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Nice story (probably apocryphal) about a live Choral Evensong - announcement - "the choir will now sing a piece of Scheidt"... they didn't...
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« Reply #76 on: 14:41:16, 30-04-2007 » |
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Nice story (probably apocryphal) about a live Choral Evensong - announcement - "the choir will now sing a piece of Scheidt"... they didn't...
Been said before here in a different way, methinks. Sounds abit like "the choir will now Schein" - to say nothing of Schutz perhaps prompting the thought "don't shoot the choristers, they're doing their best" - or maybe even "the orchestra will now play a suit(e) by Coates, followed by a shirt by Gant" - or "Fantaisie Espagnole by Berners, Opus Factor 40". If kept in the Fr idge, Ch Ives last longer... That's Moeran enough of that. Bax to works... Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #77 on: 15:14:46, 30-04-2007 » |
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If kept in the Fr idge, Ch Ives last longer...
Far wide of topic, but when I was a student Michael Finnissy came to my university to give a talk which he called 'Elephants in the Phryg', which was supposedly about how no composer can act in complete unawareness of the past, although apparently it had something to do with an old joke (before my time!) about looking in your fridge and seeing an elephant's footprints in the butter?!? |
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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 #78 on: 15:18:08, 30-04-2007 » |
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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.
Best,
Alistair
One of the variations in Robin Holloway's Gilded Goldbergs is dedicated 'a se stesso'. I've still never worked out whether it's meant to be dedicated to JSB or to RH. |
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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 #79 on: 15:21:13, 30-04-2007 » |
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I always though it was custard (George?) not butter (re t_i_n's Phrygian pachyderms...)
yes, that was it: they paint their toenails yellow so they can't be seen upside down in a bowl of custard...
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« Reply #80 on: 16:04:00, 30-04-2007 » |
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I thought the joke was
"Q: How do you know when you have elephants in your fridge? A: There are footprints in the butter."
which is about as good as
"Q: How do you get 4 elephants in a mini? A: 2 in the front, 2 in the back."
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« Reply #81 on: 01:31:14, 02-05-2007 » |
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What's the biggest drawback in the jungle ? What's grey and comes in pints ? ............ Right !. Thats the end of the 'jokes'. ed.  |
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« Reply #83 on: 13:52:44, 06-05-2007 » |
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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."
My partner - not a music-lover -always calls this LAND OF DOPE AND TORY. |
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« Reply #84 on: 13:56:56, 06-05-2007 » |
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It has been allleged that TUBA MIRUM SPARGENS SONUM from the Requiem Mass was once translated as HARK THE TRUMPET SOUNDS APPALLING.....
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« Reply #85 on: 19:09:04, 06-05-2007 » |
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OperaCat I always sing ' Land of hopeless Tories ......' Well, it gets it out of my system. |
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« Reply #86 on: 19:29:38, 06-05-2007 » |
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I always feel rather let down by that bit in the Messiah about "And He shall be called Councillor"  I'm sure that councillors are all very lovely people but compared with his various other titles it doesn't seem to be aiming quite high enough somehow. |
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« Reply #87 on: 19:50:49, 06-05-2007 » |
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I was tidying up books today and I came across a children's encyclopedia of 1969 (my own in fact). One article in it has the title: GAY CITIES OF LIFE-ENJOYING PEOPLES.
No, it's not the word gay I'm getting at: it's the overall wording. So catchy, don't you think? What child could resist? It actually reads like a clumsy translation.
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« Reply #88 on: 23:51:28, 06-05-2007 » |
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I always feel rather let down by that bit in the Messiah about "And He shall be called Councillor"
Now George, you know full well that his name is, or rather "shall be Colin Wonderful, Councillor".  |
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« Reply #89 on: 00:28:00, 07-05-2007 » |
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No, it's not the word gay I'm getting at: it's the overall wording. So catchy, don't you think? What child could resist? It actually reads like a clumsy translation. "...during reversing, the road directly in front of the rear of the vehicle is illuminated..." "...the car should be painted with a real hairbrush..." "...the car is equipped with disk-type wheels..." |
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