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When I was young and idealistic I somehow felt the need to repay a debt to society, and taught classroom music for a year in a school dahn the Eas' End (which soon cured me). The Head was a tweedy traditionalist who didn't really have his finger on the pulse, but firmly believed a Christmas Carol Concert was something that bound the whole school together with the community, and therefore we'd have one - and I would prepare and stage it, please.
Oh the fun and laughter we had with
In his master's steps he trod, where the snow lay dinted,
Heat was in the very sod, which the Saint had printed
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore has caused some embarrassment. It was originally spelt Ruddygore but it was changed to try and spare some blushes.
But hymns can easily be misunderstood in schools. I remember when were were about 7 years old, the line: They set him on his throne so rude which comes from the Easter hymn Come, faithful people, come away used to make some of us giggle. This was Jesus and it was rude! The teacher had to explain to us the various meanings of the word "rude".
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I often wondered why they couldn't build a city wall for that Green Hill Far Away, if it was without one and really needed one?
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I often wondered why they couldn't build a city wall for that Green Hill Far Away, if it was without one and really needed one?
I had the same problem, Reiner. We always got the giggles at "Let us bring/Peculiar honours to our King" in Jesus Shall Reign . Even more feebly, chewing motions were evident during "Songs be in every mouth" from Hills of the North, Rejoice. |
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I used to sing in a couple of church choirs in Melbourne. In one of them half the choir was invisible to the congregation which was not necessarily a good thing for our concentration. One morning we were doing the odd bit of miming to go with the hymns, as one does. Alas after we got to the line 'every member feel his share' the need to stifle giggles outweighed the need to continue singing.
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« Reply #50 on: 19:37:36, 17-04-2007 » |
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Ho! The "proper" Thomas Hardy, in the Mayor of Casterbridge, had a character gaze upon "the unattractive exterior of Farfrae's erection".
Dear old Dickens leapt in, in Bleak House, with "Sir Leicester leans back in his chair and breathlessly ejaculates."
Cheers.
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Ho! I may be old yet I am still lusty
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Oh, well, if we are going there Soundwave, let's not forget that Pip in Great Expectations was famously 'brought up by hand' by Mrs Joe Gargery. But, as Pip rightly complains later, bringing him up by hand "did not give her the right to bring him up by jerks".
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"At fifteen, appearances were mending; she began to curl her hair and long for balls."
Northanger Abbey, I believe.
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And if we are going to drag Jane Austen into this, a surprising extract from Mansfield Park (Chapter 5: the underlinings are Miss Jane's very own):
"Of various admirals I could tell you a great deal: of them and their flags, and the gradation of their pay, and their bickerings and jealousies. But, in general, I can assure you that they are all passed over, and all very ill used. Certainly, my home at my uncle’s brought me acquainted with a circle of admirals. Of Rears and Vices I saw enough. Now do not be suspecting me of a pun, I entreat.”
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Well, then there's Shakespeare...
Come, we'll to sleep. My strange and self-abuse
Is the initiate fear that wants hard use.
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I can still see very clearly the arithmetic text book at prep school that bore in VERY LARGE letters Vulgar and Common Fractions. Should young children have been exposed to such baseness at such a tender age, I wonder?
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Since the subject of this thread is no longer only about unfortunate titles, but unfortunate lines in general, I might just as well ask: 'My Master comes like any Turk,
And bangs me most severely'from the folksong 'Sally in our alley' - what is that all about???  |
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William Lloyd Webber - Five Portraits for home organs.
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New English Hymnal does not include the Advent hymn in the original RVW edition Behold the bridegroom cometh in the middle of the night
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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