Sounds of Cinema - withdrawal symptoms

[Master Jacques]

So heartbroken am I over the loss of wall-to-wall film music that I emailed Controller Wright about a possible follow-up "fix". Sadly, I'm yet to receive a reply, but I thought I'd canvas Forumites for more support, so here is what I wrote.

Dear Sir Roger

Following the almighty success of Schubert Week and the simply amazing (wow!) Sounds of Cinema, I have a suggestion for an amusing follow-up "themed" project. My point is, that while it is all very well celebrating humans (such as Mozart, Bach and Schubert) and artefacts (such as film) we seem to have missed a link in the chain: animals!

So it is that I hope we may look forward soon to Sheep Week on R3.

Let's start with our favourite presenters: how droll it would be for one or both of the Sara(h)s to be dressed up in fleeces and go around on all fours, whilst looking pertly up at the publicity cameras and "waggling their tails behind them". I'm sure they'd be keen to do this, in the name of Charity. What sports they are!

Michael Berkeley's Baa Baa Black Sheep will be opera of the week, in a hilarious live relay from the Met. conducted by James L(ewe)ne. Murakami's Wild Sheep Chase will be dramatised by Andrew Lamb and performed (sheepishly of course) as the Classic Drama, once everyone has gone to bed on Sunday night.

Choral Evensong will be an all-Britten affair, with Rejoice in the Lamb as its centrepiece.

There'll be Lady Caroline Lamb (that classic RR-B celluloid masterwork) being rammed (ha ha) down our throats by the presenter of the new Film Show, Maria Ewing.

We'll be treated to jazz versions of Sheep May Safely Graze by Geoffrey Smith; and even the Early Music Show will join in the fun, with Lucy Sheaping offering us genuine Palestinian shepherds doing it on Israeli shawms (Barenboim conducts).

The guest of the week on Rob Cowan's Breakfast will naturally be that charming c-lister Agnus Day. Rob's Friday "surprise" will be Tavener's Little Lamb, who Made Thee, which Agnus will probably think is from the great, great soundtrack to Silence of the Lambs.

All this and much, much more!

Finally, the entire team will perform All We Like Sheep (don't we just!) with Petroc Trelawny on kazoo, and you yourself, Sir Roger, conducting with an illuminated shepherd's crook - all for charity, of course.

I can hardly wait. In fact, do you mind if I book my ticket (one way) to New Zealand now?

Yours most sincerely
Master Jacques

[salymap]

I have just the thing for you MJ.

A little CD of 'Rock around the Flock' and something else, recorded at a farm in Norfolk by the actual sheep, bleating their way through several pieces.

I'll have another look for it, I may have given it to a child some time ago.

People re-acted very strongly to it, one way or the other, I found

[Richard Tarleton]

Brilliant stuff Master J.

Did you mean this, Saly.....

For the shepherds, Schubert's Shepherd on the Rock, and several Songs of the Auvergne - Poustouro, Pastourelle, Bailero, Ound' onoren gorda

Also, for a bit more early music, how about William Byrd's Fairest Isle Jumper, and John Dowland's Pavan La mía Baaaaarbara?

I'll get my fleece.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Don't neglect Early Music: there are some lovely motets by Walter Lambe in the Eton Choirbook - some, sadly incomplete.



There are some Baaaas missing.

[hedgehog]

And our friend Mr Nyman with with "Chasing sheep is best left to Shepherds".

This could be a real cross cultural event - there's a Festival already there just waiting for Glastonbury type coverage!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep_Music

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Highlight of the week : Agnus Day - from Midnight to Midnight, the Agnus Dei section from Mass settings from the Eleventh Century to Karl Jenkins will be broadcast non-stop. (Well, with gaps for the audience to Bleat - err, sorry; Tweet - in their rapturous responses to the week's events.)

[salymap]

Brilliant stuff Master J.

Did you mean this, Saly.....

For the shepherds, Schubert's Shepherd on the Rock, and several Songs of the Auvergne - Poustouro, Pastourelle, Bailero, Ound' onoren gorda

Also, for a bit more early music, how about William Byrd's Fairest Isle Jumper, and John Dowland's Pavan La mía Baaaaarbara?

I'll get my fleece.

It looks as though it comes from the same err. stable Richard. Mine was headed 'Singing Sheep' and just contained 'Flock around the Clock' and,of course 'Baba Black Sheep' a small 7" disc.

I don't know how I came by it and don'tknow where it is now - def. recorded on a Norfolk Farm.

[french frank]

I know I've mentioned it several times, but somewhere in their archives they should have the concert interval talk about sheep-farming in the South-West of France. It was jolly informative, short-term.

[Serial_Apologist]

Maria Ewing

Shouldn't that be Maria Eweing?

[mangerton]

Don't neglect Early Music: there are some lovely motets by Walter Lambe in the Eton Choirbook - some, sadly incomplete.



There are some Baaaas missing.

Not to mention Fair Phyllis feeding her flock, by the aptly named Mr Farmer.

[Stillhomewardbound]

An old farmer takes his grandson up to the highest field and he points out two circles of neat, trimmed grass.

Pointing to one of the circles he says ruminatively, 'Well, grandson, that's where I first made love. Just about when I was your age'.

'Really, grandpa', says the lad, privileged to be taken into the elder's confidence. 'But what about the other circle?' he enquires.

'Oh that's where her mother stood. Watching us.'

Shocked, the grandson says, 'but didn't she any anything?!'

Unconerned the grandpa replied, 'Not much. No ... I mean she went baaaaaa every now and then!'








* I'll get me coat

[Boilk]

Master Jacques, you forgot the 1974 Genesis
double-album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

[salymap]

Re my #2, I've found the little sheep record, if anyone wants to, it's on the other Singing Sheep list that was put on here.

Now playing that to visitors would clear the house very quickly] [OT]

It's thw Ickworth and Blickling Flock, record produced by Jeff Mutton. 1982

[MrGongGong]

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