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Ron Dough
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« Reply #2520 on: 09:16:28, 19-10-2007 »
Stéphane Denève's in charge of the RSNO, now: definitely an up and comer. He specialises in French and Russian repertoire: we had Ravel's Mother Goose and Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances as the rest of the programme: last year he did a fabulous Roussel 3 and La Valse. He's doing a Roussel cycle with them for Naxos. He has brilliant audience rapport: he does a short introduction at some point in each concert in a wonderful accent with great humour: he looks like a gangly absent minded professor with a shock of curly reddish-brown hair, but he gets on with the job without distracting gestures, letting the music speak for itself. The strings this year sound particularly fine, by the way.

We get five concerts a year from them: the next is Britten Sinfonia da Requiem, Rückert Lieder and Belshazzar's Feast, with Roderick Williams as the soloist, and Hickox conducting: the programme's not the same for each city: Edinburgh and Glasgow get nearly everything, while the repeats are shared out between Dundee, Perth, Inverness, Dunfermline and Aberdeen, though Dundee gets more than the rest.
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« Reply #2521 on: 09:20:24, 19-10-2007 »
Sounds p[retty good Ron! Wish I was up there to. I might just go on their site and see what they be up to next year. Who knows, maybe I will.
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« Reply #2522 on: 13:22:29, 19-10-2007 »
Thats a shame when that happens. I know Ive been there to. But hey, its a nice sunny day(down here near Brighton), so that always helps!
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« Reply #2523 on: 17:22:43, 19-10-2007 »
Quote from: Ron Dough on 10:50:46, 18-10-2007
Thank you, A.

bbm:
Although it looks like typical English beechwood, it's actually tucked away in Scotland, between Carnoustie and Forfar. Walk for less than a mile and you can see the Cairngorms, a mile and a bit the other way and you're at a spot I've photographed regularly, (near to the village of Whigstreet, if you've a road atlas to hand). 

You've always got a road atlas to hand with Unfortunately the satellite image changes from high to low definition just south of Whigstreet so no chance of making out your wood.

Great pictures btw Ron. My better camera has been away since mid-August getting repaired. There's a small dead area in the image, only 2 pixels square but, as it was under guarantee, I decided to get it fixed. The first time it came back the fault was still there so I took it straight back in - that was a month ago and I'm still without it.  Angry (sorry, should be in the grumpy room)
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« Reply #2524 on: 19:11:44, 19-10-2007 »
tee hee

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=26414145120
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« Reply #2525 on: 19:16:06, 19-10-2007 »
Honestly Lord B, I do find this a bit tedious !

Is there no-one else you could 'talk' about?

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« Reply #2526 on: 19:18:19, 19-10-2007 »
All I saw was a login page, never having logged in to Facebook so I'm happy  Cheesy
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« Reply #2527 on: 19:20:57, 19-10-2007 »
Well I am so pleased for you John, but all Lord B thinks about is Janine....

Never logged in to facebook? wow ! this is interesting , I thought everyone had at least looked !!!

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« Reply #2528 on: 19:23:17, 19-10-2007 »
So, I thought I would join in on the... lovely people we admire .....




O.K.? Roll Eyes Roll Eyes

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« Reply #2529 on: 19:31:11, 19-10-2007 »
And one of my favourite and gorgeous pianists:



who I believe gave an early premiere of a work by one Peter Maxwell Davies (on Children's Hour...)
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« Reply #2530 on: 19:34:15, 19-10-2007 »
A, I prefer this one:



....but I don't think we should get into an argument about this in the Happy Room, or anywhere else for that matter  Smiley .
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« Reply #2531 on: 19:35:37, 19-10-2007 »
Not an argument Mary, a statement of fact - as Lord Byron keeps stating his fact ... ok???

I like I Padmore too!!

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« Reply #2532 on: 20:19:30, 19-10-2007 »
 Roll Eyes
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John W
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« Reply #2533 on: 20:47:24, 19-10-2007 »
This lady does it for me
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« Reply #2534 on: 20:51:05, 19-10-2007 »
What, blows out the candles and then lights them again?

Oops, forgot I was only looking at "Recent Posts"  Roll Eyes
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