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Lord Byron
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« on: 12:52:39, 16-03-2007 »
Tempted to ring 'in tune' and pledge £1 if they play the birdy song.
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perfect wagnerite
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« Reply #1 on: 12:57:45, 16-03-2007 »
I'd be tempted to request Birtwistle's Panic but I suspect the irony would be lost ....
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« Reply #2 on: 14:46:26, 16-03-2007 »
Is it all still as desperately funny ( Cry ) as I remember?

While it started out as a great idea, it all got a bit too frantic for me.

But still a good cause. 'cept I'm as near broke as makes no odds.
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« Reply #3 on: 17:34:36, 16-03-2007 »
I can't stand Red Nose Day.

But as for requesting music, how about something by Mussorgsky? He had a lovely red nose, according to the portrait by Repin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modest_Mussorgsky
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« Reply #4 on: 17:42:34, 16-03-2007 »
I was thinking about commissioning the do-it-yourself opera on the subject of Radio 3 Messageboards Grin
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« Reply #5 on: 21:02:14, 16-03-2007 »
roslynmuse, It is such a good idea. I think we should write an opera MB or commission it. We have many composers here.
I can not think of any funny angle at the moment.
It would be nice to hear some funny parts from operas.
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« Reply #6 on: 21:12:57, 16-03-2007 »
That's a good idea, fill in the gaps with words of your choice:

Roger Wright he's a **************,
What a **********************,
Why doesn't he just *************,
And go back to some other station instead.
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« Reply #7 on: 21:14:14, 16-03-2007 »
I was amused by the Lord Berners song: Red Roses and Red Noses sung by the inimitable Felicity Lott.
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« Reply #8 on: 13:25:48, 17-03-2007 »
Was I alone in thinking that the Impropera "improvised operas" were neither operas nor funny, nor even very good?

And that Bill Bailey's cosmic shindig was just appalling? I'm afraid I was in bed with a fever so I tried to listen for as long as I could, but it was unbelievably awful, beyond words awful.

I assume it only got worse after I gave up about 7.40 and chose silence and sleep instead.
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« Reply #9 on: 16:49:19, 17-03-2007 »
BOARD OF THE RING
a tetralogy in four episodes, by
A GENTLEMAN


ACT THE FIRST

SCENE ONE

THE SCENE: the banks of Radio Three by the River Rhine.  Three happy Rheinboarders are gambolling, scampering and waffling. There is a lot of Eb.
MORTICIHILDE: Weia! Weia! How happy we are, posting freely and annoying nobody! Weia! Weia-lala!
ANNHILDE: Weia! Weia! Weia-halla-heia! Sooty & Sweep! And classical music! What fun we are having! Weia-lala!
FRANKHILDE: Weia-lala! Happy and free! Happily posting 'bout Radio 3! For 3! For 3!
ALL THREE: Rhein-board! Rhein-board! Happy are we! Radio Three! Weia-la-lalala-lalala-LAA!

an evil dwarf appears, and tries to flirt with the happy Boarders

RODGERICH THE WRIGHT: (a rather wheezy bass-baritone)
See what I've brought you! Such beautiful gifts!
A Bach Christmas! The Ring In A Day!
On no other station such programmes exist!
What? How can you fling such fine presents away?

RHEINBOARDERS: Weia-lala! Take them away!
We've had these cd's at home for six years!
Find a new RING if that's what you want to play!
This kind of programming bores us to tears!

RODGERICH gruffly pushes aside his listeners, and siezes the Magic Rheinboards

RODGERICH: If you won't love me, then I shall take away your Boards!
I'll take them to Niebelheim, for my Niebelhordes!
I am a Wright, and my fellow wrights too
Shall cancel your boards, 'cos I don't give a poo!

RHEINBOARDERS:
Weh! Weh! Weh! Weh!
The poisonous dwarf has stolen the boards!
Carried them off to his Niebelheim hoards!
Weh! Weh! Weh! Weh!

SCENE TWO, NIEBELHEIM, THE BASEMENT OF BROADCASTING HOUSE. Rodgerich's slaves and automatons are busy reforging the Radio Three Schedules into a new and evil shape. Rob Cowan has been chained to a pit of fire. Jonathan Swain is being eaten alive by vultures. All is in chaos.

RODGERICH:
Rat-dadat-tat! Rad-dadat-tat!
Take the old schedule and break it like that!
Ha-ha-ha-ha!

SCENE THREE, GOETTERHEIM.  Wotan is deeply saddened by the plight of the boardless mortals, but cannot intervene, despite the imprecations of his daughter, Sara Pietsch-Brunnhilde

PIETSCH-BRUNNHILDE:
That Rodgerich's fled back to his awful abode!
Couldn't we turn that bloke into a toad?

WOTAN:
I may not intervene in their mortal-world strife!
And Rodgerich Wright's been a toad all his life!

TOGETHER:
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Tune in next week when Hunding The Moderator and his Pitbull Hounds chase after the Volsungs trying to use the Rheinboards; the Rheinboards fall into the hands of a fiercesome but incredibly stupid fire-breathing dragon; and ultimately the whole of Wrightdom is washed away in a terrible flood, as a punishment for having stolen and profited from the Rheinboards.
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« Reply #10 on: 17:30:13, 17-03-2007 »
Yeah!
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« Reply #11 on: 17:39:18, 17-03-2007 »
Isn't it stupid, while trying to get to sleep last night i kept thinking of verses that could be set for our opera (and then I wrote them down, thus):

He took away our messageboard,
He hasn't got a clue!
He doesn't listen to anyone,
Not you or you or you!

He took away "Mixing it" and also "Stage and Screen",
Then destroyed our messageboard on which we vent our spleen,
He moved around an awful lot to create an early CoTW slot,
And, of course he listened to us all...Not!

(Chorus)
'Cos Roger Wright is a stupid git,
He doesn't care one little bit,
He changed many things to make them worse,
In a way that's really quite perverse!

Yes Roger Wright should go away,
He shouldn't stay another day,
Then we could all shout Horray,
And post again in the old way.

I know, some of that's a bit weak on rhymes etc. but it was a first effort.  Anyone want to do the music?  Grin
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« Reply #12 on: 17:48:33, 17-03-2007 »
I love R-T's opening...
Movies be damned! LET'S MAKE AN OPERA!
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Morticia
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« Reply #13 on: 22:04:08, 17-03-2007 »

R-T,

Only just seen your magnificent offering. Bravo!! I laughed my socks off Grin Grin I wait with eager anticipation for the next Act ........
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« Reply #14 on: 23:53:52, 17-03-2007 »
Ah, the easy way to a diva's heart, Morticia - cast her in the opening scene ;-)
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