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« Reply #15 on: 19:12:26, 31-07-2008 »
Quote from: richard barrett on 19:05:02, 31-07-2008
1970 was quite bad for the composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann, the painter Mark Rothko and the poet Paul Celan, all of whom took their own lives in that year.

Perhaps this is a good subject for an opera, Richard? Wink
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« Reply #16 on: 19:24:52, 31-07-2008 »
Quote from: pim_derks on 19:12:26, 31-07-2008
Quote from: richard barrett on 19:05:02, 31-07-2008
1970 was quite bad for the composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann, the painter Mark Rothko and the poet Paul Celan, all of whom took their own lives in that year.

Perhaps this is a good subject for an opera, Richard? Wink

My thoughts have indeed strayed in that direction now and again in the past, but the closest I got was with Celan, and that turned out not to be an opera in the end... plus Zimmermann said all that could be said about this in his own music, and Morton Feldman's Rothko music is for me equally definitive.
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« Reply #17 on: 19:33:47, 31-07-2008 »
Celan made a German translation of a play written by Picasso (!) and I recently heard a radio adaption of this translation. It was very interesting and entertaining, but I don't know if it would be suitable for an opera.
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« Reply #18 on: 21:25:42, 31-07-2008 »
If my memory was correct i always associate Ted Heath with the mantra 'Switch off something' and about the same time i think that ration books were issued although subsequently never used - no wonder he got kicked out!!
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« Reply #19 on: 23:19:44, 31-07-2008 »
Petrol ration books were printed in late  73 after the Yom Kippur war as there were petrol shortages on the horizon. Power workers on strike, another miners strike around the corner. The kids of today don't know they're born! Roll Eyes
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« Reply #20 on: 23:42:02, 31-07-2008 »
Some pieces written or begun in 1970, just an incomplete list from West Germany alone that I have to hand:

Carl Orff De temporum fine comoedia
Boris Blacher Concerto for trumpet and strings, Triga I, Piano Trio, Grosse Kugelkomposition   
Gunter Bialas Musik für 11 Streichen, 7 Moments Musicaux
B.A. Zimmermann Stille und Umkehr, Ich wandte mich und sah an alles Unrecht, das geschah unter der Sonne, 4 kurze Studien, Tratto II
Giselher Klebe, Fantasie und Lobpreisung, op.58,Surge aquilo, et veni, auster, op.60, Variationen über ein Thema von Hector Berlioz
Hans Werner Henze, L’usignolo dell’imperatore, Memorias de ‘El Cimarrón’
Karlheinz Stockhausen Mantra, Singreadfeel
Wilhelm Killmayer, Encore, Fin al punto, The woods so wilde (Kammermusik no.1)
Hans Otte drama (Schau- und Hörspiel)
Manfried Niehaus, Die Badewanne (radiophonisches Lustspiel, J.M. Kamps and Niehaus, after I. Vyscozil), Sinfonia I
Dieter Schönbach, Canzona da sonar 6 (mixed-media show with puppets), Der Sturm (mixed-media show, after W. Shakespeare)
Norbert Linke, Fresco, Piccotelli
Erhard Grosskopf Dialectics, Hörmusik (1970-71)
Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, Zielen
Helmut Lachenmann Dal niente, Guero (1970, rev. 1988), Kontrakadenz (1970-71)
Aribert Reimann, Die Vogelscheuchen . Melusine (4, C.H. Henneberg, after Y. Goll)
Hans-Joachim Hespos sound, druckspuren-geschattet, en kin, palimpsest
Nicolaus A. Huber, Versuch zu ‘Versuch über Sprache’
Michael von Biel Deutsche Landschaften
Johannes Fritsch Sul G (Oktober 1970)
Konrad Boehmer, Weg
York Höller Piano Concerto
Gerhard Stäbler Mo-ped
Peter Ruzicka Antiphonie – Strofe, Sinfonia (1970-71) , Fragment …, ‘5 Epigramme’
Walter Zimmermann Gliss, As a Wife has a Cow 
Wolfgang Rihm Variationen III, Klavierstück no. 1, Klavierstück no. 3 (1970-71)
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« Reply #21 on: 23:54:41, 31-07-2008 »
It is impressive list of names, Ian Pace.

Somehow times are so different now than in 1970s. There were no computers then (at least no personal computers only big frame). There were no mobile phones. I don't know how to express the difference.
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« Reply #22 on: 00:02:37, 01-08-2008 »
Quote from: burning dog on 23:19:44, 31-07-2008
Petrol ration books were printed in late  73 after the Yom Kippur war as there were petrol shortages on the horizon. Power workers on strike, another miners strike around the corner. The kids of today don't know they're born! Roll Eyes

Not only that, it emerged only in 2004 that the Government had seriously been thinking of banning the use of "heated hostess trolleys"  http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2004/jan/01/uk.past  No wonder we bolshie seventies students thought the revolution had almost arrived. A very English revolution it might have been too, if only we had known, with barricades of abandoned hostess trolleys constructed in the streets of the Home Counties. 

[Come to think of it I finally and gratefully handed over my virginity thanks to the blackouts in the three day week so I have to thank Edward Heath at least for that.]
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« Reply #23 on: 00:17:19, 01-08-2008 »
Ah but George, was there custard in 1970?
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« Reply #24 on: 00:19:34, 01-08-2008 »
There was. It was a land flowing with custard. We should have known it couldn't last.
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« Reply #25 on: 00:25:26, 01-08-2008 »
Quote from: George Garnett on 00:02:37, 01-08-2008
thanks to the blackouts
Not, I'm quite sure, solely thanks thereto.
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« Reply #26 on: 00:27:16, 01-08-2008 »
It takes two to black out.
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« Reply #27 on: 11:23:49, 01-08-2008 »
Quote from: George Garnett on 00:02:37, 01-08-2008
Quote from: burning dog on 23:19:44, 31-07-2008
Petrol ration books were printed in late  73 after the Yom Kippur war as there were petrol shortages on the horizon. Power workers on strike, another miners strike around the corner. The kids of today don't know they're born! Roll Eyes

Not only that, it emerged only in 2004 that the Government had seriously been thinking of banning the use of "heated hostess trolleys"  http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2004/jan/01/uk.past  No wonder we bolshie seventies students thought the revolution had almost arrived. A very English revolution it might have been too, if only we had known, with barricades of abandoned hostess trolleys constructed in the streets of the Home Counties. 

[Come to think of it I finally and gratefully handed over my virginity thanks to the blackouts in the three day week so I have to thank Edward Heath at least for that.]

"The revolution will not be telelvised "was the hip record among politically aware  inner city "yoof" at the time Definitely would have been true in the UK - power strikes, blackouts, the Play School clock stopped  due to industrial action!  Or was that later?
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« Reply #28 on: 11:27:53, 01-08-2008 »
Quote from: oliver sudden on 00:25:26, 01-08-2008
Quote from: George Garnett on 00:02:37, 01-08-2008
thanks to the blackouts
Not, I'm quite sure, solely thanks thereto.
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« Reply #29 on: 11:29:59, 01-08-2008 »
Quote from: George Garnett on 00:02:37, 01-08-2008
[Come to think of it I finally and gratefully handed over my virginity thanks to the blackouts in the three day week so I have to thank Edward Heath at least for that.]

Was this in Downing Street or did he do house calls?
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