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Peter Grimes
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« Reply #60 on: 16:27:10, 23-04-2007 »
There is a madrigal by Thomas Morley entitled "Hard ... by a crystal fountain".
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« Reply #61 on: 16:33:16, 23-04-2007 »
...and a more recent choral piece by Walton entitled "Touch..." - go on, you find it! Don't know how they'd sound together, though (and I hope that Lady Susana isn't eavesdropping here right now...)

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« Reply #62 on: 23:49:33, 23-04-2007 »
Are you sure you're not thinking of a little piece for strings from Henry V?  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #63 on: 10:19:52, 24-04-2007 »
Isn't that "Part her soft lips and touch"?

I'll get me coat.

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« Reply #64 on: 14:01:54, 24-04-2007 »
Quote from: Peter Grimes on 10:19:52, 24-04-2007
Isn't that "Part her soft lips and touch"?

I'll get me coat.

 Kiss

Kindred spirit, PG, kindred spirit...

Duck! The moderators are coming!
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« Reply #65 on: 14:27:56, 24-04-2007 »
This IS one of the threads I regularly read, most entertaining  Cool
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« Reply #66 on: 14:38:49, 24-04-2007 »
Quote from: MT Wessel on 16:42:03, 22-04-2007
'The Fullness of Wind'

The first of 3 variations (deconstructions) of Pachelbel's Canon in D
IIRC, this and the other two titles come from the dodgy English translation (from French) of the sleevenotes of the record on which Brian Eno first heard the piece.
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« Reply #67 on: 14:43:45, 24-04-2007 »
Quote from: Peter Grimes on 10:19:52, 24-04-2007
Isn't that "Part her soft lips and touch"?
I think that you're pretty much in the right area here (if you'll pardon the expression); I just wonder if the double entendre ever occurred to the composer, either at the time of composition or on any later occasion...

I also once saw a certain song mistyped as "Now sleeps the crimson pestal" which, the mis-spelling notwithstanding, reminded me of the likely state of one after some garlic of a certain colour had been well and truly crushed...

Speaking of garlic, incidentally (if you'll pardon the brief digression from the topic), I read somewhere that Roger Sessions, usually regarded (quite erroneously and unfairly) as a dry, academic dullard, once began an annual address to a group of his students with the words "Garlic is the beginning of civilisation".

Now, returning swiftly to the topic, is not another unfortunately titled piece Feldman's The Life in my Viola, or am I mistaken?...

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Alistair
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« Reply #68 on: 18:52:54, 29-04-2007 »
Quote from: ahinton on 14:43:45, 24-04-2007
once began an annual address to a group of his students with the words "Garlic is the beginning of civilisation".

And here was I thinking it was beer.


Speaking of Touch her Soft Lips etc., have we had 'Now, o now I knees must part' yet?
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« Reply #69 on: 19:17:37, 29-04-2007 »
Quote from: ahinton on 14:43:45, 24-04-2007
... is not another unfortunately titled piece Feldman's The Life in my Viola, or am I mistaken?...

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Alistair

http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=16
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« Reply #70 on: 21:02:18, 29-04-2007 »
.......and dodgy album titles perhaps.....

http://www.claddaghrecords.com/www/product.asp?pID=71&cID=20

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« Reply #71 on: 21:06:37, 29-04-2007 »
Can't find it now, but I'm sure there used to be a disc (maybe even an LP) entitled "Krapp plays Scheidt" (Edgar and Samuel, presumably...)
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« Reply #72 on: 13:30:59, 30-04-2007 »
Unfortunate Statement?


I would like to share with members the following from Petroc Trelawny on Music Matters discussing the Last Night of the Proms -

"Surely most of the prommers are singing Land of Hope and Glory with their tongues firmly in their cheeks."

What, muses this member, must that sound like?

This member would also be curious to hear the said assemblage's rendition of 'Largo al Factotum'.
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« Reply #73 on: 14:05:36, 30-04-2007 »
Quote from: roslynmuse on 21:06:37, 29-04-2007
Can't find it now, but I'm sure there used to be a disc (maybe even an LP) entitled "Krapp plays Scheidt" (Edgar and Samuel, presumably...)
No, it was a tape: Krapp's last one, I believe...

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Alistair
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« Reply #74 on: 14:12:43, 30-04-2007 »
Here's a title which is not so much "unfortunate" as self-negating:

Concerto per suonare da me solo

Notwithstanding the arguably idiomatic / incorrect (depending on your viewpoint) Italian of this title of a 1946 work for piano solo by Sorabji, the composer's meaning was clearly "Concerto to be played by myself alone" - a meaning which was lost when it was premièred in 1978 by Yonty Solomon and which has hardly been regained since, as the composer died in 1988 and never performed the work in public anyway. It has more recently been performed and recorded by Jonathan Powell.

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Alistair
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