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Thanks for that, r: perhaps a tad unfair for me to be swayed by one young lady's impressions, so it's good to hear that a young man's experience puts him in a different light. Perhaps more likely to make a Pass in that case. (  ) |
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a young man's experience puts him in a different light. Perhaps more likely to make a Pass in that case. ( )  |
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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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Having spent a couple of hours or so over a pint or two with at least five composers (four of them from these boards) over the past nine months or so, I'd very gladly spend more time with any of them in a similar situation.
I'm sure Tippett would have been very engaging company, judging by his essays and radio talks: an educated and inquiring mind with a wide frame of reference, I'm sure that he could have provided hours of stimulating and interesting conversation. Definitely a Pass.
The only time I have spent time over a pint with any composers has been with members of this board ...  Tippett would definitely be a pass - a fine example of what my school teachers described, disapprovingly, as a "dustbin mind", and all the more interesting for that. Definite pass. I believe that Dvorak was a puffer nut so probably a pass for train enthusiasts (of which I think there may be one or two on the boards). I'd have crossed busy roads to avoid Wagner. And I can't imagine a couple of hours with Bruckner would be much fun. |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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I have had a pint with PMD (although strictly speaking his was a martini ) as well as, on separate occasions, a couple of glasses of wine and coffee (though probably not adding up to a pint's worth in either case), and can report that he was interesting, convivial, attentive (now now...) and altogether charming. So he's a PASS in my book. It has to be said that gender may indeed be a factor here, as implied above I'm afraid to say I suspect Stockhausen may have been a FAIL on all counts: though I never met him, I can't imagine he'd have enjoyed hearing about one's holiday plans. Maybe back in the wild old Darmstadt days he would have been fun though... |
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Saint-Saens - Pass! Interested in science, he wrote scholarly articles on botany and acoustics, and had an astronomical telescope built to his own spec. He was also a philosopher and poet, and several of his plays (including a one-act farce) were performed.
He seems to have been a dry old stick but perhaps a few cognacs would have loosened him up.
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« Reply #21 on: 13:28:04, 08-10-2008 » |
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And I can't imagine a couple of hours with Bruckner would be much fun.
But he was a train enthusiast, wasn't he? |
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And I can't imagine a couple of hours with Bruckner would be much fun.
But he was a train enthusiast, wasn't he? And, having asked your opinion on the latest version of whatever he was working on, you'd have the pleasure of seeing a new version incorporating all of your suggestions. |
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« Reply #23 on: 13:12:23, 09-10-2008 » |
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a couple of hours with Bruckner
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I am wondering whether the pint in question might be taken in the company of two composers, so that rather than one of them talking egotistically about themselves, I might instead enjoy the discourse between the two, as well as being able to intersperse my own comments and questions.
For example, supposing Bach and Schoenberg just happened to be in the local tonight.
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« Reply #25 on: 14:45:20, 09-10-2008 » |
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And I can't imagine a couple of hours with Bruckner would be much fun.
But he was a train enthusiast, wasn't he? And, having asked your opinion on the latest version of whatever he was working on, you'd have the pleasure of seeing a new version incorporating all of your suggestions. "Yes, Anton, I really enjoyed it. In the Scherzo, there's a sort of dance quality, but I am sure there is something missing. Hmmm, perhaps some dancing girls next time?"  Tommo |
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"Yes, Anton, I really enjoyed it. In the Scherzo, there's a sort of dance quality, but I am sure there is something missing. Hmmm, perhaps some dancing girls next time?" Tommo I think an evening in the local tavern with Anton would need a pint for him - about about eight stiff whiskies for me |
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« Reply #27 on: 15:15:36, 09-10-2008 » |
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Derek Watson has this to say:
"(H)e was no prude, and there are many accounts by his pupils of convivial evenings spent in the company of the kindly old man, who had a warm sense of humour and was a lively conversationalist, especially when music was the topic. He was a keen dancer and always attended many balls during the carnival period, until well into his fifties. He had a large appetite for traditional Austrian cooking and enjoyed beer and good wine..."
I'm giving him a PASS.
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« Reply #28 on: 15:17:12, 09-10-2008 » |
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Perhaps in Bruckner's case one should consider drinking the pints while his symphonies are being played?
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« Reply #29 on: 15:19:15, 09-10-2008 » |
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Perhaps in Bruckner's case one should consider drinking the pints while his symphonies are being played?
Oo! Back in the knife drawer with you, Ms Sharp! I like Bruckner's music rather a lot. There, I've said it. |
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