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[Serial_Apologist]

Aleatory brass band music I DO want to hear.

Now somebody is going to tell me it exists in vast quantities......

The brass sextet sections of Henze's 1970 musical theatre piece "The Tedious Way to the Flat of Natascha Ungeheuer" come instantly to mind.

Then there's also "Per Che - Homage to Che Guevara" by the Belgian composer Elias Gistelnick, and a lot of music by Barry Guy and other members of the London Jazz Composer's Orchestra, plus not forgetting the German free jazz pianist Alexander Schlippenbach's Globe Unity.

[teamsaint]

The brass sextet sections of Henze's 1970 musical theatre piece "The Tedious Way to the Flat of Natascha Ungeheuer" come instantly to mind.

Then there's also "Per Che - Homage to Che Guevara" by the Belgian composer Elias Gistelnick, and a lot of music by Barry Guy and other members of the London Jazz Composer's Orchestra, plus not forgetting the German free jazz pianist Alexander Schlippenbach's Globe Unity.

Thanks S_A.

Giving some of that a spin now.

[Ockeghem's Razor]

Today began with the first proper haar of the season which soon burned off to give a pleasant, bright day.

[BBMmk2]

Send me the tone rows, and I'll work out all the permutations - forward, inversion, retrograde, retrograde inversion!

or perhaps you have something stochastic or at least aleatory in mind?

JSB's Prelude & Fugue in Eb, BWV552.

[Serial_Apologist]

Everybody making the most of some nice weather at the end of "official" summer? It looks promising for next week after a drizzly start anticipated in the south, with quite warm and dry weather lasting through until Friday, and sunshine amounts better the further north you are.

Marthe has been very quiet from across The Pond of late; let's hope all is well. From my observations much of the US has had quite a cool summer this year.

[EdgeleyRob]

Yes.a lovely sunny day today,after a dismal damp start.

[Petrushka]

Yes.a lovely sunny day today,after a dismal damp start.

Same here. This is what we've been missing for most of August. 'Sizzling September' the Daily Express proclaimed one day last week and this happens so often. A weak August followed by a very good September when Summer is 'officially' over, the kids are back at school and the nights are fast drawing in. Too late, too late, much too late.

[BBMmk2]

Was out all day yesterday, for a pre-60th birthday lunch for a friend of ours, at a lovely setting of a manor called Barnsgate Manor, Heron's Guill, near Uckfield. Great lunch and real ale. Spitfire, Cali!!

[amateur51]

Same here. This is what we've been missing for most of August. 'Sizzling September' the Daily Express proclaimed one day last week and this happens so often. A weak August followed by a very good September when Summer is 'officially' over, the kids are back at school and the nights are fast drawing in. Too late, too late, much too late.

Tish and tosh, bring it on!!

[jean]

I was a bit scared about going to France in August as I don't like heat, but I need not have worried - mostly it was cool and overcast, though it didn't rain.

That is, until last Monday when we were camping on the Ile de Ré on our way home. That night, the most terrifying storm nearly swept away the tent and everything in it, including us.

[vinteuil]

I was a bit scared about going to France in August as I don't like heat, but I need not have worried - mostly it was cool and overcast, though it didn't rain.

That is, until last Monday when we were camping on the Ile de Ré on our way home. That night, the most terrifying storm nearly swept away the tent and everything in it, including us.

... o, that was just the Parti Socialiste limbering up for a blistering Université d'été (Party Conference) in la Rochelle 29 -31 August...




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[amateur51]

A fine, warm, sunny, blue-skied morning here, just tumbling into the afternoon.

The words on the lips of every neighbour I meet are "Indian Summer" and it certainly looks/feels that way, although some may argue that it's a bit early for that phenomenon.

Whatever, we're all greatly cheered up down here by the Jubilee Line and the local birds are hoovering down the bird seed like it's going out of fashion.

Let's enjoy it while we can ;ok:

[Serial_Apologist]

A fine, warm, sunny, blue-skied morning here, just tumbling into the afternoon.

The words on the lips of every neighbour I meet are "Indian Summer" and it certainly looks/feels that way, although some may argue that it's a bit early for that phenomenon.

Whatever, we're all greatly cheered up down here by the Jubilee Line and the local birds are hoovering down the bird seed like it's going out of fashion.

Let's enjoy it while we can ;ok:

Lubbly Jubbly, ams!

Thout about you last evening when Betjamen's "Metroland" showed on BBC4. Well... Neasden ain't that far away!

[amateur51]

Lubbly Jubbly, ams!

Thout about you last evening when Betjamen's "Metroland" showed on BBC4. Well... Neasden ain't that far away!

Indeed it isn't S_A - what a lovely nostalgic man Betjeman was. I visited his statue at St Pancras the other day & he was looking very well

[salymap]

Is 'Metroland' to be repeated? A lovely programme that I heard many years ogo.'