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  • cloughie
    Full Member
    • Dec 2011
    • 22183

    Originally posted by gurnemanz View Post
    Not dead yet ...I reach ¾ century next month, thereby qualifying for the latest Covid booster by three days. So still some time to do justice to the less-travelled corners of my oversized CD collection before the Reaper shows up.
    Yes, I think that way too but I am also thinking now that maybe some I’m unlikely to wish to listen to should like plants at certain times of the year be clipped or weeded out!

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    • vinteuil
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 12937

      Originally posted by cloughie View Post

      Yes, I think that way too but I am also thinking now that maybe some I’m unlikely to wish to listen to should like plants at certain times of the year be clipped or weeded out!
      ... ah, but it's that 'unlikely' that is the nightmare for me. Of course I've got far more CDs than I could ever realistically listen to in this lifetime - even if I were to reach the age of 101, like that terrific American woman I was reading about who is so irritated that the airlines on which she frequently flies think she's a one-year old bicoz their computer can't cope... But I recall my father who in a fit of puritanism in his middle age winnowed his library, only to regret years later that he couldn't find Whymper's Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the years 1860-1869 or W J Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles​... Who knows when you might regret throwing away that Russ Conway album?

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      • cloughie
        Full Member
        • Dec 2011
        • 22183

        Originally posted by vinteuil View Post

        ... ah, but it's that 'unlikely' that is the nightmare for me. Of course I've got far more CDs than I could ever realistically listen to in this lifetime - even if I were to reach the age of 101, like that terrific American woman I was reading about who is so irritated that the airlines on which she frequently flies think she's a one-year old bicoz their computer can't cope... But I recall my father who in a fit of puritanism in his middle age winnowed his library, only to regret years later that he couldn't find Whymper's Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the years 1860-1869 or W J Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles​... Who knows when you might regret throwing away that Russ Conway album?

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        Maybe I’ll take that risk.

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        • LMcD
          Full Member
          • Sep 2017
          • 8644

          Originally posted by cloughie View Post

          Maybe I’ll take that risk.
          Russ Conway recordings seem to be widely available on eBay and elsewhere. Wob (formerly World of Books) are cheapest as usual at £3.59 - only 5 copies left!

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          • vinteuil
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 12937

            Originally posted by LMcD View Post

            Russ Conway recordings seem to be widely available on eBay and elsewhere. Wob (formerly World of Books) are cheapest as usual at £3.59 - only 5 copies left!
            ... I'm worried that you had the time, energy, or interest to research this! - and howzabout Semprini? Richard Clayderman??

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            • LMcD
              Full Member
              • Sep 2017
              • 8644

              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post

              ... I'm worried that you had the time, energy, or interest to research this! - and howzabout Semprini? Richard Clayderman??

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              It took me about 30 seconds.

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              • smittims
                Full Member
                • Aug 2022
                • 4333

                I was delighted to find an early-stereo copy (with the minty-green label) of 'My Concerto for You' in a charity shop, and in excellent condition.

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                • gradus
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 5622

                  Something rare here, a signed copy of a Peters and Lee album from the early seventies.

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                  • Petrushka
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 12309

                    Confession time: I once met Russ Conway at a function in London in 1995 or thereabouts. In addition, I still have a 45rpm disc of Pixilated Penguin.
                    "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                    • gurnemanz
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 7407

                      I still have a copy of the one-hit single "Cast Your Fate to the Wind", a jazz piano instrumental which I bought in the sixties, aged about 14. Quite good - just played on YouTube.

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                      • Keraulophone
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 1967

                        Originally posted by french frank View Post

                        I have now made some enquiries and I can confirm that he was in his late 70s and sadly died last year, shortly after posting for the last time.
                        RIP Ardcarp - I had wondered why he hadn't commented on recent controversy in cathedral music circles. He was a very experienced singer and organist, and had a deep appreciation of the wide gamut of anglican church music. We enjoyed exchanging PMs about the cathedral and collegiate music scene, particularly in Cambridge (Clare and Trinity), and organs heard on R3 Choral Evensong. He is especially missed on The Choir forum, though he liked to delve into all kinds of topics, political and otherwise. I always wondered how his name was derived: a combination of Iron Age Celtic plough and freshwater fish, maybe one that proved too 'ard to catch.​​​​

                        My condolences go to his family and friends.

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                        • Serial_Apologist
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 37820

                          I noticed yesterday's re-awakening of the Wildflowers thread, and wondered what had happened to greenilex, the originator.

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                          • french frank
                            Administrator/Moderator
                            • Feb 2007
                            • 30457

                            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                            I noticed yesterday's re-awakening of the Wildflowers thread, and wondered what had happened to greenilex, the originator.
                            Nothing definitive to contribute on this. Hasn't been active for three years, but there doesn't have to be a reason other than that people have decided to 'retire'. In this case I haven't tracked down any obvious force majeure.
                            It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26574

                              Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                              One cannot know for sure whose age may put them 'in the zone'....
                              This week, I saw an old (Uni) friend for the first time since he had some pretty major surgery at the start of the year, following a cancer diagnosis. Thankfully now given the ‘all-clear’, his phrase for ‘the zone’ you mention - and which in our early 60s we appear to have entered - is:

                              Snipers’ Alley

                              "...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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                              • Vox Humana
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2012
                                • 1253

                                Very sorry to learn about Ardcarp. His passing is a distinct loss to this forum. I only checked in here because I was wondering where he had got to. His posts gave the impression that he lived in east Devon and I always wondered who he was (as I do with so many here!). My sympathies to his nearest and dearest.

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