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Incidentally, when some friends and I attended Glyndebourne's (regrettably awful) St Matthew Passion last summer, we had quite a bit of discussion beforehand about the inappropriateness of taking the usual champagne picnic, versus the equally bad-taste prospect of a "themed" dinner. In the end we went for simple, Middle-Eastern inspired food and a bottle of decent red wine.
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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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Flaming sambucca - just before Neilssen's inextinguishable.
Ah, Nielsen, yes; I'm glad he's been cited in this context. Nielsen is famously credited as having said that "music is the sound of life". Well, whisky, as all we Scots (and many others) know, is "the water of life". I did once suggest that it must therefore follow that whisky is the sound of Ronald Stevenson... |
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« Reply #17 on: 09:58:18, 23-01-2008 » |
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A Screaming Orgasm - Tristan und Isolde  It'd have to be a very long one, would it not?... They don't call him Tantris for nothing  Actually I suppose in my experience (OF THIS OPERA!! no sniggering at the back) the more screamy the singing, the less orgasmic the result... |
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
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Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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« Reply #18 on: 10:02:02, 23-01-2008 » |
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Whereas Cragganmore would be good for a performance of The Rock.
Should someone tell Alistair Darling that? |
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« Reply #19 on: 10:03:28, 23-01-2008 » |
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A Screaming Orgasm - Tristan und Isolde It'd have to be a very long one, would it not?... They don't call him Tantris for nothing Actually I suppose in my experience (OF THIS OPERA!! no sniggering at the back) the more screamy the singing, the less orgasmic the result... You did intend to write " screamy", yes?... |
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« Reply #20 on: 10:04:27, 23-01-2008 » |
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Yes. Behave.
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
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Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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« Reply #21 on: 10:42:29, 23-01-2008 » |
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Behave.
I will if you promise to tell me what the pianist's right hand is supposed to do while his/her other one is playing Wittgenstein's left-hand-only arrangement of Liszt's transcription of the Liebestod... Anyway, moving swiftly back to the safer territory of the thread topic, I suppose an "appropriate" (if rather boringly obvious) one would be freshly squeezed orange juice at Love of Three Oranges. And perhaps a pint of scrumpy wouldn't come amiss at a performance by one of our members of English Country-Tunes (though I'd personally prefer a flute or two of a good Sussex downs fizz such as Nyetimber). Any Semillon at a concert conducted by Mr Bychkov?.. |
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« Reply #22 on: 14:10:05, 23-01-2008 » |
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Absinthe - Craig's Progress?
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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 #23 on: 15:38:52, 23-01-2008 » |
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Coffee Cantata - need I say more?
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« Reply #24 on: 16:07:31, 23-01-2008 » |
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Any Semillon at a concert conducted by Mr Bychkov?..
I am reminded of the ISIHAC Samantha intro, when Samantha had to pop off to see a wine collecting friend. He had a Semillon. Tommo |
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #25 on: 16:33:38, 23-01-2008 » |
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Yan Tan Tethera - A couple of shots of Sheep Dip Whiskey
The Minotaur - A Red Bull
Gawain - A pint of Green Man
The Ice Break - Vodka on the rocks
Intermezzo - A Snowball
The Fiery Angel - A bottle of Blue Nun
Carmen - A hot Bovril
Xerxes - A half of Largo with a little umbrella in it
Licht - 7-Up
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« Reply #26 on: 17:11:18, 23-01-2008 » |
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Coffee Cantata - need I say more?
Not really; I'll do so instead: Kenco Colombian: Mystère de l'instant |
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« Reply #27 on: 13:07:30, 24-01-2008 » |
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I will if you promise to tell me what the pianist's right hand is supposed to do while his/her other one is playing Wittgenstein's left-hand-only arrangement of Liszt's transcription of the Liebestod...
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Best regards,
Jonathan
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