Originally posted by Serial_Apologist
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Sacrilege!!!
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Apparently it had to be cut short because of leaves on the line.
Sacrilege!!!
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It was part of a segue sequence. Curiously, the piece following the Bax was back announced as Bach, but that wasn't on the track list which just stopped indicating the piece playing until the following piece started - the Dvořák. When the names of all the people who'd asked for the Bax were read out it was said that they'd requested 'a section' of November Woods. So they got what they asked for
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Sorry it took me so long to twig what had happened.Originally posted by french frank View PostIt was part of a segue sequence. Curiously, the piece following the Bax was back announced as Bach, but that wasn't on the track list which just stopped indicating the piece playing until the following piece started - the Dvořák. When the names of all the people who'd asked for the Bax were read out it was said that they'd requested 'a section' of November Woods. So they got what they asked forComment
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I don't mind the choice of music but the presenting style is not to my taste. I find Georgia Mann's quips detract from my enjoyment of the pieces. A more serious, respectful attitude needn't preclude good humour and an easy enjoyment of the programme.
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Perhaps we should all write in and ask for a complete piece.Originally posted by french frank View PostIt was part of a segue sequence. Curiously, the piece following the Bax was back announced as Bach, but that wasn't on the track list which just stopped indicating the piece playing until the following piece started - the Dvořák. When the names of all the people who'd asked for the Bax were read out it was said that they'd requested 'a section' of November Woods. So they got what they asked forComment
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Let's all request John Cage's 4'33" and time the silence.Originally posted by Barbirollians View PostComment
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That would be a complete peace - and for that to eventuate everyone is holding on with baited breath for the arrival of Trump.Originally posted by LMcD View PostComment
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Several of you have written in asking for a section of John Cage's 4'33" so here is minute 3, accompanied by the song of a blackbird.Originally posted by LMcD View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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One of my customers who I knew to be an amateur conductor asked me to get a recording of Cage's '4.33 for tacit instruments' as he was putting on a performance.....he actually said that he planned to walk to the podium and lay his watch down on the music stand before giving the up beat!Originally posted by LMcD View Post
There's a good idea of what a performance may have been like in Edgar Reitz's Heimat 2nd series when the premiere of Volker's work is given with a huge clock over the stage.....quite a bit of allusion to Cage (prepared piano etc) in this most extraordinary of studies of music making in late 50s/early 60s Munich.Comment
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007 was always ready for action, wasn't he?Originally posted by cloughie View Post
I believe the John Cage was once broadcast as part of Children In Need. Listeners' reactions included complaints that it was being played (i) backwards and/or (ii) at the wrong speed.Comment
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I am sure there were comments that a Historically Informed Performance Practice interpretation would have provided a far closer approach to the composer's intentionsOriginally posted by LMcD View Post
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Skellers reappeared yesterday - a pleasant change. He seems to have reverted to occasional substitute - pity.Comment
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