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without filing through the previous 6 pages, my admission of ignorance is not being able to understand ian paces posts.  |
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« Reply #76 on: 00:23:28, 14-09-2007 » |
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Virtually no jazz or pop music whatsoever.
Don't know anything about football, cricket, rugby or tennis, and would rather watch paint dry.
Don't know how to tie knots (apart from shoelaces and ties - but not "real" bowties).
Despite having played it for thirty years I'm never quite sure how to set up a chess board correctly (and no doubt there are many arcane rules connected to pawns and castles that I have never grasped either.)
The only card game I can play is snap. (And I can't shuffle.)
My geography is appalling but I feel better about it now for seeing that I'm not alone.
Actually the only things I'm bothered about putting right are chess, knots and cards (perhaps...)
This all reminds me of a game described in one of David Lodge's books where academics in the English Dept tried to top each other's ignorance of works in the canon. It's many years since I read it but I hope I'm not imagining the shocked silence when the Prof announced that he hadn't read Paradise Lost.
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« Reply #77 on: 00:25:50, 14-09-2007 » |
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Pelléas et Mélisande
Debussy's, Sibelius's, Schönberg's, Fauré's or any combination of the four?... I've heard the Schoenberg but not the others. (I didn't even know there was one by Fauré.) I said I hadn't heard all of Pictures at an Exhibition, not that I hadn't heard any of it... No, Richard, I accept, understand and agree that, of course; my only reason for even referring to so many things for you to listen to is the knowledge that there has been such a vast quantity of arrangements of Pictures at an Exhibition and, if you've not heard some of some or all of these (or some or all parts thereof), may I humbly suggest that you might like to start with Elgar Howarth's arrangement for the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble? Alistair Unfortunately, by the time any brass ensemble gets to the Great Gate they are completely and utterly knackered. Even the PJBE. Certainly when I've played it. Garry did a version for brass band too, which at least spreads the load a bit. However on my recording (Fodens) by the time they get to the Great Gate they are still fairly knackered. NB |
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« Reply #78 on: 00:27:42, 14-09-2007 » |
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And as for the poster who said there were no Mozart discs in his 1,500-strong collection - I don't have any, either. I do have a couple of videotapes of broadcasts taped off the telly, but none that I've actually watched since. I have been to oodles of live performances, mind.
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« Reply #79 on: 08:43:15, 14-09-2007 » |
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More ignorance to have a nice wallow in. I have to think very hard about which is the Restoration and which is the Reformation, by which time the moment has usually passed and the conversation has moved on. Similarly, the Act of Union, the Act of Settlement and the Scottish Covenant. Florida is on the wrong coast. It's a west coast sort of place. That's where I thought it was for decades and, as far as I am concerned, that's where it's staying. I know less now than I used to. That's the bit that I really don't like at all.  |
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« Reply #80 on: 09:00:57, 14-09-2007 » |
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Florida is on the wrong coast. It's a west coast sort of place. That's where I thought it was for decades and that's where it's staying.
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« Reply #81 on: 09:20:11, 14-09-2007 » |
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I always mix up Tipperary and Tumbukhtu (and I don't know how to spell that either).
And is Vaughan-Williams' "Hodie" like Copland's "Hoe Down"?
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« Reply #82 on: 10:51:01, 14-09-2007 » |
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I dont understand what the "Off topic replies thread" is all about....
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« Reply #83 on: 10:58:52, 14-09-2007 » |
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Debussy's, Sibelius's, Schönberg's, Fauré's or any combination of the four?... I've heard the Schoenberg but not the others. (I didn't even know there was one by Fauré.) I said I hadn't heard all of Pictures at an Exhibition, not that I hadn't heard any of it... No, Richard, I accept, understand and agree that, of course; my only reason for even referring to so many things for you to listen to is the knowledge that there has been such a vast quantity of arrangements of Pictures at an Exhibition and, if you've not heard some of some or all of these (or some or all parts thereof), may I humbly suggest that you might like to start with Elgar Howarth's arrangement for the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble? (to everyone else here) - I didn't even know that Richard had never heard those works that he's mentioned here until he mentioned it here...
