Which Forum category is the least squabbly......?

[ardcarp]

...and all has gone quiet around 4"33'

I don't think I could stand thirty three minutes and four seconds of silence...or does that include the repeats?

[Don Petter]

Do contributors think in tems of fora or threads - I usually start from New Posts and have to think twice about which forum they belong to!

Same here, though slighly more selective.

I work up the New Posts list, from the oldest, and check any threads that I am already following or that look to have interesting titles (if not from Jazz, World, Proms or Choir, and if not started by certain antagonistic or incomprehensible posters ).

[Bryn]

I don't think I could stand thirty three minutes and four seconds of silence...or does that include the repeats?

There's nothing quite like a bit of retrograde inversion, is there?

[MrGongGong]

There's nothing quite like a bit of retrograde inversion, is there?

Exactly one of my points when I was arguing recently that serialism had influenced all music since Schoenberg

[Serial_Apologist]

Exactly one of my points when I was arguing recently that serialism had influenced all music since Schoenberg

While strongly agreeing, I think Bryn is saying that joke has been played repeatedly on this and the old forum. Or maybe my irony bypass has just clicked in?

[3rd Viennese School]

When I saw 4' 33" on a video the conductor mopped his head at the end of mvt 1 and there was polite laughter.

Was that written into the score? To provoke laughter? If it was, that's cheating!

3VS

[ardcarp]

that joke has been played repeatedly on this and the old forum

...and probably long before forums or even the inter-web thingy were invented. But it's not so much the joke as the way you tell it.

[Norfolk Born]

I don't think I could stand thirty three minutes and four seconds of silence...or does that include the repeats?

Bruckner can frequently make 4 seconds seem like 33 minutes.

[scottycelt]

Bruckner can frequently make 4 seconds seem like 33 minutes.

Quite the reverse in my case ... it never ceases to amaze me how Bruckner's relatively slow tread can make time fly past so quickly!

[Serial_Apologist]

Quite the reverse in my case ... it never ceases to amaze me how Bruckner's relatively slow tread can make time fly past so quickly!

By nodding off??

[Serial_Apologist]

There's nothing quite like a bit of retrograde inversion, is there?

It's only just clicked.............

[scottycelt]

By nodding off??

Yup, know the feeling ... Brahms has exactly the same effect on me! ...

[Beef Oven]

Quite the reverse in my case ... it never ceases to amaze me how Bruckner's relatively slow tread can make time fly past so quickly!

Egg wetter gree - even in Celi's hands.

[scottycelt]

Egg wetter gree -...

As Harold Macmillan might well have put it ... .'can we have a translation of that, please?' ...

[mangerton]

As Harold Macmillan might well have put it ... .'can we have a translation of that, please?' ...

no sooner done than said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afferbeck_Lauder