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George Garnett
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« Reply #15 on: 08:56:02, 15-11-2007 »
"No darling, you completely misunderstand. It was merely a slip of the finger. I was asking my assistant Ms Banquette, perhaps over-forcefully, to be sure to have available the set of goat-skin drums we needed at the earliest possible opportunity. What I meant to say was 'I WANT TO FIND YOUR NAKERS when I arrive'...... Ow, that hurt!"




Quote from: oliver sudden on 16:55:11, 14-11-2007
Imagine the shock when he opened his hotel room door:

Serious life-threatening <snork> there, Mr S Grin . Please give a warning before you do that sort of thing.   
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« Reply #16 on: 11:17:52, 18-12-2007 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 07:34:16, 05-11-2007
I have said for years that conductors are off in their own little world.

Not only conductors we think but musical people in general - it is quite a well-known and widely accepted fact. Here is one possible explanation:
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« Reply #17 on: 11:33:42, 18-12-2007 »
"The most extreme and tragic example of the brain's ruthlessness in this regard is..."

... and at that point, dear Reader, a synapse in the journalist's own brain snapped, depriving us forever of the vital clue we sought....
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« Reply #18 on: 17:58:48, 18-12-2007 »
Quote from: oliver sudden on 16:55:11, 14-11-2007
Quote from: strinasacchi on 21:35:30, 13-11-2007
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With Lunchtime O’Boulez: “Born in 1936 but still obviously game, as conductors tend to be, he sent an email. She was to pick up the key, go to the room and wait for him, with strict instructions (as the email said) ‘I WANT TO FIND YOU NAKED when I arrive’. Unfortunately he sent these instructions not only to the lady but to everyone else in his address book, including agents, artists, concert promoters throughout the world and, alas, his wife…”

Imagine the shock when he opened his hotel room door:



Ah, so many women, so little time...
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« Reply #19 on: 18:09:27, 18-12-2007 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 11:33:42, 18-12-2007
"The most extreme and tragic example of the brain's ruthlessness in this regard is..."

... and at that point, dear Reader, a synapse in the journalist's own brain snapped, depriving us forever of the vital clue we sought....

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The most extreme and tragic example of the brain's ruthlessness in this regard is that of a severely abused and neglected 13-year-old girl who was discovered imprisoned in her parents' house in Los Angeles in 1970. The girl had been isolated and strapped to a potty chair since infancy and when she was discovered by police she could neither talk nor walk. During the years after her rescue she turned out to be intelligent and inquisitive, but try as she did she could never learn English grammar - the connections she needed to absorb it had been cut during her years of isolation.

Brad Newsome would appear to be the journalist in question. As far as I know his synapses are OK.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv-reviews/my-brilliant-brain/2007/11/22/1195321935006.html
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« Reply #20 on: 18:55:37, 18-12-2007 »
Brains work differently - whether this is due to factors which we are born with or which we acquire/lose, I'm not sure, probably a combination of both. A child's being able to learn quite a lot of the fundamentals of a language at a very young age, when they don't even know what 1+1 maps to, indicates that a human brain doesn't function as a simple information acquisition machine. I know from experience that the area of my brain which handles face recognition doesn't work very well, so I often have people recognizing me when I don't know them. Also the area of my brain which would allow me to play piano like Marc Yu is similarly deficient - well, that's my excuse Cheesy Hence no surprise that conductors have different brains.
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