Originally posted by Alison
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Thanks for the alert on that, Alison. Presumably the performance given in Paris? Are you at the LSO/Haitink DSCH 4 this week or the DSCH 15 or both? Wish I could have been there myself but out of holidays at work now. Bad planning on my part
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At least you state these things in an endearingly unpompous fashion, Robbo
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well maybe. Still rate Nige, but we are where we are, and the manager earned his corn today. Early days, and we have had a fairly gentle run of fixtures, so far, but we do have a good side, and still entertaining to watch. Happy days for us ATM.Originally posted by Alison View Post
bit of a slip up for the Foxes...but plenty of games to put it right.
Simpson 8 Handley/RPO now.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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Looks like only 15 Pet. Sorry for you but sounded a feast last Tuesday. Shame work gets in the way of these things. That Egmont would have been my sort of stuff alright!Comment
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Nige not finding Reading too easy a ride it seems. Class will out in the end.
Your musical tastes are wide ranging if not eclectic Saint!Comment
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Nige is a good manager. He'll do a great job for Reading.Originally posted by Alison View Post
I'm on a musical mission, Alison. Lots to learn about, lots of time to make up. I love hearing music new to me.
I learn so much on this board,its brilliant.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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Why were you a late starter then? Into heavy pop of some sort beforehand? Just interested ...Comment
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Well it's nice of you to ask, Alison.Originally posted by Alison View Post
Had a bit of a background in classical. Got really into rock/punk/post punk , all that " New Musical Express" John Peel stuff , which I took very seriously. Saw a LOT of bands, (many very good ones!)and so on.
Then family life rather took over, and music can tend to get rather sidelined....trying to give the kids a bit of musical education, get them listening to good stuff ....with partial success !!
Anyway, a few years ago something made me realise how much I was missing, and how much opportunity I had (especially with the advent of CD players in cars !!) to develop my love of music.
Now I have a bit more time to listen properly, to access the music that I want to, and people on here to discuss it with....there's no time like the present.
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I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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Yes, Tuesday was some compensation but I really wanted to catch Haitink in the Shostakovich 15. Only heard it twice in concert (Rattle and Solti) and about time I caught it again.Originally posted by Alison View Post"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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It's the only way Alison IMO,no point getting into a heated debate.Originally posted by Alison View PostAt least you state these things in an endearingly unpompous fashion, Robbo
The first three movements,yes,but that finale makes me cringe.
Far be it from me to criticise the great man,I just wish he'd composed a purely instrumental last movement,something along the lines of say Schubert's 9th.Comment
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Just seen the highlights ts,thought Swansea were a little unlucky,BUT WHO CARES ?
That's me done,night night all,sleep well and have a good week.Comment
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Something for Sunday evening, from the Paul Whiteman orchestra:
The first 2'30" are mega schmaltzy...
... but then, just after that point, following a little piano cadenza, starts one of THE most addictive minutes of music I know....
Perfect tempo, delectable swing, classy cornet playing.... I find it utterly irresistible.
(I was put on to this after a search: because the section from 2'37" onwards is the theme music for the old BBC Radio 'Lord Peter Wimsey' serialisations - as found from time to time on 4extra... The search concluded on a page from the old BBC message boards in which our own Andrew S and others identified this as the track
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Happy Sunday evenings, folks
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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That was a good listen, Cali!Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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One of the comments on that clip asks if you can feel nostalgic about a period long before you were born. Whenever I hear Marlene Dietrich singing Falling in Love Again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI0DS9rfHQw I feel right there in pre-Hitler Berlin.Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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I've never really understood nostalgia.
Am I missing something ?.
Evenin' all.Comment
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