Really exciting - ?

[Flosshilde]

I an't remember my search-wording but it was something simple like 'Tom Service listening to Wagner' and I found the elusive link to the video.

If you're desperate enough ...

[Flosshilde]

Well you try looking for it for a start ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zx6sfg8

It's No 5.

Brilliant!

To satisfy my curiosity, does he dance, sing, conduct, or engage in any other activity while listening to Wagner (& is it only Wagner, or does he engage in the same activities while listening to other composers)?

[P. G. Tipps]

If you're desperate enough ...

Well it was you who was crying that you couldn't find it ... I was only trying to be helpful.

[P. G. Tipps]

To satisfy my curiosity, does he dance, sing, conduct, or engage in any other activity while listening to Wagner (& is it only Wagner, or does he engage in the same activities while listening to other composers)?

Funnily enough, I've just printed out his Guardian article on Bruckner 8 which is the next concert I'm attending on Thursday.

Mr Service's view of the work is quite a bit removed from my own but I find his enthusiasm and passion for the music quite touching.

As long as I don't find him sitting next to me at the Barbican on Thursday ...

[french frank]

To satisfy my curiosity, does he dance, sing, conduct, or engage in any other activity while listening to Wagner (& is it only Wagner, or does he engage in the same activities while listening to other composers)?

He talks, waves his arms a lot, babbles incoherently. He really should be on television but I'm not sure on which programme. Dipsy on Teletubbies?

[P. G. Tipps]

He talks, waves his arms a lot, babbles incoherently. He really should be on television but I'm not sure on which programme. Dipsy on Teletubbies?

You watch Teletubbies ... ?

[french frank]

You watch Teletubbies ... ?

Not since I gave up the TV set - about 20 years ago

But the whirling arms reminded me of some of the eccentric gesticulators of television - Magnus Pyke, Dan Cruickshank &c

[Flosshilde]

Dipsy on Teletubbies?

You're not suggesting he drinks, I hope?

[Flosshilde]

But the whirling arms reminded me of some of the eccentric gesticulators of television - Magnus Pyke, Dan Cruickshank &c

Who was it who said of Jonathan Miller that he was the only person who's hands are too loud for the deaf?

[Flosshilde]

Well it was you who was crying that you couldn't find it ... I was only trying to be helpful.

Thanks, but I was quite happy to remain in a state of ignorance (on this matter) (as the poet says, when ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise).

[french frank]

You're not suggesting he drinks, I hope?

I understand the name is derived from dipstick. I really meant that I found the performance had more visual impact than verbal, as sentences tended to peter out in mid-flow.

[Petrushka]

Funnily enough, I've just printed out his Guardian article on Bruckner 8 which is the next concert I'm attending on Thursday.

Mr Service's view of the work is quite a bit removed from my own but I find his enthusiasm and passion for the music quite touching.

As long as I don't find him sitting next to me at the Barbican on Thursday ...

It could be me as I'm at that concert too Once found myself sitting next to Bernard Levin at a VPO Barbican concert.

[P. G. Tipps]

Thanks, but I was quite happy to remain in a state of ignorance (on this matter) (as the poet says, when ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise).

How wise ...

[MrGongGong]

How about a version of this with

MrPee listening to Elgar

Alpen listening to Strauss

and Simon listening to the Horst Wessel Song ?




(JOKE )

[gurnemanz]

It could be me as I'm at that concert too Once found myself sitting next to Bernard Levin at a VPO Barbican concert.

I found myself very near Mr Levin at the Boulez Proms Parsifal years ago. I was standing in the Arena. He was sitting in the stalls.