I don't think that really counts as embarrassing and cringeworthy ignorance, Mr Hinton. You'll have to do better than that. Oi! What's with this "Mr Hinton" stuff oliver sudden, Sir Richard?! I'm sure that I can't "do" either "better" or worse "than that" here and, if I may gently remind you, this thread and its concepts and motivations are, after all, someone else's and not mine. Anyway (and I now address the membership as a whole), it would seem that my own most recent embarrassing and cringeworthy admission of ignorance is amply demonstrated by the fact that, as that master of multiple adjacencies of consonants Prof. Sir Richard Rodney Barrett so rightly observes, I have revealed myself as having been unable to "do better" than wot I did 'ere. It surely doesn't get a lot worse than that. Back to the sheer sanity of Pettersson's symphonic world (oops, sorry - wrong thread!)... Best (and with duly abject apologies), Alistair [/quote] I don't understand all this carping at the esteemed Richard Barrett by our resident Latin Historian. Is it a joke ? - No, don't answer ! Too many flagrant Rule #1 breaches already, as Reiner has noted - including one in your post, Alistair ! |
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« Reply #84 on: 11:00:42, 14-09-2007 » |
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I dont understand what the "Off topic replies thread" is all about....
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« Reply #85 on: 11:25:38, 14-09-2007 » |
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In my teens I went out with someone for a bit from Kuwait. It was years before I realised it wasn't written 'Q8'.
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« Reply #86 on: 12:23:51, 14-09-2007 » |
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I often mix up depository with suppository.  It always makes me laugh when the Boat Race goes past the Harrod's Depository. Tommo |
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« Reply #87 on: 12:32:15, 14-09-2007 » |
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Oh I like this thread! I am particularly warmed by people's ignorance of large tracts of the western canon. Not that it's something to be proud of, but it's something to be acknowledged. I sometimes secretly pretend I've read the entirety of the Faerie Qveene by leaving out the fact that I've only read the first book and a bit. Some day! Also I started reading gravity rainbow by Pynchon, but only made it a few pages in; that bit about the monster digesting people externally and their actually enjoying it sort of creeped me, out, combined with the rather tough prose. Also; I've been reading Moby Dick on and off for the past six months. Haven't read Ulysses, but saw a film adaptation (with stephen rea I think) so can bluff it in most conversations; have tried to read bits of Finnegan's wake but, well, we all know how that endeavour tends to end. I am ignorant of most opera that I'm told to be good; no Puccini, Verdi, Meyerbeer, &c. for me. Haven't listened to the whole of the Ring Cycle (I have a feeling that I must have gotten through three and a half of them), and only am properly familiar with das Rheingold. I currently own a sum total of zero Mozart recordings. Ooh ditto, up until last week(I donned my pirate hat and purloined me some). So no, then. I too have never heard Fidelio or read any of the Harry Potter books.
Ditto. (tritto? (sorry)) I very often mix up solipsism with solecism with sophism. Hmmm, also 'antelope' with 'cantaloupe' until maybe a year ago. Also, until I had completed my first year of college I spelled 'algebra' as 'algebrah'. |
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« Reply #88 on: 12:39:37, 14-09-2007 » |
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I spelled 'algebra' as 'algebrah'.
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« Reply #89 on: 12:44:59, 14-09-2007 » |
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I sometimes secretly pretend I've read the entirety of the Faerie Qveene by leaving out the fact that I've only read the first book and a bit. Some day!
I managed to do quite well in an exam that officially included The Faerie Queene without reading much of it. I worked out carefully in advance that if I knew every other text really well I could avoid Faerie Queene questions, and luckily that's how it worked out. My mother, on the other hand, used to go to the library when she was a child and read it for hours. |
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