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« on: 19:42:19, 26-03-2007 » |
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Knowing that Richard has recently acquired a recording of Peter Grimes, I'm setting this thread up to see what his thoughts are upon returning to the work?
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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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« Reply #1 on: 22:48:45, 26-03-2007 » |
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Oh Ian!  Well, Richard? Well?? No pressure... |
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Ian Pace
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« Reply #2 on: 22:51:14, 26-03-2007 » |
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Maybe Richard will be tough on Grimes and tough on the causes of Grimes - but maybe not.........?  |
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« Reply #3 on: 23:05:28, 26-03-2007 » |
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I wonder if Richard will ever write that opera about CILIT BANG!
Tommo
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #4 on: 23:08:40, 26-03-2007 » |
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One of the causes of Grimes.  |
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« Reply #5 on: 21:52:44, 18-04-2007 » |
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I am very fond of George Crabbe. He was Jane Austen's favourite poet, and I have never responded to the Romantics: Wordsworth was a worthy, crashing bore, and the rest were self indulgent tossers. (That's a bit unfair on poor very young John Keats, who did write some incredibly beautiful things before his extraordinarily early death.)
Last summer my partner and I registered our civil partnership, and as we were not allowed biblical readings I recommended the following from Crabbe:
The ring so worn, as you behold,
So thin, so pale, is yet of gold:
The passion such it was to prove;
Worn with life's cares, love yet was love.
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« Reply #6 on: 21:57:40, 18-04-2007 » |
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That's lovely, Don.
Do you know this one, by John Donne (it's called 'The Anniversary')?
ALL kings, and all their favourites,
All glory of honours, beauties, wits,
The sun it self, which makes time, as they pass,
Is elder by a year now than it was
When thou and I first one another saw.
All other things to their destruction draw,
Only our love hath no decay ;
This no to-morrow hath, nor yesterday ;
Running it never runs from us away,
But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
My ex registered his civil partnership last summer too (he's Mexican, but lives in London), and they had readings from Pablo Neruda's love sonnets. It was slightly surreal but very beautiful, listening to those being read in Spanish in Bow Road registry office!
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richard barrett
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« Reply #7 on: 08:04:28, 19-04-2007 » |
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Thanks for setting up the thread, but I have to admit that with one thing and another I still haven't heard any of it. Perhaps the assembled company could do an impromptu performance this evening?
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« Reply #8 on: 08:11:08, 19-04-2007 » |
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Ron might like to start us off perhaps? He might have to do both Hobson and Swallow. And probably Balstrode. Up to an point I could probably manage Peter, Boles, Ned and/or Auntie...  Soundwave? Reiner? Tommo, how's your voice? Or perhaps the viola obbligato in the Act II Passacaglia? |
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« Reply #9 on: 09:12:35, 19-04-2007 » |
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You can put me down for Dr Crabbe, Ollie - but please put in a call to my Agent, Fibbs & Killit, to discuss the fee. I will require my own private dressing room, a Filipina maid, and fresh Norwegian lobster for lunch daily. I don't rehearse before noon, and have a substantial number of n/a's during the rehearsal period. I will require a production concept which enables me to sing from the score. Any costume designs must be signed-off by my agent, who will handle all matters whilst I am away for the next 3 months playing the very difficult role of The Corpse in "The Real Inspector Hound" on a British Council tour of Tahiti and Trinidad.
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #10 on: 09:22:01, 19-04-2007 » |
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I'm up for this one, Oz.
Pity Anna isn't here: she and Alison would make good nieces. I'm sure Milly would step into Ellen's shoes admirably. Ian Pace would be good casting for Bob Boles, perhaps?
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« Reply #11 on: 09:23:41, 19-04-2007 » |
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You can put me down for Dr Crabbe, Ollie - but please put in a call to my Agent, Fibbs & Killit, to discuss the fee. I will require my own private dressing room, a Filipina maid, and fresh Norwegian lobster for lunch daily. I don't rehearse before noon, and have a substantial number of n/a's during the rehearsal period. I will require a production concept which enables me to sing from the score. Any costume designs must be signed-off by my agent, who will handle all matters whilst I am away for the next 3 months playing the very difficult role of The Corpse in "The Real Inspector Hound" on a British Council tour of Tahiti and Trinidad.
Reiner,  I'll play the boy apprentice. I can practice my scream for the rest of the day! |
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #12 on: 09:27:26, 19-04-2007 » |
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Maybe we should do the show right here....  |
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« Reply #13 on: 09:28:28, 19-04-2007 » |
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Can I be 'Seventh Man in thick-knit jersey doing something vague and unnecessary with nets'?
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #14 on: 09:32:01, 19-04-2007 » |
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Strikes me that you have the right sort of aura for Balstrode, GG.
I'd like to nominate Carol Kohl from the other place as Mrs Sedley....
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