Author Topic: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread. (Read 33463 times)

andrewc · « **Reply #200 on:** 29 March, 2023, 08:12:20 pm »

Some military brutalism for the architecture fans. https://twitter.com/OSaumarezSmith/status/1641036028239663108?s=20

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #201 on:** 29 March, 2023, 08:27:01 pm »

The College of Science at Shrivenham looks very interesting. A bit teletubby but with mad evil scientists in white coats.

andrewc · « **Reply #202 on:** 02 June, 2023, 09:06:41 am »

I seem to recall that we have some fans of power stations & cooling towers on the forum.....

https://www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/event/margaret-howell-and-c20-twentieth-century-society-cooling-towers/

Beardy · « **Reply #203 on:** 02 June, 2023, 09:16:02 am »

When my family first moved to Yorkshire, the route we took back to see family took us past a power station on Canal Rd, Bradford, which was notable to a 9yo me because it had wooden cooling towers.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #204 on:** 07 June, 2023, 03:47:15 pm »

Colin, our choir's Mus Dir, is planning to retire at the end of this year. He's been waving his baton for us for longer than I've been a member (12 years at least). I learned last night that he's planning to "go out with a bang' and that the final work he will direct will be Bach's B minor mass. I don't think I've ever listened to it all the way through*. I seem to recall my late brother opining that it was pretty much the pinnacle of all Bach's work and Chris Knew What He Was Talking About.

I shall try to persuade Colin to give it another year, because 2024 is the 200th anniversary of the first performance of Beethoven's 9th, and teh 300th anniversary of the first performance of Bach's St. John Passion.

*Come to think of it, I almost certainly have as Roger Norrington conducted it at the Proms in 2012. But that's probably hte only time, and I can't remember a lot about it.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #205 on:** 07 June, 2023, 04:00:41 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FLbiDrn8IE&ab_channel=NetherlandsBachSociety

Here's the Netherland Bach Society's rendition, again from the church where my nephew got married.

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #206 on:** 07 June, 2023, 04:03:57 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 07 June, 2023, 03:47:15 pm

I learned last night that he's planning to "go out with a bang' and that the final work he will direct will be Bach's B minor mass. I don't think I've ever listened to it all the way through*. I seem to recall my late brother opining that it was pretty much the pinnacle of all Bach's work and Chris Knew What He Was Talking About.

It is marvellous - I hope someday to have a chance to sing it. I’ve seen Andreas Scholl perform in it a couple of times.

andrewc · « **Reply #207 on:** 25 July, 2023, 11:00:55 am »

An essential reference for the true connoisseur.......... https://museumbums.com/book/museum-bums/

Wowbagger · « **Reply #208 on:** 25 July, 2023, 11:15:46 am »

And, combining the previous two posts...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bcsw

PS - a fairly obscure link.

andrewc · « **Reply #209 on:** 25 July, 2023, 11:19:23 am »

Bach's ass conducted by John Butt......

Wowbagger · « **Reply #210 on:** 25 July, 2023, 11:19:31 am »

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ernv9r

The same conductor is in charge of this prom.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #211 on:** 25 July, 2023, 11:20:19 am »

Quote from: andrewc on 25 July, 2023, 11:19:23 am

Bach's ass conducted by John Butt......

Spot on!

rafletcher · « **Reply #212 on:** 28 July, 2023, 08:42:49 am »

We've been watching "Extraordinary Portraits. One of them wasn't a portrait (as in painting) but was indeed extraordinary.

https://nickelphicksculpture.co.uk/extraordinary-portraits

TheLurker · « **Reply #213 on:** 06 August, 2023, 12:10:24 pm »

I am surprised that no-one else here has noted the death of Carl Davis. You may not know the name, but you'll almost certainly heard at least some of his music.

Ob. Grauniad link.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/04/carl-davis-obituary

Beardy · « **Reply #214 on:** 06 August, 2023, 10:45:46 pm »

Has Jeremy Vine Bleached his hair or was he always blond?

TheLurker · « **Reply #215 on:** 16 August, 2023, 12:22:23 pm »

I can't be fussed to do any detailed digging, but I *suspect* that Richard O'Sullivan (Man About the House et. al.) *may* be the last living actor to have worked with Boris Karloff.

Watching, "Col. March of Scotland Yard" on WrinklyTV y'day evening and there was a v. young Mr O'Sullivan in short trousers doing "winsome & curious child".

Wowbagger · « **Reply #216 on:** 23 August, 2023, 11:29:24 am »

PBC advertises new 45.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/23/the-rolling-stones-sneak-cryptic-teaser-ad-for-new-album-in-local-london-newspaper-hackney-diamonds

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #217 on:** 23 August, 2023, 11:34:55 am »

Ah, but is it art?

andrewc · « **Reply #218 on:** 23 August, 2023, 01:52:11 pm »

https://slippedisc.com/2023/08/exclusive-sir-john-eliot-gardiner-quits-trojans-after-singer-incident/

Combative conducting……

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #219 on:** 23 August, 2023, 08:23:53 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 23 August, 2023, 11:29:24 am

PBC advertises new 45.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/23/the-rolling-stones-sneak-cryptic-teaser-ad-for-new-album-in-local-london-newspaper-hackney-diamonds

33 (and a third)!

andrewc · « **Reply #220 on:** 24 August, 2023, 02:48:34 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 23 August, 2023, 01:52:11 pm

https://slippedisc.com/2023/08/exclusive-sir-john-eliot-gardiner-quits-trojans-after-singer-incident/

Combative conducting……

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/24/john-eliot-gardiner-pulls-out-of-bbc-proms-after-reports-he-punched-bass-singer

https://slippedisc.com/2023/08/just-in-sir-john-eliot-gardiner-withdrawing-issues-a-public-apology/

Twitter is full of musicians & singers saying he's a nasty bloke to work with.

hellymedic · « **Reply #221 on:** 24 August, 2023, 10:50:23 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 23 August, 2023, 01:52:11 pm

https://slippedisc.com/2023/08/exclusive-sir-john-eliot-gardiner-quits-trojans-after-singer-incident/

Combative conducting……

Exit Stage Wrong!

hellymedic · « **Reply #222 on:** 25 August, 2023, 02:02:16 pm »

Is it the heat or early dementia?
Time will tell...

Wowbagger · « **Reply #223 on:** 25 August, 2023, 02:32:43 pm »

One of those reports suggests heat and change of drugs. Not that early for dementia - he's 80.

I sang with a couple of JEG's English Baroque Soloists/Monteverdi Choir in the Bach choral course I attended in St. Andrews. One of them, Sam Evans, was the Course Director. The other was Katherine Fuge, a soprano, who came as a visiting lecturer and singing coach. Neither of them suggested anything unpleasant about him other than the massively demanding standards of one of the top musicians of his age. But then of course that's exactly what one would expect. One session involved a question-and-answer session with Katherine and she was asked about working with him.

He's quite an unusual musician in that so far as I can tell he's not outstandingly proficient on any instrument or with his voice, but just grew up as a conductor. He's widely regarded as the pioneer of playing ancient works on period instruments.

Wikipedia says this:

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Gardiner has been the subject of various allegations of rudeness and bullying of performers and colleagues.

with three referring links to citations, at least one of which is defunct. Another is here.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #224 on:** 18 September, 2023, 08:56:52 pm »

Take the Money and Run!

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Haaning told Danish radio at the time: “The work is that I have taken their money. It’s not theft. It is breach of contract, and breach of contract is part of the work.”