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Great thread! A classic, but worth repeating:  |
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« Reply #31 on: 15:30:59, 29-06-2007 » |
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Nice. Here's another classic of the genre:  |
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« Reply #32 on: 15:56:07, 29-06-2007 » |
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Nice. Here's another classic of the genre: He's got Ken Russell's dressing gown... that's why he looks so smug and Ken looks indignant. Bostridge is really thinking "can't those two cross-dress somewhere else..." |
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« Reply #33 on: 15:58:31, 29-06-2007 » |
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...and let's not forget to salute the trend-setters.  |
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« Reply #34 on: 16:08:13, 29-06-2007 » |
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photographs which are supposed to make them look intense, or cool, or sexy Oh yeah? So which is this?  What a lovely picture!  |
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« Reply #35 on: 16:21:25, 29-06-2007 » |
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Great thread! A classic, but worth repeating: Lesley Garrett's (out of shot) attempt to help Steve with an unexpected jump into the soprano register was later regretted by all concerned. |
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« Reply #36 on: 16:37:39, 29-06-2007 » |
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photographs which are supposed to make them look intense, or cool, or sexy Oh yeah? So which is this?  <at which point t_i_n ducks for cover!> Rats. You beat me to it, t_i_n. |
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« Reply #37 on: 16:54:02, 29-06-2007 » |
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 Here's a certain Australian clarinettist who's just come on stage to play the Mozart concerto and realised he's made a terrible mistake. |
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« Reply #38 on: 17:00:09, 29-06-2007 » |
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Here's a certain Australian clarinettist who's just come on stage to play the Mozart concerto and realised he's made a terrible mistake. One who expected to be playing the clarinet rather than fixing the drains, also quite alarmed by the snake that's protruding from them and about to bite him. |
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #39 on: 17:04:45, 29-06-2007 » |
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Spare us the price of a cup 'o tea, guv?  |
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #40 on: 17:09:55, 29-06-2007 » |
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 Even the horse is trying hard not to be recognised in this one! As in "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it (or her) sing?... Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #41 on: 17:12:40, 29-06-2007 » |
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Spare us the price of a cup 'o tea, guv? Brilliant, Ian! (wish I'd though of that...) Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #42 on: 17:24:13, 29-06-2007 » |
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How could we have forgotten Bond?  That eminent (and rather gorgeous) commentator Ivan Hewitt analyses the sexing-up of classical music and puts the blame for it squarely where it belongs: it's those EVIL SERIALISTS again!!!!!!!!!! You can see the contrast at its most blatant in the 1950s. That was when a group of young avant-gardistes emerged who wanted to systematise classical music, so that it would be as tough-minded as the sciences. People such as Pierre Boulez and Henri Pousseur liked to be photographed next to blackboards covered in graphs and number charts, and the splintered rhythms of their music seem deliberately designed to banish any trace of the body. Meanwhile, in pop music, the body and sex moved centre-stage, as the decorous sound of the crooners was shoved aside by rock and roll. So, one way or another, the idea has taken root that classical music in itself is completely sexless, and needs an urgent transfusion of this life-giving elixir from the marketing department |
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« Reply #43 on: 17:31:29, 29-06-2007 » |
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Watch out - your next-door neighbour, one of your relatives, the postman, any of them might secretly be a SERIALIST! They have not gone away, they are just in hiding, and continuing to launch their plan for world domination in secret. You can see their perfidious influence creeping back into music from which we had thought such a cancer had been obliterated. Whatever you do:
BE AWARE! BE VIGILANT! THE ONLY GOOD SERIALIST IS A DEAD SERIALIST!
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THIS MAN IS A SERIALIST. DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, APPROACH HIM. HE IS SEATED IN FRONT OF HIGHLY-SOPHISTICATED SOUND-PRODUCING EQUIPMENT WHICH AT THE TOUCH OF A BUTTON COULD HAVE YOU REELING FROM ELECTRONICALLY-GENERATED HEXACHORDAL EQUIVALENCIES AND COMBINATORIAL ARRAYS.  |
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