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J.Z. Herrenberg

#1360
June 12, 2011, 01:58:49 PM
I'll turn 50 in a few minutes' time. Nice to announce it on the thread of the composer I feel the most affinity with.
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

DavidW

#1361
June 12, 2011, 01:59:37 PM
Happy Birthday!! :)

cilgwyn

#1362
June 12, 2011, 02:03:29 PM
Happy Birthday. Here's to the next Fifty,eh?

J.Z. Herrenberg

#1363
June 12, 2011, 02:04:19 PM
Quote from: DavidW on June 12, 2011, 01:59:37 PM
Happy Birthday!! :)


Gracias!


Quote from: cilgwyn on June 12, 2011, 02:03:29 PM
Happy Birthday. Here's to the next Fifty,eh?


Of course! Thank you!
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

vandermolen

#1364
June 12, 2011, 02:26:59 PM
Quote from: J. Z. Herrenberg on June 12, 2011, 01:58:49 PM
I'll turn 50 in a few minutes' time. Nice to announce it on the thread of the composer I feel the most affinity with.

Welcome to the club Johan!

Happy Birthday from us all over here.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

J.Z. Herrenberg

#1365
June 12, 2011, 02:31:23 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on June 12, 2011, 02:26:59 PM
Welcome to the club Johan!

Happy Birthday from us all over here.


Thanks, Jeffrey! It's good to know some intrepid souls went before and lived to tell the tale!
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

Lethevich

#1366
June 12, 2011, 02:52:19 PM
Make it a nice day for yourself! :) (If you have subconscious junk food cravings, now is the time!)
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

J.Z. Herrenberg

#1367
June 12, 2011, 02:55:54 PM
Quote from: Lethe Dmitriyevich Shostakovich on June 12, 2011, 02:52:19 PM
Make it a nice day for yourself! :) (If you have subconscious junk food cravings, now is the time!)


I am taking my daughter Dunya  (11) to the pictures, a Dutch film with horses and romance. I think I'll survive. I like it when she is enjoying herself...  :) As to my cravings, I just ate some crisps...
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

Luke

#1368
June 12, 2011, 03:06:31 PM
Happy Birthday, Johan!  :)  :)

Lethevich

#1369
June 12, 2011, 03:11:54 PM
Quote from: J. Z. Herrenberg on June 12, 2011, 02:55:54 PM
I am taking my daughter Dunya  (11) to the pictures, a Dutch film with horses and romance.

Oh lord. Play Brian's 6th afterwards, balance must be maintained! Happy birthday btw :)
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

J.Z. Herrenberg

#1370
June 12, 2011, 03:15:15 PM
Quote from: Luke on June 12, 2011, 03:06:31 PM
Happy Birthday, Johan!  :) :)


Thanks, Luke!


Quote from: Lethe Dmitriyevich Shostakovich on June 12, 2011, 03:11:54 PM
Oh lord. Play Brian's 6th afterwards, balance must be maintained! Happy birthday btw :)


:D
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

vandermolen

#1371
June 13, 2011, 11:39:05 PM
Quote from: J. Z. Herrenberg on June 12, 2011, 02:55:54 PM

I am taking my daughter Dunya  (11) to the pictures, a Dutch film with horses and romance. I think I'll survive. I like it when she is enjoying herself...  :) As to my cravings, I just ate some crisps...

Sounds like a nice way to celebrate your birthday - hope it went well.  Did the film have a soundtrack by Havergal Brian?  ;D
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

J.Z. Herrenberg

#1372
June 13, 2011, 11:45:47 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on June 13, 2011, 11:39:05 PM
Sounds like a nice way to celebrate your birthday - hope it went well.  Did the film have a soundtrack by Havergal Brian?  ;D


As you can see, though I passed through the valley of cultural death, I am still amongst the living... The completely Brianless (or brainless) soundtrack consisted of soppy love songs... What we do for our children. Fortunately, even Dunya could see through some of the ludicrousness and we had some muffled chuckles. She is going a second time, though - with her mother!
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

cilgwyn

#1373
June 14, 2011, 02:53:47 AM
Thank god for 'The Wizard of Oz'!

NB: The Munchkins were a bit of a pain. Oh,and 'Glenda the glutinous good'.


Maybe,I need a time machine. Mind you,it COULD have been worse. My mum got taken to Shirley Temple films,AND she liked them!

karlhenning

#1374
June 14, 2011, 04:01:29 AM
Quote from: cilgwyn on June 14, 2011, 02:53:47 AM
. . . My mum got taken to Shirley Temple films,AND she liked them!

Behold, I shew you a mystery; they actually made those movies, to the end that the audience should like them!

cilgwyn

#1375
June 14, 2011, 07:21:22 AM
Any other Shirley Temple fans here?

J.Z. Herrenberg

#1376
June 20, 2011, 05:45:29 AM
The first of three tickets has arrived today! It's for my friend Michiel Schuijer (try prononouncing that!) Someone has written something on an accompanying note:


The original seat you booked will be obscured by a BBC TV camera, so you have been upgraded to an elevated view.


I hope they use it on the night!
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

karlhenning

#1377
June 20, 2011, 05:46:55 AM
Johan, I long ago gave up trying to pronounce Dutch!

However, should I ever visit, I'll give it a better try.

Hattoff

#1378
June 20, 2011, 07:10:49 AM Last Edit: June 20, 2011, 07:19:30 AM by Hattoff
Having nothing better to do and having my interest piqued by an article about HB's working class background, I embarked on an attempt to trace his family tree. There is no ready made tree that I can find on the internet but there is no point in repeating work already done, does anyone know of such a tree?

I also know that Kenneth Eastaugh's biography went into some detail about HB's immediate ancestors; could some kind person out there scan the relevant pages of that book and send them to me? I am back to the late 1700s on two branches and want to check them.

HB's, unsuccessful, attempts to gain a pension from the British Army after WW1 are now on line as are his abodes in the four censuses, 1881-1911. His immediate ancestors are traceable in the censuses back to 1841, one of whom was an engineer and another a saggar maker's bottom knocker; look it up.




Sergeant Rock

#1379
June 20, 2011, 07:11:34 AM Last Edit: June 20, 2011, 07:14:30 AM by Sergeant Rock
Quote from: J. Z. Herrenberg on June 20, 2011, 05:45:29 AM
The original seat you booked will be obscured by a BBC TV camera, so you have been upgraded to an elevated view.

Someone is going to be hoisted by a crane?

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"
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