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Wowbagger

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Re: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..
« Reply #1300 on: 03 September, 2018, 12:10:11 am »
Did I ever mention that I'm rather fond of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach?

Here's somone playing a bit of his first cello suite on a ukelele. Lovely!

https://forum.ukuleleunderground.com/showthread.php?129372-Bach-Cello-Suite-no-1-quot-Prelude-quot-Baritone-Ukulele-(w-free-tabs)
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Wowbagger

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Re: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..
« Reply #1301 on: 05 September, 2018, 10:27:45 pm »
My dear wife and I are spending a few days in Austria.

This morning we visited the Bösendorfer piano showroom and I spent an hour or so playing their Imperial grand piano. It has 97 keys {the standard is 85 or, more commonly now, 88). It seems that the extra ones were added to make it possible to transpose some of Bach’s organ works to piano.

Anyway, it was a marvellous experience. This evening we attended the Vienna Mozart Orchestra playing all kind of Mozartian lollipops and finishing with some encores involving J. Strauss. The conductor nearly misjudged it as he clearly intended these encores right from the start but he almost let the applause die away at one point!

The Bösendorfer showroom is in the same building as the Musikwarein, so I can now idly boast that I have performed at two of the world’s great musical centres, the other being the Barbican, where I took an exam in one of the practice rooms in 1981.
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Re: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..
« Reply #1302 on: 09 September, 2018, 12:00:49 pm »
We are now in Salzburg.

Vienna was almost totally dominated by Mozart. I assume that this is because he is considered to be the most profit-worthy, given that J. Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms all lived and worked there. It was quite hard to find a concert which was of a complete work. The one we went to at the Golden Saal was all lollipops, but very enjoyable nonetheless.

I didn’t know until yesterday that “The Sound of Music” was filmed in Salzburg, so naturally Wolfgang Amadeus has been eclipsed by Julie Andrews. People keep taking selfies at the top of a flight of steps leading into the Mirabelle Gardens. I watched a YouTube clip of the specific scene from the film* and my dear wife and I were considering a re-enactment. We know the tune and the words.

*No, I have never watched it.

PS What I didn’t know was that Michael Haydn, Joseph’s younger brother, was a successful musician here at a time when Mozart struggled to make a living and consequently buggered off to Vienna. Bloody Esterhazy types, coming over here, putting our home grown musical giants out of work...
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Re: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..
« Reply #1303 on: 11 September, 2018, 10:35:49 am »
Where Eagles Dare was also filmed in Salzburg, where I saw my one and only wallcreeper one winter.

I dare you to recreate the cable car scene..
Mae angen arnaf i byw, a fe fydda'i

Wowbagger

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Re: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..
« Reply #1304 on: 11 September, 2018, 06:51:46 pm »
Sadly, Steph, I have to profess my total ignorance of a cablecar scene, and my knowledge of “Where eagles dare” is utterly non-existent.

I can do a passable Königin der Nachts, albeit two or three octaves lower than written.

We are about to enjoy our final concert of the holiday, consisting of Pachelbel’s Canon, WAM’s Divertimento K 138, Piano Concerto K414, J. Haydn Piano trio “Zigeunetrio” and Eine Kleine. It promises to be a cracker.

Listening to a concerto with a 5-piece ripieno will be novel!
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Re: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..
« Reply #1305 on: 11 September, 2018, 09:27:37 pm »
Where Eagles Dare was also filmed in Salzburg, where I saw my one and only wallcreeper one winter.

I dare you to recreate the cable car scene..
Many years ago, on a Venture Scout holiday in Italy, we took a cable car up Monte Baldo.  The passengers on the cable car were divided into two: On the one hand bemused looking foreigners and on the other oikish Venture Scouts humming the theme tune to Where Eagles Dare.
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Re: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..
« Reply #1306 on: 12 September, 2018, 08:37:49 am »
Vienna was almost totally dominated by Mozart. I assume that this is because he is considered to be the most profit-worthy, given that J. Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms all lived and worked there.
Mozart was the only one with balls...
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citoyen

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Re: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..
« Reply #1307 on: 12 September, 2018, 10:09:13 am »
Sadly, Steph, I have to profess my total ignorance of a cablecar scene, and my knowledge of “Where eagles dare” is utterly non-existent.

