Absent Friends & Missing Persons

[salymap]

Haven't seen any posts from PeterKatin and Tony recently.

Hope they are okay ?

[Barbirollians]

Haven't seen any posts from PeterKatin and Tony recently.

Hope they are okay ?

Tony posted only the other day on the 4th horn in the Eroica question on the Proms Elder Coote concert thread salymap .

[Hornspieler]

Nothing from edashtav since May.

Any news? We've all come to rely upon his excellent assessments of concerts and this last series of Proms could do with a bit of sensible opinion.

HS

[jayne lee wilson]

Nothing from edashtav since May.

Any news? We've all come to rely upon his excellent assessments of concerts and this last series of Proms could do with a bit of sensible opinion.

HS

Well, I try my best HS, I really do... but I miss edashtav terribly, if only because he at least found my opinions sensible enough to respond to and we often had an excellent discussion... warm, challenging but amicable and - all about the music.

But I'm in a bad mood. Horrrible gloomy skies over Liverpool. AND WE LOST...

[amateur51]

No sign of Mahler's3rd for a while either

[doversoul1]

Dear gamba and salymap

I hope you are well and just haven’t got round to posting here. I look forward very much to hearing from you soon.

Best wishes

[gamba]

;Thank you doversoul. Not too good on health front. Luckily, brain working well which compels me to memorise Bach cello suites as eyesight not functioning as it should. An exercise providing great pleasure. I did ask medical people about my future, a foolish question. - might make 2 years, 'tis now my duty to prove them wrong & get to 100 !! Have also decided after much listening, Anner Bylsma to be my favourite interpreter of the cello suites. They have become very important to me, like best friends. - and all I do is murder them !

Thanks again for your kind enquiry, I do hope to remain in touch with you all.

With all good wishes from gamba

Ps. Good to see salymap so active again, she is an example to us all.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

please do enjoy the cello suites gamba ... and while you are at it knock off another five years at least!

with all good wishes to you

aka CdJ

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

100 and then some, I hope gamba!

[vinteuil]

; Have also decided after much listening, Anner Bylsma to be my favourite interpreter of the cello suites. They have become very important to me, like best friends.

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... o, he is just so good! I quite agree. Best wishes for many more years of enjoying them - and of struggling with them too!

[salymap]

All the best gamba from another one struggling with health, but glad you have your music still.

[HighlandDougie]

Thanks again for your kind enquiry, I do hope to remain in touch with you all.

With all good wishes from gamba

Very pleased indeed to see that you've survived the ..... (well I'm not sure quite how to describe it) *!*!s of #indyref. If all those continuing to make so much noise about it all were made to listen to those sublime performances by Anner Bylsma rather than the empty rhetoric and bluster of politicians of all shades and sizes, Scotland would be a much happier place. Or did you move down south, as I think that you might have said was on the cards at one time? Whatever, the very best of wishes. HD

[gamba]

Thanks Highland Dougie. My problem is leaving wife ( widow) behind when rest of family are now in Kent & should be looking after her. These are problems many of you may have to face one day & are caused by moving house ( in my case )' many decades ago & because I'm half Scottish. I feel I have earned my keep with the Scots with my first incursion into film making. Four of us, including two Germans, employed by Realist Film Unit, once largely Crown Film Unit , produced visual proof of the reason for the thousands of deaths occuring in London & Edinburgh each year. ( auld Reekie')
A long story,although the outcome ultimately caused parliament to take action - hence the ' Clean Air Act .' I stood early one winter's morning upon Calton Hill , Edinburgh, looked down & was appalled by what lay beneath me. People would be dying here. Same in London, 1952.
We did what we could to make the right people aware & ACT upon it. eventually they did.

With my warmest wishes to you all, gamba

[french frank]

All the best gamba from another one struggling with health, but glad you have your music still.

Full house, so far, then :-)

[gamba]

Thank you salymap. Your message concerns me - are you not getting music ? If not, we must do something about it.
I survive largely because of music. Please keep us informed & I'm sure between us it will be possible to rectify so important a matter. Do you have CDs & player ? Also, what kind of radio ?
Anyway it's so good to be aware of your presence within the fold again.

Looking forward to more items of interest from you.

Yours, gamba