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« on: 08:41:53, 06-06-2007 » |
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give me a break !
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« Reply #1 on: 09:10:14, 06-06-2007 » |
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You'll probably have the same scenario next year when they mark the 50th anniversary of Vaughan Williams' death and the centenary of that of Rimsky-Korsakov.
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« Reply #2 on: 09:11:16, 06-06-2007 » |
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Well,you can always switch off.
While I love Elgar's music and never tire of hearing it ( and to be fair,the 'Apostles' and 'Kingdom' have not been broadcast very frequently compared with some other works of similar merit),I do find the BBC 's policy of 'blitzing' certain composers to be tiring . It was a long time after 1995 before I could listen to Purcell again with any pleasure,and the Martinu and John Adams Weekends put me off them probably for life.
Oddly,I was more able to take the whole weeks of Bach,Beethoven,Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky,prehaps because their music is more varied .I love Walton's music but it is very samey and I never listen to two works by him in succession.
I wonder how we would take to a Benjamin Britten Week. He wrote a wide range of music,but certain extra musical preoccupations do recur (the destruction of innocence,for example)..
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« Reply #3 on: 12:06:22, 06-06-2007 » |
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give me a break !
Lord, Lord. Maybe YOU can give ME a break   We had the moaners during the Beethoven Experience, the Bach marathon etc etc. I enjoyed them and so did many others. I also enjoy Elgar but unlike you I have not been able to sit at a radio during the whole celebration, so I have missed most of it, and you could have also if you tried  |
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« Reply #4 on: 15:27:38, 06-06-2007 » |
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An Erik Satie Weekend would be wonderful. I think we really need a complete performance of Vexations on Radio 3! I wonder if the Radio Times would use larger letters for the announcement.  |
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #5 on: 18:26:30, 15-06-2007 » |
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Lord Byron
Yes, I think there has been a bit too much Elgar.
pim_derks
How very clever to do that tiny font. I won't ask how you did it because I probably wouldnd't understand!
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« Reply #6 on: 18:41:45, 15-06-2007 » |
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pim_derks
How very clever to do that tiny font. I won't ask how you did it because I probably wouldnd't understand!
Thank you, Susan! (I use the sub-button above the  -smiley in the Post reply-screen for the tiny font!)Speaking of tiny fonts and the Radio Times: it seems that this magazine has vanished from Dutch bookshops. I can't find it anywhere. I bought the Radio Times often a few years ago. |
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« Reply #7 on: 18:58:08, 15-06-2007 » |
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I have been enjoying Elgar on 'composer of the week'.
As the greeks wrote at Delphi, 'nothing in excess'.
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« Reply #8 on: 19:03:38, 15-06-2007 » |
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We're rehearsing the Cockaigne Overture and, once we've played it in the concert, it'll be a long time before I want to hear it again. Up to and including the loud march, it's very good, but I think it drops off after that and there are a number of bars, about three-quarters of the way through, where he really seems to be note-spinning and padding things out until the end. By the time we get to the broad treatment at the end, I can't wait for it to finish.
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« Reply #9 on: 23:19:53, 21-06-2007 » |
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What do you play, Tony?
I sort of agree about Cockaigne, BTW
Tommo
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #10 on: 20:23:25, 24-06-2007 » |
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Second clarinet, Tommo. Perhaps I was a bit harsh on Cockaigne but I have to admit my attention has wandered sometimes about halfway into it. Elgar writes well for the clarinet and there are times in that piece when only the second is playing, which is rather satisfying.
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« Reply #11 on: 20:44:11, 24-06-2007 » |
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Sounds like you need an inspired conductor,Toneeee.
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« Reply #12 on: 15:06:07, 25-06-2007 » |
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Did you decide to play in "The Kingdom" in the end? There certainly seemed to be some rather nice clarinet writing in that.
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« Reply #13 on: 17:16:55, 25-06-2007 » |
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I did play in The Kingdom but that was bass clarinet. Still an interesting part, though.
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