Sunday night chat

[Alison]

Cheers Cali, my mundane message hardly deserved such an inspired response.

By the way, top bombing on your point about little extracts of P Jarvi Beethoven and performances of that ilk. Exactly my experience.

[Barbirollians]

Good heavens - I have barely even taken it in that Christmas is three weeks away. Christmas puddings made - nothing else done at all .

[antongould]

Oooh! Put this on the Poetry Thread, please, Cali!

Indeed disgraceful that I am 65 and it's the first time I have bothered to read it......wonderful .....

[Nick Armstrong]

Indeed disgraceful that I am 65 and it's the first time I have bothered to read it......wonderful .....

I am overjoyed to have been instrumental in Sir's enlightenment

It is (you may say) satisfactory....

Keep well and warm folks, and mind those refractory camels!

[antongould]

I am overjoyed to have been instrumental in Sir's enlightenment

It is (you may say) satisfactory....

Many thanks - that is especially wonderful and was quoted in the first Private Passions I ever heard....

[teamsaint]

Good evening all.

Another weekend flies past far too quickly.
I managed to develop an annoying cold just in time for it, but hoping to shake it off in time for the game tomorrow night.
We could do with something out of the game,but the injury list is long......

Evening concerts don't seem to be attracting much attention, so its CDs to the rescue. Got a few boxes lined up for Santa to drop off round here .
Shame about Leicester today, they cant buy a win ATM. Got to keep faith, it can all turn round very quickly with a couple of wins.

[EdgeleyRob]

Evening ts and gang.

I've got a soddin cold too,I blame Pet,Gurney and Alison for spreading their germs.

I asked my 3 year old grandson what he wanted for christmas today,he said 'hammers'.
Should I be worried,maybe his brother needs to sleep with one eye open from now on.

[Serial_Apologist]

Evening ts and gang.

I've got a soddin cold too,I blame Pet,Gurney and Alison for spreading their germs.

I asked my 3 year old grandson what he wanted for christmas today,he said 'hammers'.
Should I be worried,maybe his brother needs to sleep with one eye open from now on.

He wants you to buy him a football club!

[EdgeleyRob]

He wants you to buy him a football club!

[Alison]

Evening Sunday nighters.

Yes nothing too inspiring in this weeks evening concerts either.

Sorry for the germs Edgey. A few days off work for me with sick note hence more messages on here than normal last week.

Only two Sundays before Christmas now.

Consoling words Sainty, thanks! Poor old Nigel.

Good win for Chelmsford anyway. Maybe Graham Turner is due back at Hereford.

[Nick Armstrong]

Hello all. Sorry to hear about all the colds. Bugs at bay here, thankfully.

I have Antiques Roadshow on repeat record, and am just watching this evening's while buzzing around the internet - it's agreeable wallpaper viewing, with interesting items catching one's attention, and others that I hate (they're usually the valuable things ) ignorable.

However the main interest here was that it's from Walthamstow Town Hall - scene of course of many a tremendous recording, notably for me that revelatory Tennstedt/LPO Mahler 8. As Fiona Whassername wandered around at the start, she mentioned the acoustic and its recording history while in the main chamber. But what an astonishing building generally - looks like something from early twentieth century Vienna (rather appropriate for Mahler....!)

Worth a glance at the first 5 minutes on the iplayer.

[Petrushka]

Sorry for spreading the germs, ER and ts, hope you get rid by Christmas. It could be guaranteed at one time that I'd go down with flu on Christmas Eve, every year seemed to be the same but things are better in that regard now. I usually get a monster cold in the first fortnight of November, though it came a little early this year.

Was looking at the possibility of going to Cambridge for the Christmas Eve service (wanted to go for years) but you have to queue outside for about 4 hours and I can't see that bringing much comfort and joy considering the likely December weather. Should be ticket only in my view. Travel back home could be risky as well as train services start to wind down and I don't want to be stranded! Will do it one year.

[Alison]

It's a fair way from the station too Pet

[Petrushka]

It's a fair way from the station too Pet

I know, Alison. I've been there several times and it's quite a walk so after 4.30 on a snowbound Christmas Eve I can see it's a non-starter. Most of the other things I've wanted to do over the years I've done but this is one that eludes me.

[Nick Armstrong]

Was looking at the possibility of going to Cambridge for the Christmas Eve service (wanted to go for years) but you have to queue outside for about 4 hours and I can't see that bringing much comfort and joy considering the likely December weather. Should be ticket only in my view. Travel back home could be risky as well as train services start to wind down and I don't want to be stranded! Will do it one year.

Did it a couple of times in the 80s (heard the première of The Lamb) - yes you basically have to write off Christmas Eve; and we drove from and to home in the Midlands. I recall we went the whole hog and got up before dawn, arriving between 6 and 7am and doing the 'Blitz Spirit' thing with folk frying bacon on their primus stoves etc etc. Perhaps that's all banned now for 'Elf and Safely..

It was all a bit exhausting, but by the time you got in, you felt you'd deserved it - as if some sort of penance or pilgrimage had been successfully undertaken. I'm sure it heightened the impact of the place and the music and the experience.

If you can gird your loins sufficiently, it is definitely worth doing.