You heard it first

[greenilex]

I have just been bowled over by Robert Chilcott's "Oculi Omni" on Breakfast ...

PT called him Bob and I suppose He knows -

but it is a truly lovely piece and I was blubbing

hard to admit.

[mercia]

get a grip
it's only music

[greenilex]

Thanks hon. I must be susceptible.

[MrGongGong]

get a grip
it's only music

WHAT !!!!
wash your mouth out

I've never heard this piece
but
nothing is ONLY music !

[David Underdown]

I have just been bowled over by Robert Chilcott's "Oculi Omni" on Breakfast ...

PT called him Bob and I suppose He knows -

He's never anything other than Bob, viz publisher's website http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/category/...rs/chilcott.do, his own website, http://www.bobchilcott.com - all the printed scores of his music I've seen, etc

[Bryn]

WHAT !!!!
wash your mouth out

I've never heard this piece
but
nothing is ONLY music !

From a letter to the Guardian by Derek Parker, quoted by the composer John Paynter, and in turn, often thereafter by John Tilbury (e.g. here - http://www.users.waitrose.com/~chobb...ew.html#_edn21 :

"Having sat through most of Act 1 of a ballet at the Royal Opera House while two ladies next to me talked incessantly I risked a polite remonstrance. One of them replied, 'But it's only music.' Is there any reply to this?"

[Letter from Derek Parker, February 1980; quoted in John F. Paynter, Music in the Secondary School Curriculum (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), p.133.]

[MrGongGong]

Thanks Bryn a great link ........

So all off to the Head of Steam next week then

[Bryn]

Thanks Bryn a great link ........

So all off to the Head of Steam next week then

If only! I am working this weekend, so will have to make do with listening to Construction via the iPlayer's HD Sound option. Getting up there during the week is a vague possibility I will have to investigate.

[greenilex]

Was persuaded to take a look at the Chilcott website, where I found mention of some new Blake songs and a Requiem.

[3rd Viennese School]

it cant be more powerful than the finale of Mahler 3 surely?

3VS

[Nick Armstrong]

He's never anything other than Bob

Not quite true: he was certainly unabbreviated when Master Robert took the solo in Fauré's Requiem with King's Choir:

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2007/Apr07/Faure_3799942.htm

PS: I misread the accurate present tense in your post as "He was..." Nonetheless, the link might be of interest to some...

[Serial_Apologist]

Chilcott's music? From the little I've heard it's a sort of dilute jazz-rock/classical crossover, isn't it?

[Chris Newman]

From a letter to the Guardian by Derek Parker, quoted by the composer John Paynter, and in turn, often thereafter by John Tilbury (e.g. here - http://www.users.waitrose.com/~chobb...ew.html#_edn21 :

"Having sat through most of Act 1 of a ballet at the Royal Opera House while two ladies next to me talked incessantly I risked a polite remonstrance. One of them replied, 'But it's only music.' Is there any reply to this?"

[Letter from Derek Parker, February 1980; quoted in John F. Paynter, Music in the Secondary School Curriculum (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), p.133.]

I had a a similar problem at the ROH, Bryn, during Pelleas and Melisande. Before the gossips could reply anything like "But it's only music" I stressed "Ladies, my neighbours and have paid good money to hear this music, not to listen to you, thank you." A couple of quiet but relieved "hear! hears" joined my request and the offenders did not return at the interval.

[greenilex]

Crossover or not, the piece yesterday could ( I'd say) stand beside the best unaccompanied English church music, and it was gloriously sung.