Gsoh?

[Old Grumpy]

Can any of you musos explain?

In the banter on In Tune between Sean Rafferty and Catherine Bott regarding tonight's Radio 3 Live in Concert from the Lighthouse, Poole - Rafferty asked Catherine Bott what size the venue was...


... her reply: "I don't know, I'm a Soprano".

[Chris Newman]

I would guess that thinking she was being caught out by the ever-voluble-one La Bott thought "Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer". Serves him right.

[LeMartinPecheur]

I wondered if Fafferty's sudden interest in the precise seating capacity of The Lighthouse stemmed from his belief that that it is an ex-Trinity House structure with a small and circular floor-plan!

[french frank]

Naughty!

[LeMartinPecheur]

Naughty!

ff, I'm not making it up - it spontaneously crossed my mind! I've certainly never heard SR get all curious about the seating capacity of any other hall.

OK, this may just be showing up my instinctive 'naughtiness', but please acquit me of deliberate devilry in this instance.

However, in the case of SR I do still reserve all rights to deliberate devilry in the future

[Vile Consort]

It's a wonderful answer.

I rather liked the pianist the other day who began his conversation with the bumbler by saying something to the effect of "when you've worked on these pieces as much as I have it's impossible to talk about them".

[ahinton]

It's a wonderful answer.

I rather liked the pianist the other day who began his conversation with the bumbler by saying something to the effect of "when you've worked on these pieces as much as I have it's impossible to talk about them".

Yes, I can well identify with that (albeit not as a pianist, as I am not one). The nearest that I've ever come to being interviewed by Seafferty is passing him on the way into a BBC studio at the end of an edition of In Tune to be interviewed by Andrew McGregor during the programme that followed it; in this instance, the interviewer performed well; shame about the interviewee...

[french frank]

OK, this may just be showing up my instinctive 'naughtiness', but please acquit me of deliberate devilry in this instance.

But that would spoil your joke!

By the way, what happens when the weather's bad?

[mercia]

I rather liked the pianist the other day who began his conversation with the bumbler by saying something to the effect of "when you've worked on these pieces as much as I have it's impossible to talk about them".

......... which I'm afraid, to my mind, rather begs the question, what is the point of a programme consisting of interviews with musicians if they really have nothing interesting to say?


(not that I wish to sour a jokey thread about lighthouses)

[french frank]

what is the point of a programme consisting of interviews with musicians if they really have nothing interesting to say?

No point at all.

[Old Grumpy]

I personally find they usually do have something interesting to say on In Tune.

My question really related to whether there was a perception among the musical fraternity (and indeed sorority) that sopranos, while very good at singing were (as a group) not very good at maths - or, to put it another way, in the choral/operatic music scene similar jokes were made about sopranos as are made about drummers in the jazz scene?

[LeMartinPecheur]

My question really related to whether there was a perception among the musical fraternity (and indeed sorority) that sopranos, while very good at singing were (as a group) not very good at maths - or, to put it another way, in the choral/operatic music scene similar jokes were made about sopranos as are made about drummers in the jazz scene?

OG, isn't it time the jazz scene found a niche for viola players??

[cloughie]

Can any of you musos explain?

In the banter on In Tune between Sean Rafferty and Catherine Bott regarding tonight's Radio 3 Live in Concert from the Lighthouse, Poole - Rafferty asked Catherine Bott what size the venue was...


... her reply: "I don't know, I'm a Soprano".

Really she should know, having a good view from the top!

[MrGongGong]

Really she should know, having a good view from the top!

ah yes
but if you threw a soprano and a viola player off the top of a lighthouse which would hit the rocks first ?

the viola player


the singer would have to stop to ask for directions !


sorry i'll get my coat ..........

[Old Grumpy]

ah yes
but if you threw a soprano and a viola player off the top of a lighthouse which would hit the rocks first ?

the viola player


the singer would have to stop to ask for directions !