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« Reply #75 on: 21:40:11, 19-05-2008 » |
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Correct MJ, the last night 2007 it was. In an inebriated state the name provides eternal amusement, of course (as did Ponce).
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« Reply #76 on: 21:42:21, 19-05-2008 » |
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You're familiar with Scheidt and Manoury and Heinichen and Poot and Cannabich of course.
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« Reply #77 on: 21:45:35, 19-05-2008 » |
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Oh, ollie, for Pete's sake. You can only read you if you click quote. I don't know the composers you mention there. You could shout their names' from the housetops, and I wouldn't have a clue who they were. Readable case, if you please.
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A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #78 on: 21:50:04, 19-05-2008 » |
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Following Eruanto's suggestion I only wanted to whisper some other amusing composer names quietly to fellow Denizens of the Back Rows, DB...  Everything I've heard of Scheidt and most of what I've heard of Heinichen is fantastic though. |
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« Reply #79 on: 09:51:33, 20-05-2008 » |
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Sorry Don Basilio, that's not the one I was thinking of, although it does kind of work with the "diddles" doesn't it? My fault for being so vague!
Not you fault at all, I misread it for: Duh Duh. Diddley dum dum dum Diddley DUH dum dum ...duh-duh DUM-de dum... yes I thought so.  Gosh that reminds me of an old music teacher at school who used to make us all talk through sequences using "Ta ta" and "Taffey teffey". (WAY to turn young people on to classical - make them wish they were dead). I think he was later arrested for posessing dodgy photos. Strange man... |
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« Reply #80 on: 09:57:43, 20-05-2008 » |
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Thanks Ruby2, that's made me  . I seem to remember that Fučík's Entrance of the Gladiators was in a Prom recently - the Last Night? It sounded somewhat better than this version! Yes! I saw an article about that when I was trying to find a midi to see if it was the one. I particularly liked this bit: "Nevertheless, the march's title seems singularly inappropriate. Few gladiators, about to face almost certain death, would have marched into the Coliseum feeling quite as jaunty as their entrance music would suggest." Please can someone put me out of my misery/ignorance and tell me the correct phonetic pronunciation of this name? I'm guessing either Foo-sick (nice), Foo-chick (female fan of the Foo Fighters), Foo-seek (trying to find the Foo Fighters) or Foo-cheek (being rude to the Foo Fighters.) |
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"Two wrongs don't make a right. But three rights do make a left." - Rohan Candappa
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« Reply #81 on: 10:01:02, 20-05-2008 » |
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Casting back to the mines of memory, I have a feeling that a bit of Bartok was used for Emergency Ward 10, the 1950s progenitor of all hospital-based series dramas (after those based on police work, still the second most popular genre). I'm going to have to have a trawl now to find it, though the 'tune' is clear in my head: hectic, swirling winds cut short by a rhythmic tattoo with timps very prominent - from either The Wooden Prince or Miraculous Mandarin, perhaps.
I'm sure a section of Martinu's Frescoes was used for something, too.
Tippett's Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli underpinned Peter Hall's TV film of Akenfield, Ronald Blythe's semi-autobiographical, semi-fictional portrait of a Suffolk village. The sleeve for the Argo LP (ASMiF/Marriner) used for the soundtrack was even redesigned with a pastoral still from the film (haymaking IIRC).
One of the Sunday Classic Serial versions of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins used a section of Britten's ballet The Prince of the Pagodas as its sig. tune.
Ruby2;
Somewhere between options (ii) and (iv).
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« Reply #82 on: 10:01:28, 20-05-2008 » |
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My money is on foo-cheek, with the emphasis on the foo.
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« Reply #83 on: 10:21:53, 20-05-2008 » |
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A very deep trawl through odd corners of the memory brings up a Sunday tea-time series called The Flaxton Boys, whose theme tune was taken from Prokofiev's Classical Symphony.
Has anyone mentioned Face the Music, introduced by an extract from Facade? And, from Home Service days, Listen With Mother introduced by Faure's Dolly Suite? (I have distant memories of sitting in my grandmother's kitchen waiting for The World at One with William Hardcastle to finish before the serious business started. I'm showing my age here).
Edit: Just seen that MJ mentioned it earlier in the thread. I'll go back to sleep.
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #84 on: 10:30:04, 20-05-2008 » |
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Gosh that reminds me of an old music teacher at school who used to make us all talk through sequences using "Ta ta" and "Taffey teffey". (WAY to turn young people on to classical - make them wish they were dead). I think he was later arrested for posessing dodgy photos. Strange man...
Now I'd be the last to go into bat for dodgy photos but I will actually stand up for rhythmic solfège - that really is a good way to internalise the normal subdivisions of a beat, weird as it may seem. Of course there are right and less right times of life to come into contact with that sort of thing (er, just like dodgy photos I guess) but as far as I'm concerned the principle is a good one.  |
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« Reply #85 on: 11:13:32, 20-05-2008 » |
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(I have distant memories of sitting in my grandmother's kitchen waiting for The World at One with William Hardcastle to finish before the serious business started. I'm showing my age here).
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« Reply #86 on: 11:47:23, 20-05-2008 » |
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(I have distant memories of sitting in my grandmother's kitchen waiting for The World at One with William Hardcastle to finish before the serious business started. I'm showing my age here).
PW, I remember that routine too; but am I right in remembering that Watch with Mother was timed nicely to end just before Listen with Mother began (for 4-year-olds who weren't big on William Hardcastle, that is)? Oh gosh Mart, that pic takes me right back down Memory Lane <suddenly sagging with age while still smiling quietly emoticon> Without wishing to veer too far off-topic, does anyone remember the Watch with Mother tray? They would show you a photograph of a tray with objects on it. You were meant to memorise them and then spot which ones were missing when the photograph appeared later. Or have I imagined this? |
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« Reply #87 on: 12:00:44, 20-05-2008 » |
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Oh gosh Mart, that pic takes me right back down Memory Lane <suddenly sagging with age while still smiling quietly emoticon> Without wishing to veer too far off-topic, does anyone remember the Watch with Mother tray? They would show you a photograph of a tray with objects on it. You were meant to memorise them and then spot which ones were missing when the photograph appeared later. Or have I imagined this?
Welcome back, Mort. I certainly remember the tray, but wouldn't like to bet that it was Watch With Mother. On the other hand, in those far-off days, what other programme could it have been on? PW, I remember that routine too; but am I right in remembering that Watch with Mother was timed nicely to end just before Listen with Mother began (for 4-year-olds who weren't big on William Hardcastle, that is)? Probably was; but I wouldn't have had the two in juxtaposition. My Home Service-listening grandmother was Northern, Chapel and had a long list of things of which she disapproved, of which small boys watching television was certainly one. |
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« Reply #88 on: 12:21:49, 20-05-2008 » |
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Wasn't the tray a Picture Book speciality?
Now, of course, it's a Radio3 game. Every rejig they take more things away and replace them with cyphers. Strangely, though, almost no one's ever hoodwinked, and remembers exactly what's been removed: often fondly and with regret.
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« Reply #89 on: 15:22:46, 20-05-2008 » |
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My money is on foo-cheek, with the emphasis on the foo.
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