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  1. northie
    'But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.' This was so appropriate this time last year - at work, we were so short staffed and those of us left didn't know whether we had a job or not. Waking up in the middle of the night and worrying about things over which I had no control... Yeah.
  2. northie
    *While lbo is sighing over the photo and so not paying attention ...* Mine - shiny needs to be with its queen, me.
  3. northie
    Thanks AC. The first line is often quoted but I think this is the first time I've read all of it. Wonderful but I'd better read it again in the morning - my bed calls
  4. northie
    Thanks, Drew! You were saving shiny so it could be back with me, as you said, the queen!
  5. northie
    Well, start saving your pennies now ... (Did it say how many you'd need? )
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    Wonderful, masterful playing. It's not something I would pay to go and hear but I can certainly understand why it's one of the most popular concertos for the violin. Thanks for posting it.
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    Tallis is right in the middle of the C16 English choral tradition which I can listen to for ever. He was writing religious music at an extremely dangerous time but whether he's writing in Latin, in English or in the stripped down new Protestant hymns, I find his music soothing for my soul and my mind. (And it's great to sing, as well.)
  8. northie
    As I see it, Handel's belief in the essential goodness of mankind shines through all his music.
  9. northie
    All this reigning gets very tiresome without a shiny... Hand it over, zombie, otherwise it will be Off with your head! Maybe I can do that more than once with a zombie? Hmmm Anyway, shiny's back where it belongs.
  10. northie
    Yes, it is wonderful. I know it well but not in this performance. Handel weaves the two horn parts in and around the voice beautifully. I'm not sure I'd want to hear it in a counter-tenor version as is much more the fashion now.
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    *... straight into a net which is weighted down and then tied tightly closed.* Come on, shiny. Back with your queen ...
  12. northie
    This is not the sort of thing I would usually think of listening to. I did this time and though I can admire the technique and artistry of both composer and performer, it doesn't speak to me. Just my taste ...
  13. northie
    Listening to that first made me think of Vivaldi, then Mozart and then shades of Michael Nyman. I certainly wouldn't have wanted to be that trumpeter at the end - stratospherically high and long, long notes. Film music can be seen as the poor relation of all sorts of other musical genres.
  14. northie
    No but I am the current queen and I'll have my crown back, thank you!
  15. northie
    Tim and Peter Handel is one of those composers I can't live without, especially his vocal / choral music although I still have much work to do on his operas. I shall probably be making more than one selection as we progress. This is Emma Kirkby singing 'Sweet bird' from his oratorio L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjqx8rUUklg
  16. northie
    Wow! You're on the up and up ... Enjoy 'wearing' the purple.
  17. northie
    Just what I was going to say ... Mine
  18. northie
    Isn't the pursuit of knowledge everything?
  19. northie
    Just in case you didn't hear the first time, bard.
  20. northie
    A really wretched rhymer, aren't you. A finer minstrel I never knew puffing, spouting, turning blue. Hand it over; I've got shiny some glue. Mine. Now firmly attached to my head and guaranteed lemur proof
  21. northie
    Is it something that might explode?
  22. northie
    *Regally deigns to pat the lemur on the head, protecting it from the prattling, pushy poet.* I'll just take the shiny. There, there...
  23. northie
    *While the babbling bard baffles and badgers the lemur,... * Mine. That's poetry! One essential word.
  24. northie
    I'm the current queen, you're not. End of story. Mine.
  25. northie
    No! Mine
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