My string quartet

[greg]

Ah yes, a logical choice, although clearly not the Forum's only nitpicker.



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Listening to:
Schubert - Die schöne Müllerin - Jan Kobow / Kristian Bezuidenhout - Wohin?

I was going to list some names, but I thought........ nah, then I'd be a nitpicker myself.

[Gurn Blanston]

Considering that you have shown absolutely no interest in any but two composers, you're hardly one to talk.

sFz,
May I just say that since I have known the lovely and talented Mr. C for approximately 7 years on 4 or 5 different fora, despite the logic and clarity you display, and might one say, the patience, you are merely wasting valuable (digital) breath in this instance. I made that same riposte to him, nearly word for word, in 2001. The word "water" and the phrase "off a duck's back" leap to mind whenever I see it repeated like this...



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Listening to:
Schubert - Die schöne Müllerin - Jan Kobow / Kristian Bezuidenhout - Der Jäger

[(poco) Sforzando]

sFz,
May I just say that since I have known the lovely and talented Mr. C for approximately 7 years on 4 or 5 different fora, despite the logic and clarity you display, and might one say, the patience, you are merely wasting valuable (digital) breath in this instance. I made that same riposte to him, nearly word for word, in 2001. The word "water" and the phrase "off a duck's back" leap to mind whenever I see it repeated like this...

Many thanks for the kind thoughts, Mr. Blanston, but please bear in mind that I was addressing not the lovely and talented Mr. C, but Rod Corkin.

[Gurn Blanston]

Many thanks for the kind thoughts, Mr. Blanston, but please bear in mind that I was addressing not the lovely and talented Mr. C, but Rod Corkin.

Ah yes, a subtle yet crucial difference.



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Listening to:
Schubert - Schwanengesang - Jan Kobow / Kristian Bezuidenhout - Frülingssehnsucht

[Rod Corkin]

Considering that you have shown absolutely no interest in any but two composers, you're hardly one to talk.

At my site I have commented on composers I'm sure you haven't even heard of. I've even said some positive things about them too! But I really haven't time to discuss all and sundry here, I leave that to you guys. As long as I can tell a good tune from a crap one that is all I or indeed any person needs. Alas few people have this gift it seems.

[Rod Corkin]

I get it, it's a pun.

Still and all, I'm quite sure that calling people "dipsticks" is a transgression of, at the very least, common courtesy. Let's not carry that line any further, I don't have my mod periwig with me, and it chafes to wear my mod hat without it.   

Gurn I doubt you are even aware of what 'dipstick' means, certainly when it comes from an Englishman. It relates to a TV comedy show here. Maybe if you'd popped by my site, like you used to, you'd become more culturally aware. 

[Rod Corkin]

sFz,
May I just say that since I have known the lovely and talented Mr. C for approximately 7 years on 4 or 5 different fora, despite the logic and clarity you display, and might one say, the patience, you are merely wasting valuable (digital) breath in this instance. I made that same riposte to him, nearly word for word, in 2001. The word "water" and the phrase "off a duck's back" leap to mind whenever I see it repeated like this...

Well GMG is well known for it's nastiness and endless sarcasm Gurn, believe me I wouldn't tolerate for one second the things you let the local sad boys here get away with here. As I have said before I regard this as virtually an unmoderated site. But as you say the nastiness is water of a duck's back to me. The sarcasm here is my daily bread.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Well GMG is well known for it's nastiness and endless sarcasm Gurn, believe me I wouldn't tolerate for one second the things you let the local sad boys here get away with here. As I have said before I regard this as virtually an unmoderated site.

Of course. And that is why you can bluster here to your heart's content with impunity.

[karlhenning]

That the Corkster has the nerve to complain about nastiness, is one of the funniest things I've read on GMG in a long, long time.

[(poco) Sforzando]

At my site I have commented on composers I'm sure you haven't even heard of. I've even said some positive things about them too!

So you reserve your praise for the insignificant?

[Rod Corkin]

So you reserve your praise for the insignificant?

Well insignificant in the eye's of the musical establishment maybe, and their's have not always been the sharpest of eyes. But the bigger the reputation the harsher must we judge them critically wouldn't you say? That's the only way it should be. So if I have appeared in the past overly critical you know the reason why.

[Rod Corkin]

That the Corkster has the nerve to complain about nastiness, is one of the funniest things I've read on GMG in a long, long time.

Don't play the innocent Henning, you sarcastic intrusions are usually the prelude that signals the other boot boys to join in soon after. If I fight fire with fire it's never me who casts the first stone here, that's for sure.

[Rod Corkin]

Considering that you have shown absolutely no interest in any but two composers, you're hardly one to talk.

Actually in addition to Beethoven and Handel I have discussed (or have tried to at least ) Bach, Schubert and Mozart here in the past, but it appeared the mob didn't always like what I had to say about these other three guys. But I think that's a healthy bunch all the same.

[Topaz]

At my site I have commented on composers I'm sure you haven't even heard of. I've even said some positive things about them too! But I really haven't time to discuss all and sundry here, I leave that to you guys. As long as I can tell a good tune from a crap one that is all I or indeed any person needs. Alas few people have this gift it seems.

I'd sooner waste my time on this site than yours.   Most people who come to places like this are "givers" rather than "takers" in my experience, and the takers don't generally last long.  Unless one is a complete novice I don't believe any music Board is useful from the learning perspective. I've learned far more about music from various other sources, and I never seek or take Board recommendations about the "best" recordings, as they're all generally biased or partial.  As far as I'm concerned, Boards are mainly useful to participate in/observe gossip about what's going in the music scene, and to poke fun at idiots who take their own assumed importance all too seriously.

[Gurn Blanston]

Gurn I doubt you are even aware of what 'dipstick' means, certainly when it comes from an Englishman. It relates to a TV comedy show here. Maybe if you'd popped by my site, like you used to, you'd become more culturally aware. 

Well, here in Texas where we don't pander to euphemism that much, we just say f***stick. But I'll go along...

[DavidRoss]

As far as I'm concerned, Boards are mainly useful to participate in/observe gossip about what's going in the music scene, and to poke fun at idiots who take their own assumed importance all too seriously.

So even Mr. Corkin's posts have value?

[(poco) Sforzando]

So even Mr. Corkin's posts have value?

As comic relief.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Don't play the innocent Henning, you sarcastic intrusions are usually the prelude that signals the other boot boys to join in soon after. If I fight fire with fire it's never me who casts the first stone here, that's for sure.

But you must love it, as you keep coming back for more.

[MN Dave]

But you must love it, as you keep coming back for more.

Man, I was wondering why this thread kept going on and on...

[(poco) Sforzando]

Man, I was wondering why this thread kept going on and on...

We're all waiting on tenterhooks for the Second Quartet.