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« Reply #3720 on: 08:44:35, 03-03-2008 » |
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Yay, my favourite brass band won their Regionals. Black Dyke Band ofcourse. They were playing the usual set piece that we banders have to play. They were playing Festival Music by Eric Ball. This man was an exceptionally fine composer, prolific to and very astute.
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« Reply #3721 on: 12:13:46, 04-03-2008 » |
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« Reply #3722 on: 23:47:58, 04-03-2008 » |
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I've just finished all my orchestration marking. I'll be picking up some more on Thursday, but this was all summative stuff so I had to give detailed feedback (around 300 words). Often saying the same thing again and again. Marking the 24th script orchestrating the exact same Mozart sonata, I was losing the will to breathe in and out.
I've still got the Ethno essays to do, but I've been really burning the candle at both ends with this assignment. Time for a reality check. Time for bed.
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« Reply #3723 on: 00:19:51, 05-03-2008 » |
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It boggles me how close Eric Ball is to the spirit of Elgar, and I guess Liszt,way beyond the time it should gel musically, but he was far from living in a period cocoon. I remember a candid interview with Eddie Gregson in 'Sounding Brass' years`ago. He just totally believed in what he was doing and went for it. I think, good as Payne is in his own right, Ball could have done a better job with the Elgar 3 completion.He thinks that way without being moribund, ironic or stylised.
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« Reply #3724 on: 10:59:50, 05-03-2008 » |
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Marbleflugel.
I think Eric Ball was good to stick to his guns. His main influence was Mozart and that showed immensely in Festival Music. He composed I think, one of the best ever pieces for brass band, namely 'Resurgam'. Still makes the back of your hair curl!! Very moving.
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« Reply #3725 on: 13:38:02, 05-03-2008 » |
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i complained to the local rag about the council ignoring my requests to clean up the park and now they are doing a newspaper article and the park is being cleaned up
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« Reply #3726 on: 13:49:16, 05-03-2008 » |
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i complained to the local rag about the council ignoring my requests to clean up the park and now they are doing a newspaper article and the park is being cleaned up
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« Reply #3727 on: 14:46:07, 05-03-2008 » |
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i sent camera phone pics
i am , the radio 3 feature, PICTURE MAN
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« Reply #3728 on: 23:35:52, 05-03-2008 » |
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i sent camera phone pics
i am , the radio 3 feature, PICTURE MAN
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Did you hear that Drama on 3 LB? I enjoyed it but be careful, he got badly beaten up didn't he? |
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« Reply #3729 on: 14:30:08, 06-03-2008 » |
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yea,enjoyed it, he should have been a special constable eh
i just took pics of the rubbish, declined to have my pic taken for the local rag, i don't do fame
in fact, i don't want anyone to remember MY name
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« Reply #3730 on: 20:54:05, 06-03-2008 » |
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Marbleflugel.
I think Eric Ball was good to stick to his guns. His main influence was Mozart and that showed immensely in Festival Music. He composed I think, one of the best ever pieces for brass band, namely 'Resurgam'. Still makes the back of your hair curl!! Very moving.
I found myself, on the back of your post, hearing it in my head on the crowded tube this morning -I agree, its timeless and he supplies the romantic period repertoire that wasn't done in the c19th without artificiality. He could also hear and appreciate the Bartokian thing that Gregson was starting. |
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« Reply #3731 on: 11:39:10, 07-03-2008 » |
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Haha. Not at work today - my first day off for ages!
We're going to a concert tomorrow as well and it includes some Liszt. We have tickets for another concert the following weekend too - in Beverley (which i started a thread on last week!)
Great stuff!
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« Reply #3732 on: 11:40:34, 07-03-2008 » |
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Enjoy the break, Jonathan. Just relax!
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« Reply #3733 on: 11:44:16, 07-03-2008 » |
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Thanks Ron, I intend to!
The post has just arrived - more information on Liszt's 1840 concert tours in Britain - I now have 5 newspaper reviews so should be able to make a start on my article soon. (whoops, never did finish the one about the Azores for the shell club)...
That and a really nice cup of coffee and the sun was shining (it's just gone in now, shame) and all is right with the world.
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« Reply #3734 on: 11:45:10, 07-03-2008 » |
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I'm working from home today...blissful. There's beautiful, warm sunshine here and I listened to some of JEG's Bach Cantatas over breakfast and the Respighi Belkis, Queen of Sheba and Pines of Rome, the Pines' nightingale being joined by several goldfinches twittering in the lilac tree in the garden next door! I anticipate a CD delivery later as well... |
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