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« Reply #60 on: 14:54:32, 24-03-2007 » |
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Handel. I've seen it before but can't remember where. Westminster Abbey?
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« Reply #61 on: 15:40:31, 24-03-2007 » |
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Who? - Handel Correct, TonyWhere? Not Westminster Abbey, not very far away though. What? I suppose that can be 'statue by the artist ...........'There's an interesting point about the When? ......  John W
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« Reply #62 on: 18:56:16, 24-03-2007 » |
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I think I saw this sculpture recently. Possibly it was during Handel as a composer of the week on Radio 3. May be I am dreaming, but this sculpture looks very familiar.
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« Reply #63 on: 19:29:17, 24-03-2007 » |
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There are several statues of Handel. This one is a bit special in that he's not wearing a massive wig, he's very casually dressed (one of his feet is out of his shoe/slipper) and most unusual it was made and erected when he was still alive! THAT is unusual for a statue to an artist.
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« Reply #64 on: 19:32:37, 24-03-2007 » |
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Who - Handel, we know - by Roubillac!
When - 1738.
Where - Vauxhall Gardens.
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« Reply #65 on: 19:36:20, 24-03-2007 » |
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Now in the V&A I think?
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« Reply #67 on: 19:55:53, 24-03-2007 » |
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I don't know when it was either, John, but I have a vague and distant memory of there being a bit of a tussle (of the sort that refined museum directors have i.e. vicious, unprincipled and with no hostages taken  ) between the National Portait Gallery and the V & A over who should have it. The V&A won but Roy Strong got sweet revenge by taking over there in due course. |
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« Reply #68 on: 20:12:30, 24-03-2007 » |
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Thanks George and tonybob,
I liked the comment in the V&A page that the statue had more life in its original garden setting, what with daylight and, likely, shadows of trees etc.
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« Reply #70 on: 20:15:03, 24-03-2007 » |
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It was considered to be an excellent likeness of Handel. (There is a memorial to him in Westminster Abbey, which is what I was thinking of.)
I've got a book called London's Finest Statues and unfortunately this one doesn't appear. There are just two of composers, in fact: one of the boy Mozart in Ebury Street which was only put up in 1994, and the one of Sullivan on the Victoria Embankment Gardens, although it is the half-dressed, grieving woman who receives the attention, for some reason.
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« Reply #71 on: 13:11:05, 25-03-2007 » |
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Who? What? When? Where? (debut)  |
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« Reply #72 on: 13:22:52, 25-03-2007 » |
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Radames, Aida (Verdi). It is not Alagna? The face is similar. This is Alagna  This is Corelli  |
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« Reply #73 on: 14:36:47, 25-03-2007 » |
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It's not a baby Carreras is it? (Largely on the basis that it's not a baby Pavarotti or Domingo ) |
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« Reply #74 on: 17:22:43, 25-03-2007 » |
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Well done George,
Who? Jose Carreras Correct
so the other answers are
what - role, when - year of debut, and where - city
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