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Richard, Whoops! I didn`t express that very well.  What I meant was that the name Isserlis sounds the way his hair looks. Oh dear, it`s rather difficult to explain so maybe I`d better shut up ....  |
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« Reply #1186 on: 12:32:04, 29-06-2007 » |
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It's the way that he faces away from the audience when he plays that I find rather off-putting.
Saw him nearly twonk the leader of the LSO with his bow at the end of a concerto during an absurdly extravagant flourish that seemed designed to demonstrate how deeply he felt the emotional charge of the music.
If you mean that his playing is mannered and overloaded with contrived intensity then I quite agree.
I had a friend who worshipped him and wouldn't hear a bad word said against him. I agreed to never mention him again.
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« Reply #1187 on: 12:32:41, 29-06-2007 » |
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I find his cartography smells like gorgonzola myself...
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« Reply #1188 on: 12:33:44, 29-06-2007 » |
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Richard, Whoops! I didn`t express that very well. What I meant was that the name Isserlis sounds the way his hair looks. Oh dear, it`s rather difficult to explain so maybe I`d better shut up .... No that's not "Isserlis" that's "Draggedthruahedgebackwards". |
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« Reply #1189 on: 12:39:50, 29-06-2007 » |
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If you mean that his playing is mannered and overloaded with contrived intensity then I quite agree.
****STRIDENCY ALERT**** ****STRIDENCY ALERT**** Sorry about that. I should point out that the friend that I mentioned was one with whom I had convinced myself I was deeply in love. I was, of course, jealous. And this has coloured my judgment ever since. A couple of years ago she heard the voice of God while she was playing the cello and she started 'healing' people with her playing. Now she's married to a 'Christian tour guide' (in inverted commas because it works no matter how you want to hyphenate it) living in Israel. She was one of those intensely intense people in search of a spirituality - rather too desperate for it to all make sense (but who am I to judge? I was just desperate!) |
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« Reply #1190 on: 13:20:24, 29-06-2007 » |
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Ah well. This won't do. Off to school sports day in a mo to cheer on, encourage, celebrate or commiserate. It's blowing a gale but at least the rain is holding off. It'll hold back the runners unless they fix it so the wind's behind them all. Those eggs will be whizzing off those spoons into the Irish Sea....  Great fun! |
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« Reply #1191 on: 13:31:59, 29-06-2007 » |
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Have fun.
Sports day always used to be fun. A nice day out in the fresh air and nobody expects me to do anything. Except for the year that one of my best friends was ill and I stood in for him and came last in all seven races.
I've just been deleting all of the notes that I put online for my students, just in case the module leader tries to recycle them next year - I wasn't paid to design the course but ended up doing it because if I didn't...
But I really must get up now. The sun is shining.
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« Reply #1192 on: 14:01:48, 29-06-2007 » |
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I find his cartography smells like gorgonzola myself...
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« Reply #1193 on: 14:14:32, 29-06-2007 » |
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I spent many happy hours at school making daisy-chains while pretending to be Backstop in rounders.....I became adept at getting out of that vicious game, lacrosse, but somehow never managed to find the same excuses for rounders. I'm probably the world's best daisy-chain maker.  To this day the Old Girls' annual bulletin is called "The Daisy Chain". I assume it's named after me. |
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« Reply #1194 on: 14:18:06, 29-06-2007 » |
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Whoops! I didn`t express that very well. What I meant was that the name Isserlis sounds the way his hair looks. Oh dear, it`s rather difficult to explain so maybe I`d better shut up .... Mort, If it's any comfort, I know exactly what you meant! And I even agree with you ... |
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« Reply #1195 on: 14:21:56, 29-06-2007 » |
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Mary, I hated, hated, hated sports and gym at school. Sadly, there were no daisies in the vicinity of our torture field. I recently found an old school report of mine. The entry for PE says `Tries hard`. Says it all really, doesn`t it?  |
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« Reply #1196 on: 14:31:59, 29-06-2007 » |
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"Tries hard" is a brilliant report, Morticia! I remember a school games report that read "Mary must remember to mark her opponent". I didn't know what it meant then and I don't now. It was only surpassed in unimportance by the one for needlework (when I was about nine) that read "Mary must remember to end off her threads".
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« Reply #1197 on: 14:41:04, 29-06-2007 » |
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Mary, Needlework? Shriek!! More torture. The best I can manage, even now, is tacking I was once thrown out of Needlework class by a particularly grumpy nun because I committed the cardinal sin of breaking a machine needle. Not sure which ring of hell that places me in ..... |
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« Reply #1198 on: 14:49:16, 29-06-2007 » |
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« Reply #1199 on: 15:00:59, 29-06-2007 » |
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Mary, I hated, hated, hated sports and gym at school. Sadly, there were no daisies in the vicinity of our torture field. I recently found an old school report of mine. The entry for PE says `Tries hard`. Says it all really, doesn`t it? So did I - avoiding them at every opportunity, a trait I have passed on to my daughter (I am an extremely soft touch when it comes to writing a note to get her excused). Following a period of extended slacking she was recently hauled in by the head of PE at school and given a talking-to about attitude. Unfortunately the PE teacher made the mistake of threatening to write to her parents; teenage daughter accurately, but tactlessly, pointed out that: i) her parents wouldn't care; and ii) as a trombonist she was getting much better cardio-vascular exercise than anything on offer in school PE |
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