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A Lark Ascending

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  1. I had a similar experience with Jarrett's 'Death and the Flower' c. 1975. I'd heard all sorts of contemporary spins on jazz (and some of Jarrett's solo ruminations) but this was the first time I was gripped by an acoustic quartet with lengthy soloing. I recall deciding that this was something worth following up.
  2. How did you pronounce it? As in wine (though it was beer that sent me there). I suppose it should have been an urinal.
  3. I'm always amazed...I don't know why because it's happened again and again...how everyone rolls over at these jamborees into fawning flunkies. The BBC is unbelievable. Andrew Marr is supposed to be an incisive journalist! I understand how most people like the pageantry, the nice colours and hats and the (illusory) sense of stability and tradition that these events suggest and have no wish to piddle on their party but a bit of proportion wouldn't go amiss. If I hear another bystander in a crowd telling me they are there because this is 'history'...well...I'll send them a copy of E.H. Carr. I was in a urinal yesterday where the management had already placed a copy of the Telegraph with a suitably royal front page from that morning right in front of my nose. It was framed and behind glass, just in case someone thought of another use.
  4. Debussy has always been the centre for me; I like Ravel in piano music too, but don't get quite the same magic. Very fond of the piano music of John Ireland too. Albeiniz is another favourite.
  5. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch People always get the tenth 'l' wrong. I'd also let to enter this for the forthcoming 'Misspellings that annoy you' thread. People just don't try.
  6. Background has situationally appropriate 'garden' furniture. Back cover works too:
  7. Capel Curig. Regular star of the weather forecast as the wettest place in Britain.
  8. Returned by popular request: Ellington-a-thon 15 Waltz You Saved For Me (The) 1963 Javapachacha Apache 1962 You Gave Me The Gate ( . . . And I’m Swinging) Black Beauty Firewater - A Portrait Of Florence Mills 1928 Sponge Cake And Spinnach Chasin’ Chippies 1938 Soul Train Passion Flower 1941 Boudoir Benny 1939 A Gatherin’ In A Clearin’ Hometown 1946 Let me know if I duplicate anything from before. Only 1695 to go! Updates roughly once a fortnight from now on. Plenty of time to listen, think, in some cases find!
  9. Don't see what's so inappropriate there. Whenever I'm in Snowdonia there are people carrying harps along the side of the road, presumably heading for a rent party in a cottage up the mountain.
  10. Situationally Appropriate Furniture AND a reference to the weather!
  11. Growing up on RAF bases, I saw many a take-off on Battle of Britain Day shows in September. The Lightning was the star of the show until the Harrier arrived to wow us. You could probably do all that from an iPad these days!
  12. It's a back cover but: You can just see a Lightning screaming in to trash the lot. For those too young to remember, this was a Lightning and they were LOUD! Given their ability to tear horizontally down a runway and then go almost immediately vertical, I suspect the Floyd were not back at Denmark Street the next day.
  13. There's a lot in 'Appalachia' that makes you think of Gershwin. I must admit that at times of high excitement I am prone to burst out with 'Oh, honey I am going down the river in the morning...' 'Hey-ho, hey-ho, down the mighty river!' from that piece. I've never heard 'Koanga' but it's on the new box set so I'm looking forward to it when I get there (somewhere around disc 15!).
  14. Yes! I'm sure I'd have quickly fallen out with him on a bulletin board!
  15. Seconded. Though the books are even better. Wonder if we'll get the last book as a one off in the future? In the Scandi spot last night: Another oddball lead by the chap who played Wallander in the other Swedish version.
  16. I've not been there but I hear that the National Film Museum in the city centre is worth a trip in itself. Yes, I've heard good things about that. And wondering round gentrified former industrial areas can be interesting - they've transformed the Lace Market area of Nottingham in that way. Back to the Delius programme - it was fascinating to hear one person interviewed describe becoming bewitched by Delius as a result of this LP: Exactly the one that grabbed me back in 1978, followed quickly by this: The programme left me regarding Delius as a similar figure to Charles Ives. Not as radical in his musical innovations but someone who just went down his own path regardless and who, consequently, has never been part of the musical mainstream. Seems to invite a limited band of worshippers. Another interesting bit - and one of the reasons I love this sort of programme - was where David Owen Norris demonstrated how 'On Hearing The First Cuckoo in Spring' was derived from a Norwegian folk song.
  17. 'Awesome' is probably the one that grates on me more than any other. The Grand Canyon is awesome. A new album by X, Y or Z rarely is. Again more a misuse than a mispronunciation (though English kids tend to give it a bit of twang). And, as Pete says, with use words do change their meaning and use. I overuse 'wonderful' in exactly the same context when what I'm talking about might well interest or excite me but doesn't really fill me with a sense of wonder. The trouble is whenever I hear the term I immediately picture American college kids stuffing burgers down their throats. I'm sure its use carries a heavy fine in France.
  18. Far from it Jeff. I stopped adding to it because it didn't seem to get much interest beyond yourself. Quite happy to pick it up again if there is interest.
  19. JRR In terms of music, no real change under the new management. The only difference is the early jazz gets mixed in with the rest; it used to stack up at the start of the programme (to allow dirty boppers to switch on 15 minutes later?).
  20. Same here ! I was checking out the location of his birthplace (Claremont, Horton) and it looks to be pretty close to the University, hence the reason for the 'pub next door'. That whole area must have been very up-market back in the Victorian times, with solid villa houses. Lots of German presence at that time in Bradford too, with 'Little Germany' existing to this day. The warehouses that they built were built to last (true to form). I must visit Bradford at some point. It's not far away.
  21. I never knew about the bizarre night time burial a year after his death. Surprised this year hasn't seen a new biography. I've pieced together my Delius knowledge from the Fenby memoirs and a book of essays. There are one or two short bios but I would have thought someone might have done a more in depth one - the life is distinct and colourful enough for it.
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