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Purnell told the Guardian: "When Brian talks about the potential for a new Renaissance, I don't think that's an overstatement. It's exactly true." Get your hand off it, mate.  Unless perhaps by 'exactly' he means that as in the 'real' Renaissance rule and wealth are going to be confined to a small largely hereditary élite which retains its position by corruption and force. Then I could see his point. |
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George Garnett
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« Reply #2 on: 10:34:17, 05-01-2008 » |
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Interesting though as signalling an apparent policy shift away from measurable 'targets' which a lot of us have been complaining about.
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« Reply #3 on: 11:02:01, 05-01-2008 » |
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... members will no doubt be assured by the following news item, headlined "Britain on verge of 'new Renaissance', minister claims":
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Reiner Torheit
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« Reply #4 on: 11:09:32, 05-01-2008 » |
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ushering in a "new Renaissance" comparable with that in 15th century Italy, Someone used that comparison before... someone jog my memory, would you? How much would it affect Purnell if one of the dots stopped moving? |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
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Who exactly is going to decide in advance which of these pieces of stuff will achieve world-class status? And on what grounds? I have a sinking feeling that 'world-class' here equals 'Lowest Common Denominator commercial success' rather than ground-breaking intellectual work.
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George Garnett
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« Reply #6 on: 11:24:58, 05-01-2008 » |
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... members will no doubt be assured by the following news item, headlined "Britain on verge of 'new Renaissance', minister claims":
On the other hand they might be scared shirtless at the prospect. To your easel, Mr Barrett. Arts Council England expects. |
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« Reply #7 on: 11:48:44, 05-01-2008 » |
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Interesting though as signalling an apparent policy shift away from measurable 'targets' which a lot of us have been complaining about. I'm not entirely sure what's worse in principle: movable goalposts or no goalposts at all... |
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« Reply #9 on: 12:59:31, 05-01-2008 » |
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Don't know about the Renaissance idea but I look forward to the forthcoming review, as I know its author to have the utmost integrity and independence of vision. Therefore I doubt it very much that 'lowest common-denominator commercial success' will figure in his interpretation of excellence. As for the implementation of ideas as policies, well that's in the hands of the politicians, isn't it?  |
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« Reply #10 on: 13:23:55, 05-01-2008 » |
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Who exactly is going to decide in advance which of these pieces of stuff will achieve world-class status? And on what grounds? The latter is the question upon which those given to such lofty rhetoric frequently fall silent. |
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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Britain may be about to produce "the greatest art yet created", ushering in a "new Renaissance" comparable with that in 15th century Italy, according to a policy review to be published by the government next Thursday. I'm sorry, but the bathos of this sentence is just too funny for words! |
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« Reply #12 on: 22:01:41, 06-01-2008 » |
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No doubt the History Books will already be briefed to record that this new Golden Age of Artistic Achievement flowered under a Labour Administration  |
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« Reply #14 on: 18:34:04, 09-01-2008 » |
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Rowan Pelling, in todays Daily Telegraph, has James Purnell firmly in his crosshairs Rowan Pelling, ex-editor of the Erotic Review, is a she, I believe, not that I can claim ever to have been firmly in her crosshairs myself. |
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