Havergal Brian.

[kishnevi]

I think all HB circle members should be required to get their meeting attire from http://www.gentlemansemporium.com/store/coats.php .

You know, there's stuff there I'm actually interested in getting.....
But which one of us would get the Vienna Brocade Tailcoat?

[Mirror Image]

Johan, have you received your Brabbins Gothic recording yet?

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Johan, have you received your Brabbins Gothic recording yet?

No, alas.    The postal services must be overstretched.

[petrarch]

How in heaven (or earth) someone who, presumably, purports to love music can wish to so gratuitously insult, offend and denigrate other music-lovers is utterly beyond my comprehension

Reminds me of certain elements in the GMG membership .

[Dundonnell]

No, alas.    The postal services must be overstretched.

Just arrived in Perth

Shan't be listening until Christmas itself though

[thranx]

I found this on Twitter:

@GlobalNews247: Listening Post /Brief reviews of select releases: Classical Havergal Brian, Symphony No. 1 inD-Mino... http://t.co/GhYFCqL0 #Music #News

The review is a bit incoherent at times and contains a few mistakes (Brian wrote more than 20 symphonies after his First). But the work gets three out of four stars... And it's nice to see a new Hobbit on the block - Martyn Braggins.

JZ...I believe you mean that would be Martyn Baggins.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

JZ...I believe you mean that would be Martyn Baggins.

In the article they write 'Braggins', which is a nice conflation of Baggins and Brabbins. That's why I called Martyn a 'new' Hobbit.

Only today I watched the first two LOTR movies with my daughter (12 in a few days' time)... She liked them. Another convert.

[Dundonnell]

Has The Gothic arrived in Delft yet, Johan

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Has The Gothic arrived in Delft yet, Johan

Alas, no... Whether it'll be a Brian Christmas, I don't know.  Frustrating. 

[Dundonnell]

Oh no

Is there a postal delivery tomorrow?

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Oh no

Is there a postal delivery tomorrow?

Yes. And if it isn't there, there'll be a special delivery to the cranium of the nearest post(wo)man.

[Karl Henning]

Only today I watched the first two LOTR movies with my daughter (12 in a few days' time)... She liked them. Another convert.

To languish in the tangent . . . this week is the first I've sat down to any of them (I've started with The R. of the K.)

What are your feelings about the liberties taken in the screen adaptation, Johan? (Feel free to take this to a more appropriate thread, as desired;  I anm interested in as detailed a response as you may be inclined to wind up . . . .)

[Karl Henning]

Yes. And if it isn't there, there'll be a special delivery to the cranium of the nearest post(wo)man.

Don't shoot bludgeon the messenger! : )

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

To languish in the tangent . . . this week is the first I've sat down to any of them (I've started with The R. of the K.)

What are your feelings about the liberties taken in the screen adaptation, Johan? (Feel free to take this to a more appropriate thread, as desired;  I anm interested in as detailed a response as you may be inclined to wind up . . . .)

I must be precise - I know all the movies backwards, but I watched them with my daughter for the first time . I do have my opinion(s) about the adaptation. When I have the time, I'll start a thread. Now the first trailer of The Hobbit has arrived, the film LOTR is back in the public consciousness, too...

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Don't shoot bludgeon the messenger! : )

You're right. I should restrain myself.

[Karl Henning]

You're right. I should restrain myself.

Unless you have good reason to believe that the delay in delivery coincides with the post(wo)man's enjoying your compact disc . . . .

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Unless you have good reason to believe that the delay in delivery coincides with the post(wo)man's enjoying your compact disc . . . .

O, but that would constitute a mitigating circumstance! 

[John Whitmore]

Unless you have good reason to believe that the delay in delivery coincides with the post(wo)man's enjoying your compact disc . . . .

Very unlikely unless postmen/women in the Netherlands wear sandals, sniff incense, don't eat meat, wear duffle coats, have long smelly beards and don't retire until they are 75. Your typical European Brian fan, Johan excluded of course.

[Karl Henning]

Sniff incense . . . without burning it, do you mean, John? . . .

[John Whitmore]

Sniff incense . . . without burning it, do you mean, John? . . .

Yes. Without burning it. We are in a serious financial downturn. It lasts longer if you don't burn it. Good tip or what?