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Just read your message 41 over there, John, and I'm surprised you've never heard Rossini's Thieving Magpie overture (Gazza Ladra).
Oh is that what it is?  I think I first became really familiar with, what you have now informed me is, La Gazza Ladra on the Clockwork Orange soundtrack, some 35 years ago! Cheers, John W |
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Bryn
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« Reply #406 on: 19:38:21, 13-08-2007 » |
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Mary, where exactly is this nasty anto-Britten stuff? I can't seem to find it.
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Some nasty anti-Britten stuff over there at the moment, most of which I suspect has little to do with his music.
Well, as it happens I don't agree that Peter Grimes is 'one of the greatest operas of the twentieth century', but I certainly think we can see where teleplasm is heading with his Why his reputation hasn't pursued its natural course is too well-known to need stating. This is after all the man who thinks gay Latvians should be left to the hostility of their compatriots. http://r3ok.myforum365.com/index.php?topic=1278.0Bryn, it's in Platform 3 > Private Passions (thread started by Sheherazade). |
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« Reply #408 on: 19:49:57, 13-08-2007 » |
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Ah, thanks t_i_n, I'm allergic to "Private Passions", which may be why I failed to find the anti-Britten stuff.
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« Reply #409 on: 21:15:15, 13-08-2007 » |
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Well, I don't take it very seriously, but I do wish people would say what they mean!
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« Reply #410 on: 21:29:33, 13-08-2007 » |
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Mary, I wonder of the stuff attacking Sandi Toksvig has a similar basis?
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« Reply #411 on: 21:36:39, 13-08-2007 » |
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Can you return the favour, Bryn?
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« Reply #413 on: 23:30:23, 13-08-2007 » |
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Some nasty anti-Britten stuff over there at the moment, most of which I suspect has little to do with his music.
Well, as it happens I don't agree that Peter Grimes is 'one of the greatest operas of the twentieth century', but I certainly think we can see where teleplasm is heading with his Why his reputation hasn't pursued its natural course is too well-known to need stating. This is after all the man who thinks gay Latvians should be left to the hostility of their compatriots. http://r3ok.myforum365.com/index.php?topic=1278.0Bryn, it's in Platform 3 > Private Passions (thread started by Sheherazade).Oh but I'm rather a fan of dear old teleplasm. I do miss him from these boards; after all, he's anxious to make as many new friends as possible. And soooo right-wing as well ! |
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« Reply #414 on: 11:28:54, 14-08-2007 » |
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Mary, I wonder of the stuff attacking Sandi Toksvig has a similar basis?
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« Reply #416 on: 11:43:16, 15-08-2007 » |
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It's true that smittims can't spell, John - and he also appears to like Roderick Williams' voice, which IMHO is an even more serious problem - but I do think you should stop calling him 'smittins'!  |
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« Reply #417 on: 12:26:13, 15-08-2007 » |
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Speaking generally about sniping,would it not be more constructive for the usual targets to put themselves in virtual
(or actual) stocks for wet sponges, canapes ,Daily Mail covermount cds(Kung Fu style) etc to be thrown at them? Traditionally this used to be a way of raising money for charity (displaced in a general sense I suppose by the alternately witty/laboured bits on Children in Need).
If this kind of interactivity at least supplemented the other place a more consructive atmosphere might prevail.
Likewise were 'Wondrous' Rafferty to sit in a booth ready for custard pie/ wet sponge interaction he
would be rendering more of a public service.
The implosion of the brief of celebrity culture in classical circles is signified by
this healthier regression then maybe this is no bad thing, give or take the odd wince at the crasser targettings.
If this post appears a little demented ,apols-I have some oeuvre fermenting at the
moment. I've also just finished reading Berlioz' Memoirs-the Parisian climate even as he writes them rings a few bells in this regard.
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'...A celebrity is someone who didn't get the attention they needed as an adult'
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« Reply #418 on: 12:33:37, 15-08-2007 » |
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the Parisian climate even as he writes them rings a few bells in this regard mf, CONGRUTALATIONS!!! You have just won t_i_n's Mixed Metaphor of the Week Award.  The fish is in the post ... |
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« Reply #419 on: 19:40:58, 15-08-2007 » |
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Looks like TOP has TOPpled over again.
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