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« Reply #15 on: 18:24:02, 09-02-2008 » |
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"A committed performance".
I can well imagine that is code. What exactly is it code for? Stodgy and dull? Same ball-park as "You've done it again!" |
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« Reply #16 on: 18:37:22, 09-02-2008 » |
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This is a composer one (i.e. TO the composer): 'such wonderful colours!'  |
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Green. Always green.
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« Reply #17 on: 19:06:49, 09-02-2008 » |
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This is a composer one (i.e. TO the composer): 'such wonderful colours!' Is this necessarily such a saddening/disheartening line to hear? |
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« Reply #18 on: 19:08:32, 09-02-2008 » |
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Perhaps not in itself, inks. But when accompanied by hesitation and forced smiles, yes.  |
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Green. Always green.
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« Reply #19 on: 21:36:41, 09-02-2008 » |
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Taking his/her snowdrop. I'll get my, um, protection. 
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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 #20 on: 21:46:17, 09-02-2008 » |
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'such wonderful colours!' "interesting use of the bowed flexatone!" |
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« Reply #21 on: 22:07:27, 09-02-2008 » |
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Sorry, you did say "favourite euphoniums", didn't you? No? |
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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 #22 on: 22:37:39, 09-02-2008 » |
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Sorry, you did say "favourite euphoniums", didn't you? No? Having responded to commissions to write not just one but two pieces for euphonium and piano, I've used that gag more times than I've had any of the kinds of beverage not usually associated with or mentioned in "The fine beverages thread" on TOP. Perhaps "favourite euphuisms" was meant... |
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« Reply #23 on: 01:51:14, 10-02-2008 » |
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Mine's a large one. |
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« Reply #24 on: 02:02:31, 10-02-2008 » |
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Mine's a large one.
MT, isn't that hyperbole? (or wishful thinking |
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« Reply #25 on: 04:07:26, 10-02-2008 » |
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About a composer:
"He/she is a wonderful orchestrator"
About a performer:
"He/she has wonderful technique"
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« Reply #26 on: 08:45:41, 10-02-2008 » |
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About a singer:
He/She always gives a vibrant performance
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #28 on: 11:22:16, 10-02-2008 » |
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"A committed performance".
I can well imagine that is code. What exactly is it code for? Stodgy and dull? It's usually a case of "damning with faint praise", I think  Little else could be said of the performance (viz playing the right notes etc) other than the performer was committed to giving it |
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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 #29 on: 17:21:37, 12-02-2008 » |
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This might not qualify but: I was looking at the back of a bag of cashew nuts for the use-by date and noticed this ALLERGY WARNING
MAY CONTAIN PEANUTS
OR OTHER NUTS |
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