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richard barrett
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« Reply #15 on: 14:29:32, 13-09-2007 » |
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I don't know what the top note of any wind instrument is. (So people tell me anyway.)
Richard - that seems a bit too erudite to me! You seem to imply (correctly) that the people who tell you are in fact often wrong. It may be erudite but I wasn't intending any such implication. I've often had to make adjustments in pitch and/or dynamic as a result of this shameful ignorance, as at least one Member will be able to tell you.  How about: I have very little idea what the plot of Hamlet consists of (although I have seen it at least once). |
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Evan Johnson
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« Reply #16 on: 14:31:42, 13-09-2007 » |
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I'm afraid I can trump at least one of Richard's admissions. On reading his post I was about to say: 'Richard, you're so dumb, New York isn't on the coast at all, it's inland.' Then I looked at an online map.  This is making me feel better about my knowledge of English geography. Although I think it tells you a little about what a sheltered world I live in that the two English cities I think I could pinpoint on a map are London and Huddersfield. To be fair, I've never been to England. Is that fair? Who knows. As for CD, the fact that he knows Iran and Iraq are close to each other puts him in some ridiculous upper percentile of his more-or-less-quasi-adopted compatriots. |
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« Reply #17 on: 14:34:25, 13-09-2007 » |
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I don't know what the top note of any wind instrument is. (So people tell me anyway.)
Very funny! But then neither did Varèse. And neither did Richard the Second (anent which I thought that you WERE Richard the Third, by the way [see elsewhere]). If you gave me a map of the USA with none of the cities marked on it I wouldn't know where most of them ought to be, apart I suppose from easy ones like Seattle, Miami and LA.
And what if we gave you a map of Wales?... I know New York is somewhere on the east coast but I have no idea where. (Nor have I ever been there.)
Well, maybe you should go - and soon - even if only to meet Elliott Carter and have him NOT tell you that you are a lazy git by comparison with his industrious self... I have never listened all through (either in live or recorded form) any work whatsoever by Verdi or Puccini.
Yes, that's a pretty substantial admission, I guess; go get the former's string quartet, then... Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #18 on: 14:36:45, 13-09-2007 » |
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How about: I have very little idea what the plot of Hamlet consists of (although I have seen it at least once).
Do you think that Humphrey Searle did? Best, Alistair |
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stuart macrae
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« Reply #19 on: 14:37:55, 13-09-2007 » |
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Ha! So all that stuff about Americans being ignorant about geography was just a rumour then...!
I'm not an Amurrkin, I'm a Djurrman who just live here! You ignoramus!  Damn, you got me! I wondered if that was going to happen when I posted... |
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George Garnett
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« Reply #20 on: 14:42:06, 13-09-2007 » |
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Don't hold back with the referee's whistle, Chafers. I think there's some strict rule enforcement going to be needed on some of these.
Lily Allen and Amy Whitehouse indeed! Ha! If Martle gets away with that I'm going to add that I thought until about a month ago that Michael Jackson and Prince were the same person. Rule 1 Marters!
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richard barrett
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« Reply #21 on: 14:42:33, 13-09-2007 » |
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And what if we gave you a map of Wales?... I would hope to be able to distinguish between Upper and Lower Cwmtwrch, if that's what you mean. I have never read anything by: Jane Austen Joseph Conrad F Scott Fitzgerald Graham Greene Herman Melville Thomas Pynchon (and countless thousands of others of course) |
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Ruth Elleson
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« Reply #22 on: 14:43:56, 13-09-2007 » |
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How about: I have very little idea what the plot of Hamlet consists of (although I have seen it at least once). I don't blame you. Nothing happens. Hamlet dithers for four hours, everybody ends up dead, and Fortinbras turns up to find the stage littered with bodies |
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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« Reply #23 on: 14:51:58, 13-09-2007 » |
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And what if we gave you a map of Wales?... I would hope to be able to distinguish between Upper and Lower Cwmtwrch, if that's what you mean. Well, yes, more or less; nothing so mind-numbingly inferior as vowels, as in YnglYsh... I have never read anything by:
Jane Austen
Joseph Conrad
F Scott Fitzgerald
Graham Greene
Herman Melville
Thomas Pynchon
(and countless thousands of others of course)
But what about Lacan, Deleuze, Adorno, McClary, etc.? (mind you, I've never even read this post, despite the fact that I am supposedly writing it)... Best, Alistair |
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Ruth Elleson
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« Reply #24 on: 14:56:43, 13-09-2007 » |
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The only Shakespeare plays I have seen are: Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, and (I think) Henry V. I haven't seen a live performance of Hamlet even though I studied it for A-level. I am also embarrassingly badly read, at least when it comes to great classics of the literary canon. The only works of Dickens I ever managed to finish were Oliver Twist and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (well, technically I didn't finish it, but only because Dickens didn't either! ). Got halfway through Wuthering Heights and lost interest, and have never so much as opened any other book by any of the Brontes. The only Jane Austen I've read is Sense and Sensibility. |
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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stuart macrae
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« Reply #25 on: 15:01:05, 13-09-2007 » |
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I've never managed to finish any philosophical texts.
Also, I've never managed to listen to or watch a whole Mozart opera in one go.
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richard barrett
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« Reply #26 on: 15:05:14, 13-09-2007 » |
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But what about Lacan, Deleuze, Adorno, McClary, etc.? I'm not exactly unacquainted with the work of those people, though I hardly ever feel the need to refer to any of them, which I should perhaps be embarrassed about. However, I can't remember ever hearing all of the Enigma VariationsPelléas et Mélisandeany opera by Britten (or any orchestral work apart from the obvious one) Pictures at an Exhibition (any version) FidelioSome of these things I shall get around to putting right sooner or later. |
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George Garnett
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« Reply #27 on: 15:06:17, 13-09-2007 » |
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I don't know why but I keep expecting quartertone to post something on this thread.
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richard barrett
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« Reply #28 on: 15:12:54, 13-09-2007 » |
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I don't know why but I keep expecting quartertone to post something on this thread.
Clearly you don't know him as well as some of us do. |
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stuart macrae
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« Reply #29 on: 15:15:41, 13-09-2007 » |
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I've never bothered to find out what Marx actually wrote - but it doesn't stop me pontificating about socialism, communism, etc. |
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