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By familiar fields, marsh and sand, ordinary streets, prevailing wind. Greetings to everyone, I look forward to contributing in future. Meanwhile, I'm browsing this splendid MB with mounting pleasure.
We'll sail together. Those Borough gossips listen to money, only to money.
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"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
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oliver sudden
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« Reply #1 on: 14:32:12, 07-03-2007 » |
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Trying to find a welcoming quotation addressed to Peter. Of course the opera being what it is there aren't many. And even if there were I'm surrounded by quarrelsome Swiss urchins brawling at their little games. You're clearly not Australian, Peter?  |
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« Reply #2 on: 14:36:49, 07-03-2007 » |
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Welcome Peter Grimes. Are you from the opera by Britten?
I am glad that we have another contributor to the MB. I am warning you that there are foreigners here with bad spelling and bad grammar. I apologize right away.
There are many opera characters here. I should be Tatjana from Eugine Onegin, though I live now in a country that is much closer to you.
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Ian Pace
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« Reply #3 on: 14:42:02, 07-03-2007 » |
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'Parsons may moralise and fools decide,
But a good publican takes neither side
And if a man drinks quiet and can pay
No decent landlady turns trade away.'
(third and fourth lines did not make it from Communist Party member Montagu Slater's libretto into the final opera - couldn't have everything being to do with money, as the Borough gossips would have it, could we?)
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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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Ian Pace
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« Reply #4 on: 14:43:11, 07-03-2007 » |
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By the way, re the title of this thread, Slater's original line was 'I'm a provincial, rooted here'.
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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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Ron Dough
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« Reply #5 on: 15:11:58, 07-03-2007 » |
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Peter Grimes!
Do you wish to give evidence?
Will you type into the box....
Welcome, Op 33.
There's brandy and hot water to spare....
And remember:
We live, and let live,
And look, we keep our hands to ourselves....
...So long as satire don't descend
To fisticuff or quarrel.
Ron
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Mary Chambers
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« Reply #6 on: 16:37:23, 07-03-2007 » |
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Peter, we shall restore your name Warmed by the new esteem That you will find... We can do this for hours, you know  Ron stole the quotation I wanted to use - "We live and let live....". |
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Ian Pace
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« Reply #7 on: 16:49:29, 07-03-2007 » |
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Personally, I like:
Balstrode: 'Bring us a pint'
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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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Peter Grimes
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« Reply #8 on: 16:56:15, 07-03-2007 » |
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The argument's finished, friendship lost, gossip is shouting, everything's said.
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"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #9 on: 17:30:39, 07-03-2007 » |
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Fool, to let it come to this......
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Martin
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« Reply #10 on: 17:39:43, 07-03-2007 » |
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Anyone for a libretto thread?  |
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« Reply #11 on: 17:42:16, 07-03-2007 » |
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We are writing an opera as we go alone. We use music of many composers and all musical periods. The plot combines comedy and tragedy, but it will have a happy end.
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Mary Chambers
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« Reply #12 on: 19:53:18, 07-03-2007 » |
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It occurred to me that there must be Real People called Peter Grimes; indeed there are 38 of them on Friends Reunited. There are also 3 Billy Budds. No luck with Albert Herring, even though Britten used the name of a local shopkeeper. I suppose there aren't many Alberts these days, though it's probably due for a trendy revival. No Ellen Orford or Owen Wingrave, either. (You can tell I've got time to waste, can't you? ) |
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #13 on: 21:21:31, 07-03-2007 » |
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William Spode? Ned Keene? Horace Adams?
Don't want to think of you at a loose end, Mary...
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Kittybriton
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« Reply #14 on: 21:51:16, 07-03-2007 » |
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We are writing an opera as we go alone. We use music of many composers and all musical periods. The plot combines comedy and tragedy, but it will have a happy end.
And lesbian marsupials? there have to be lesbian marsupials. |
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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