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A week later. Will there be any Maestro viewers here tonight? Aside from me...
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« Reply #16 on: 20:05:50, 19-08-2008 » |
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Might give it the once over, Mort. Report lader dude.  |
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« Reply #17 on: 20:24:42, 19-08-2008 » |
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No - because the rest of the household wants to watch the bluddy Olympics. Could be a job for iPlayer if I can make it work.  |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #18 on: 22:30:53, 19-08-2008 » |
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I watched. I laughed. I cringed with total embarrassment at Jane Asher.
What on earth were the judges doing tonight? Goldie was no way worse than Derham. Perkins was definitely top, Soul should have been way lower than Walsh, and Asher should have had nul points. James was rated about OK.
The only thing I can think is that they awarded points for improving in the areas they picked out last time, rather than absolute merit this time round. But even then, I would disagree with them.
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« Reply #19 on: 22:38:34, 19-08-2008 » |
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James: arrant w***ker. Asher: grasping egotist. Soul: completely lost the plot and needs putting out to grass immediately. Walsh: smiling dunderhead. Perkins: sure-fire winner. Anderson: should be put out to grass, in the field opposite Soul's. Er, who else?  |
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« Reply #20 on: 22:47:04, 19-08-2008 » |
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My vote's with Perkins to win. She hits the spot.. Ok, I know it's only week 2  David Soul was p-a-i-n-f-u-l. Ashley will probably go next week. Could be a close run thing with James. I'm not going to say anything about Jane. Got me into trouble last week... |
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« Reply #21 on: 23:00:03, 19-08-2008 » |
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I can't beleive that's two weeks running I forgot to watch this |
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« Reply #22 on: 23:01:02, 19-08-2008 » |
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Could be a job for iPlayer if I can make it work. Can you get it on iPlayer? I've just had a peek around and can't see it there. |
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« Reply #23 on: 23:01:17, 19-08-2008 » |
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I'd certainly vote for Perkins too - she had it sorted. I'd actually like her to win on this evidence.
Oddly enough while Soul was painful, I did think that he at least seems vaguely musical, unlike Walsh who was too vacuous to cause pain - just extreme irritation. Frankly, I thought Asher was lucky to survive the axe tonight.
Of the others, Derham was efficient, James made a decent effort, and Goldie was effective - the guy has some sort of a clue.
As for the judges... the one who impresses me most is Simone Young. Sir Bodger Roger seems to be with the birds. Not sure about the other two - they're inevitably a bit tainted by being cronies of Charles Tumbleweed. Still, the bass player summed up Walsh's effort very neatly - 2 was what it deserved.
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« Reply #24 on: 23:01:39, 19-08-2008 » |
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Gosh, Marters. This is a side of you we don't often see.  I thought they were all lovely and cuddly except I just couldn't bear to watch Jane Asher destroying herself in front of all those people so I pretended I needed to go and have a pee until she had finished. Alex James may not be very good but he knows it and is an endearing sweetie! And I think Goldie wos robbed. He should have been up there at least within nuzzling distance of Sue Bernstein Perkins IMHO. If you missed both weeks, IRF, I'd try and track down week 1 as much more human and enjoyably interesting. This week we had well and truly entered into standard-issue-telly-competition-land. I really only stuck with it this time because I had sort of got to 'know' the personalities from last week. |
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« Reply #25 on: 23:07:40, 19-08-2008 » |
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Not sure about the other two - they're inevitably a bit tainted by being cronies of Charles Tumbleweed.
Zoe Martlew and Dominic Seldis. Are they, by the way? (Cronies of Charles H) Tommo |
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« Reply #26 on: 23:14:46, 19-08-2008 » |
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Yup, that's the ones.
I may be wrong about CH cronies - but they seem to appear quite often during his TV "presentation" of Proms.
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« Reply #27 on: 09:37:25, 20-08-2008 » |
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I was surprised (and rather pleased  ) by how bad Jane Asher was. Sue Perkins has a good combination of musicality, some knowledge, brains and personality. She ought to win, but this is television......Goldie has some musical instincts but no real knowledge, and in the end that must show, mustn't it? Incidentally, I had never heard of him, nor of one or two of the others. I'm no good on "celebrity" - rather like that judge in the 1950s (60s?) who asked, "Who is Marilyn Monroe?". Choral music next week, should be fun. I know quite a lot about choral conducting from the choir's point of view. Some conductors who have a good reputation for orchestral work haven't a clue with choirs, and some really good choral conductors aren't so good with orchestras. It's quite rare to find someone who can do both. |
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« Reply #28 on: 09:38:33, 20-08-2008 » |
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I think that Jane Asher's obvious determination to win (whether scary or not) was precisely what undid her last night. I've been there once or twice at competitive music festivals, and played diabolically. Norrington's comments seemed eminently sane to me, being mostly concerned with the players needing to know where in the bar they are at any given moment. The programme should get more interesting as the series proceeds, since more time will be devoted to each competitor.
Choral music next week - shall we escape 'O fortuna'?
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« Reply #29 on: 09:43:01, 20-08-2008 » |
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Choral music next week - shall we escape 'O fortuna'?
That one could be interesting for anybody who can't count - the bar lines aren't where they sound like they are (sounds like a steady 3/2, is in actual fact in 3/4). In fact, if they're going to conduct anything from Carmina Burana, I think it should be the Tanz. 'Cause then I'd tune in just to see the look on their faces |
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Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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