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  • gamba
    Late member
    • Dec 2010
    • 575

    #16
    Two Handel arias have attached themselves ( uninvited ) to my memory for decades;

    1. Hail the Bright Terrapin

    2. Ruddier Than the Clergy

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    • MrGongGong
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 18357

      #17


      Rejoice in the Lamb (with mint sauce) : is popular round here (and avery nice slow roast shoulder has been in the oven since 2.30 today )
      Last edited by MrGongGong; 18-03-12, 19:22.

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      • Ferretfancy
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 3487

        #18
        Originally posted by gamba View Post
        Two Handel arias have attached themselves ( uninvited ) to my memory for decades;

        1. Hail the Bright Terrapin

        2. Ruddier Than the Clergy
        That brings back memories from a skit at school, where Miss Stapleton the school secretary was lampooned --

        " Far ruddier than the cherry
        Behold my secretary
        What'ere her mood
        Miss Staplefood
        Is always bright and merry !"

        With lots of repeats and shakes of course!

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        • Mr Pee
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 3285

          #19
          "Dance of the Mirlitons" from Nutcracker will forever be associated with Frank Muir/ Cadbury's Fruit and Nut.

          And I can't listen to Mozart 41 without hearing the cadence as it sounds at 4:30 here:-



          Last edited by Mr Pee; 18-03-12, 19:38.
          Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

          Mark Twain.

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          • gradus
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 5606

            #20
            'Most highly flavoured gravy'
            The Angel Gabriel

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            • cloughie
              Full Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 22118

              #21
              Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post


              Rejoice in the Lamb (with mint sauce) : is popular round here (and avery nice slow roast shoulder has been in the oven since 2.30 today )
              And we like sheep....
              (and from the same aria, for something to go with it)
              We have turnips...

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              • Flosshilde
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 7988

                #22
                Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                It's sobering to realize that it's some 43 years since I first saw '2001' at the old ABC cinema in Southampton.
                Goodness - do you need sobering at 12.49 pm?


                The comments on the first page all relate to TV adverts - I'm happy to say that as I don't have a TV that sort of association has passed me by . The main association I have between film & music is the Adagietto from Mahler's 5th, used in 'Death in Venice'. I don't think that that use diminished the music, even though in the symphony it is, apparently, a love letter to Alma, rather than denoting melancholy or tragedy. (Its use in the film also introduced me to Mahler, for which I will always be grateful - not sure if my partner would be, though ).

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                • hmvman
                  Full Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 1099

                  #23
                  When I hear the opening bars of Salzedo's Divertimento for brass instruments I can't help but see in my mind the rotating shield of the Open University. Not so irreverent perhaps.

                  Much more so is the unfortunate similarity, to me, of the beautiful theme from the first movement of Dvorak's 'cello concerto with a very silly song recorded by Tommy Cooper called "Don't Jump Off The Roof Dad."

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                  • Flosshilde
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 7988

                    #24
                    Perhaps the most unlikely association is between Charpentier's Te Deum & the Eurovision Song Contest (which some might describe as an evening of tedium :groan:)

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                    • Stillhomewardbound
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 1109

                      #25
                      Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
                      Perhaps the most unlikely association is between Charpentier's Te Deum & the Eurovision Song Contest (which some might describe as an evening of tedium :groan:)


                      Most drole. Most drole!! The Te Deum by Charpentier has always had a special place in my heart. It brings back memories of my Dublin childhood and yes, because of the Eurovision connection, the Te Deum being the calling of the European Broadcasting Union.

                      To be very boring, Dana winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1970 (was it?) with the syrupy All Kinds of Everything was an event of seismic proportions. For Ireland then was still a nascent nation. Yes, some forty years after its birth, it suddenly hopped up on to the European stage and begged that it be taken notice of.

                      And it all began with the glorious flourish .. ta da da da daa da daa daah, ta dad deh da dah da da de dum.

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                      • EdgeleyRob
                        Guest
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12180

                        #26
                        Does anyone,on hearing Zadok the Priest,not think Champions League or cruise ships?

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                        • mangerton
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 3346

                          #27
                          Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
                          Does anyone,on hearing Zadok the Priest,not think Champions League or cruise ships?
                          I don't, and have no idea why I should. Perhaps like John Skelton ("Cumberbatch" thread) I should become a High Court Judge.

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                          • Flosshilde
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 7988

                            #28
                            Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
                            Perhaps the most unlikely association is between Charpentier's Te Deum & the Eurovision Song Contest (which some might describe as an evening of tedium :groan:)
                            I rather enjoyed the Guardian's article about it - http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-rad...lbert-reaction - especially the comment on Montenegro's entry: "Rambo Amadeus has a video for his entry whichthat [sic] defies all rational belief, culminating in a scene in which he surprises two topless women with a donkey." I'm afraid that made me laugh out loud on the bus today

                            Reading that again it could mean that the two women were with a donkey; I took it to mean that Mr Amadeus used a donkey to surprise them.

                            I wonder what the donkey thought about it?

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                            • Serial_Apologist
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 37642

                              #29
                              Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
                              with a donkey.
                              From the misprint (sic), "donkey" looks likely to be a mistranslation!

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                              • umslopogaas
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 1977

                                #30
                                Its a terrible affront to a great composer and one of his greatest works, but every time I hear the opening of Elgar's Cello Concerto - as I do at this moment (respite from Schubert) - I hear the cellist pour out (so to speak) 'When the train is in the station, please refrain from u*******n ...' with all the passion that can be engendered by a very overfull bladder.

                                Sorry, couldnt resist.

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