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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. No! (if you'll pardon the expression) - Arts Council WALES, George... Best, Alistair |
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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... Nor am I, but does it matter, since they're all only really interested in soccer anyway? Best, Alistair |
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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. She must be a Brazilian ... |
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I didn't know where to put this link, but here seems as good a place as any. I am indebted to our friend King Kennytone for this: http://www.radiotimes.com/content/features/radio3/Please make sure you're sitting down with a large plastic bowl handy when you view the video. |
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« Reply #22 on: 12:27:40, 10-01-2008 » |
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Who are all those people Apparently they're Radio 3 people. |
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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. That's today, isn't it? Anyone else wake up to a new creative dawn this morning? |
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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. That's today, isn't it? Anyone else wake up to a new creative dawn this morning? Personally I felt like crap this morning, but after taking my New Renaissance (TM) pill for the day I set to work and wrote four string quartets and a cello concerto for Steven Isserlis before lunchtime! Not sure about the side-effects though.  |
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Slightly off-topic, for which apologies, but every time I see this thread the title reminds me of the old parody of William James' philosophy of pragmatism, in which a pragmatist called to give evidence in court takes the witness stand and says: 'I promise to tell whatever is expedient and nothing but what is expedient, so help me future experience.'
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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I didn't know where to put this link, but here seems as good a place as any. I am indebted to our friend King Kennytone for this: http://www.radiotimes.com/content/features/radio3/Please make sure you're sitting down with a large plastic bowl handy when you view the video. Well, I don't have sound on my computer, but I did view the said video (in WMP) without the sound and I suppose that the politest thing I could say about it is that it failed to convey any impression that the sound would in any way enhance the experience (indeed, one suspects that it would do rather the reverse); the experience did at least lend a whole new meaning to the expression "two minutes' silence", but it did little else. I didn't prepare myself by having that large plastic bowl handy. Perhaps the best thing about it was that the quality was so poor that it was difficult to see who some of these people were even were one capable of recognising them in the street. If it is in any sense supposed to represent so much as a single aspect of the celebration of six decades of Radio 3 and its predecessors, you could have fooled me. Had the intention been to celebrate that channel's achievements, might it not have been best to give due advance consideration to what it has actually done best and most uniquely over those 60 years of its existence? - or am I simply being too simplistic and naïve? Best, Alistair Best, Alistair |
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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. That's today, isn't it? Anyone else wake up to a new creative dawn this morning? Personally I felt like crap this morning, I feel like one of those most mornings, actually. but after taking my New Renaissance (TM) pill for the day
Where do you get those, then? HOw did you find out about and source them? Are they available (and did you obtain your own supply) on the NHS? I set to work and wrote four string quartets and a cello concerto for Steven Isserlis before lunchtime!
My oh my! Who are the quartets for? Given your earlier life as a geneticist, is the concerto to be called The Dissecting Male? Not sure about the side-effects though.
Of the pill, your string music composed under its influence or both? By the way, just as a matter of interest, do you actually read The Daily Torygraph or do you merely consult it for pictures such as the one you posted above? Best, Alistair |
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just as a matter of interest, do you actually read The Daily Torygraph Dear me no. I just picked out an image of St Sir John that I hadn't come across before. Finding a silly picture of him is of course an easy matter, but I was actually looking for one of him swimming which I remember seeing somewhere once, on the cover of a colour supplement I think, to which a friend (of mine, not his) had added a speech bubble saying "SUCKERS!" |
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just as a matter of interest, do you actually read The Daily Torygraph Dear me no. I must admit that I'd suspected not. I just picked out an image of St Sir John
I'd thought that you were correct the first time... Finding a silly picture of him is of course an easy matter,
Hard to disagree there... but I was actually looking for one of him swimming which I remember seeing somewhere once, on the cover of a colour supplement I think, to which a friend (of mine, not his) had added a speech bubble saying "SUCKERS!"
I wonder to what precisely your friend was referring thereby? - not the exposed holy minimalist nipples of the said Saint, one hopes... Best, Alistair |
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