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smittims
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« Reply #60 on: 10:33:03, 11-06-2007 »
Hi,trained-pianist,thanks for the picture of the beach and promenade above.

It reminds me very much of the West bay at Llandudno.
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Sydney Grew
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« Reply #61 on: 11:24:08, 11-06-2007 »
Quote from: Stanley Stewart on 00:52:12, 11-06-2007
I have a hunch that there will be a huge Elgarian revival during the next decade. The centenary of the death of Edward VII, in 2011, will probably bring renewed interest . . .

We hope the Member will not take it amiss if we gently remind him that the great King and Emperor expired in 1910 not 1911. These things are second nature to us keen numismatists. Indeed it was the superior coin designs of that era (in France as well as in Great Britain) which first aroused our interest and admiration.

Quote from: Stanley Stewart on 00:52:12, 11-06-2007
This may also trigger a fresh appraisal of the Edwardian age and its music.

We do hope so; it was the high point of civilisation thus far on this planet.
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Stanley Stewart
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Well...it was 1935
« Reply #62 on: 13:03:16, 11-06-2007 »
# 185      Thank you, Sidney Grew.     

Wasn't it Terence Rattigan in "The Browning Version" who corrected Taplow's incorrect Latin translation;  "God looks gently on a a gracious master"?

My Diary Notes have been duly amended.
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« Reply #63 on: 12:05:51, 12-06-2007 »
Didn't Elgar write his early wind music in an asylum?
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« Reply #64 on: 12:25:06, 12-06-2007 »
Elgar wrote his first extended pieces for a woodwind quintet made up of his friends.he played the bassoon and his brother Frank the oboe. The music was most likely written at home or in the family shop.

Later , He obtained a post running a band at the Powick  Lunatic Asylum . The music was played by menbers of the staff to the patients,in accordance with a theory that it would be therapeutic. It is likely that a lot of the early wind music was recycled fortnhe Asylum band. It tends to use dance forms popular at the tine,such as the Gavotte, Minuet and Quadrille.

Many years later Elgar used some of the themes in his orchestral suites.
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