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« Reply #1170 on: 22:51:52, 10-03-2008 » |
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hh, just get them all to log on!  Exactly. A couple of hours trawling some of the threads in the Opera House section should do the trick! |
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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« Reply #1171 on: 02:09:34, 11-03-2008 » |
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Oh! Oh! Oh!
282 is Stockhausen's Inori init!
it certainly is. Well you did kind of hand that out on a platter... It was a matter of getting there before anyone else! Oh! Oh! Oh! I wish I hadn't given up trying to keep up with listening to all the snatches ... I might actually have known that one!  |
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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 #1172 on: 02:11:57, 11-03-2008 » |
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an intolerable air of the infra dignitatem.  "Beneath her dignity was a horse"  |
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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 #1173 on: 02:25:22, 11-03-2008 » |
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I believe this is the thread on which we were discussing the matter of Mr Per Nørgård's Seventh Symphony, previously unknown to both Member Now and Member Barrett?
Investigation has revealed that the work has not yet been performed. Composed in 2006, it was scheduled for a premiere performance some time last autumn by the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, but, before the set date came about, a long-running dispute escalated and led to the apparently illegal sacking by the orchestra of its leader. It would seem that Mr Nørgård in an attempt to show solidarity for the leader (a well-known musician on the Danish scene) and perhaps in the hope of encouraging his reinstatement dedicated the symphony to him, at which point the orchestra declined to perform the work. It has now, I believe, been rescheduled - I'm not sure what the latest update on the orchestra personnel situation is - and will be performed in (I think) the 2008/9 season.
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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 #1174 on: 08:58:08, 11-03-2008 » |
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A final stab at 314 for now: Marcel Dupré's Concerto in E minor op.31? No it is not that one either. Surely we are here looking for a French "Organ Symphony" or "Organ Concerto" that is written in the key of C Major? I haven't yet thought of one (even though it's undoubtedly staring me in the face). Baz |
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« Reply #1175 on: 09:11:55, 11-03-2008 » |
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Hurrah! We must admit that we prefer it a little quicker ourselves given its notation in 2 (how few performers take note of this! and how beautifully this binds the downward demisemiquaver rushes in the Adagio to the downward semiquaver rushes in the Allegro!)... Still, those suspensions are somehow immediately recognisable whatever the speed.  I couldn't agree more with this - the recording used in the snip was Harnoncourt's 1992 recording with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Even though some period style comes through in the playing, tempo is always a critical factor isn't it? Baz He took it too slowly with the Concertgebouw many years ago too...  Say what you like about Norrington (and many do ) at least he knows his cut from his common. |
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« Reply #1176 on: 09:31:43, 11-03-2008 » |
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We have taken the liberty of making sticky Member Grew's Repertoire Records thread. While the Competition and Discussion threads are dominated by such frantic activity that they are at all times visible the 'Read-Only' Records thread does tend to recede from the top of the pile from time to time. Given the level of interest it's all exciting and the amount of meticulous labour invested in it by Mr Grew we feel it merits the convenience of stickiness.
Are there by the way any currently sticky threads that Members feel could usefully be unstuck?
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« Reply #1177 on: 09:46:10, 11-03-2008 » |
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"Posture! Posture! Cynthia! We've talked about this before. Straight spine, shoulders back. No jodphurs until you get it right." |
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« Reply #1178 on: 09:59:46, 11-03-2008 » |
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Are there by the way any currently sticky threads that Members feel could usefully be unstuck?
Maybe the Accents Thread, while a darlin' thing, doesn't quite earn its place in this distinguished company? |
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« Reply #1179 on: 13:30:16, 11-03-2008 » |
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Mr Grew, when self-scoring stopped I had reached 19000+ points, so am a bit surprised to see myself back to 15,000 when, by my calculations at the weekend, the 22,500 mark had been reached! I trust this is a blip in the new computerised system?!  Do not concern yourself unduly Mr. Inquisitor! That score of 15,000-odd represents the state of play at reply 1650. As the reply count has now reached 1960 there is a long way to go and we certainly credit your calculations. It had been our intention to-day to post the logs in sets of fifty at a time, since there are rather a lot of them. But during our preparation of the second set of fifty we have just now been bitten by an exceptionally unpleasant and new Microsoft bug: while using as is our wont Alt-TAB to switch between the Opera browser and the Command Prompt/XTreeGold, we found all of a sudden everything shifted two inches to the left. Since it is in those two inches that many programmes display their most interesting data the computer upon which we had been preparing these logs has now been rendered ineffective; we have already tried all kinds of remedies in vain and fear a system re-installation must be attempted. Fortunately we have a lap-top capable of compiling the programme, but we suspect that the appearance of further logs and tables for replies 1651 to 1960 will now have to be delayed until to-morrow. |
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« Reply #1180 on: 13:43:00, 11-03-2008 » |
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A final stab at 314 for now: Marcel Dupré's Concerto in E minor op.31? No it is not that one either. Surely we are here looking for a French "Organ Symphony" or "Organ Concerto" . . . ? Surely we are not! |
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« Reply #1181 on: 16:17:29, 11-03-2008 » |
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A final stab at 314 for now: Marcel Dupré's Concerto in E minor op.31? No it is not that one either. Surely we are here looking for a French "Organ Symphony" or "Organ Concerto" . . . ? Surely we are not! Well whatever it is, I'll bet it's in C major! Baz |
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« Reply #1182 on: 16:33:04, 11-03-2008 » |
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311 - Rachmaninov - G minor piano trio
Top job, auto. And may I say what a marvellous work this is? Thanks Sergei. Tommo You may. But the big D minor is far superior! Superior? Yes. Far Superior? Not so sure. But let's not split hairs Tommo |
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« Reply #1183 on: 17:08:45, 11-03-2008 » |
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Do not concern yourself unduly Mr. Inquisitor! That score of 15,000-odd represents the state of play at reply 1650. As the reply count has now reached 1960 there is a long way to go and we certainly credit your calculations. It had been our intention to-day to post the logs in sets of fifty at a time, since there are rather a lot of them. My apologies, Mr Grew. That will teach me not to read messages carefully enough in a quick five minutes in my lunch break!! |
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« Reply #1184 on: 17:33:35, 11-03-2008 » |
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Clue for puzzle 314 (the thing with organ): think of Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar, Cornelius Cardew, and this Well, they all have duplicated initials. Maybe that would help me if I'd actually got round to listening to snatch no. 314. Since I'm not about to, I'll leave it as an eventually* helpful hint for someone else. ___________ (* Apologies for the overliteral translation from the French.) |
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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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