Howard Goodall

[teamsaint]

Spot on, EA.
There is plenty of room for mixed feelings. Sometimes I think that people like HG are where salvation lies. Sometimes I think he is part of , and symptomatic of a problem.
I am confused by my own thoughts, and his activities. Perhaps its the effect of a day at work !

[french frank]

.... and are you able, in a technical sort of way, to describe what that distinction is ........ ?


from what I gather I think his new series partly sets out to demonstrate they are closer than we might think, and have grown out of eachother

That was my point about the colour spectrum. And colours can be endlessly mixed to give greeny blues and bluey reds. But though on the spectrum they merge into each other, we still perceive red and green to be 'different', and we as individuals choose between them for all sorts of reasons.

But that's about as technical as it gets. If colours are just colour to some people and they have no other significance, I've yet to meet anyone who fits that description.

[Bryn]

That was my point about the colour spectrum. And colours can be endlessly mixed to give greeny blues and bluey reds. But though on the spectrum they merge into each other, we still perceive red and green to be 'different', and we as individuals choose between them for all sorts of reasons.

But that's about as technical as it gets. If colours are just colour to some people and they have no other significance, I've yet to meet anyone who fits that description.

Indeed, I, for instance, find HG's signature tune for QI very catchy and suited to its job. I would not expect anyone to confound it with 'classical music'. It's relates to a different part of the musical spectrum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ2F-UCZ07Q for those not familiar with the composition in question.

[mercia]

hmmm

red and green peppers taste very similar to me

but I think I'm in danger of getting my metaphors in a twist

[Flosshilde]

Today I made a cake, yesterday a Shepherd's Pie; I may make a curry tomorrow. It's all food.

But the Shepherd's Pie is probably more nutritious food than the other two.

[Flosshilde]

Is there something in the water or the air today that makes people attack one another? We are free to love or despise Howard Goodall's music and thoughts, but if others have different opinions from ourselves, surely that makes discussion more interesting.

I think today is 'Black Monday', when the time since the Christmas holiday, state of one's bank account, credit card bills coming home to roost, the weather, & various other factors combine to induce depression in the country as a whole.

[anotherbob]

I would need help to distiguish a crotchet from a minim, and off hand I wouldn't know whether Greig pre, or postdated Tchaikovsky. However I have pleasure pads that respond to all kinds of music. I just made a list of a few examples which sprung to mind ....
7 Seas of Rhye, Queen
The Pie Jesu (I think) in Faure's Requiem
Tinariwen
Vincenzo Bellini I Puritani – O, Rendetemi la speme Maria Callas (Thanks Martin Carthy)
Amy Peate Orange Bicycle
Slaidburn (Rimmer) Brighouse & Rastrick Band
Symphonic Dances No. 2 by Grieg

All of these touch different pleasure pads for very different reasons. I have no patience with people who tell me any piece of music is more or less worthy of merit because it belongs to a certain classification.
HG, in his last series went some way towards explaining why my pleasure pads work, and I hope his new series will continue down that road.

[Flosshilde]

hmmm

red and green peppers taste very similar to me

I think green peppers are more bitter.

I've just made some bite-size mushroom pasties for the book group meeting tonight.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I think today is 'Black Monday', when the time since the Christmas holiday, state of one's bank account, credit card bills coming home to roost, the weather, & various other factors combine to induce depression in the country as a whole.

... with the highest level of absenteeism from work.

[teamsaint]

... with the highest level of absenteeism from work.

wish I had known that......

could we move it to tomorrow?

[Serial_Apologist]

Is there something in the water or the air today that makes people attack one another? We are free to love or despise Howard Goodall's music and thoughts, but if others have different opinions from ourselves, surely that makes discussion more interesting.

Which reminds me of the Zen guest's remark following an evening's discussion on Buddhism at John Cage's home, included in "Silence": "That's what I like so much about philosophy: no one wins!"

[Serial_Apologist]

I think today is 'Black Monday', when the time since the Christmas holiday, state of one's bank account, credit card bills coming home to roost, the weather, & various other factors combine to induce depression in the country as a whole.

Not to mention quarterly electricity bills.

[anotherbob]

I thought this thread might have been resurrected now Mr. Goodall is well into his stride.

[Nick Armstrong]

I thought this thread might have been resurrected now Mr. Goodall is well into his stride.

This more specific thread is probably preferable to continue the many comments on HG's current series: http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...all-on-BBC-Two

[MrGongGong]

This more specific thread is probably preferable to continue the many comments on HG's current series: http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...all-on-BBC-Two

come on your honour
use your powers and meeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggg ggggeeeeeeeeeeeee