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Tell you guys something though. You just cant beat a good brass band contest!! Ive played in many and attende quite a few, especially 'The National' and 'British Open'. Saying that, I'm going to playing in our own brass band associations quartet and ensmeble contest this month. I be involved i n our entry of the octet.
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« Reply #2431 on: 14:06:51, 09-02-2008 » |
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IMO you'd have to go a long way to beat JFK's "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" (tr: " I am a doughnut" or so I am told) |
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Well, there you are.
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« Reply #2433 on: 07:06:55, 10-02-2008 » |
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I was googling to see if a Tibetan tenor I heard singing at a friend's house has been performing when I came across a piece in English on a Tibetan site. It includes this which made me chuckle: It's the great Europe overseas Chinese singing contest with the largest participants since the contest started 10 years ago.  In a few years this is bound to supplant the Eurovision, and I can see a brass band being roped in as well. BBM, what are you playing? Like so many I started out in BB's and the musicianship and ensemble can be breathtaking, preferably when they've got something decent to play. Enjoy. |
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'...A celebrity is someone who didn't get the attention they needed as an adult'
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« Reply #2434 on: 10:26:43, 10-02-2008 » |
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Our MD has done an arrangement of Mozart's Eiene Kleine. We did Denis Wright's Septet and came 3rd last time.
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« Reply #2435 on: 15:28:13, 11-02-2008 » |
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Oh I'm at work and I'm not supposed to be here on Monday afternoons.
But it's got to the stage where I'm not actually doing any work, I'm just sitting here.
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'is this all we can do?' anonymous student of the University of Berkeley, California quoted in H. Draper, 'The new student revolt' (New York: Grove Press, 1965) http://www.myspace.com/itensemble |
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« Reply #2436 on: 21:14:54, 11-02-2008 » |
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Oh I'm at work and I'm not supposed to be here on Monday afternoons.
But it's got to the stage where I'm not actually doing any work, I'm just sitting here.
Right - To The Bus!
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« Reply #2437 on: 23:39:22, 12-02-2008 » |
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I thought that people might be interested to hear that for February, our institution's calendar has the following words: Did you try?
Did you fail?
Try again
Fail again
Fail better It's unattributed but somehow it's rather familiar... Also not terribly motivational unless taken in the correct context. Rather a weird thing to find on a corporate calendar. |
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« Reply #2438 on: 10:08:56, 13-02-2008 » |
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True a very weird thing for a company to have their employees to see. Some strange psycological excercise methinks?
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« Reply #2439 on: 13:05:45, 13-02-2008 » |
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WAFFLE FROM RANDOM PLACES NO.148 Komperdellbahn, up to Ladiz. Oops! Just been very late picking up mini-skiier from ski school for lunch. Penance? A bottle of wine for the ski lehrer, and now off to do a few black runs  Not much waffle going on at the mo... Hope you are all ok, and thanks for my germy wishes, Mort! Tommo |
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« Reply #2440 on: 13:28:06, 13-02-2008 » |
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Did you try?
Did you fail?
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Fail better It's unattributed but somehow it's rather familiar... The second bit is Samuel Beckett, but I don't think the questions are him. Here is a painting by Tom Phillips:  |
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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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« Reply #2441 on: 13:32:08, 13-02-2008 » |
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Its that old adage thing again, yes? If a jobs worth doing, its worth doing properly. So I suppose if you fail in doing something, you might as fail miserably and if you do something well, you have to do it brilliantly!!!
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« Reply #2442 on: 13:38:59, 13-02-2008 » |
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Its that old adage thing again, yes? If a jobs worth doing, its worth doing properly. So I suppose if you fail in doing something, you might as fail miserably and if you do something well, you have to do it brilliantly!!!
Erm, I don't think that's quite what Beckett meant. Of course there're the old Dylan lines too: 'there's no success like failure / And failure's no success at all'. But that means something different again. |
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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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« Reply #2443 on: 13:41:25, 13-02-2008 » |
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Or as I have always maintained: If a job needs doing badly enough, it's worth doing badly enough.
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« Reply #2444 on: 13:48:46, 13-02-2008 » |
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Of course there're the old Dylan lines too: 'there's no success like failure / And failure's no success at all'. But that means something different again.
 Which episode was that, tinners? |
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