Famous Last Words

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

fhg

"Harmony" was Schoenberg I believe - though he probably said "harmonie"

- unless his last thought was for another instrumental alteration to Die Jakobsleiter?

[vinteuil]

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

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

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

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.

[Pabmusic]

An alternative question might be "Did anyone really utter any 'famous last words' thenadays?", Pet.

I quite agree (see my post 12).

[vinteuil]

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... "

[Ferretfancy]

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"

[amateur51]

- unless his last thought was for another instrumental alteration to Die Jakobsleiter?

Not "Ah! Money!" then?

[LeMartinPecheur]

fhg

"Harmony" was Schoenberg I believe - though he probably said "harmonie"

Might it not mean "Bring on the wind band"?

[Nick Armstrong]

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 !!

[BBMmk2]

A deathbed request for Bbm to arrange Verklärte Nacht for concert band, if ever I heard one !!

Now then, hmmmmm.................

[LeMartinPecheur]

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...)