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« Reply #5130 on: 11:46:24, 01-08-2008 » |
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I take it this isn't the same theatrical musical vocal work with practically no orchestra you mentioned on the Minotaur thread?  Indeed not. The theatre piece exists only in the form of a scenario into which a few bits of libretto have so far been slotted. Otherwise: yes, probably the usual blood-boling incompetence. Having lived on the Continent for fourteen out of the last fifteen years I'm still occasionally taken by surprise by it. |
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« Reply #5131 on: 11:50:24, 01-08-2008 » |
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I found it oddly comforting when my train in France on Monday was nearly two hours late into Paris. "So it's not just in the UK that this can happen," I thought to myself, watching the time for a nice lunch slip away.
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« Reply #5132 on: 13:05:03, 01-08-2008 » |
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I found it oddly comforting when my train in France on Monday was nearly two hours late into Paris. "So it's not just in the UK that this can happen," I thought to myself, watching the time for a nice lunch slip away.
I feel the same way in Germany - one of the greatest lies of all time is that the trains run on time there. |
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #5133 on: 14:03:49, 01-08-2008 » |
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Ooh, I seem to have missed this story! (Scuttles off to look at old posts ...) Great news from the BRSO!  Oh and, Barrett, get on with your tax return or there'll be NO STOCKHAUSEN FOR YOU ON SATURDAY!!  |
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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 #5134 on: 14:36:23, 01-08-2008 » |
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NO STOCKHAUSEN FOR YOU ON SATURDAY!!
Please Mr Time sir, anything but that! |
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« Reply #5135 on: 14:50:51, 01-08-2008 » |
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Many thanks all. I don't mean to sound oblique, but it's coming out with one of the big university presses (the oldest one ). |
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« Reply #5136 on: 15:18:52, 01-08-2008 » |
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Congratulations ernani! I'm (at the very early stage of) trying to get a book contract myself, so I shall take inspiration from your example.  In fact, since the small independent publisher I emailed a couple of weeks ago hasn't replied yet, maybe I'll just fire off a couple of emails to other people I had in mind now before I head out to the gym. |
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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 #5137 on: 15:53:54, 01-08-2008 » |
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maybe I'll just fire off a couple of emails Done: one of them anyway. The other publisher I had in mind has such a clearly laid-out procedure on its website for submitting book proposals that I think I'd better sit down and follow the instructions carefully. For the smaller outfits I'm just trying to establish up-front whether there's any possibility of their being interested in what I have to offer. Right. Time to leave the house I think. |
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« Reply #5138 on: 16:57:54, 01-08-2008 » |
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Best of luck with it time_is_now |
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« Reply #5139 on: 17:18:30, 03-08-2008 » |
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Happy me, I'm just off out to hear Mark Padmore sing Peter Grimes at St. Endellion.....
x Jan x
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« Reply #5140 on: 17:23:13, 03-08-2008 » |
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Lucky girl Jan A |
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« Reply #5141 on: 18:14:22, 03-08-2008 » |
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Happy me, I'm just off out to hear Mark Padmore sing Peter Grimes at St. Endellion.....
x Jan x
Be sure to tell us all about it, Jan. Much as I admire Mark Padmore, I can't quite imagine him as Grimes, but at least he won't sing it as if it's Wagner, as has become the fashion. It's a concert performance, isn't it, not staged? |
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« Reply #5142 on: 21:21:51, 03-08-2008 » |
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Yes, indeed, Jan!! All details, none to be missed!!!
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« Reply #5143 on: 11:18:53, 04-08-2008 » |
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Darlings !
It was completely wonderful !!! Semi-staged of course, and VERY loud in such a small space.
Mark Padmore was unbelievably good, portrayed a vulnerable, unstable, menacing Grimes, complete with fisherman's beard, he must have been growing it for weeks.
The cast:
PeterGrimes Mark Padmore
Ellen Orford Sarah Fox
C'pn Bulstrode Roderick Williams
Auntie Pamela Helen Stephen
Neices Rachel Nicholls & Helen Parker
Robert Boles Daniel Norman
Swallow Graeme Danby
Mrs Sedley Valerie Reid
Rev.Adams Richard Berkeley-Steele
Ned Keene Matthew Brook
Hobson Simon Kirkbride
St Endellion Festival Orch & Chous conducted by Richard Hickox
We enjoyed it greatly, I could hardly sleep last night due to the over-stimulation.
x Jan x
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« Reply #5144 on: 12:11:05, 04-08-2008 » |
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How wonderful - I'm so jealous!
Had to laugh, though. Pamela Helen Stephen has to be in it if Richard Hickox's conducting. She's the equivalent of Peter Pears (well, not in many ways). I was doing concerts with Richard Hickox, as a choir member, when they got together. Never seen a man so besotted!
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