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Then thank heavens there aren't any geniuses around any more!Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post -
Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
Damn good thing.
Saves us from having to put them back into bottles.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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But (splutter) is this now the level of cultural discourse to be expected from a supposedly "intelligent" newspaper? Not that I ever read it, my attention was drawn to this by someone else, but
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
The parenthesis in sentence #3 stopped me reading the rest. I was too busy throwing up."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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It took genius to turn Allegri’s Miserere into a Mass!Comment
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And for Mozart visiting St Paul's to hear something being sung in the Sistine Chapel.Originally posted by jean View PostComment
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I will surprise you all with my proudly intellectual response to Ms Klass, but let me do so in a few years time when I have listened to all the 200 CDs in that bumper box. She will just have to wait in the meantime.Comment
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Klass: rhymes with crassComment
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Myleene Mansion Tax hating Klass .Comment
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Words fail me!!!!!!
Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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As a young man, he visited St Paul’s in Rome and heard Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere being performed. This sacred piece of music had never been written down but Mozart went back to his boarding house and transcribed the entire mass from memory, perfectly. That’s what I mean by genius.
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