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  • Angle
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 724

    When do we get to the next letter?

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26540

      Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
      You 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
      oh 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?
      "...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 amateur51 View Post
        I'm eking out my gems here, tha knows.
        I quite understand. You don't want to be revealin' yer jewels all in one go

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        • rubbernecker

          Originally posted by Angle View Post
          When do we get to the next letter?
          A brilliant question, Angle and one which I venture can only be answered by Mr. Mercia, although he has deferred to Mr. Ofca who is presently ensconsed with Mahler 6 in the belief that he has deferred to Mr. Mercia. We're all so polite, y'see....

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          • amateur51

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            oh 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?
            You do have an eye for detail, Caliban

            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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            • mercia
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

              the punishment for getting the correct answer

              F

              - Igor's, next to the Pompidou Centre
              - Frederick's magic opera
              - the first of the Roman triptych

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              • amateur51

                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                the punishment for getting the correct answer

                F

                - Igor's, next to the Pompidou Centre
                - Frederick's magic opera
                - the first of the Roman triptych
                That'll be your actual fountain, innit

                Fred Delius's opera Magic Fountain

                Respighi's Fountains of Rome

                And Igor Stravinsky's Fountain

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                • mercia
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8920



                  whatever .........

                  [yawn emoticon]

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26540

                    Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                    You do have an eye for detail, Caliban

                    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!!


                    "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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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26540

                      Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                      That'll be your actual fountain, innit

                      Fred Delius's opera Magic Fountain

                      Respighi's Fountains of Rome

                      And Igor Stravinsky's Fountain
                      Igor Stravinsky had a 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 Post
                        Igor Stravinsky had a fountain?
                        Yup next the Pompidou Centre in gay Paree innit



                        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" )
                          He's worth it Caliban - St John's Ambulance are on stand-by if you listen to his audience

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                          • Anna

                            Oh, I log off and the F is sorted. Who gets the G. Ams?

                            There's an old internet joke:

                            which is not funny.

                            Edited through reasons of bad taste
                            Last edited by Guest; 05-05-11, 21:50.

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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

                                [QUOTE=amateur51;52847]
                                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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