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Last year I posted an organ arrangement - wrongly attributed to J S Bach - of the ancient folk song In dulci jubilo by an unknown composer. That organ arrangement was actually composed by Johann Michael Bach, a relative of J S Bach. The correct attribution, although long suspected, was only confirmed quite recently when various old music manuscripts that had been discovered were being catalogued. I thought you might also like to hear this transcription for piano by the famous German concert pianist and composer Wilhelm Kempff (1895- 1991). It was recorded in 1975 by Kempff when he would have been 80 years old. As you’ll hear, he had a lovely, lyrical and light touch. You can see from the score that there are three different musical “lines” going on, and much of the pleasure is listening to the harmonic interplay between those lines. Of course, organ notes sustain as long as the note is held but on a piano they die away (transcribing an organ piece for piano is a challenge). Sadly all the YouTubes still wrongly attribute this piece to JS Bach so poor Johann Michael seems doomed to remain overlooked

You’ve probably never heard of the Italian aristocrat Alessandro Marcello (1673 - 1757) But you probably have heard one of his compositions Or rather part of one - the Adagio from his Oboe Concerto in D minor His German contemporary, JS Bach, liked it so much he arranged it for harpsichord ...and when Bach covers one of your songs, you’ve made it Here is that arrangement played by English pianist Paul Barton (who lives in Thailand) on his Italian Feurich piano

You’ve probably never heard of the Italian aristocrat Alessandro Marcello (1673 - 1757) But you probably have heard one of his compositions Or rather part of one - the Adagio from his Oboe Concerto in D minor His German contemporary, JS Bach, liked it so much he arranged it for harpsichord, and here is that arrangement played by English pianist Paul Barton (who lives in Thailand) on his Italian Feurich piano

I thought she'd she'd never leave...

“I'll let you wear my underwear“ possibly the scariest line in movie history...

Hmm, deeply suspicious of this The only thing missed off is lubricating your rubber-mounted tunnel thrusters...

The Treasure of Abbot Thomas by Montague Rhodes James During the 1970s the BBC filmed some of the ghost stories of MR James, a Victorian antiquarian and England’s greatest writer of ghost stories. They were shown late in the evening each year around Christmas. When the nights are long and dark. And the wind blows the branches of the leafless trees, scratching and tapping against the window...

the best ever screen Bond for me

Thanks Myr

The tree image I posted October 6 in The Lounge / “Hallowe’en and Autumn mists” disappeared The image displayed normally when the thread was created When I revisited the thread with my iPad 6 there was just an empty box with “large.image.jpeg.b3e8cdb338181d64657b5334ac7ff1bd.jpeg“ displayed at the top I checked with my iPad 2 and it displayed normally, so I assumed it was an issue with the iPad 6 (this device seems to behave quite differently to the iPad 2) Today I again looked at the thread with the iPad 2 and the image wouldn’t display and showed the empty box described above Q1 Is this the correct image address format? The image was posted as follows (can’t remember if I used the iPad 2 or 6): Insert other media - Insert existing attachment - Gallery Images - select - Insert Selected I’ve just used “copy” from the Gallery image and somehow got two more and different image addresses: “https:// gayauthors.org/gallery/image/16546-the-tree-at-the-edge-of-the-wood/” and ”https:// s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/gayauthors-cdn/monthly_2020_10/large.image.jpeg.fb74d4174de3b2b6644ad5b4f7b2cd6d.jpeg“ Q2 Which of these is the correct image address? I’ve just gone into “Edit” and somehow got the image to display again but I’m very confused as to what I did wrong and how to avoid this happening again. I’m guessing I must have used the iPad 6 and it maybe did something weird? It clearly doesn’t work well with the GA site because I’ve had other problems. I’m just glad I kept the old iPad 2 which seems much more reliable. Q3 Any suggestions / ideas? Thanks

"Clean up on aisle 5"

cue Barry White...

or the fourth member is what Dick handles...?

“Some bright, miraculous morning they’ll be back in your dresser drawer!” Just as soon as Mom’s washed out all those nasty stains...

no caption needed...

We’ve all heard about “method acting”, but what about method writing? Meaning you try to immerse yourself completely in the character(s) and / or the narrator in order get into their mindset (behaviours, emotions, speech patterns etc) which you want to be different from yours, as the writer, in order to create an authentic and interestingly varied “cast”. Is this something any of you have tried, or do regularly? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35379361 Btw I can’t post this in Writer’s Circle because I’m not a writer so it has to go here...

Wales goes back into lockdown for two weeks on Friday and Hallowe’en has been cancelled Which means these friendly funsters won’t be allowed out to bring joy and happiness...

“Reveille“ from “Pushkin's Garland” by Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov Composers love acoustic effects and in this piece a boy soprano is separated from the choir to produce a sort of answer or echo. It’s called antiphony (“music in which an ensemble is divided into distinct groups, used in opposition, often spatial, and using contrasts of volume, pitch, timbre, etc“ - Grove) and has roots in ancient music and across cultures (“call and response” is another term commonly used in religious and also gospel music). Vaughan Williams used a similar trick in his Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis performed by a double string orchestra separated by distance to create a “surround sound” and echoing effect for the audience. In an acoustic space like a church or Gloucester Cathedral, where the Fantasia premiered in 1910, the effect is dramatic. Sadly I get none of that with this recording on my feeble iPad and I doubt the performance was miked to capture the effect - I guess you had to be there... Anyway, this is part 7 (of 10) from the Russian neo-romantic composer ’s 1979 choral concerto (set to verses by Alexander Pushkin). Oh yeah, and you’re in for a real surprise when blondie opens his mouth... 

I love the endless variety of trees and how they change over the seasons or from day to night from sunshine to wind and rain They can be enchantingly beautiful and disturbingly sinister... Even a single tree can display both qualities during the same day or, as in your mini-chiller, when it grows old And malevolent...

The tree stood at the edge of the wood Guarding it Or watching it

If you’re wanting recommendations for interesting online mystery detective stories I enjoyed Horatio Nimier’s “Two Divisions” series very much - a dozen or more individual story chapters if I remember right - with an ongoing gay romance story arch across them all. They’re so good they could / should have been published but the writer was happy just with the reward of feedback

I was going to watch it but something came up - thanks for the iPlayer link Sancho was a significant figure in English society and history. A man of many talents, music being just one, he lived a full and most interesting life. If I’ve time I might post more in The Lounge - more people should know about him.

Minuet no 11 in G Minor, pub 1779, by English Composer Ignatius Sancho (1:00)

It seems the earliest example of detective fiction is Islamic from the first millennium (The Three Apples, from One Thousand And One Nights), and it used reverse narrative storytelling. I assume all detective mystery writers must start with the end and work backwards in order to get the plot and structure right before the actual writing is done in “forward time” (with maybe flashbacks), so retaining the reverse chronology should work well with a good writer. But I think it could become tiresome if done too often...

Columbo did this brilliantly - 'Oh, just one more thing...’