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After much faffing around trying to re-install Real player which appeared to have gone AWOL, I finally managed to listen to tinners earlier. Until I had to 'pause' him and then found the sound had gone when i 'un-paused' him  I'll try again later. However I was suitably impressed with what I did hear. A job well done, tinners. Seeing that there have been no howls of outrage at TOP about voice, accent, microphone technique, what colour your hair might be etc., then I'd say you were a raging success!  Full marks  For once I got the i Player to work seamlessly - really good, thought-provoking stuff  And you seem to have started a run on Sciarrino - I've just had an e mail from MDT telling me that the Kairos set is out of stock at their suppliers  |
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And you seem to have started a run on Sciarrino - I've just had an e mail from MDT telling me that the Kairos set is out of stock at their suppliers  Do you think they might pay me commission? I was just wondering whether to treat myself this week to some of the things I've been meaning to order from them for ages ... |
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Didn't really have chance to listen properly and get to grips with the content, but the delivery certainly seemed good. I recall hearing another occassionally contriburot to CD review (who also happens to be a prommer) saying that the hardest thing he found was that his natural speaking pace seemed to sound rushed when heard on the radio, so he conciously had to try and slow down a bit.
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And you seem to have started a run on Sciarrino - I've just had an e mail from MDT telling me that the Kairos set is out of stock at their suppliers Do you think they might pay me commission? I was just wondering whether to treat myself this week to some of the things I've been meaning to order from them for ages ... Sorry I missed all this (and don't have access to Listen again) but it sounds as though you made an excellent job of it - congratulations! |
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And you seem to have started a run on Sciarrino - I've just had an e mail from MDT telling me that the Kairos set is out of stock at their suppliers Do you think they might pay me commission? I was just wondering whether to treat myself this week to some of the things I've been meaning to order from them for ages ... You could try Of course, the psychological effect of being told the CDs are out of stock at the suppliers is that I now what to listen to them more than anything in the entire world. Well, maybe not more than anything. |
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Tks for nice programme mr time is now - thought would find it heavy going but found the music strangely compelling in a medative sense -kind of music would listen too when slightly stoned - have y any other progs in the pipeline  |
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Britten War Requiem R3 Sunday, 9 Nov 2008 18.30 hrs
Melos Ensemble London Symphony Orchestra Benjamin Britten (conductor)
Galina Vishnevskaya Peter Pears Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
The Bach Choir & LSO Chorus - Highgate School Choir - Simon Preston organ
The promotional item on today's Classical Collection refers to a "recently restored" recording and I assume this means the remastered 1999 set, on Decca, which also included the invaluable rehearsal sequence with Britten in the studio. A real collector's item.
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« Reply #247 on: 00:48:36, 07-11-2008 » |
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Tks for nice programme mr time is now - thought would find it heavy going but found the music strangely compelling in a medative sense -kind of music would listen too when slightly stoned - have y any other progs in the pipeline Thanks Doc. Yes, it probably is stoned music; I wouldn't know of course - BBC presenters don't do things like that ... Nothing for broadcast in the pipeline just now, but I hope they might ask me back sooner or later ... I'll let you know. |
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I'm very happy, except with my accent, which sounded to me like a really really bad attempt at Southern vowels. Everyone else seems to think I have a nice velvety voice though, so I suppose I should concentrate on the positives. Anyway, I don't think I sounded waffly at all and I seemed to make some reasonably intelligent points, which is the main thing. Thanks everyone for listening. Edit: Just seen Milly's and George's too. Thanks! Hi - I've finally caught up and managed to listen again on Tuesday night. Really interesting stuff t_i_n and a good introduction to that music for a novice such as myself.  Antheil commented earlier that you sounded German - I thought so too. Do you spend a lot of time with English-speaking Germans*? Or even German-speaking Germans? I don't think you have any reason to be unhappy with the way you sounded at all, you've got a really good voice for it, but it's certainly an interesting accent. Really well done though - excellent stuff. *Sorry if I'm missing something that's obvious to people who are more 'in the know...' |
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« Reply #249 on: 16:22:09, 07-11-2008 » |
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BBC7 is starting a new series of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue repeats - the first prog was on yesterday, first broadcast in Jan 1989. It's on the iplayer - the end was silent when I listened last night but I've emailed them and they've said that it's OK now, tho I haven't checked yet.
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I don't usually listen to Music Matters (today at 12.15) but this seems interesting.
"In the company of Ian Cross, Director of the Centre for Music and Science at the University of Cambridge, Tom Service explores the gamut of neurological and musico-scientific enquiry. Just how is it that we experience emotion through music? Why is it that music seems to involve so much of our minds and our bodies; our feet tapping, hearts beating, and millions of neurons firing in our brains?"
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« Reply #251 on: 11:25:18, 15-11-2008 » |
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Just noticed that the "Imagine" series on BBC1 tv next Tuesday at 22.35 is titled How an Orchestra Saved Venezuela's Children. No need to spell out what that is about !
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« Reply #252 on: 17:51:39, 15-11-2008 » |
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I don't usually listen to Music Matters (today at 12.15) but this seems interesting.
"In the company of Ian Cross, Director of the Centre for Music and Science at the University of Cambridge, Tom Service explores the gamut of neurological and musico-scientific enquiry. Just how is it that we experience emotion through music? Why is it that music seems to involve so much of our minds and our bodies; our feet tapping, hearts beating, and millions of neurons firing in our brains?" I missed that, and not sure when I'll have time to Listen Again, but Ian Cross is a very articulate person and an excellent presenter of ideas (he was my lecturer for acoustics, the part of my degree course I was least naturally inclined to but which always seemed more interesting when IC was talking about it). How was the programme? |
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I've just listened to Music Matters on the podcast.
Ian Cross has a wonderfully soothing voice and seemed to spell everything out simply, but at the end I'm not sure I got all he was saying. He had a throw away that music is a bodily and social experience, but neurophysists can only look at brains, so their enquiries are limited.
There was nice stuff about how music may be basic to us, with a look at a mother and a baby communicating in sound, but non-verbally. There was a clip from Florence Foster Jenkins and a phone chat with a nice tone deaf woman, and the question, how if music is basic, is it that some people have no sense of pitch? (I'm not sure I have much sense there.)
Ian Cross soothingly says, well, it all depends on what you mean by music: in some cultures music is predominantly rhythm, not harmony, harmony.
He seemed perfectly aware there was a question what is music in the first place, but wasn't, sensibly, going to muddle Tom Service by raising an issue which would take far too long to sort out.
And the intrepid young Mr Service went down to Goldsmith's College for someone to put a special hat on his head to so he could produce notes just by thinking. He only managed three notes in the scale. Possibly he would have done better if he had concentrated on the experiment, and not been asking questions all the time. I know you can't have silence on radio, but is he a compulisive witterer?
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« Reply #254 on: 20:36:37, 17-11-2008 » |
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the question, how if music is basic, is it that some people have no sense of pitch? Some people are colour-blind too of course, and, interestingly perhaps for comparison with the present subject, some people don't even know they're colour-blind, until, for example, they're at university and get tested by a genetics student doing an undergraduate research project on the heritability of colour-blindness... |
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