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« Reply #6105 on: 14:18:45, 13-10-2008 » |
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I am happy, but not very.
This morning I parked my car "somewhere" in Uxbridge as I generally do when flying out of Heathrow for a short time, and got on the U3 bus. The distance, I'm told by Google Maps, is 4.3 miles. The bus does go all around the houses and normally takes 25 minutes or so. This morning it took 75. That would be an average speed of 3.44 mph if the most direct route had been taken. Then I just missed a train from the bus station to Terminal 5 and had to wait 15 minutes for the next one. All in all therefore I suppose I should be pleased to have arrived in Sweden at all.
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Don Basilio
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« Reply #6106 on: 14:32:47, 13-10-2008 » |
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I can remember Dora Bryan as the headmistress in The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery ("And later in the day we will have Strip the Willow" Small Girl off screen "I don't want to play." Dora Bryan "Be quiet, Willow darling.") (Frankie Howard was the head of the robbers.)
I know it was Alaistir Sims in the original. (Joyce Grenfell as the undercover police woman as a gym mistress.)
But who played her in the intermediate versions?
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #6107 on: 14:41:16, 13-10-2008 » |
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The bus does go all around the houses and normally takes 25 minutes or so. This morning it took 75. That would be an average speed of 3.44 mph if the most direct route had been taken. You could have walked that, couldn't you?! Although possibly not with a laptop and whatever other sound equipment in tow ... I'm happy because I just had a call from a Radio 3 producer asking me to review some contemporary Italian music for CD Review. I'm also very nervous because (a) it's in less than 3 weeks, and (b) the composers in question are Scelsi + Sciarrino, and I have a sort of 'deaf spot' with Scelsi which I suppose I'd better try to overcome if I'm going to sound suitably authoritative.  |
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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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richard barrett
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« Reply #6108 on: 14:46:31, 13-10-2008 » |
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I could have walked it, yes - this is one of those rare but in a way welcome trips when I'm not dragging tons of gear around.
What's your problem with Scelsi? apart from his horrible piano music that is.
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Don Basilio
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« Reply #6109 on: 14:48:14, 13-10-2008 » |
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Is Andrew Macgregor as sweet in actuality as he sounds on the radio? I hope so.
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Don Basilio
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« Reply #6110 on: 14:49:41, 13-10-2008 » |
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O, and good luck tinners. You, bbm, jonathan... Soon you won't be able to listen to Radio 3 for a day without hearing at least one member.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
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Morticia
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« Reply #6111 on: 14:54:35, 13-10-2008 » |
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tinners, EXCELLENT news! Just give your 'deaf spot' a tweak and jump in  They wouldn't have asked if they didn't think you were the man for job  Perhaps some 'ears' here that you can whisper into? Richard, glad that Uxbridge didn't totally bugler things up and that you got there in one, if slightly frazzled, piece. |
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« Reply #6112 on: 15:03:16, 13-10-2008 » |
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What's your problem with Scelsi? apart from his horrible piano music that is.
I've just never really found a way that satisfies me of talking or writing about the music (rather than, say, about issues surrounding it - the cult of personality etc.). Same problem I have with Varèse, in a way. And I'm not sure how good I'd be at assessing the merits/demerits of a particular recording ... But I'll work on it! Sometimes a job like this can focus my thoughts on a composer I've previously stumbled over. |
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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 #6113 on: 15:04:36, 13-10-2008 » |
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Last time I was down at Heathrow, it looked as if pedestrians were no longer accorded open entry (for reasons which might just be apparent). In days of yore the public could walk through the tunnels under the runways, as I did often when working at the HiFi exhibitions held at various hotels nearby, travelling up from Reading to the airport by coach and then walking to the hotel, were no link bus available. Air quality in the tunnels was horrendous, though.
Go for it, 'tisnow!
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Martin
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« Reply #6114 on: 15:36:31, 13-10-2008 » |
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I'm happy because I just had a call from a Radio 3 producer asking me to review some contemporary Italian music for CD Review. I'm also very nervous because (a) it's in less than 3 weeks, and (b) the composers in question are Scelsi + Sciarrino, and I have a sort of 'deaf spot' with Scelsi which I suppose I'd better try to overcome if I'm going to sound suitably authoritative. That's good. I shall look forward to that. Do give us a prompt so we don't miss it. |
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« Reply #6115 on: 15:53:33, 13-10-2008 » |
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Yes Martin, pleass let us know!! Youy know what we are like on these bpards for supporting one another's activities!
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richard barrett
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« Reply #6116 on: 16:38:38, 13-10-2008 » |
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What's your problem with Scelsi? apart from his horrible piano music that is.
I've just never really found a way that satisfies me of talking or writing about the music (rather than, say, about issues surrounding it - the cult of personality etc.). Same problem I have with Varèse, in a way. And I'm not sure how good I'd be at assessing the merits/demerits of a particular recording ... But I'll work on it! Sometimes a job like this can focus my thoughts on a composer I've previously stumbled over. I think there's a lot to be gained from comparing the two recordings of the choral/orchestral piece Uaxuctum - first the blended, indistinct version conducted by Jürg Wyttenbach, and then the more recent one conducted by Peter Rundel which lays bare the interior of the textures in what seems after Wyttenbach to be an almost shocking way. Personally I don't think the suthorship/personality cult issues are that interesting. I suppose my main criticism of it is that it hardly ever really gets beyond "sketches", though that could also be seen as a positive attribute. |
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« Reply #6117 on: 16:47:25, 13-10-2008 » |
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Personally I don't think the authorship/personality cult issues are that interesting. In the case of Scelsi I agree. They exist, and certainly ought to be mentioned, but I don't think there's much further mileage in exploring them, and I find they don't shed much light on the music. But that's sort of what I meant: I don't find repeated listening and thinking sheds much light on the music either - almost as if to vindicate Scelsi's own interest in simply 'listening deeper', tapping into some kind of spiritual continuum. I suppose my main criticism of it is that it hardly ever really gets beyond "sketches", though that could also be seen as a positive attribute.
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« Reply #6118 on: 17:05:05, 13-10-2008 » |
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I'm happy because I just had a call from a Radio 3 producer asking me to review some contemporary Italian music for CD Review. I'm also very nervous because (a) it's in less than 3 weeks, and (b) the composers in question are Scelsi + Sciarrino, and I have a sort of 'deaf spot' with Scelsi which I suppose I'd better try to overcome if I'm going to sound suitably authoritative. I hope BBM doesn't feel too put out - your part in CD Review will be even grander than his was . You may well be made more nervous by the thought of us all listening. Seriously, though, congratulations. I'm honoured to "know" you  . |
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« Reply #6119 on: 17:10:35, 13-10-2008 » |
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'Course I dont Mary. Good luck 'tisnow!
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