Another treat this morning, this time on the Andrew Marr show, BBC1, yes it's usually politics, politics, politics, and Gordon Brown was a guest, but so was Sir John Taverner and violinist Nicola Benedetti. Taverner got into a 'mystery of music' type discussion that we often have on here, he should join R3ok  There was a video clip of Benedetti playing Lark Ascending and then a live excerpt of her playing an arrangement of Taverner's Song for Athene, though I think we had heard barely a minute when the programme credits faded it out.......

Both works are featured on Benedetti's new album, released tomorrow!


John W

Oh, a slip indeed, but surely not Freudian 

Funny to hear Miss Benedetti talks like my sister - the accent, no Freudian slip intended 

Interestingly, the Nicola Benedetti disk of Tavener ( plus the Lark ) gets a top ranked five star review in BBC Music mag and from a reputable reviewer, Stephen Johnson.

>>Sir John Tavener should not be confused with the sixteenth-century composer John Taverner. <<

I have never noticed the spelling Tavener

I still say it was not a Freudian slip, which is generally associated with an unconscious thought; I have always consciously thought both surnames were the same.

Is that a good and proper use of the semi-colon?

I had a Scottish 1960s education and was encouraged (in primary school!) to use the semi-colon to separate two closely linked clauses where the latter clause is an explanation of the situation described in the first, much like your example 

Long live the  ;