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« Reply #60 on: 19:53:02, 10-04-2007 » |
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 Have many of these, Lord. Also the ones from the bottle are good too. Get well soon. |
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« Reply #61 on: 00:01:04, 11-04-2007 » |
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Virginia Woolf on being ill. Just because I like it:
"Sympathy....nowadays is dispensed chiefly by the laggards and failures, women for the most part, who, having dropped out of the race, have time to spend upon fantastic and unprofitable excursions: CL, for example, who, sitting by the stale sick-room fire, builds up, with touches at once sober and imaginative, the nursery fender, the lamp, barrel-organs in the street, and all the simple old wives' tales of pinafores and escapades; AR, the rash and the magnanimous, who, if you fancied a giant tortoise to solace you or a theorbo to cheer you, would ransack the markets of London and procure them somehow, wrapped in paper, before the end of the day; the frivolous KT, who, dressed in silks and feathers, powdered and painted as if for a banquet of Kings and Queens, spends her whole brightness in the gloom of the sick-room, and makes the medicine bottles ring and the flames shoot up with her gossip and mimicry.... But such follies have had their day; civilisation points to a different goal; and then what place will there be for the tortoise and the theorbo?"
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« Reply #62 on: 00:20:18, 11-04-2007 » |
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Where's me bloody tortoise and theorbo then?
Nobody cares...
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« Reply #63 on: 00:33:56, 11-04-2007 » |
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I'll see what I can find on e-Bay, Richard, and have one of my people bike them over. I was secretly hoping that 'The Tortoise and the Theorbo' might commend itself as a useful title to at least one the 'R3OK School' of composers  . 'Clocks and Clouds', 'The Hedgehog and the Fox', and now..... |
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« Reply #64 on: 08:52:02, 11-04-2007 » |
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Slowly improving, had some 'vitamin c tablet to put in water and go fizzy' things yesterday, and a good deep sleep.
I usually just have to chill and throw medical stuff at myself to improve when I get sicky wicky, think i was out and about too much over easter, and there was I thinking it would drag on, instead if just flew on past.
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« Reply #65 on: 08:56:50, 11-04-2007 » |
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Too much of a good thing is not good for you (I mean too much activities). I often get sich because I am tired. Sometimes there are viruses of course.
I am glad you are better.
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« Reply #66 on: 09:02:18, 11-04-2007 » |
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Where's me bloody tortoise and theorbo then?
Nobody cares...
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« Reply #67 on: 09:11:21, 11-04-2007 » |
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I tried a search for tortoise and theorbo and this came up. Among other things. No idea why...  PS: just found out why.  |
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« Reply #68 on: 13:40:34, 11-04-2007 » |
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Thanks Ollie. The theorbo made me feel a lot better but I did ask for a tortoise, not a turtle (or a martle). I did read the B minor mass article too. Which reminds me I've just been listening to the latest JEG cantatas instalment, which contains BWV4. Now I would think that this work presents a better case than most for the single-voice treatment, but no - Gardiner uses multiple voices in ALL the numbers, which does sound quite nice but is about as authentic as a plastic crumhorn. As if that weren't enough, he also omits the doubling cornett and alto trombone from the second movement, I know there are two versions of this cantata, one of which doesn't use them, but the music sounds much more deathly with them (and even more so with a boy soprano as in Harnoncourt) and JEG's strongest point with Bach cantatas is his thoughtful attitude to expressing the texts and their theological resonances (unlike Koopman's conveyor-belt approach), so...
I can feel a swoon coming on. Quick, someone, a tortoise!
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« Reply #69 on: 13:48:12, 11-04-2007 » |
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I was secretly hoping that 'The Tortoise and the Theorbo' might commend itself as a useful title to at least one the 'R3OK School' of composers . 'Clocks and Clouds', 'The Hedgehog and the Fox', and now..... 'The Song of the Martle-Dove'? (Presumably by that recently deceased composer Malcolm Arnold Schoenberg - see autoharp's Siamese thread.) |
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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 #70 on: 17:48:49, 11-04-2007 » |
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Cripes! I hope I`m not too late. Gulp.......  Maybe you should have some terrapins as well, just to be on the safe side.  |
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« Reply #71 on: 17:56:09, 11-04-2007 » |
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Um, gosh. I realise, thanks to Mr. Google, that I was a tortoise in a previous incarnation, not a turtle as I had thought. So Ollie's turtle pic is legit, Richard. But we frogles aren't in the least exercised by the distinction in any case. Green's the thing. |
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« Reply #72 on: 19:14:16, 11-04-2007 » |
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But we frogles ... Frogles? Frogles? which way to turn? signature says Martle not Frogle. And I haven't enjoyed a good mardle since leaving England.  (unless the board counts) |
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« Reply #73 on: 22:40:42, 11-04-2007 » |
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Kitty It's all to do with identity crises. I specialise in those. I might have to reinvent again soon. Hope your broomstick's behaving!  |
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« Reply #74 on: 22:47:55, 11-04-2007 » |
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Kitty It's all to do with identity crises. I specialise in those. I might have to reinvent again soon. Hope your broomstick's behaving! Martle, Was there not an identity crisis some weeks ago, albeit a temporary one, involving a penguin? He was rather charismatic, I thought |
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