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Stockhausen is fifth from the left on the back row, for those of you who like to know these things. Moreover, right next to him, is our very own Offbeat!  The Sun replaced "Offbeat" with Danny DeVito. Not as bad as what they did to Laurel and Hardy ( Ant and Dec ) |
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« Reply #1951 on: 20:17:16, 02-06-2007 » |
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bah bah bah.  I was forced to sacrifice all but five minutes of the Elgar programme on BBC4 this evening. And all for the sake of Doctor Who!! I'm all for Sci-Fi and fantasy, but i find it all rather a popularity quest. And what was worse was that during the five minutes allowed me (while eating, so couldn't see the screen) an older member of my family made some remark about the programme being made "before Ken Russell went on to make proper films". It came over o so wrong. grrr.... |
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« Reply #1952 on: 20:26:31, 02-06-2007 » |
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The Radio Times is the Dr Who magazine these days. Previously it was the Alan Titchmarsh mag.
I saw the Russell film in its entirety for the first time today. It still comes over as very well balanced and a fair assessment (I wondered whether it was going to be heavily influenced by early 1960s thinking).
Perhaps the Introduction and Allegro for Strings was overused a little (I liked the way he progressed from pony to bicycle to motor car) but at least Nimrod was saved for one appearance at the end.
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bah bah bah. I was forced to sacrifice all but five minutes of the Elgar programme on BBC4 this evening. And all for the sake of Doctor Who!! I'm all for Sci-Fi and fantasy, but i find it all rather a popularity quest. And what was worse was that during the five minutes allowed me (while eating, so couldn't see the screen) an older member of my family made some remark about the programme being made "before Ken Russell went on to make proper films". It came over o so wrong. grrr.... Well, I thought I had set the video for the Elgar programme but the wretched thing didn't start .... grr ... moan |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #1954 on: 20:51:34, 02-06-2007 » |
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Eruanto,you need your own pad pronto. I'm beginning to think that good TV- mostly old TV-is best viewed as a
cinematic experience, ergo for select company and art house surround. Alison Krauss has just started singing A Way Down The River on
my laptop, which with a week of dental owww resolved by brill op means I may not be grumpy for quite some time
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'...A celebrity is someone who didn't get the attention they needed as an adult'
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« Reply #1955 on: 21:05:48, 02-06-2007 » |
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you need your own pad pronto. O I know! the only trouble is, even the most vaguely convenient accommodation for RCM is £200 a week minimum! |
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« Reply #1956 on: 21:57:13, 02-06-2007 » |
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# 1961 eruanto, I've DVD recorded the "Elgar" as well as "Gerontious" (mute from B'ham). I've also worked-out the timing for the Rostropovich/Richter recital and was going to ask your preferences to close the DVD recording. Your domestic setback may have provided the answer. I'll give you the programme details, tomorrow, on this thread, basically the Beethoven Sonatas for Cello and Piano .
What a day, what a day,
For an auto de fe!
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« Reply #1957 on: 22:03:19, 02-06-2007 » |
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 that'll be brill, Stanley! 
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« Reply #1958 on: 23:21:06, 02-06-2007 » |
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To Tony Watson trust the Sun to trivialize a great cover - replacing w c fields with danny de vito ...what a cheek - quite like danny de vito but fields is a legend imo - think S.Pepper beatles best album especially day in the life, withinyou without you and good morning... re Russells Elgar - what a beautiful nostalgic film this was - the very essence of england was conveyed and found it very sad with Elgars reaction after WW1 - hopefully they will show the Delius film again  |
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« Reply #1959 on: 21:10:36, 03-06-2007 » |
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# 1963 Putting it Together, eruanto. I've been in the garden, paint brush in hand, doing mundane chores, for most of day; but have also returned indoors, intermittently, to organise and complete a DVD to celebrate your recent baptism-of -fire recital.
Titles 1 & 2. Rostropovich/Richter - a quite electrfying recital which includes full performances of Beethoven's, Sonatas for Cello & Piano.
Op 5, no 1 in f major - Op 5, no 2 in G minor on Title 1
Op 69 in A major - Op 102, no 2 in D major on Title 2
History was in the making at this 1964 Recital as Western audiences were hearing both artists for the first time in concert. Unfussy direction leaves us to concentrate on the performers; heard in a hushed intensity; unaffected by the bronchial season. Dynamism abounds.
Title 3 Elgar: Monitor. It's still a remarkable achievement.
Title 4. I opted for a documentary on Leopold Stokowski to close the programme. You may be interested in his concert at Fairfield Halls when he was already in his 80's in 1969. I was working at the adjacent Ashcroft Theatre, at the time, and can still remember a most graceful Schubert 8, followed by Debussy's Prelude a' l'apres-midi d'un faune; but the showman in Stokowski knew how to deliver a coup de theatre by ending the concert with extracts from Georges Enescu's Romanian Rhapsody, No 2 which literally energised the audience. And how the world has moved on. I noticed that at Edinburgh & Croydon, collar and tie was obligatory for the men in the audience at the time. - and a jacket, of course! I knew little about Enescu (1881 - 1955), apart from his being a teacher to the young Yehudi Menuhin It took some years for me to trace his opera Oedipe on an EMI recording but this work is still neglected
I'll send the DVD in a few days time, Jon, and I'm sure it will be a stimulating distraction from pre-exam tension. Time for you to move to the Happy Room, eh? I wish you well and send my support. Stanley
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Grrr! Rant. Rant. Can you believe they've arrested some a....hole of a woman for setting up a bogus fund for little Madeleine McCann? She's been collecting door-to-door. It's on my newspage. How unbelievable is that? There seem to be no depths too low for some people to stoop to.  |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #1961 on: 15:17:12, 05-06-2007 » |
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Some people seem to function without any conscience. One can only hope she isn't pimping Grandma  |
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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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« Reply #1962 on: 15:42:04, 05-06-2007 » |
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Low life....unbelievable.
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« Reply #1963 on: 18:46:35, 05-06-2007 » |
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Scum, that's what they are.
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Best regards,
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"as the housefly of destiny collides with the windscreen of fate..."
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« Reply #1964 on: 19:03:06, 05-06-2007 » |
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JI would say it`s sick, but it`s way beyond that.
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