Today's the Day

[oddoneout]

Dunno, never heard of them - I had to check that the spelling was correct (unlike the Borooin Quartet).

What were they borrowin'?.....

[cloughie]

Dunno, never heard of them - I had to check that the spelling was correct (unlike the Borooin Quartet).

I googled them and all I could find was a billing for 4th May 1966 at wigmore Hall where they were due to play trios by Beethoven, Shostakovich and Schubert.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I googled them and all I could find was a billing for 4th May 1966 at wigmore Hall where they were due to play trios by Beethoven, Shostakovich and Schubert.

The Genome gives more information on the programme for 4th November 1973: Perry Hart (violin), Kenneth Heath (cello), Nina Milkina (piano).

[cloughie]

The Genome gives more information on the programme for 4th November 1973: Perry Hart (violin), Kenneth Heath (cello), Nina Milkina (piano).

Perry Hart I don’t know of, but Nina I remember as a soloist with the Halle back in the 60s and Kenneth Heath for among other things the cello solo in Julius Katchen’s Brahms PC2.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... Kenneth Heath for among other things the cello solo in Julius Katchen’s Brahms PC2.

- I knew I'd encountered the name in an important context before!

Milkina was active from the '30s to the '80s (Cancer stopped her public career) - she was a neighbour of Clifford Curzon, literally living in the flat immediately above his.

As for Perry Hart, an Australian violinist active from a very young age:

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17184933

... and in various chamber ensembles in the '50s, '60s & '70s - as well as the Oromonte Pno Trio, she (and Heath) were also in the London Oboe Quartet (led by Janet Craxton - Brian Hawkins was the Viola player) - she may also have been involved in the Academy of St Martins-in-the-Fields; one of those innumerable fine Musicians who contribute to our great pleasure whilst seldom emerging from near-anonymity. There is (or was until 2009 at least) a Penny Hart Memorial Prize in Sydney, in which the recipient was loaned Hart's violin for two years. (Made by A E Smith, it was valued at Aus$50,000 ten years ago.)

[french frank]

What were they borrowin'?.....

Fortunately I was able to put two and two together on that one. When consulting the Genome I often spend an idle hour or so correcting the digital misspellings. I think the edits are all checked somewhere, sometime, but I don't know if they ever get incorporated.

[Serial_Apologist]

20th January is the eve of St Agnes' Day - a Roman saint who was tortured and killed by her family because she refused to marry the husband set aside for her; her preference was to maintain her chastity for her Christian Faith. As a consequence, young unmarried women would use this evening to pray to her to show them their future husband in a dream this night. (Don't ask me for the logic in appealing to this particular Saint for the granting of this particular request.) Sometimes a little extra "help" was added to the prayers - including the baking of a "dumb" or "Dutch" cake (half flour, half salt! AND involving twirling round and round during the baking process and adding more salt: St Agnes should be the patroness of hypertension), and/or throwing hemp seeds () over the shoulder so that the face of the future husband might be seen in the dust that arose as a result.

Keats' poem (see "Poetry" Thread) gives in its entirety an example of what I suspect must have been many young men who used the occasion to "cheat" - in the poem, the "hero" hides in the heroine's bedroom, and makes sure that his is the first face she sees on waking. Cad!


AND

On Radio 3 this day fifty years ago, the morning schedules from 7:00am - Noon consisted of

Overture ("from gramophone records")
Morning Concert (James Loughran conducting the BBCSSO)
This Week's Composer (Bach)
The Master Pianists (Godowski and Hoffmann
Talking About Music (Antony Hopkins)
Music Making (Iain Hamilton and Beethoven)
From the Proms

I can't remember when last we heard anything composed by that fine compose Iain Hamilton on Radio 3: he has become one of the forgottens I'm always on about!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I can't remember when last we heard anything composed by that fine compose Iain Hamilton on Radio 3: he has become one of the forgottens I'm always on about!

And, as you see, he was also featured in the morning schedules ten years and a day later.

I remember hearing Aurora (Gibson/SNO) at least twice in the daytime schedules in the mid-'70s and being impressed.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Perhaps we could persuade our friends at the Beeb to have a HIPP Radio 3 week.

[greenilex]

I was hoping that someone might mention a certain lunar eclipse which lit up the early morning...or shadowed it.

The red labdoodle and I were out slipping through umbra at totality. She tried jumping over the shadow, but we didn’t catch the runaway dish and spoon.

[Padraig]

21 January 1919.
First meeting of Dail Eireann took place in Dublin. The unofficial Parliament consisted of the Sinn Fein MPs who refused to take their seats at Westminster.

[Beresford]

I was hoping that someone might mention a certain lunar eclipse which lit up the early morning...or shadowed it.
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I woke at the totality (0515) so got to see it. Clouds over most of UK I think, except South East, and, briefly, Cumbria. A degree of gratitude always arises when the full light of the moon starts to emerge. Perhaps it's a fainter version of the astronauts' emotions on the first Apollo mission to the moon, seeing earth floating in space. Silly really, but from one point of view so is getting excited about vibrations in the air (music).

[french frank]

21 January 1919.
First meeting of Dail Eireann took place in Dublin. The unofficial Parliament consisted of the Sinn Fein MPs who refused to take their seats at Westminster.

Happy centenary!

[Serial_Apologist]

I woke at the totality (0515) so got to see it. Clouds over most of UK I think, except South East, and, briefly, Cumbria. A degree of gratitude always arises when the full light of the moon starts to emerge. Perhaps it's a fainter version of the astronauts' emotions on the first Apollo mission to the moon, seeing earth floating in space. Silly really, but from one point of view so is getting excited about vibrations in the air (music).

Eveything supposedly solid is made up of vibrations at the subatomic waveicle level, or so I'm told, knowing next to nowt about physics.

[Padraig]

Happy centenary!

f f, I got my irony in first.