makropulos
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« Reply #45 on: 19:24:43, 21-08-2008 » |
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There's something horribly punchable about Katie Derham - she's too clinical and pointy and she manages to get a very bland response from the orchestra every time. She just doesn't seem to have any discernable personality. David Soul I find very creepy. In the first episode when his mentor was getting him to act a story I had to hide behind a cushion, it was worse than a lot of horror films. I'm very disappointed in Alex James, it's a bit like watching your dad dancing embarrassingly at a wedding or something. I rather liked the comment "I'm not sure what you're left arm is doing, did you want a cup of coffee?" "Yes." I too was delighted to see Asher come a cropper. How mean are we all? and I Go Perkins.  Where's Giles Coren in all this then? Maybe he's tone deaf. I'd like to see Stephen Fry give it a go as well. Maybe one for Maestro 2: the Remake  I'd forgotten about Soul's acting out of the story... that was indeed rather weird. And I very much agree about Derham. She must surely have been Zoë Martlew's slap-ee. On the evidence of last week Sue Perkins seems the very clear front runner - let's hope she keeps things that way. I'm still just about enjoying the programme, though as many people have already commented, Ep. 1 was a lot more fun than Ep. 2, so we shall see... |
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Antheil
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« Reply #46 on: 18:01:49, 26-08-2008 » |
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Just a reminder, in case anyone is interested, Episode 3 of Mastro tonight at 9.00 on BBC2, this week it is Choral Music and I believe the betting is on O Fortuna.
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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time_is_now
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« Reply #47 on: 18:04:41, 26-08-2008 » |
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Does anyone know if the acclaimed Episode 1 is still watchable on iPlayer? I have no idea where to look for these things, never having watched a TV programme on the web in my life.
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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Antheil
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« Reply #48 on: 18:18:26, 26-08-2008 » |
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Sorry to disappoint tinners, programmes are only viewable for 7 days after the event (unless they are repeated at a different time on a different channel, like BBC4)
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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Morticia
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« Reply #49 on: 18:20:37, 26-08-2008 » |
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Tinners, I've just checked. Programme 1 is gone now  Shame, it was far superior to the second one. My hope is that as 'conductors' are eliminated we may see a return to viewing the tutoring and learning behind the scenes, as opposed to the celebs in frocks and penguin suits stuff. I'll still watch it though. |
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richard barrett
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« Reply #50 on: 19:05:19, 26-08-2008 » |
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I've just watched episode 2 and I think that's enough for me. What a waste of time. The orchestra just got on with their job regardless of whether the pretend conductor was beating time or flailing "expressively" or bobbing around in time to the music. One or two of them look as if they might get away with acting the part of a conductor in a film, I suppose. And which "classical" piece does the theme music of The Simpsons come from?
Ooh, I've come over all TOP, time for a duck behind the sofa.
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #52 on: 19:13:57, 26-08-2008 » |
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....time for a duck behind the sofa....
That'll be another Tommo and martle alert, then. And perhaps the RSPB, for good measure. |
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« Reply #53 on: 19:38:25, 26-08-2008 » |
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My goodness me, first it's Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and the swan and next it's that Richard Barrett with a flipping duck ...  |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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perfect wagnerite
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« Reply #54 on: 19:44:43, 26-08-2008 » |
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Ooh, I've come over all TOP
Not quite: you haven't called Roger Norrington a charlatan yet. |
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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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richard barrett
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« Reply #55 on: 20:41:34, 26-08-2008 » |
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Not quite: you haven't called Roger Norrington a charlatan yet.
I'm glad you reminded me. There he is, with that communist jacket on, and dank sei Gott we don't see what he has on his feet, sitting in judgement over proper celebrities who have something to show for their lives, and if they had any idea what a total fraud he is they'd be voting him off the programme!!! Wasn't it Tommy Beecham who said an orchestra without vibrato is like a skeleton stepping in dogpoo? |
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Bryn
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« Reply #56 on: 20:55:59, 26-08-2008 » |
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Wasn't it Tommy Beecham who said an orchestra without vibrato is like a skeleton stepping in dogpoo?
Tommy Beecham? Didn't he belittle Liverpool, or something? |
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George Garnett
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« Reply #57 on: 21:33:37, 26-08-2008 » |
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Oh, Episode 3 is the same format as Episode 2. Given up.
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Milly Jones
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« Reply #58 on: 21:38:37, 26-08-2008 » |
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Me too. Only the first episode was worth watching.  |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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Mary Chambers
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« Reply #59 on: 21:45:24, 26-08-2008 » |
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Here we go....the piece we were all expecting  . It may be rubbish, but I'm still watching. |
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