Even for you, this is slightly surprising. I haven't seen it for years, but it used to be a staple of the Christmas TV schedules along with Zulu and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Even thinking about the cablecar scene brings on a Proustian rush...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/dec/06/geoff-dyer-where-eagles-dare
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rogerzilla

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Re: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..
« Reply #1308 on: 13 September, 2018, 08:25:38 pm »
A Very Bad colleague has pointed out that someone else at work looks, and sounds, like Kerry Mucklowe from This Country.

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Wowbagger

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Re: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..
« Reply #1309 on: 19 September, 2018, 01:29:26 pm »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDIZ2m2nKBQ

James Rhodes at the Hay Festival. Very amusing!
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Re: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..
« Reply #1310 on: 19 September, 2018, 02:33:51 pm »
Sadly, Steph, I have to profess my total ignorance of a cablecar scene, and my knowledge of “Where eagles dare” is utterly non-existent.
Even thinking about the cablecar scene brings on a Proustian rush...
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/dec/06/geoff-dyer-where-eagles-dare

I remember watching that as a kid and thinking: if that fortress is so impregnable that the mountain cannot be climbed and the only way to reach it is by cable car, how did it get there in the first place?

(Sorry - but when I watched Thunderbirds I used to marvel that the weedy guy with the glasses had built all that kit by himself)
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Re: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..
« Reply #1311 on: 19 September, 2018, 05:46:48 pm »
(Sorry - but when I watched Thunderbirds I used to marvel that the weedy guy with the glasses had built all that kit by himself)

You can re-create this feeling by reading Elon Musk's Twitter account.

Re: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..
« Reply #1312 on: 19 September, 2018, 08:28:35 pm »
(Sorry - but when I watched Thunderbirds I used to marvel that the weedy guy with the glasses had built all that kit by himself)

You can re-create this feeling by reading Elon Musk's Twitter account.

I must have missed the episode where Brains toked a fat reefer, called Gordon Tracy a paedobear and found himself under investigation for securities fraud...  :demon:
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Kim

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Re: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..
« Reply #1313 on: 19 September, 2018, 11:12:30 pm »
(Sorry - but when I watched Thunderbirds I used to marvel that the weedy guy with the glasses had built all that kit by himself)

You can re-create this feeling by reading Elon Musk's Twitter account.

I must have missed the episode where Brains toked a fat reefer, called Gordon Tracy a paedobear and found himself under investigation for securities fraud...  :demon:

That one was a classic.  I especially liked the re-usable unmanned rocket for economically supplying fresh tissues and pornography to Thunderbird 5.

Re: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..
« Reply #1314 on: 19 September, 2018, 11:36:54 pm »
;D ;D ;D
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Re: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..
« Reply #1315 on: 20 September, 2018, 07:13:55 pm »
David is in Berlin.
David is at Berlin Philharmonie.
Concert features Daniel Barenboim at the piano and Anne-Sophie Mutter on violin, playing Mozart, Brahms and Franck.
President of Germany is in audience...

hellymedic

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Re: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..
« Reply #1316 on: 24 September, 2018, 11:29:57 pm »
Delayed squEasyJet flight prompts passengers' Vivaldi performance.

This lot can PLAY!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-45633552/delayed-orchestra-s-impromptu-airport-gig

citoyen

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Re: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..
« Reply #1317 on: 27 September, 2018, 08:36:48 am »
“Heart-warming” story in the Metro about how “no one is mentioning” Bake-Off Briony’s missing fingers. Think they could have found a more sensitive choice of adjective in the final paragraph than “nail-biting”...

https://metro.co.uk/2018/09/05/great-british-bake-off-fans-praise-briony-williams-and-channel-4-series-for-not-mentioning-her-disability-its-heart-warming-7916864/amp/
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hellymedic

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Redlight

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citoyen

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Re: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..
« Reply #1320 on: 28 September, 2018, 10:49:13 am »
Phew!  Rock n roll, eh.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-45667802

Naughty!

I have wondered when watching that programme (FML) if any of the crowd are more inclined to bid if they like the celeb, or if they just want to get themselves on telly.
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citoyen

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In last week’s episode of Better Call Saul, there’s a scene where Kim Wexler is listening to an obscure Stereolab B-side. As if I didn’t have enough reasons to love the show already.
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T42

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Phew!  Rock n roll, eh.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-45667802

God that's pathetic. Not the fiddling, the whole damned thing.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

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