Notoriously Bombastic
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« on: 00:13:48, 17-08-2007 » |
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After the encore at tonight's prom (43, Bergen Phil) I found myself singing "Aunty's got a knocking shop... in Portabello road".
I've come across a few of these orchestral lyrics - "thank god that it's over" to the start of the Hebrides for example. Does anybody know any others?
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Tony Watson
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« Reply #1 on: 00:19:01, 17-08-2007 » |
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Before we return to orchestral lyrics, not far from me there's a village called Knockin. It's got one shop and the sign on it says The Knockin Shop. True.
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oliver sudden
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« Reply #2 on: 00:20:13, 17-08-2007 » |
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Some for Tchaik 5, Don Juan, New World and sundry others but I'll have to get back to you as soon as I've thought of some clean ones...  Oh, there's always the beginning of Ein Heldenleben: Strauuuuuuuuuuscouldn'twriteforthehooooorn... no he juuuuuuust couldn't give a - Oh dear, even that one doesn't stay clean for long. |
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eruanto
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« Reply #3 on: 00:21:35, 17-08-2007 » |
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"Come on let's go get a naan, some poppadoms and mango CHUT-neeey"
To the brass tune from March to the Scaffold. Apparently.
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« Reply #4 on: 00:22:56, 17-08-2007 » |
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Nimrod - Edward Elgar composed the Enigma Variations and I tell you that he
(to be continued)
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IgnorantRockFan
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« Reply #5 on: 09:48:24, 17-08-2007 » |
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Anyone else remember a Hale & Pace sketch involving a choir, the William Tell Overture, and the words: Titty bum titty bum titty bum bum bum ...? No, thought not  |
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« Reply #6 on: 10:08:51, 17-08-2007 » |
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My two faves:
Another March to the Scaffold - 'Some people rate Berlioz as great, but surely not fantastic...'
Main theme of the Eroica, first movement - 'Oh, my word, it's Beethoven's third... again.'
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« Reply #7 on: 10:35:57, 17-08-2007 » |
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The nasty one (which I quote but definitely don't endorse! so calm down, Ian  ): opening of Brahms 4 - 'Once more ... I have ... not much ... to say ...' |
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richard barrett
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« Reply #8 on: 10:40:43, 17-08-2007 » |
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I do really think we need to have Ollie's "Don Juan" on this thread. Don't be shy, Ollie.
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thompson1780
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« Reply #9 on: 10:43:25, 17-08-2007 » |
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I was talking to some wind players at a rehearsal of Baterered Bride Overture, about how to get the notes out fast enough. They had a 'tounging aid' by thinking of the following words, which have since haunted me every time I hear the work.......
Duck
F**k a duck
F**k another f**king duck
etc....
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blue_sheep
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« Reply #10 on: 10:44:08, 17-08-2007 » |
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Some for Tchaik 5, Don Juan, New World and sundry others but I'll have to get back to you as soon as I've thought of some clean ones... Oh, there's always the beginning of Ein Heldenleben: Strauuuuuuuuuuscouldn'twriteforthehooooorn... no he juuuuuuust couldn't give a - Oh dear, even that one doesn't stay clean for long. Yes sorry, only the smutty ones for Tchaik 5 and (if I remember correctly) the Serenade for Strings. Oh no, there is one clean one, for Schubert's Unfinished: 'This is, the symphony, that Schubert wrote and never -' |
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« Reply #11 on: 10:48:44, 17-08-2007 » |
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My German teacher at school - who was, shall we say, a little crazy - once told me that he'd been listening to the Symphony of Psalms one evening and his 4- and 5-year-old daughters had picked up the 'Laudate Dominum' fanfares from the finale (the fast semiquaver ones) and started singing 'Daddy likes hot pickles ...'
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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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blue_sheep
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« Reply #12 on: 10:52:29, 17-08-2007 » |
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- and my mediaeval lecturer said that he'd taught his children to sing organum on long car journeys. (I always felt sorry for them after that.)
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« Reply #13 on: 10:53:55, 17-08-2007 » |
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The nasty one (which I quote but definitely don't endorse! so calm down, Ian ): opening of Brahms 4 - 'Once more ... I have ... not much ... to say ...' (I don't have a problem with people disliking Brahms - only when they provide bogus historical or analytical information, or the like) |
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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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ahinton
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« Reply #14 on: 10:59:04, 17-08-2007 » |
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Anyone else remember a Hale & Pace sketch involving a choir, the William Tell Overture, and the words: Titty bum titty bum titty bum bum bum ...? No, thought not Hale and who?... Best, Alistair |
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