Queen's Birthday Honours

[french frank]

By the way, without wishing to sound snobbish another new knight has been honoured: "For services to the Music Industry and to Tourism in Northern Ireland"

[Serial_Apologist]

I see that a few Tory donors received an honour. I do think that the politics innuendae does get rather abused.

But only in the end-o.

[Serial_Apologist]

How could people have ignored that?

We've come to take teamsaint's genius for granted by now...

[Serial_Apologist]

By the way, without wishing to sound snobbish another new knight has been honoured: "For services to the Music Industry and to Tourism in Northern Ireland"

Sure that's not "to terrorism", ff? Or am I getting him confused with GW Bush?

[subcontrabass]

By the way, without wishing to sound snobbish another new knight has been honoured: "For services to the Music Industry and to Tourism in Northern Ireland"

Listed in my initial posting (without the citation).

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

By the way, without wishing to sound snobbish another new knight has been honoured: "For services to the Music Industry and to Tourism in Northern Ireland"

He did an arrangement of Dives and Lazarus.

[french frank]

Listed in my initial posting (without the citation).

Yes - it was the citation I was interested in. It makes one wonder whether there is a degree of waggishness lurking somewhere in the establishment. But maybe not

[MrGongGong]

We've come to take teamsaint's genius for granted by now...

[Stan Drews]

Agreed. Not only the whole system, but the strange distinctions between awards. Is Sir J MacMillan a better composer than M-A Turnage CBE? Either get rid of the whole system (preferred choice) or just have one honour for all (without silly titles).

"Sir" J already has a CBE, so he seems to have become a better composer recently, hence the upgrade.

[Stan Drews]

in the way that (I would imagine) a BAFTA may be more significant to an actor than a CBE, I could imagine that a Gramophone Award or Honorary DMus might mean more to a musician than a "state" award (do they still give out honorary DMusies ?)

Yes - St Andrews, having closed their music department, felt it quite right and proper to award a DMus to a certain Mr Zimmerman, who seems to have been overjoyed by the "honour".

[Edit] Sorry, there should have been a photo there with Bob and Sir Kenneth Dover, both of whom looked as though they'd rather be somewhere else- it's easily found via Google.

[richardfinegold]

All the news here was on how Prince George stole the show...

[MrGongGong]

All the news here was on how Prince George stole the show...

"News"

[Richard Tarleton]

Yes - St Andrews, having closed their music department, felt it quite right and proper to award a DMus to a certain Mr Zimmerman, who seems to have been overjoyed by the "honour".

[Edit] Sorry, there should have been a photo there with Bob and Sir Kenneth Dover, both of whom looked as though they'd rather be somewhere else- it's easily found via Google.

In 2004. It's used in the Telegraph obit for Sir Kenneth in 2010. Bob's face a picture.

[Stan Drews]

Many thanks, Richard. I saw many of Sir K's obits but missed this one.

[Flosshilde]

Sir Richard?

Are you suggesting he's a tawdry relic?