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  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
    Gone fishin'
    • Sep 2011
    • 30163

    #31
    Originally posted by Steerpike View Post
    fhg

    "Harmony" was Schoenberg I believe - though he probably said "harmonie"
    - unless his last thought was for another instrumental alteration to Die Jakobsleiter?
    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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    • vinteuil
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 12805

      #32
      ... something very right about Henry James's last words :

      "So here it as last, the distinguished thing... "

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163

        #33
        Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
        Does no-one utter any 'famous last words' nowadays? Any examples recorded from the mouths of more recent departures?
        An alternative question might be "Did anyone really utter any 'famous last words' thenadays?", Pet.
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • Pabmusic
          Full Member
          • May 2011
          • 5537

          #34
          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
          An alternative question might be "Did anyone really utter any 'famous last words' thenadays?", Pet.
          I quite agree (see my post 12).

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          • vinteuil
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 12805

            #35
            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
            An alternative question might be "Did anyone really utter any 'famous last words' thenadays?", Pet.
            ... well, they did go in for the 'prepared death scene' then more than we do in this age of hospitals and final-stage drugs - having "a good death", family and retainers around, shewing one's kindly mild Christian disposition, fervent hopes etc etc was something that was practised.

            And it's always good when we have believable accounts of when it doesn't quite go to plan, Hence Pitt's "My country! How I leave my country!", alternatively related as "My country! How I love my country!", or again "My country! o, my country!" - the good effect undermined by the reality - "... I think I could eat one of Bellamy's veal pies... "

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            • Ferretfancy
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 3487

              #36
              Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
              not his last words, but perhaps the the last word from Dorothy Parker following the death of famously laissez faire president Calvin Coolidge..

              " How can they tell ?"
              Slightly off thread but there were the two young women who attended a dinner with Calvin Coolidge --"Mr President, we have a wager that we won't get three words out of you all evening" His reply? "you lose"

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              • amateur51

                #37
                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                - unless his last thought was for another instrumental alteration to Die Jakobsleiter?
                Not "Ah! Money!" then?

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                • LeMartinPecheur
                  Full Member
                  • Apr 2007
                  • 4717

                  #38
                  Originally posted by Steerpike View Post
                  fhg

                  "Harmony" was Schoenberg I believe - though he probably said "harmonie"
                  Might it not mean "Bring on the wind band"?
                  I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26527

                    #39
                    Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View Post
                    Might it not mean "Bring on the wind band"?
                    A deathbed request for Bbm to arrange Verklärte Nacht for concert band, if ever I heard one !!
                    "...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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                    • BBMmk2
                      Late Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 20908

                      #40
                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                      A deathbed request for Bbm to arrange Verklärte Nacht for concert band, if ever I heard one !!
                      Now then, hmmmmm.................
                      Don’t cry for me
                      I go where music was born

                      J S Bach 1685-1750

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                      • LeMartinPecheur
                        Full Member
                        • Apr 2007
                        • 4717

                        #41
                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        A deathbed request for Bbm to arrange Verklärte Nacht for concert band, if ever I heard one !!
                        Or how about the string trio? (Needs a bit of filling out...or in...)
                        I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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