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     Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.0.114.254 |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qplrg/Paganinis_Daemon/ | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.153.238.132 |
Thanks, Gary. I watched some of that last night. Although I'm interested in Paganini as a phenomenon, I've never really liked his music. Last week's documentary about Ottorino Respighi was a wonderfullly old-fashioned TV documentary and made me take a re-listen at this composer. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.0.114.254 |
Am off to a concert tonight: Grieg's Holberg and then his piano concerto, followed by Dvorak's ninth. Local church gig. Should be great acoustics. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.153.238.132 |
I love Ggieg's Holberg, but very little else of Grieg. Dvorak's Ninth? Hmmm. I love his Stabat Mater, particularly with a piano accompaniment instead of orchestra. Hope you enjoy the concert, Gary. Report back if you can.  | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.0.114.254 |
Will do! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.0.114.254 |
The pianist was excellent, Des, but the orchestra was a tad ropey. At least one violin completely out of tune and the first flautist kept getting her notes wrong. The Holberg was their limit; the Dvorak too ambitious. Still, an enjoyable evening. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.153.238.132 |
Hi, Gary, I often find that 'bad' live performances (as perceived) often lend a new light to a tired old pieces. Glad you had an ejoyable evening. I spent yesterday evening at a charity do for MND (from which my Father died in 2007) - and it was an excellent group playing Seventies music (a decade after my heyday!) - full of Madness etc. And I danced... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.0.114.254 |
The thought of D F Lewis dancing to HOUSE OF FUN is just too surreal for my puny brain to assimilate. I'm mopping up pieces of brain from my keyboard. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.153.238.132 |
Indeed, I did. Gary. That very song was played. How did you know? BTW, seriously, in some circles of my business life I was known as Disco Des. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.0.114.254 |
What is/was your profession? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.153.238.132 |
I'm retired. But for a long time I was a Company Pensions Account Executive and Negotiator countrywide. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.0.114.254 |
Pensions! You naughty man! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.153.238.132 |
That's deferred remuneration not French boarding-houses. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.0.114.254 |
Ah-ha! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.169.220.178 |
That delightfully old-fashioned documentary tonight on BBC4 TV about Schubert reminded me what sublime music he wrote. At once uplifting and sad. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.204.111.236 |
Like Suggs. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.169.220.178 |
Madness. |