (choir now formally 12 men for last 2,3? Years, even on Sundays when was 18), they could have had another male alto.
Time for girls in the front row, then......!Comment
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