The Queen's Jubilee

[Flosshilde]

" whose resolutely atonal works rarely bother the schedulers at Classic FM"

Or R3


But I'm not sure why the link has been posted - as he says, "you're dealing with someone whose first interest, plainly, is not music, " - or art, but horses.

I wonder how the piece for the jubilee is coming along?

[Beef Oven]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/m...awful-lot.html

Everyone comes around in the end. It's called growing up (even if it takes some people all their life!)

[teamsaint]

Everyone comes around in the end. It's called growing up (even if it takes some people all their life!)

I sincerely hope it doesn't happen to me !!

[scottycelt]

What child-abusing priests, horses, the Royal Family's music interests, Brendel and bricklaying have got to do with the Queen's Jubilee, heaven only knows ...

So devoid of any rational argument against the People's celebration of Ma'am's historic anniversary, republicans scurry around desperately searching for any tawdry irrelevancy, and then use it to mock the People for wishing to enjoy the wonderful event.

As if anyone else is fooled by such self-advertising evasiveness ...

[Pabmusic]

Well, good for you - and at leat HM the Queen did respond to you and that response was, exceptionally, positive !


Well, Bethoven's Eroica Symphony aside (and we know what happened to the originally intended dedication on that!), there is - since you mention Elgar - the dedication on his second symphony that reads "Dedicated to the memory of His late Majesty King Edward VII; this symphony, designed early in 1910 to be a loyal tribute, bears its present dedication with the gracious approval of His Majesty the King".

I'm sure that there must be others, although I cannot immediately recollect any; Bruckner went one better than that in his Ninth Symphony, however...

Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony was dedicated to Victoria.

[Beef Oven]

I sincerely hope it doesn't happen to me !!

I forgot about you - I should have worded that post differently!!!

[Serial_Apologist]

What child-abusing priests, horses, the Royal Family's music interests, Brendel and bricklaying have got to do with the Queen's Jubilee, heaven only knows ...

So devoid of any rational argument against the People's celebration of Ma'am's historic anniversary, republicans scurry around desperately searching for any tawdry irrelevancy, and then use it to mock the People for wishing to enjoy the wonderful event.

As if anyone else is fooled by such self-advertising evasiveness ...

Don't you just love the way scotty writes "the People"? I picture him organising the erecting a massive banner of Her Majesty in Trafalgar Square, dwarfing the National Gallery, like those banners of Stalin and Mao, and loud-hailing the People to come gather and fall on bended knee in gratitude for Her Benificence, the police standing aside, smiling...

[Beef Oven]

Don't you just love the way scotty writes "the People"? I picture him organising the erecting a massive banner of Her Majesty in Trafalgar Square, dwarfing the National Gallery, like those banners of Stalin and Mao, and loud-hailing the People to come gather and fall on bended knee in gratitude for Her Benificence, the police standing aside, smiling...

That's beautiful Thanks!

[Flosshilde]

Everyone comes around in the end. It's called growing up (even if it takes some people all their life!)

If 'growing up' means accepting the status quo, never questioning anything, becoming dull & complacent, then it's something everybody should fight against. Of course, there are some people who were like that from birth, eh, BO?

[scottycelt]

Don't you just love the way scotty writes "the People"? I picture him organising the erecting a massive banner of Her Majesty in Trafalgar Square, dwarfing the National Gallery, like those banners of Stalin and Mao, and loud-hailing the People to come gather and fall on bended knee in gratitude for Her Benificence, the police standing aside, smiling...

No, that's your own and the Left's definition of the 'people', S-A ... I'm talking about the real People ... you know, the normal, everyday sort of folk who can't stand politicians, moan about the weather, drink cups of tea, watch telly, and who might even give the Queen a friendly wave if she passed ... all that sort of thing ...

[ahinton]

No, that's your own and the Left's definition of the 'people', S-A ... I'm talking about the real People ... you know, the normal, everyday sort of folk who can't stand politicians, moan about the weather, drink cups of tea, watch telly, and who might even give the Queen a friendly wave if she passed ... all that sort of thing ...

Then perhaps you might have been bitter awff not capitalising the "P" in "people", scotty; that might at least have been a piece of constructive anti-capitalism...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Don't you just love the way scotty writes "the People"?

Oh! I thought he meant the Sunday paper!

[scottycelt]

Oh! I thought he meant the Sunday paper!

Never heard of it ...

If Ma'am and HRH the Duke of Rothesay, and the rest of Them, can have their names and titles capitalised well so can the People.

I'm not as snooty and class-conscious as some of you deeply frustrated republicans and, In any case, Ma'am's job is to serve the People and a very good Servant to Us She is too!

[ahinton]

Never heard of it ...

If Ma'am and HRH the Duke of Rothesay, and the rest of Them, can have their names and titles capitalised well so can the People.

I didn't say that they can't; I merely pointed out that, if you do capitalise them, you may risk being misinterpreted, as indeed appears to have been the case in this instance!

[Flosshilde]

Ma'am's job is to serve the People and a very good Servant to Us She is too!

I think you will find that we are subject to her.