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  • salymap
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 5969

    Originally posted by antongould View Post
    Indeed even Rumpole, who it is well known knows everything, learnt something from yesterday's Howells call........
    What wasthe Howells call about, if I may attempt a shortcut ?.

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    • antongould
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      • Nov 2010
      • 8780

      Originally posted by salymap View Post
      What wasthe Howells call about, if I may attempt a shortcut ?.
      ....tempted not to tell you as you will then, like Rumpole, know everything! My stumbling explanation and Rumpole's incisive summing up are on the Essential Classics thread......

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      • salymap
        Late member
        • Nov 2010
        • 5969

        Originally posted by antongould View Post
        ....tempted not to tell you as you will then, like Rumpole, know everything! My stumbling explanation and Rumpole's incisive summing up are on the Essential Classics thread......
        Thanks anton, will make a sandwich to fortify myself and look for that then.

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26524

          Originally posted by antongould View Post
          ....tempted not to tell you as you will then, like Rumpole, know everything! My stumbling explanation and Rumpole's incisive summing up are on the Essential Classics thread......
          Anton, my cheque for PR services is in the post
          "...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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          • antongould
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            • Nov 2010
            • 8780

            Originally posted by salymap View Post
            Thanks anton, will make a sandwich to fortify myself and look for that then.

            Please do I'm sure you know of hundreds of scores written in biro which will send SMP (and the vicar) into ecstasy ......I look forward to your call at 07.30 on Monday - don't forget the Sidcup pin the map for Dame ES

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            • vinteuil
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              • Nov 2010
              • 12797

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              Anton, my cheque for PR services is in the post
              ... however I hope Caliban realises that my silence does not come cheap

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26524

                Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                ... however I hope Caliban realises that my silence does not come cheap
                In the words of the corrupt police chief to his hired assassin in Beineix's "Diva"

                "Si je plonge, tu plonges avec."
                "...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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                • vinteuil
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 12797

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  In the words of the corrupt police chief to his hired assassin in Beineix's "Diva"

                  "Si je plonge, tu plonges avec."
                  ... a very fair comparison - me the hired assassin, you the corrupt police chief

                  .

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                  • salymap
                    Late member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 5969

                    Originally posted by salymap View Post
                    Thanks anton, will make a sandwich to fortify myself and look for that then.
                    At the moment all I can recall about Herbert Howells is that he wrote a work in memory of his young son Michael, who sadly died of polio, then a rampant disease. Doesn't seem to touch on that. And in my music library days we also had a composer called Hubert Hales, which confused me somewhat. Bestio

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26524

                      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                      ... a very fair comparison - me the hired assassin, you the corrupt police chief

                      .
                      Precisely the mental picture I had in mind....
                      "...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
                        • 25200

                        I think its rentokil we need, not assassins.

                        lasted about 25 seconds on Breakfast today. First, the exciting news that 2.36 PM Monday is the peak time of the week for uploading photos to facebook,(why can I remember that and not the important stuff?) and then those bloody wasps.
                        I used to quite like that piece.
                        I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                        I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                        • french frank
                          Administrator/Moderator
                          • Feb 2007
                          • 30254

                          On Facebook this am from someone not known to me ( but what do I know about who forumites are?):

                          "I must say that recently it has seemed that the same old lollipops are being trotted out so regularly they are becoming boring! Where has the challenge gone? The ability to hear something new each morning and grow my listening breadth?

                          And even then the lollipops aren't given life; Bach always on a Steinway - never an instrument he will have heard and composed for. Why not go the whole hog and play it on electric or a Moog?

                          Come on Radio3 the breakfast diet is becoming more cloying than ClassicFM!"
                          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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                          • teamsaint
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                            • Nov 2010
                            • 25200

                            Why is radio 3 going out of its way to promote a commercial organisation like facebook , by giving it little plugs such as SMP did today?

                            the company I work for would LOVE free publicity of this kind.

                            Re FF's comments,I guess quite a lot of folk aren't too demanding of their music at 6.45 AM, but suggestions such as "Bach played on appropriate instruments" really wouldn't be too difficult to implement, would they?
                            I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                            I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                            • french frank
                              Administrator/Moderator
                              • Feb 2007
                              • 30254

                              I see from the R3 blog that they do seem to be planning to run through the gamut of genres with the Musical Map, currently (following Choral), we move to Baroque. However the blog is now closed for comments following a list of suggestions which amounted to plugs for local choral societies.
                              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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                              • JanH

                                Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                                I think its rentokil we need, not assassins.

                                lasted about 25 seconds on Breakfast today. First, the exciting news that 2.36 PM Monday is the peak time of the week for uploading photos to facebook,(why can I remember that and not the important stuff?) and then those bloody wasps.
                                I used to quite like that piece.
                                We rarely listen to Radio 3 now, R4 has also changed for the worse, wheres the in depth sensible comment gone to?! I did try to listen to Radio 3 this morning but still impossible t listen without becoming cross and grumpy........ here's a classical music station well worth listening to: complete works, a very clear playlist available online and a tempting list of cds available.... and civilised presenters. It is splendid and all thanks to Caliban I now listen to it every day.


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