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  • BBMmk2
    Late Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 20908

    Myself and MrsBBM will be reconfiguring the rooms at home!
    Don’t cry for me
    I go where music was born

    J S Bach 1685-1750

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    • teamsaint
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 25192

      Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
      Myself and MrsBBM will be reconfiguring the rooms at home!
      Go reconfigure.


      Have a good weekend.
      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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      • P. G. Tipps
        Full Member
        • Jun 2014
        • 2978

        Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
        Myself and MrsBBM will be reconfiguring the rooms at home!
        I do trust you and the wife will be suitably attired for the job, Bbm ...

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        • MrGongGong
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 18357

          Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
          I think this wins the hotly-contested prize for Most Nonsequiturial Mention of Sorabji Ever.
          Never heard of him

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          • Zucchini
            Guest
            • Nov 2010
            • 917

            I thought Lidl's Luvmeluvly bath foam says "with the gorgeous odours of sorabji and Danish oil"

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            • BBMmk2
              Late Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 20908

              Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View Post
              I do trust you and the wife will be suitably attired for the job, Bbm ...
              Aha! Plenty of tea will be drunk, methinks, in the course of, with the Massed Band of HM Royal Marines playing, to inspire us! :)
              Don’t cry for me
              I go where music was born

              J S Bach 1685-1750

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              • P. G. Tipps
                Full Member
                • Jun 2014
                • 2978

                Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                Aha! Plenty of tea will be drunk, methinks, in the course of, with the Massed Band of HM Royal Marines playing, to inspire us! :)
                You are clearly a fellow-gentleman of discerning and impeccable taste, Bbm.

                I salute both you and your good lady, sir!

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                • Beef Oven!
                  Ex-member
                  • Sep 2013
                  • 18147

                  Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                  Never heard of him
                  You may have heard of him under his real name, Leon Dudley Sorabji from Chingford

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                  • ahinton
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 16122

                    Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
                    I think this wins the hotly-contested prize for Most Nonsequiturial Mention of Sorabji Ever.
                    !!! Were you one of the jurors? If so, many thanks - and I could do with the prize money! That said, just as one cannot expect to win the UK National Lottery jackpot without first buying a ticket, I didn't think it possible to win such a prize for a non-existent competition, "hotly contested" or otherwise. Very droll, though!

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                    • ahinton
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 16122

                      Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                      You may have heard of him under his real name, Leon Dudley Sorabji from Chingford
                      Unlikely, I suspect, given that he's never been so well known under that provisional name as under the name Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji and certainly never courted fame or fortune under either name in part of what was then Essex (and no, I somehow don't think that he'd ever quite have made it as an "Essex boy", either).

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                      • ahinton
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 16122

                        Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
                        Once or twice a year I have to wear a tie to be professorial in the somewhat antiquated doctoral defence ceremonies at Leiden University (founded 1575). Luckily the dressing room not only provides ties on loan (since I don't own one) but also has a useful poster on the wall explaining how to do it up (since I have difficulty remembering this). An encouraging sign of the times I would say.
                        But does this poster only show one way of doing it or several, as in http://www.ties.com/how-to-tie-a-tie ? and, if the latter, which do you usually choose? Being the ardent monarchist that I know you to be, I imagine that the Windsor might be your preferred method, though I cannot be sure, of course...

                        It might be considered useful to wear one when attending a production of The Knot Garden, too (although Ca-Ca-Caliban might disagree).

                        I'll get me tie...

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                        • ahinton
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 16122

                          Originally posted by Zucchini View Post
                          I thought Lidl's Luvmeluvly bath foam says "with the gorgeous odours of sorabji and Danish oil"
                          Never heard of it.

                          And what in any case is "Danish oil"? Something prepared from bacon fat?

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                          • ahinton
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 16122

                            Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
                            I think this wins the hotly-contested prize for Most Nonsequiturial Mention of Sorabji Ever.
                            Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                            Never heard of him
                            What? You've never heard of Richard Barrett? Come now; of course you have!

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                            • Beef Oven!
                              Ex-member
                              • Sep 2013
                              • 18147

                              Originally posted by ahinton View Post
                              Unlikely, I suspect, given that he's never been so well known under that provisional name as under the name Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji and certainly never courted fame or fortune under either name in part of what was then Essex (and no, I somehow don't think that he'd ever quite have made it as an "Essex boy", either).
                              'Provisional' name?

                              It's on his birth certificate, not his driving licence!

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                              • ahinton
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 16122

                                Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                                'Provisional' name?

                                It's on his birth certificate, not his driving licence!
                                Yes, provisional, notwithstanding it being on his birth certificate (as of course I know well that it is); you surely know the history of this (and that the "Shapurji" in the name by which he came to be known at some point during WWI was his father's forename)?

                                He never had a drivers' licence, incidentally but, if he had, it would almost certainly have borne the name Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji. One might wonder, though, whether the composer would have taken the name "Shapurji" had he been aware of his father's - er - um - legally questionable behaviour in matters familial, but such discovery was not made by him until some two decades thereafter.
                                Last edited by ahinton; 27-02-16, 19:48.

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