Current favourite jokes

[Joseph K]

If a drummer comes out of retirement will there be repercussions?

[Serial_Apologist]

If a drummer comes out of retirement will there be repercussions?

There are too many traps in this question for me to offer a reply!

[BBMmk2]

The Romantic Piano Concertos Vol.27
Camille Saint-Saens

Piano Concertos:
No.1 in D major, Op.17
No.2 in G minor, Op.23
No.3 in Eb major, Op.20
Wedding Cake, valse-caprice, for piano & strings, Op.76
Piano Concertos
No.4 in C minor, Op.44
No.5 in F major, Op.103
Rapsodie d’Auvergne, for piano & orchestra, Op.73
Allegro appassionato, for piano & orchestra, Op.70
Africa, for piano & orchestra, Op.89
Sir Stephen Hough (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo.

[ahinton]

The Romantic Piano Concertos Vol.27
Camille Saint-Saens

Piano Concertos:
No.1 in D major, Op.17
No.2 in G minor, Op.23
No.3 in Eb major, Op.20
Wedding Cake, valse-caprice, for piano & strings, Op.76
Piano Concertos
No.4 in C minor, Op.44
No.5 in F major, Op.103
Rapsodie d’Auvergne, for piano & orchestra, Op.73
Allegro appassionato, for piano & orchestra, Op.70
Africa, for piano & orchestra, Op.89
Sir Stephen Hough (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo.

Is there a subtle reason for inclusion of the above in "Current Favourite Jokes"?...

[oddoneout]

Is there a subtle reason for inclusion of the above in "Current Favourite Jokes"?...

Blame it on the hospital appointment (weather thread)?

[Nick Armstrong]

Is there a subtle reason for inclusion of the above in "Current Favourite Jokes"?...

I was about to leap to Saint-Saëns’s defence…!

[Serial_Apologist]

Is Michael O'Leary's warning of an end to cheap flights a blessing in de skies?

[Maclintick]

Is Michael O'Leary's warning of an end to cheap flights a blessing in de skies?

Probably. The plane truth is that a lot of holidaymakers' plans will be left up in the air...

[oddoneout]

Probably. The plane truth is that a lot of holidaymakers' plans will be left up in the air...

Or ditched...

[ahinton]

I was about to leap to Saint-Saëns’s defence…!

So would you in so doing contradict Berlioz' barb about his lack of inexperience?(!)...

[Nick Armstrong]

So would you in so doing contradict Berlioz' barb about his lack of inexperience?(!)...

I just like the way (most of) it sounds (when well played)

[LeMartinPecheur]

I just like the way (most of) it sounds (when well played)

I feel this really misses the point of serious music. Somehow!

(Will reply more fully when I've worked it out better myself)

[Bryn]

I just like the way (most of) it sounds (when well played)

Spoken like a true Englishman.

[edashtav]

The BICESTER HERALD used to run a Gossip Column entitled CLUB WINDOW.

In 1915, it summed up that great English gentleman, Elgar, in this sentence:

Sir Edward Elgar is an ardent golfer, a great smoker, and works only in the mornings.

[Nick Armstrong]