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Post by Séamus on Apr 16, 2024 12:20:48 GMT
"LISTENERS to Classic FM have just voted Sergei Rachmaninov's second piano concerto their favourite piece of music. It is hardly a surprise, given the amount of airtime this epic work receives on the station. But its ascent to the summit must also have been helped by its role as the soundtrack to the 1945 film Brief Encounter, perhaps the greatest of all British romantic movies. Rachmaninov's sweeping, melodramatic and heart-rending score is perfect for this unforgettable tale of unfulfilled love...irascible Muir Mathieson, the leading musical director in the British film industry..... believed that a new score should be commissioned but fortunately Coward prevailed - and a British cultural icon was born" Ulster-born express journo Leo McKinstry
Someone who has a doctorate in things like this remarked how strange it seemed to him that it had permeated culture so much, whether a film was responsible or not,the piece being 'less than a century old and still under copyright'.
He mentioned that an Australian university that he had had involvement in had been celebrating,a few years back,a government grant for research into the sounds made by crustaceans in the creek environment. I questioned whether she (the 50,000 research recipient) was really part of the music school. Part of the music school!
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Post by Tomas on Apr 16, 2024 15:26:44 GMT
"LISTENERS to Classic FM have just voted Sergei Rachmaninov's second piano concerto their favourite piece of music. It is hardly a surprise, given the amount of airtime this epic work receives on the station. But its ascent to the summit must also have been helped by its role as the soundtrack to the 1945 film Brief Encounter, perhaps the greatest of all British romantic movies. Rachmaninov's sweeping, melodramatic and heart-rending score is perfect for this unforgettable tale of unfulfilled love...irascible Muir Mathieson, the leading musical director in the British film industry..... believed that a new score should be commissioned but fortunately Coward prevailed - and a British cultural icon was born" Ulster-born express journo Leo McKinstry Someone who has a doctorate in things like this remarked how strange it seemed to him that it had permeated culture so much, whether a film was responsible or not,the piece being 'less than a century old and still under copyright'. He mentioned that an Australian university that he had had involvement in had been celebrating,a few years back,a government grant for research into the sounds made by crustaceans in the creek environment. I questioned whether she (the 50,000 research recipient) was really part of the music school. Part of the music school! Just had a long chat with a man in his thirties extra staff at the office and a film connaisseure, with several titles flowing around from old to recent.. we didn´t talk of Brief Encounter then yet it would have fallen in among the varieties. Rachmaninov´s famous beginning (and recurrence) in one of his Piano Concertos is certainly some unique classic that stands out, also on its own! Research funding I don´t understand at all.
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Apr 17, 2024 11:10:51 GMT
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Post by Séamus on Apr 17, 2024 11:10:51 GMT
"LISTENERS to Classic FM have just voted Sergei Rachmaninov's second piano concerto their favourite piece of music. It is hardly a surprise, given the amount of airtime this epic work receives on the station. But its ascent to the summit must also have been helped by its role as the soundtrack to the 1945 film Brief Encounter, perhaps the greatest of all British romantic movies. Rachmaninov's sweeping, melodramatic and heart-rending score is perfect for this unforgettable tale of unfulfilled love...irascible Muir Mathieson, the leading musical director in the British film industry..... believed that a new score should be commissioned but fortunately Coward prevailed - and a British cultural icon was born" Ulster-born express journo Leo McKinstry Someone who has a doctorate in things like this remarked how strange it seemed to him that it had permeated culture so much, whether a film was responsible or not,the piece being 'less than a century old and still under copyright'. He mentioned that an Australian university that he had had involvement in had been celebrating,a few years back,a government grant for research into the sounds made by crustaceans in the creek environment. I questioned whether she (the 50,000 research recipient) was really part of the music school. Part of the music school! Just had a long chat with a man in his thirties extra staff at the office and a film connaisseure, with several titles flowing around from old to recent.. we didn´t talk of Brief Encounter then yet it would have fallen in among the varieties. Rachmaninov´s famous beginning (and recurrence) in one of his Piano Concertos is certainly some unique classic that stands out, also on its own! Research funding I don´t understand at all. The second section-adagio is perennially popular, not when or how words were introduced but it is sometimes sung; Amici's recording comes to mind.
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May 6, 2024 3:19:03 GMT
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Post by Séamus on May 6, 2024 3:19:03 GMT
' A statue of the poet who wrote the first verse of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star will be formally unveiled. Sir Bob Russell raised £90,000 to create the life-sized tribute to Jane Taylor, and her sibling Ann, which will be placed on Colchester High Street. The former Liberal Democrat MP said it was "dedicated to the children of the world". Pupils from North Primary School, in the city, were asked to sing the famous nursery rhyme at a ceremony on Saturday. ' bbc news
Seeing a spread showing a million and a half people cheering Madonna on under clear skies in Rio while, on the same newspaper page, there's an image of floods in the south of Brazil which have misplaced 80,000 people, one brings to mind the lesson of The Tower of Siloam. But, as desperate as a monument to the Twinkle Twinkle first-verse-author might seem(I was unaware that other verses had ever been written,my nephews and nieces likewise,I'm sure),it would be worthwhile predicting whether any work from these current Swifts, Ciccones and whoever will endure for centuries also.
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