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Thanks MJ. M wife is a TA at a local junior school, and has some rough days too. She struggles with those with 'learning difficulties' but is particularly frustrated by those kids are are not really 'slow' it's just that they get no encouragement and no reading at home and therefore retain very little of what they learn at school. Very disheartening.
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Oh dear, my scan of the cover of my copy of The Smiths' single Hand in Glove has been removed from my photobucket account, presumably because it shows someone's bottom. I should imagine this is done automatically to stop any porn being posted, I doubt there's the equivalent of the BBC mods looking through everyone's pictures for bottoms.
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That's odd - it certainly wasn't me, Andy. (I seriously doubt that it could have been Mort or Ron either, lest you think we rotate bottom duties weekly.)
It still displays on my home computer but not my (Köln) work one...
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Morticia
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That's odd - it certainly wasn't me, Andy. (I seriously doubt that it could have been Mort or Ron either, lest you think we rotate bottom duties weekly.)
It still displays on my home computer but not my (Köln) work one...
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That's odd - it certainly wasn't me, Andy. (I seriously doubt that it could have been Mort or Ron either, lest you think we rotate bottom duties weekly.)
It still displays on my home computer but not my (Köln) work one...
I should like to state for the record that I have not interfered in any way with Andy D's posterior Thank you You need this! |
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« Reply #5870 on: 09:13:49, 20-05-2008 » |
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That's odd - it certainly wasn't me, Andy. (I seriously doubt that it could have been Mort or Ron either, lest you think we rotate bottom duties weekly.)
It still displays on my home computer but not my (Köln) work one...
I should like to state for the record that I have not interfered in any way with Andy D's posterior Thank you You need this! Jeez, thanks Ian. That's the first cup of tea sprayed over my new keyboard!  |
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« Reply #5871 on: 09:53:51, 20-05-2008 » |
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Well, it could have been removed by Photobucket because it's copyright I suppose, but since I've also got the covers of Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica and Heifetz's Bach Sonata and Partitas in my Photobucket account and they haven't been removed, then I deduce it's down to bottoms. |
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« Reply #5872 on: 10:09:48, 20-05-2008 » |
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....Which returns us to the asinine again....
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« Reply #5873 on: 10:11:56, 20-05-2008 » |
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The cheek of them.
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« Reply #5874 on: 10:52:35, 20-05-2008 » |
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That's the first cup of tea sprayed over my new keyboard! And we were all wondering why you seem to have such perennial problems with these machines... |
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« Reply #5875 on: 10:59:48, 20-05-2008 » |
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Hold it everybody, I have a genuine grump.
A few weeks ago with money for my birthday, I bought a whole lot of operas. Feeling it was time to come to terms with an acknowledged C20 masterpiece, I bought a bargin Wozzeck with Erwartung as the B movie. (Dohnanyi conducting.)
I listened to it, and thought this could be quite impressive and I must listen a bit more. However it is definitely one of those works (like Monteverdi, Britten and Janacek) were I would need to follow the words.
I had the CD insert libretto hanging round the house and went to look for it yesterday.
Could I find it?
No.
I was distressed. There are works of musical theatre which can be enjoyed with no knowledge of the plot, let alone the words. Wozzeckis not one of them. I am grumpy as a result.
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« Reply #5876 on: 11:05:18, 20-05-2008 » |
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Fear not, Don B - there is a synopsis here. And if your German is up to it, the libretto may be found here: act 1, act 2, act 3. There's probably an English translation somewhere online ... |
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That's the first cup of tea sprayed over my new keyboard! And we were all wondering why you seem to have such perennial problems with these machines... Memories of the Lenz laptop covered in beer drive themselves unbidden to the surface...  |
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Fear not, Don B - there is a synopsis here. And if your German is up to it, the libretto may be found here: act 1, act 2, act 3. There's probably an English translation somewhere online ... ...and if you have Buchner's play somewhere on the Basilio shelves, that would do too, since Berg hardly changed any of it in constructing the libretto. Of course, you may only have it in German. Or you may not have it at all. Just trying to be helpful. Honest. |
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Fear not, Don B - there is a synopsis here. And if your German is up to it, the libretto may be found here: act 1, act 2, act 3. There's probably an English translation somewhere online ... Thanks tim, that's kind. I did get an O level German, God knows how, but I would be incapable of following it. I know that useful Karadar site, and I have used it in the past when tempted to get whole operas from itunes (eg Ermione.) But the words in detail matter for Berg, and I want to know what they are. I have decided I don't like synopses and I have a number at home. And I have spent hours trying to get an English translation of La gioconda in shape in Word, and decided it is one of those works you don't really need to know the action in too much detail. Thank you also, martle. In any case the real grump is that there is just something you knew where it was and now it just isn't. I hate that. |
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