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Points: 16449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2008 at 10:20
Originally posted by darqDean darqDean wrote:

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

See this is what happens when you try to bring culture to savages. Total disconnect.
okay - we'll stop trying Wink

I thought we did that 200 years ago.
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Points: 19313 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2008 at 10:27
Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Originally posted by darqDean darqDean wrote:

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

See this is what happens when you try to bring culture to savages. Total disconnect.
okay - we'll stop trying Wink

I thought we did that 200 years ago.
 
quite right Andrew...when they threw a hissy fit and dumped our Tea into the water....Stern%20Smile
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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2008 at 10:35
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

quite right Andrew...when they threw a hissy fit and dumped our Tea into the water....Stern%20Smile


It was a party man!  We were all having a good time, and maybe had a little too much rum, and honestly we can't even remember the tea going overboard.  You sure it was even us, dude?  Maybe it was those French guys, they're always trying to start something with you.  Wink
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2008 at 10:38
Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:

Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

quite right Andrew...when they threw a hissy fit and dumped our Tea into the water....Stern%20Smile


It was a party man!  We were all having a good time, and maybe had a little too much rum, and honestly we can't even remember the tea going overboard.  You sure it was even us, dude?  Maybe it was those French guys, they're always trying to start something with you.  Wink
but the etiquette - everyone of breeding knows you that you bring the water to the tea, not the tea to the water. No wonder there was such outrage at the time.
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Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:

Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

quite right Andrew...when they threw a hissy fit and dumped our Tea into the water....Stern%20Smile


It was a party man!  We were all having a good time, and maybe had a little too much rum, and honestly we can't even remember the tea going overboard.  You sure it was even us, dude?  Maybe it was those French guys, they're always trying to start something with you.  Wink


"It's my party and I'll cry if I want too..." Wink
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"It's my party and I'll cry if I want too..." Wink
not one of Canterbury's finest moments Pinch
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2008 at 11:11
I know that.  Patrick is a big fan of Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin, so I thought I'd annoy him with it. LOL
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Originally posted by James James wrote:

I know that.  Patrick is a big fan of Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin, so I thought I'd annoy him with it. LOL


To be fair, I haven't listened to any Stewart/Gaskin so as to form an opinion, but that cover really is naff.
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Originally posted by darqDean darqDean wrote:

Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:

Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:


quite right Andrew...when they threw a hissy fit and dumped our Tea into the water....Stern%20Smile
It was a party man!  We were all having a good time, and maybe had a little too much rum, and honestly we can't even remember the tea going overboard.  You sure it was even us, dude?  Maybe it was those French guys, they're always trying to start something with you.  Wink

but the etiquette - everyone of breeding knows you that you bring the water to the tea, not the tea to the water. No wonder there was such outrage at the time.


And therein lies the reason Dean: the word "breeding"; we English types 'breed', the rest of the world merely 'reproduces'.


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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2008 at 12:46
And people from Lambourn, Wiltshire, inbreed. LOL Embarrassed
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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:



And therein lies the reason Dean: the word "breeding"; we English types 'breed', the rest of the world merely 'reproduces'.

 
so what you're saying then Jim, is that when we decide to dress up as Indians and pour several large chests of dried tea leaves into the dock, we do so with our little fingers slightly extended....LOL
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Points: 7456 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2008 at 13:36
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Happy Birthday,Steve
 
 
Gee, cheers everyone Cry   .....and GR is 501 !!  what a day...
 
 
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I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to break this to you Greys, but about a month ago, I made this purchase on ebay; near mint condition for £9:
 
Beethoven:%20Nine%20Symphonies
 
 
..and I must admit, I've been quite enjoying it...Embarrassed
 
in fairness, I'm reasonably familiar with 5,7,9 and the 1st movement of 3...
 
but its had lots of spins, and me likey....Big%20smile
 
so, my two questions to all of you Grey ones, are:
 
1) Which classical music do you enjoy listening to most of all and why? 
2) What else would you suggest I try out??  I am reasonably open minded, (although I'm not too keen on most 20th Century composers I've experienced, and I don't think I could sit through a full viewing of Don Giovanni again...Ouch)
 
answers on a postcard please....Big%20smile
 


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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2008 at 14:57
Beethoven Piano Sonatas, particularly "Moonlight" (no. 14) and "Pathetique" (no. 6)
Definitely try Mozart, perhaps Symphonies 40 and 41.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2008 at 15:15
Oh yes, Moonlight is great.  It always amuses me though whenever I hear it on the radio, they announce it as a joyful piece.  To my ears, it's quite a sad piece.  Maybe that's just me.

Classical I've heard and enjoy:

Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (not the Orchestral version though)
Eric Satie - Gymnopedie (the ones I've heard, I've only heard 2 or 3 of them)
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending (especially the Nigel Kennedy version - inspiration for King Crimson, of course)
Olivier Messiaen - Quatuor pour la fin du temps and Turangalila-Symphonie
Osvaldo Golijov - Ainadamar (a modern opera about the story of Federico Garcia Lorca, the Spanish playwrite)
Edward Elgar - Nimrod Variations
Béla Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra and Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (conducted by von Karajan)
Dmitry Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor (by Kronos Quartet)
George Crumb - Black Angels (Kronos Quartet)

Some of these you'll probably not enjoy so much (Crumb, Shostakovich. Golijov, Bartók and Messiaen in particular)


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Points: 16449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2008 at 15:21
^Must say, I'm rather partial to Vaughan Williams 6th.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2008 at 15:24
That recording of the 9th is excellent - another one to watch out for is Holst's Planets Suite conducted by Sir Adrian Boult...
Holst:%20The%20Planets%20/%20Elgar:%20Enigma%20Variations
 
Personnaly I love 20th Century classical music, anything from Charles Ives, Stravinsky, Gyorgi Ligeti or Philip Glass can keep me enthralled for hours...
Ives%20-%20Complete%20SymphoniesStravinsky:%20The%20Rite%20of%20Spring
The%20Ligeti%20Project,%20Vol.2Solo%20Piano
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I don't know much Vaughan Williams and I don't have any but Lark Ascending was great when I heard it on the radio.  I've heard other Vaughan Williams some of which was great and some of which I didn't enjoy so much.

I tend to via towards 'cello and violin pieces mostly, or a good piece of chamber music.  Messiaen greatly impresses me and he's very avant-garde too.  I need to get The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky at some point too.
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My father has The Planets on vinyl somewhere but I've no idea who conducts it.  Add to my list too.  I've not heard it in years though.
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