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Britten (who was a pianist some of the time) liked playing tennis, swimming and birdwatching. I didn't know about Rachmaninoff and gardening.
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« Reply #1366 on: 22:56:11, 04-05-2007 » |
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I think Rachmaninoff had a villa in Switzerland and he planted some trees or something. So I conclude that he liked gardening.
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« Reply #1367 on: 22:57:35, 04-05-2007 » |
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I know he wasn't a pianist, but Cage and mushrooms? This could be another thread, of course...
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« Reply #1368 on: 23:00:21, 04-05-2007 » |
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I know he wasn't a pianist, but Cage and mushrooms? This could be another thread, of course...
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« Reply #1369 on: 23:02:38, 04-05-2007 » |
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Well, he may not have been know for his pianism, but I have a CD of him playing his "Cheap Immitation" on piano. It's on the Cramps label. [Cramps, especially relating to the digestive system, are a common problem associated with eating the 'wrong' mushrooms.] |
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« Reply #1370 on: 01:28:14, 05-05-2007 » |
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I don't know what this has to do with grumpy old rants, but someone once told me Dvorak was an avid trainspotter - anyone know if this is true?
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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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« Reply #1371 on: 03:03:48, 05-05-2007 » |
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I type this as I wait for the interminable cycle on the washing machine downstairs to end so i can finally doze off before my earlyalarm*. Some of Dvorak's tacets are midway between that and waiting for a train I think.
* female next door has some kind of laundry fetish, occasionally combined with loud tv and crossroads-style drama.
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« Reply #1372 on: 08:52:59, 05-05-2007 » |
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I don't know what this has to do with grumpy old rants, but someone once told me Dvorak was an avid trainspotter - anyone know if this is true?
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« Reply #1373 on: 09:47:36, 05-05-2007 » |
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. . . a common problem associated with eating the 'wrong' mushrooms. We are unsurprised . . . he was after all a pretty peculiar creature:  |
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« Reply #1374 on: 09:53:35, 05-05-2007 » |
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what an amazing kitchen!
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« Reply #1375 on: 10:38:01, 05-05-2007 » |
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It's spectacularly cluttered for a Zen Buddhist, isn't it? Not what I would have expected at all. Or maybe he used it as a spiritual exercise to see it as uncluttered.
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« Reply #1377 on: 10:43:47, 05-05-2007 » |
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« Reply #1378 on: 13:13:45, 05-05-2007 » |
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I don't know what this has to do with grumpy old rants, but someone once told me Dvorak was an avid trainspotter - anyone know if this is true?
It is indeed true. marbleflugel. We had quite a discussion on the topic a year or so ago on one of the message boards BBCi used to offer for contributions about Radio 3. Does that mean that though it's spelt Dvorăk, it should be pronounced An-or-ak? |
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« Reply #1379 on: 13:26:28, 05-05-2007 » |
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 We were wearing Anoraks too long. Please please please I want to wear only dresses for a while. |
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