Talking in cliches - compile your own list

[Dave2002]

Talking of cliches, whereabouts on my iMac are the acute accents ?

Is this serious? make sure you have the Language and text options turned on (check in System Preferences) so you should see a UK flag at the top right of the screen with the word "British" next to it. Then turn French or German on, and then turn on the Keyboard Viewer. You should be able to get most of the accents you normally need. If not, try Spanish, Hungarian etc. Once you've got those pesky accents remember to turn the keyboard back to British or you'll end up typing some very odd things. You can also do this with the Character viewer, accessed in a similar way.

[Caliban]

Talking of cliches, whereabouts on my iMac are the acute accents ?

Much easier (for me) is to press

Alt-e together, then e for é



Alt-e then i works for í should you need it.

Alt-c = ç

Alt-`then e = è
Alt-`then a = à

Alt-u then e = ë
Alt-i then e = ê

etc

[Pabmusic]

You haven't really got it now...you should have written hendiadys.

So I still haven't written it!

[Ferretfancy]

Dave 2002 and Caliban,

It was there all the time! Now I can enter realms of typographical sophistication previously denied me, just watch!

Many Thanks!
Ferret

[Aubade]

I'd always assumed this was the accepted way of expressing appreciation of performance.
What sort of thing does Mr Norris say ?

My favourite was an apparently high-flown observation about the DECISIONS a composer must make. Key? Tempo? Even whether to write in pen or pencil — 2B or not 2B?

Wonderful.

[Panjandrum]

I must admit to getting a bit irked lately with the amount of time given over to arrangements. For example, this weekend, Andy Mac played an extract from an arrangement for string orchestra of Grieg's String Quartet. Given he acknowledged that the original was "little known", what was the logic behind playing this version (which, pace Mac, did not sound idiomatic) in its new get-up? Given that only a small percentage of new releases can be played within the 180 minute, weekly format, this kind of obsession strikes me as mistaken. I'm quite happy for instrumentalists and groups to look to expand their repertory by making arrangements of pieces but let's keep CD Review sticking to pieces in the format in which they were composed.

[amateur51]

I must admit to getting a bit irked lately with the amount of time given over to arrangements. For example, this weekend, Andy Mac played an extract from an arrangement for string orchestra of Grieg's String Quartet. Given he acknowledged that the original was "little known", what was the logic behind playing this version (which, pace Mac, did not sound idiomatic) in its new get-up? Given that only a small percentage of new releases can be played within the 180 minute, weekly format, this kind of obsession strikes me as mistaken. I'm quite happy for instrumentalists and groups to look to expand their repertory by making arrangements of pieces but let's keep CD Review sticking to pieces in the format in which they were composed.

Off topic!

You don't know how much pleasure that gave me

[MrGongGong]

I must admit to getting a bit irked lately with the amount of time given over to arrangements.

OH I don't know
I love the way that the air can be arranged into interesting combinations of low and high pressure

[JFLL]

How about 'Live in Concert'? Time was when 'in concert' was only used of people, like, say Tony Bennett, to make it sound as though this was not just entertainment but a serious business. And if it's live, surely it must be 'in concert', What would 'live out of concert' be -- a rehearsal? The banal slogan (repeated ad nauseam, of course) seems just another example of R3 trying to ape more popular, less 'elitist' programmes, IMO.

[Ferretfancy]

Another pet hate is "ON", as in - " Charles Farnsbarns on piano " or " Yehudi Baggins on violin " Possibly even "live in concert".