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mark smyth

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Re: Wildlife November 2009
« Reply #75 on: November 15, 2009, 09:50:01 PM »
OMG have to you seen Gino ? and Sam Fox putting spiders in their mouths ? ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :-X :-X :-X
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Re: Wildlife November 2009
« Reply #76 on: November 15, 2009, 10:09:00 PM »
No thank you, Mark ... we can still access our 'Off' button!   :D
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Re: Wildlife November 2009
« Reply #77 on: November 15, 2009, 10:12:22 PM »
well, I'm on here and my mother and niece are making me watch.
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Re: Wildlife November 2009
« Reply #78 on: November 15, 2009, 10:24:26 PM »
Do you have a link Mark? Though it is approaching lunchtime here. Perhaps AFTER lunch ???
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Re: Wildlife November 2009
« Reply #79 on: November 15, 2009, 10:42:00 PM »
Quote from: Lesley Cox on November 15, 2009, 10:24:26 PM
Do you have a link Mark? Though it is approaching lunchtime here. Perhaps AFTER lunch ???
here Lesley... http://celebrity.itv.com/2009/   
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Re: Wildlife November 2009
« Reply #80 on: November 15, 2009, 11:01:09 PM »
Quote from: Rodger Whitlock on November 15, 2009, 01:38:59 AM
Quote from: Lesley Cox on November 14, 2009, 09:32:03 PM
My tongue isn't long enough Rodger, besides, as Paul points out, I'm sufficiently frightening anyway. ???
As to Sir Thomas, while I love the quotations, I'll stick with the Sibelius recordings thanks. My only one of Jascha Heifetz.

I won't go near that remark about the tongue, but as for Beecham: he's one conductor whose recordings I've sedulously collected on CD over the last 25 years. As far as I can tell, virtually all of Beecham's commercial recordings have appeared on CD at one time or another, plus a generous selection of in-concert recordings. EMI started a "Beecham Edition" early on in the CD era, even licensing a few performances from other labels, but it came to an early end - perhaps the market response wasn't good. Since then, however, many, many other Beecham recordings have been remastered, on EMI as well as on other labels.

Beecham's reputation was at one time tarred with the same brush as Stokowski's by the sneering term "all showmanship", but since their respective deaths their reputations have risen considerably and they are now regarded as among the brighter stars in the firmament.

Yes, I collect Stokowski too.


I don't think Beecham liked showmanship? Didn't he call Sir Malcolm Sargent 'Flash Harry', which lead to the famous comment, when Sargent was on a tour of the far east: "Flash in Japan"? As for Leo Stokes. Didn't his wife buy him an orchestra?
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Re: Wildlife November 2009
« Reply #81 on: November 15, 2009, 11:10:21 PM »
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As for Leo Stokes. Didn't his wife buy him an orchestra?
Crikey, Anthony, your non-sequiturs will drive me wild, right enough!  
"as for Leo Stokes" ...who mentioned Leo Stokes before? Also..... He's a Nashville  country muso.... why would he need an orchestra?  ::) :P :-\
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Re: Wildlife November 2009
« Reply #82 on: November 15, 2009, 11:22:33 PM »
Leo Stokes was the name Leopold Stokowski was (originally?) called. http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Stokowski-Leopold.htm
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Re: Wildlife November 2009
« Reply #83 on: November 15, 2009, 11:33:46 PM »
Quote from: Anthony Darby on November 15, 2009, 11:22:33 PM
Leo Stokes was the name Leopold Stokowski was (originally?) called. http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Stokowski-Leopold.htm
Well, I never! :o            Thanks... my musical lesson of the day. 8) A touch of the "Elton John" .... or more closely, the "Alicia Markova" syndrome, perhaps? 
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Re: Wildlife November 2009
« Reply #84 on: November 16, 2009, 01:23:42 AM »
Lesley,

Are they really trying to breed red fleshed kiwi fruit?  That is a heck of a change.  The yellow fleshed is relatively straight forward as yellow and green often do have a link in the plant world, but shifting it to red would be a big accomplishment.  And besides..... the green of a kiwi fruit is just such a lovely green.  8)
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Re: Wildlife November 2009
« Reply #85 on: November 16, 2009, 02:31:07 AM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on November 15, 2009, 11:33:46 PM
the "Alicia Markova" syndrome, perhaps? 

A lovely lady, young Alice Marks and didn't Margot Fonteyn start off as Peggy Hookham? I read a lovely story once that Dame Margot, in a lift, (elevator) in New York, complained to the attendant that it always seemed to be raining there. He replied "Ah but Madam, you can dance between the raindrops."
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Re: Wildlife November 2009
« Reply #86 on: November 16, 2009, 02:34:09 AM »
Yes Paul, they really are. We saw some on TV a few nights ago. They're not quite there yet but the ones shown were, in cross-section, a bright crimson in the centre with red lines radiating from the middle and reaching about 2/3ds the way to the edge. Just a matter of time, another generation or two. I don't like the yellows much. They lack the tangy taste of the greens but some people prefer the less acidic yellows.

You're right, the green of a ripe fruit is a lovely colour, very attractive with oranges and yellows in a fresh fruit salad - or in a mouse!
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Re: Wildlife November 2009
« Reply #87 on: November 16, 2009, 05:47:15 AM »
Another Beecham anecdote: his description of Herbert van Karajan as "a sort of musical Malcolm Sargent".
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Re: Wildlife November 2009
« Reply #88 on: November 16, 2009, 06:37:36 AM »
 ;D ;D ;D

(I admit I had to look up who Malcolm Sargent was but.... LOL!!)
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Re: Wildlife November 2009
« Reply #89 on: November 16, 2009, 12:31:04 PM »
Sir Thomas again - Did he not call an Elgar Symphony the equivalent of a musical St Pancras Station?

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