A Lark Ascending

Now that there's the internet, there's no need to buy a bootleg. Ever. Simple as that. Altogether different game now. True. But interesting that the moral outrage expressed at 'Andorran' releases frequently comes from those who are happy to discuss bootlegs elsewhere.

It's dead simple. If you live in Euroland, buy them. They are legitimate (if frequently not the best way to release them soundwise). If you live in the USA, don't. In the same way that your moral repugnance towards recordings outside of copyright would never let you buy a bootleg. That way, we can all feel sanctimonious.

British reserve. It's what we do!

It's never too early for a memoir:

From the sea to a sun-baked interior.

Just before this gets out of hand...

Overdressed trumpet player.

Yes...though the foot of it. I first got to know Klimt via the cut-out views on the Kubelik Mahler series.

Special prize for getting the connection with cih's post

Overlong - 700 + pages - took me 5 weeks to get through (10 pages here, ten pages there during a pretty brutal half-term with little room for pleasure reading). But a good tale, interesting setting, nice characters. Now racing through: A send up of heritage industry Britain.

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The connection is in the performers (to help non-Brits).

I remember hearing the unbowdlerised version of that programme when first broadcast. Alan Barnes was fascinating. When I become Controller of BBC Radio 3 I'm going to broadcast all operas with the arias excised. Just recitative. 'I am going to kill him' 'What are you going to do?' 'I am going to kill him' Chorus off-stage 'He is going to kill him...oh no...he is going to kill him'.

It could only be... Bet she got some strange looks on the subway.

Might not have been what was common, even in 'progressive' circles, but hardly 'brutal'. Always sounds pretty lyrical to me. Now Elton Dean's 'Just Us' from a little later... ************* Is it possible to anthologise a decade where the participants are not here and where those who remember it were not there?

Bloody funny ladder!