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News and Current Affairs / Today's news (non-barking)
« on: May 06, 2013, 09:19:22 am »
Concerning news here about Sir Max...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/10038592/Queens-composer-Sir-Peter-Maxwell-Davies-fights-leukaemia.html

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News and Current Affairs / Thatcher is dead
« on: April 08, 2013, 01:15:45 pm »
Nuff said.

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Making Music / Online sheet music purchasing
« on: January 25, 2013, 11:09:00 am »
I've recently (although not just recently) had poor experiences trying to order music from both musicroom and chappel. Can anyone recommend any reliable alternatives? (This is for fairly standard repertoire, not necessarily freak-out mod stuff  :laughter3: )
Ta!

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News and Current Affairs / Gerry Anderson - RIP
« on: December 26, 2012, 05:38:48 pm »
NOOOOOOOOH!




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News and Current Affairs / Richard Rodney Bennett - RIP
« on: December 25, 2012, 02:11:16 pm »
Another one gone. What a miserable year...  :(

Very interested to hear what folks have to say about him. I have plenty of things myself, but will wait till later...

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News and Current Affairs / Ravi Shankar RIP
« on: December 12, 2012, 08:16:04 am »
...and the grim culling of 2012 continues...

I guess we take the riches of Indian music for granted now, but the guy introduced many to them with all the virtuosity, expressiveness and spiritual integrity that can characterise that music, and at a time when the world seemed to need it. I was bowled over, as a teen, when I first encountered it.

RIP

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News and Current Affairs / R.I.P Jonathan Harvey
« on: December 05, 2012, 04:27:37 pm »
I've just heard about this. Very, very sad news. More later...

 :(

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News and Current Affairs / Elliott Carter - RIP
« on: November 05, 2012, 10:33:49 pm »
Unbelievably, just when we thought he never would go, he's gone.

An astonishing and unquestionably influential life, and I'd love to hear from folks here about what he meant to them personally. I met him, only once, and remember the warmth. So many wonderful  pieces - not all, for me, but the batting average is pretty damn high. And, I mean, nearly 104??!!

RIP EC

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News and Current Affairs / Hal David - RIP
« on: September 02, 2012, 02:42:07 pm »
One half of one of the greatest song-writing partnerships has gone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKkWj2WpWM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6inwzOooXRU


RIP

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News and Current Affairs / Robert Hughes 1938-2012
« on: August 07, 2012, 11:16:13 am »
The 'controversial', 'influential' 'pick your own epithet' art critic has died. He certainly made me think about art differently and could write like a dream.

RIP

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The Opera House / Attenborough abandons Almeida Opera
« on: August 02, 2012, 11:46:35 am »
Oh for heaven's sake...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/9444641/Theatre-director-Michael-Attenborough-Modern-opera-is-rubbish.html

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The Opera House / ENO Billy Budd
« on: June 26, 2012, 07:43:28 pm »
Anybody seen this yet? I'm going on July 3rd. Reading a couple of reviews, I have high hopes...

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Literature and Poetry / Books that changed your musical world...
« on: February 25, 2012, 07:14:40 pm »
Which book(s) have changed the way you think about/ listen to music?

I'm not necessarily thinking of books about music here. For example, in my own case I'd have to cite John Berger's Ways of Seeing, which is about fine art on the face of it. But ever since a teacher at graduate school put it on the reading list for the course he was teaching (the quirkiest and most inspiring I think I've ever taken) and suggested we read it replacing the word 'art' with 'music', and 'seeing' with 'hearing' etc. I've been alive to so many more dimensions and aspects of the way music works, functions in the world and so on.

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Making Music / 'Extended' Techniques
« on: January 27, 2012, 10:42:07 am »
Not that I'm asking on my own account, good heavens no  :naughty: but can anyone recommend worthwhile books/ other bumpf on extended woodwind techniques (beyond the obvious ones from yesteryear)?

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The Coffee Bar / Resolutions...
« on: January 01, 2012, 09:37:58 am »
Happy New Year, all!

Well. Do you have any, musical or otherwise? I had just one this year: not to have any stupid resolutions.  :naughty:

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