funny typo alert

It wasn't a typo in fact - common parlance among choir members !

Which shows how much choral knowledge I have!

Never mind - glad it raised a smile.

Famous Folk-Settings by Percy Grainger played by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta conducted by Kenneth Montgomery.

Welcome To My Nightmare-Alice Cooper

Not School's Out! then?

Nope, it would have been appropriate though!

Yuja Wang Stravinsky Russian Danse on youtube

Jazz - 'Birth of a Butterfly' by Enrico Rava played by the composer (trumpet) and Stefano Bollani (piano).

this

Das war aber gut, mein Freund. Jetzt haben Sie etwas zu uben - Ravel, oder Brahms?

Etwas besser als den Klarinetten, nicht wahr?!

I can't speak German : I have no clue what any of that says

"That was pretty good, my friend. Now you have something to practise - Ravel or Brahms?"

"A bit better than clarinets, don't you think?"

(All part of the service!)

A bit better than clarinets...hmm...

Of course, Dugazon* might translate it differently!


*A German-speaker - am I right?

Richard Dawkins' broadcast, The Age of the Genome - broadcast yesterday on Radio 4.

Dawkins is superb in his own field of evolutionary biology - I do hope that this isn't eventually lost, adumbrated by his forays into religious polemic.


Aaarrghh! the continuity announcer just said, "RD now explores the importance OF this epic achievement TO science ..."

I despair!

I utterly agree! Sometimes he seems to be dangerously near to atheist (as opposed to religious) extreme fundamentalism! While most of his scientific reasoning is pretty impeccable and certainly fascinating, some of the arguments he uses to shore up his diatribe against the spectre of religious ignorance - eg creationism as a sort of all-pervading disease - really don't quite wash. He makes sweeping generalisations about the lack of serious teaching of evolutionary theory in schools that I find it hard to believe he could back up with rigorous data. Quite contradictory, really.

Might see see if I can get him on iPlayer though!

Yep!

Would you like to rephrase correctly for the benefit of Forumites education, please?

"RD now explores the importance of this epic achievement to science (this final emphasis would be optional) ..."

Dawkins is as eloquent a speaker as he is a writer; this continuity announcer's deficiency was all the more exposed.

The last of this year's Reith Lectures Scientific Horizons: 2010 delivered by Astronomer Royal Martin Rees.

The Age of the Genome, Scientific Horizons - easy listening as I wind down for the weekend!

Restless Gypsy-W.A.S.P.

I'm sure I composed that one!!

- so is that what the German translates to : 'composed by Juniper'...

Young Rascals : 'Groovin' ' : there's a good summer track for you!

Mozart- Gran partita for thirteen wind instruments.

Holby City from two weeks ago

Radio 3: A percussion work involving what sound like only bongos, by Xenakis!

Now it's John Cage Amores, again involving only percussion - Adrian Spillett playing; remember him from Young Musician of the Year? How many years ago was that?

Oh, got it at last! It was an aural (and oral) rather than a grammatical offence...

It was indeed and all too prevalent both on the radio and the television. I don't understand why no-one at the BBC has had it pointed out to them. There are language programmes such as Word of Mouth that discuss this very thing and yet it seems to have snowballed, if anything.

To my mind, it's more annoying than that upward inflection at the end of a sentence, transforming it into a question, because it is so clearly wrong to emphasise the prepositions as they do - although in certain contexts it is OK ,when comparing position say, e.g. "Is the cat sitting ON or BY the TV?" - instead they steamroller over the words that ought to be emphasised and land heavily upon those that are most inappropriate.

Now, what if the words were printed for them on a stave with markings of dynamics and articulation?!

Where's my phone? ........

The Baseballs, Strike. It makes me laugh so much (not good on a train)

Clare Balding in Ramblings on Radio 4 iplayer - the last stage of the South Downs Way.

I lived in Eastbourne for several years in my youth - that's where the series started, on Beachy Head. When Dad didn't have to prepare for an evening church service, we would go up onto the Downs on Sunday afternoon.

This programme will end up approaching Winchester, at the other end of the walk.




I'm also about to do the washing-up!

Je ferai la vaisselle?

I heard that too! And the Pierre Boulez Sonatine for flute and piano.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ7pOJn6SDM (again)

This has to be my favourite Schubert piece. The emotional impact it has on me is indescribable... I really want to be able to play this one day, I think I'd have a lot to say about it

Isn't it great?! Sections which parallel Beethoven's Moonlight, yet with barely-contained rage amongst it all and almost a transcription of part of his Gb Impromptu towards the end.

I'm playing the 'little' A major Sonata for my Diploma; this is the 'Great' A major, written at the other end of his short life (he only lived to 31!).

Do listen to the rest of the sonata Sol', then start learning it in preparation for your LRSM!

I wish!

Saying that, I'll be ticking off a piece today in my lesson, I think... Then I'll fix a piece I tried a while ago and then it's a question of what to try next... My list of "study very soon" is:

- Albeniz - Tango (from Espana)
- Field - Nocturne in D Minor
- Chopin - Op.28 No.6
- Schubert - Adagio D178 (might be biting off a fair bit more than I can chew, but have been trying some of it this morning)

Argh, decisions!

There seems to be a bit of Noel playing this afternoon, rather spiffing, don't you know?

Toodle-pip.

"But it's another six months until Christmas!" I thought.

It must be the sun!

"Mad dogs and Englishmen ...."

I thought he meant "Gallagher".

Schumann Intermezzo from op.26 and Arabesque op.18

I've been wanting to learn some Schumann for his anniversary year but still can't decide between these two since January... Must get cracking before the year runs out! (And this year goes scarily fast for some reasons )

That's right, although the version I had on was different to the song book.

Much prefer the Arabesque to be honest

What, "Mad Tom and Englishmen ..."?



The Arabesque was the first piece of Schumann that I learned. Then the first of the Noveletten, followed by his set of fugues (yes, Schumann! In addition, he wrote a set of 6 for organ, based on the notes for BACH and a set of canons!), before I dabbled in some of Kreisleriana.

That in turn led to the piano accompaniments for his Romances and Fantasiestucke for Oboe and Clarinet.


So, I suppose I'd better put something on to listen to. Those Organ Fugues on BACH will do nicely!

Ooh, I never knew Schumann wrote fugues (nor for the organ, in fact). Must look them up on youtube. Thanks!

Do see if you can catch his Four Sketches for organ too; more often than not played as a set.

For piano: 4 Fugues Op.72 and 7 Fughettas Op.126

Bach's B minor Mass!

Just this minute started on Radio 3 - Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner.

Stevie Wonder at Glastonbury on I-player!!

Dirty Diana-Michael Jackson

'Cinq Nocturnes' (1919) by Satie played by Aldo Ciccolini. Quaint, 'humorous' flavour ! <smiley>