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Originally posted by amateur51 View PostYou read about the recorded cow bells before, rubbers but the golden yoof and his hammer is new to these boards
I'm eking out my gems here, tha knows.
That Caliban is copying them all down for the after-dinner circuit he's on, entertaining Rotarians and Zaroastrians or whatever they're called
I'm just audience, Ams, when it comes to your gems. As I recall, the first telling of the recorded cow-bell story featured some other flaxen haired Teutonic youths who had the horn rather than the hammer - a comely brass section, if my memory serves me correctly?
"...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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rubbernecker
Originally posted by Angle View PostWhen do we get to the next letter?
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amateur51
Originally posted by Caliban View Postoh God no... no circuit, I - I always imagine those do's being stuffed with the same sort of leaden pomposity and superciliousness that burdens a few of the more serious threads on Platform 3
I'm just audience, Ams, when it comes to your gems. As I recall, the first telling of the recorded cow-bell story featured some other flaxen haired Teutonic youths who had the horn rather than the hammer - a comely brass section, if my memory serves me correctly?
And while we're off-piste, here is, in my opinion, the finest after-dinner speaker in '70s Cheshire ...
"mole-skin trousers with cross-pockets"
Listen to that audience rock!!
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amateur51
Originally posted by mercia View Postthe punishment for getting the correct answer
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- Igor's, next to the Pompidou Centre
- Frederick's magic opera
- the first of the Roman triptych
Fred Delius's opera Magic Fountain
Respighi's Fountains of Rome
And Igor Stravinsky's Fountain
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Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
"The effluent was perkylating out..."
Never ever heard of the chap before! I am going to have to investigate further! Sort of vulgar version of Al Read....
("Laugh it up with the peasants" )
"...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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Originally posted by amateur51 View PostThat'll be your actual fountain, innit
Fred Delius's opera Magic Fountain
Respighi's Fountains of Rome
And Igor Stravinsky's Fountain"...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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amateur51
Originally posted by Caliban View PostIgor Stravinsky had a fountain?
Oh ye of lickle faith
Didn't a regular on this thead used to live in Paris?
Whatisname - that feller - y'know!
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amateur51
Originally posted by Caliban View Post
"The effluent was perkylating out..."
Never ever heard of the chap before! I am going to have to investigate further! Sort of vulgar version of Al Read....
("Laugh it up with the peasants" )
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amateur51
The last train to Blanket Bay () has just pulled into the station and I must catch it - no siesta again today!
I shall leave you with:
a) A lively dance
b) A new slant in your printing
c) Five contemporary musicians altogether
d) A composer associated early on with a musician whose development had been arrested
What G connects them?
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Norfolk Born
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Are you going to let on where this masterly underpricing took place?
I found it at the Cancer Research shop in our local high street. (They also had a Bruckner 8th conducted by Karajan - not my cup of tea).
It's a truly wonderful performance, recorded in 2006: full-blooded and passionate, but disciplined throughout with not a sign of indulgence. Brilliant contributions from Sabine Meyer and other principals. Two hammer blows, delivered by a large wooden mallet striking a wooden crate. The passage immediately before the final 'descent to the pit' was mesmerizing, and the last few bars truly shattering. There was a prolonged silence before the well deserved ovation.
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