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« Reply #15 on: 09:54:54, 24-12-2007 » |
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Hi Reiner, Thanks for interesting posts. You are probably used to have Christmas with noone to celebrate (although it might not be imprtant to you). I got a book for a present. It looks like this:  I have not finished it yet. There are case studies there of people who after some accident developed love for music or hear music inside their brain. One surgent was struck by a lightening, had near death experience. He had no piano in his house at that point, did not listen to music and only had piano lessons as a boy which he did not like. After the accident he had sudden onset of craving for piano music, began buying recordings and became especially enarmored of V. Ashkehazy playing Chopin. He bought sheet music and started to teach himself. And then on the heels of sudden desire for piano music, he started to hear music in his head. He was inspired by music, even possessed by it and scarecely had time for anything else. Did anyone read Berlioz Memoires? He heard a symphony in his head, but did not write it down, resisted to write it down. "Once the symphony is written I shall be plagued by the temptation to have the work performed. I shall give a concert that will balery cover half of the cost ..." It is sad to read about that. There could be another symphony by Berlioz. I am not sure if I like the book, but I have not finished. |
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« Reply #16 on: 10:42:39, 24-12-2007 » |
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« Reply #17 on: 12:09:11, 24-12-2007 » |
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You are probably used to have Christmas with noone to celebrate (although it might not be imprtant to you).
Awww, thanks, t-p  Actually I am always busy on Dec-25th - the past two years I have had shows that night. This year my show is on 26th Dec, but we have a cast party on 25th Dec to celebrate 3 years that the show has remained in repertoire Even 3 singers of the original cast are still in it I hope you are also celebrating on 25th December... or do you wait until 1st and 7th of January? I ordered the Oliver Sacks book too, but I haven't had time to begin reading it yet! I doubt that I will be playing Chopin after reading the book, but perhaps "Scale of Ab Major in Parallel Octaves" might be possible |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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« Reply #18 on: 12:24:59, 24-12-2007 » |
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Reiner, many thanks indeed for the Wind in the Willows snippet! A lovely way to start the morning.
My host is currently making his Christmas Aļoli of Mass Destruction. Clove number 12 of 20 has just gone into the mixer. Mmmmm.
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« Reply #19 on: 12:57:29, 24-12-2007 » |
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Thanks for The Wind in the Willows piece, reiner. It is very moving to me. (As is The Piper at the Gate of Dawn chapter later, neo-pagan though it undoubtedly is.)
I am helping arrange a carol service and suggested the reading (with a suitable scriptural piece chosen by me) but we were interested in the singability of the carol.
Orthodox neums. Its what I suspected. At Ennismore Gardens the Russian choir are out of sight in the West loft, but I have scratch choirs from their number managing without sheet music, as is inevitably the case with Greeks (where the choir are up front to the side.)
I might post something later about neums if I can manage to scan it in.
Aioli - now that's a wonderful idea for Christmas as long as not with ruddy salt cod.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #20 on: 13:14:44, 24-12-2007 » |
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Although I don't believe in Christmas, it is at least "open season" for outrageously sentimental stuff that you'd never get away with any other time of year  The aioli sounds excellent! Have you ever tried smoked garlic? Lebanese delis are a hopeful source, although I get mine at the farmer's market from large Belorusian ladies in headscarves, flowery aprons and popsocks, £1 a kilo straight out of an enamel bucket (bring your own jar). No recipe - just open the jar and consume. Monastic solitude is recommended afterwards You're welcome, Don B - I have the sheet music for the carol (in a "straight" a capella version, without the band) which I could email to you in Finale format, if you find you want it? The text of Verse 1 is typed in, others you'd have to add (I doubt anyone would want all of them?). I'm not aware of a known composer for the tune, so AFAIK it's in the public domain? I suspect KG must have been quoting a traditional wassail in the book. If not, then it's a carefully-done piece of conjectural reconstruction, the combination of a triple-time verse with a four-square chorus is very typical of Oxfordshire and Kentish wassail-songs.... although the modulation into the dominant key at the half-way point seems to leave the print of a composer's hand somewhere in the song's past  I consciously avoided any kind of "David Willcocks"-type fruity harmonisations or "descants" PS Anyone who's found any Parallel Fifths in the carol can tell me after Christmas |
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« Reply #21 on: 13:18:45, 24-12-2007 » |
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Thanks for The Wind in the Willows piece, reiner. It is very moving to me. (As is The Piper at the Gate of Dawn chapter later, neo-pagan though it undoubtedly is.) Jesus! Is the Pink Floyd album named after a chapter in The Wind in the Willows, then??? I never knew that at all!!! |
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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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« Reply #22 on: 14:25:37, 24-12-2007 » |
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Is the Pink Floyd album named after a chapter in The Wind in the Willows, then???
I never knew that at all!!!
Here is a children's' classic for you tinners, that you must have missed out on when young.  Incidentally your current avatar looks like an extra for Il Trovatore at Bucharest (see Opera House thread for details.) |
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
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« Reply #23 on: 14:28:59, 24-12-2007 » |
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And for reiner, just to show that I know what a neum is.  |
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
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« Reply #25 on: 16:12:27, 24-12-2007 » |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
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« Reply #26 on: 16:20:16, 24-12-2007 » |
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Here is a children's classic for you tinners, that you must have missed out on when young. Thank you, Don! Incidentally your current avatar looks like an extra for Il Trovatore at Bucharest. In that case you might be surprised to know who it actually is! (Maybe I should leave you guessing for a while ...) |
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« Reply #27 on: 16:22:45, 24-12-2007 » |
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Well, actually, tinners, I know it is Thom Gunn. Looking a bit like Ben Gunn here. I saw it when I placed my docs on Photobucket. Gosh you can tell those of us without kids, can't you, logging at this time of day...
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« Reply #28 on: 12:57:00, 25-12-2007 » |
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My son ordered a boxed set CD from Amazon for me (the Bantock set). Not arrived I TAKE BACK the grump Amazon, well done! The CDs arrived last week but my missus wrapped and hid them!  - and let me grump on and on about non-delivery My daughter is rather shocked at the two nude sirens on the cover, she's not convinced about the contents till I play them. That will have to wait till CotW Eric Coates is finished, I've decided Coates' music is VERY CHRISTMASSY!!! As an infant, pre-TV days, I had a good dose of the Light Programme every day so I know much of Coates' music quite well! Also have two LPs and a CD. |
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« Reply #29 on: 13:43:43, 25-12-2007 » |
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My Christmas presents: I haven't got any.  Unless you count the external hard drive which I bought myself and which arrived yesterday. |
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