Queen's Birthday Honours

[Serial_Apologist]

Hmmmm, I think he fell on the Mod side of the fence fashion-wise, but performed rock music?

Exhibit A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHcjjxYbgNM

Terminological exactitudes matter a lot in these matters, you know!

[Richard Barrett]

Btw, his many adoring fans here might be interested to know he's on Music Matters in a couple of hours ...

Heavens, here come some wild horses trying to drag me to the radio ... no, they've given up in a matter of microseconds.

[MrGongGong]

There is a knighthood for Roger Scruton (but not for his musical skills).

Aaah the Finbarr Saunders of philosophy
or is he Hugh Phemism

"Bags of fun with Roger"

[BBMmk2]

I had two birthday celebrations this week! :) didn't get on the Honour's List though! :(

[french frank]

I had two birthday celebrations this week! :) didn't get on the Honour's List though! :(

You had two birthdays, Bbm? Happy Birthday-Birthday!

[BBMmk2]

Thanks, FF! :) I am now 60!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You had two birthdays, Bbm? Happy Birthday-Birthday!

It's the royal ancestry

Many Happy Returns of the Days, Bbm - especially as it had a 0 in it :lae::e4;lA@

[Richard Barrett]

From the ConservativeHome website:

I’m seldom at a loss for how best to write up news, but find myself in some difficulty this morning. This is because no words of mine can adequately describe the debt that conservatism in Britain owes to Roger Scruton – philosopher, moralist, novelist, barrister, composer, conservationist, conservative and campaigner.

Scruton’s conservatism is very much of the English Tory flavour, and he is uncommon among modern philosophers in the breadth of his interests, rarer still in having the ability to project and popularise them, and even more unusual in his interest in conservative political organisation.

He was one of the founders of the original Conservative Philosophy Group during the 1970s and has taken the lead in reviving it more recently. The Tory in him may sometimes give up hope that conservative ideas will be turned into conservative deeds by Conservative Governments. But his inner Leninist has not yet abandoned the struggle.

ConservativeHome has long argued that Scruton should be honoured with a peerage, but he would doubtless not accept one unless it were hereditary. At any rate, someone in Downing Street may have been listening, because we learn today that he is to be knighted. That will do very nicely (at least for us).

To speak of a Conservative movement may be a contradiction in terms on paper, but it none the less exists in practice. Scruton is one of its leading members, and I can’t help seeing this honour as a recognition by Number Ten that the movement as well as the Party matters.

He was also made use of by the last Government on its housing design panel. So let’s sound a cheer for David Cameron this morning, then, amidst the boos he has received recently. And many congratulations to Scruton – though I suspect he would willingly swap his knighthood for a British vote on June 23 to leave the European Union.

(my emphasis) Can anyone throw any light on his alleged attempts to poison the well of music as well as all the other areas he dabbles in?

[Pulcinella]

From the ConservativeHome website:



(my emphasis) Can anyone throw any light on his alleged attempts to poison the well of music as well as all the other areas he dabbles in?

Richard

A quick Google (roger scruton composer) threw up this:

http://www.rogerscruton.com/rs-music.html

[MrGongGong]

From the ConservativeHome website:



(my emphasis) Can anyone throw any light on his alleged attempts to poison the well of music as well as all the other areas he dabbles in?

The dead sheep effect?

(Frederic Rzewski could write a piece ? les moutons morts de l'angleterre)

[BBMmk2]

It's the royal ancestry

Many Happy Returns of the Days, Bbm - especially as it had a 0 in it :lae::e4;lA@

Thank you, Ferney!

[MrGongGong]

Richard

A quick Google (roger scruton ) threw up this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Gonad

[Richard Barrett]

A quick Google (roger scruton composer) threw up this

I really don't know what it was that prevented me from allowing myself to enter RS's own website but clearly there was something.

"What I know about composition has been self-taught, with early guidance from my friend, David Matthews" (...) the Britten of Curlew River and The Turn of the Screw is irresistibly invoked (...) Scruton's libretto deals trenchantly with social tittle-tattle, guilt, forgiveness; and his score responds with a passing Elgarian ache, a heady Straussian waltz, dislocated by dissonance and dry rhythm (...) tonal, melodic, indeed conventional"

This tells me all I need to know, thanks.

Comrade Tipps will be happy to know that RS favours exit from the EU.

[Pulcinella]

This tells me all I need to know, thanks.

What have you got against David Matthews?

[Richard Barrett]

What have you got against David Matthews?

Well for a start he's a friend of Roger Scruton!