Re: Wildlife November 2009

[johnw]

I don't agree with Beecham's description of a harpsichord: two skeletons 'up to something' on a tin roof!

Anthony   - It was "Sounds like a birdcage played with toasting forks"

Lesley - Here is the wonder live, one of many on youtube, but in fine form here (Sir Thomas Beecham: 1879-1961).  

Also find Sir Thomas Beecham  - Interview and Rehearsal; click & play that and when it finishes, at the the bottom of the youtube player screen you will see 13 more small clickables.

johnw

[Lesley Cox]

Thank you very much John. Lots to explore there. I wonder why I seem to get very little done on any day?

[Lvandelft]

I received this picture today.
Is this Wildlife in the Southern Hemisphere???
Don't know if I still like these fruits after seeing this....

[mark smyth]

poor mouse

[Rodger Whitlock]

Some of the best [Beecham quotes] we can't share on this very civilized forum.

Time to fix that, I think. Okay, everyone, please line up neatly while the nice man installs your nose bones. Please do not scream any more loudly than you must - it frightens the teenagers. Grass skirts are in the next room.

Everyone ready? Nosebones straight? Grass skirts tidy? Okay, out with the risque Beecham quotes!

[One must remember that Sir Thomas, though he had a somewhat earthy sense of humor, was always a gentleman and never coarse.]

[I can see Lesley doing Maori enemy-frightening dances and grimaces the while.]

[Ragged Robin]

A good way to frighten vandals 

[Paul T]

Rodger,

I think it is considerably bad form for women to partake in the enemy frightening Haka dances.  In fact I think it is strictly not allowed.  There are other forms of (i.e non enemy frightening types) Haka that the women partake in.  At least I think that is how it work.  Some of them are greetings and celebrations rather an enemy frightening types. 

Besides which, Lesley doesn't need to frighten them.... she has a rapier wit to get em good.

Oooh, I think I may suffer a lashing from it now!! 

[Lesley Cox]

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.

[Lesley Cox]

I love the green mouse. I see the plant breeding boffins are starting on red-fleshed kiwifruit now, so the next mouse may be nearer the real thing.

[Anthony Darby]

Here's a Sibelius quote: "Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!"

[Lesley Cox]

That's a very good one too Anthony. Maybe we need a thread for quotations?

[Maggi Young]

I refer you to this post from the "Fabulous Fungi" thread..........

I remind you that the "Moan, moan, moan" thread is, to give it its full title, the "Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat" thread..... scope for all there, I hope.... quotes, ranting, gossip...... 

 

[Rodger Whitlock]

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.

[Lesley Cox]

Perhaps, as we have a "Cook's Corner" we also need a music-lovers' thread?

JW has given me a super Youtube link for Heifetz and I'm worried the Youtube video may wear out, I've played it a dozen times already.

I have to admit to NOT liking Stokowksi's orchestral versions of Bach's, for instance. They lack the crispness and clean lines of the Bach originals. On the other hand I adore Busoni's transcription for piano of the Chaconne from the Violin Partita No 2. Over the top of course, but such drama.

[Maggi Young]

Perhaps, as we have a "Cook's Corner" we also need a music-lovers' thread?

JW has given me a super Youtube link for Heifetz and I'm worried the Youtube video may wear out, I've played it a dozen times already.

I have to admit to NOT liking Stokowksi's orchestral versions of Bach's, for instance. They lack the crispness and clean lines of the Bach originals. On the other hand I adore Busoni's transcription for piano of the Chaconne from the Violin Partita No 2. Over the top of course, but such drama.

 I suppose we could have a "Music to Weed By", thread!