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The Concert Hall / Re: Crrrritic!
« on: May 14, 2013, 07:59:46 pm »
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the endlessly mediocre London, UK and World Premieres we have to sit through at concerts at the Proms

This isn't completely wide of the mark, of course...

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21st Century / Re: The Guardian's guide to contemporary music
« on: May 14, 2013, 07:29:34 pm »
But, I notice that contributor "stupormundi", mentioned by ...trj... a few weeks ago, has posted on the Stockhausen thread today, so clearly hasn't been entirely hounded out, thankfully.

 :hthumbupl: :hthumbupr:

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The Concert Hall / Re: Crrrritic!
« on: May 12, 2013, 06:08:48 pm »
Isn't it Ives who invented cold-call insurance selling over the phone?

Bastard.  :D

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I don't know much about the more specialist retailers, but I've not seen anything other than by track or by album purchasing on any of the major sites.

I imagine this is mostly down to the metadata used - which unless it groups multi-movement works in some way won't be able to handle anything other than single tracks or complete albums.

Most of the major sites use the same two or three metadata providers - as I'm sure you know - and if they aren't providing this kind of information you're stuck.

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21st Century / Re: RIP Steve Martland
« on: May 07, 2013, 03:10:55 pm »
That's a shock. I can't say I really followed his career in recent years, but I well remember him railing (at an SPNM-sponsored State of the Nation event at the QEH) against the 'London Sinfonietta sound' and the bad influence it was having on young British composers. That was back in 1998 or 99 I think.

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The Coffee Bar / Re: The new pedantry thread
« on: May 05, 2013, 02:50:14 pm »
What a dreary sort of article, the very worst sort of pedantry.

It may not be a letter exactly, but it certainly isn't a punctuation mark.

Oxford English dictionary says that it is ("a punctuation mark used to indicate possession").

Oxford English dictionary gives the definiton of punctuations marks as being marks "used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning".  Brackets are also punctuation marks.

If it's good enough for Jed Bartlet, it's good enough for me:

http://www.westwingtranscripts.com/search.php?flag=getTranscript&id=6

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Broadcast and Recorded Music / Re: Now spinning ...
« on: May 05, 2013, 02:43:21 pm »
James Weeks: TIDE. Just the disc with the separate pieces so far. Looking forward to hearing how they all slot together on disc one.

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21st Century / Re: Old composers that deserve more listens
« on: May 05, 2013, 02:16:30 pm »
- Mathias Spahlinger, wonder if (after last night's concert) EXAUDI could do a performance of El Sonido Silencioso

Apartment House will be doing 128 erfüllte augenblicke in September at Kings Place.

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Board Usage Help Forum / Re: Quoting other posts
« on: May 03, 2013, 03:27:29 pm »
Just tried in Chrome and get the same problem. Annoying.

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The Concert Hall / Re: Schott Spring Piano Series
« on: May 02, 2013, 09:57:44 am »
Thanks Jonathan - I've added these to my listings on the blog.

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The Coffee Bar / Re: The Minor Moan thread
« on: May 01, 2013, 08:38:47 pm »
But, yes, "signage" for a single sign is pretty horrible.

Although I can imagine a scenario in which some signage is commissioned (by, say, a council), and it turns out that in practice one sign is adequate to the task...

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The Concert Hall / Re: Live Concert Thread
« on: April 30, 2013, 04:13:04 pm »
I'm told by someone who also knows the recording better than me that this was better, much clearer.

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The Concert Hall / Re: Live Concert Thread
« on: April 30, 2013, 03:38:23 pm »
Plaudits seconded for Pace, Knoop et al. on Saturday.

A fine concert, without any weak pieces individually - although I wasn't convinced by the 'fit' of the Shlomowitz in this instance. (As much to do with the fact that it was the only piece that didn't use the two pianos as anything else.)

I think I liked Brumaires more than xyzzzz; it left the strongest impression on me sonically anyway.

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News and Current Affairs / Re: SOB - Save our bees!
« on: April 30, 2013, 10:44:11 am »
The weird thing is, there will still be a market for non-neonicotinoid pesticides - and with a ban, quite a large one, you'd imagine - and the UK has some of the best bio-tech firms in the world, and first-mover advantage is everything in business, so presumably there's a lot of money to be made by the right company, so actually a ban could be very good for British business ...

Ah, sorry, I was thinking more than two steps down the line.

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21st Century / Re: The Guardian's guide to contemporary music
« on: April 29, 2013, 05:17:54 pm »
Tom Service has surely got to do Schnittke eventually!

Come on! Schnittke! Schnittke! Schnittke!



if my smileys worked the cheerleaders would be plonked here

You have your wish!

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