Elgar's Hillside

[karlhenning]

Or, maybe on the second or third listening, Mark, it will have its hooks well into yer! 

[Mark]

Or, maybe on the second or third listening, Mark, it will have its hooks well into yer! 

Quite possibly. Or perhaps not. The recording of Dvorak's Symphonic Variations with which my Falstaff is paired puts Elgar's efforts in the shade, reminding me once again that Eddy wasn't the world's greatest orchestrator.

[karlhenning]

Oh, that programming is hard cheddar on Elgar!  The Falstaff I have is on an all-Elgar disc . . . but would I listen to it a lot, if it were on the same disc as Dvořák, Tchaikovsky or Rakhmaninov? But, soft . . . .

[71 dB]

How liberating! I don't care anymore what other people write about Elgar! I just ignore! I have learned finally!

Please continue! I continue ignoring! 

[BachQ]

I just ignore! I have learned finally!

But you're NOT ignoring .........

[Mark]

But you're NOT ignoring .........

Don't tease him. It's taken Poju ages to appreciate that attacks on Elgar aren't attacks on him. Besides, this thread's now going with a swing - let's not get it locked.

[BachQ]

Don't tease him. It's taken Poju ages to appreciate that attacks on Elgar aren't attacks on him. Besides, this thread's now going with a swing - let's not get it locked.

(I wasn't teasing him ...... I swear)

[dtwilbanks]

Yes, the next step in ignoring is to realize in order to completely ignore with competence one must not comment on the ignoring.

[BachQ]

Yes, the next step in ignoring is to realize in order to completely ignore with competence one must not comment on the ignoring.

But at the same time, one shouldn't ignore posts like yours which highlight the art of proper ignoring .......

[dtwilbanks]

But at the same time, one shouldn't ignore posts like yours which highlight the art of proper ignoring .......

Precisely. You are not ignorant.

[Larry Rinkel]

Yes, the next step in ignoring is to realize in order to completely ignore with competence one must not comment on the ignoring.

Precisely: competence in ignoring, like competence in all fields from adultery to homicide, is a matter of considerable skill that can only be manifested when least observable.

[karlhenning]

I think Mike was spot-on with his précis of The Music-Makers, too.

[Mark]

I think Mike was spot-on with his précis of The Music-Makers, too.

It quotes chunks of the Enigma Variations in places, does it not?

[BachQ]

like competence in all fields from adultery to homicide,

LOL

[BachQ]

I think Mike was spot-on with his précis of The Music-Makers, too.

Link please

[bhodges]

PS, for anyone in the Minneapolis area next week, a very interesting program around the Beethoven 9th.  My mother is going...I'll ask her to chime in with a report. 

Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Helena Juntunen, soprano
Susan Platts, mezzo
Daniel Norman, tenor
Neal Davies, bass
Minnesota Chorale

Elgar: Sospiri  
Argento: Casa Guidi 
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

--Bruce

[dtwilbanks]

PS, for anyone in the Minneapolis area next week, a very interesting program around the Beethoven 9th.  My mother is going...I'll ask her to chime in with a report. 

Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Helena Juntunen, soprano
Susan Platts, mezzo
Daniel Norman, tenor
Neal Davies, bass
Minnesota Chorale

Elgar: Sospiri  
Argento: Casa Guidi 
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

--Bruce

I've heard the Ninth twice by Minnesota. And those are the only two times I've ever been in Orchestra Hall. 

[BachQ]

Elgar: Sospiri  
Argento: Casa Guidi 
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

Who needs Beethoven when you've got Elgar ........

[karlhenning]

Link please

Ask and ye shall receive . . . .

[karlhenning]

It quotes chunks of the Enigma Variations in places, does it not?

Yes, a charming adaptation of 'Nimrod', what I wot of.