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  • MrGongGong
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 18357

    #16
    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
    If anyone's met [1]Alexander Goehr (whose father, [2]Walter, was a pupil of [3]Schoenberg, who was a friend of [4]Mahler, who was taught by [5]Bruckner, who was taught by [6]Simon Sechter, who also taught [7]Schubert, who carried the coffin of [8]Beethoven, who knew [9a]Haydn and [9b]Mozart, who was taught by [10]JC Bach) then they can "separate by eleven degrees" themselves from Johann Sebastian Bach.

    And why stop there? Buxtehude, Tunder, Frescobaldi, Luzzaschi, De Rore ...
    Now you come to mention it ...... yes
    (not really a name dropping contest !) but
    Adam Birtwistle and I beat Michael Tippet and friend at croquet once
    and so on .............

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26540

      #17
      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
      If anyone's met [1]Alexander Goehr (whose father, [2]Walter, was a pupil of [3]Schoenberg, who was a friend of [4]Mahler, who was taught by [5]Bruckner, who was taught by [6]Simon Sechter, who also taught [7]Schubert, who carried the coffin of [8]Beethoven, who knew [9a]Haydn and [9b]Mozart, who was taught by [10]JC Bach) then they can "separate by eleven degrees" themselves from Johann Sebastian Bach.
      "...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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      • Petrushka
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 12260

        #18
        Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
        Well now,I once said hello to Michael Kennedy.
        As did I, Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 1977.
        "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
          Gone fishin'
          • Sep 2011
          • 30163

          #19
          Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
          Now you come to mention it ...... yes
          (not really a name dropping contest !) but
          Adam Birtwistle and I beat Michael Tippet and friend at croquet once
          and so on .............


          sals can use the Beecham - Strauss - Mahler branch line, too! This could be the Forum's answer to "Mornington Crescent"!
          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26540

            #20
            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post


            sals can use the Beecham - Strauss - Mahler branch line, too! This could be the Forum's answer to "Mornington Crescent"!
            I was thinking the same thing !!!
            "...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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            • MrGongGong
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 18357

              #21
              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post


              sals can use the Beecham - Strauss - Mahler branch line, too! This could be the Forum's answer to "Mornington Crescent"!
              or even this ?

              Mahler to Afrika Bambaataa via La Monte Young


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              • Richard Tarleton

                #22
                I'm delighted this has taken off as it has, great stuff Petrushka. On the "truly evil" front, I can only get to Hitler (and Himmler ) in 4 - my wife and I spent a day on a large private estate in central Spain (we were birdwatching, not shooting) - our host was a friend of the King and Queen (photos of them together on the wall of the trophy room); Juan Carlos was groomed for the succession by Franco, who of course met Hitler (and welcomed Himmler to Madrid). I thought it highly likely our host had met Franco but was too polite (and enjoying the day too much) to ask.

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                • MrGongGong
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 18357

                  #23
                  Surely a "fast track" to evil is winning the ballot for Bayreuth tickets ?


                  (THAT'S A JOKE , by the way )

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                  • teamsaint
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 25210

                    #24
                    I hope the regulars on The Choir see this, because there is a fund of good stories and connections there. I seem to remember something recently where one of them knew a choir member of a very great age, who was only one step away from an organist who was born in the eighteenth century. Or something !
                    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.

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                    • salymap
                      Late member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 5969

                      #25
                      I've just remembered Hans Hubert Schonzeler, who worked at the hire library briefly when he first came to Britain with Raphael Kubelik from Australia, Ibelieve. Isn't RK a link with some Czech musicians ?

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                      • Petrushka
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12260

                        #26
                        Originally posted by salymap View Post
                        I've just remembered Hans Hubert Schonzeler, who worked at the hire library briefly when he first came to Britain with Raphael Kubelik from Australia, Ibelieve. Isn't RK a link with some Czech musicians ?
                        Indeed so, via his father, Jan Kubelik
                        "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                        • Serial_Apologist
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 37707

                          #27
                          I once met Tony Benn - who must have known Attlee. Daryl Runswick the composer is an acquaintance - one of the only people I can think of who has worked with Luciano Berio, John Cage, and Ornette Coleman!

                          Are relations permitted? William Wordsworth, Arnold Bax and Herbert Howells - all related in one way or another to Yours Truly's family tree.

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                          • Richard Tarleton

                            #28
                            Originally posted by salymap View Post
                            I've just remembered Hans Hubert Schonzeler
                            And author of a book on Bruckner which I was given for my birthday in 1971....

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                            • Petrushka
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12260

                              #29
                              Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                              I once met Tony Benn - who must have known Attlee. Daryl Runswick the composer is an acquaintance - one of the only people I can think of who has worked with Luciano Berio, John Cage, and Ornette Coleman!

                              Are relations permitted? William Wordsworth, Arnold Bax and Herbert Howells - all related in one way or another to Yours Truly's family tree.
                              I met Tony Benn once. He actually served in the same RAF squadron as my father, though later so they never met. My maternal grandfather knew many of the key figures in the post 1945 Labour and TUC movements due to his work as a union official.
                              "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                              • EdgeleyRob
                                Guest
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 12180

                                #30
                                Originally posted by salymap View Post
                                Don'tforget your paper link with RVW will you?
                                Of course Saly,does that count?.

                                I have a sample of RVW's handwriting thanks to the kindness of a couple of members of this very forum.

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