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sonofhealfdane

The Sun Also Rises--fun with bad metaphors

Feb 09, 2005 06:29

In about 15 minutes, the sun is going to rise, and I am going to see, between bare branches, the kind of shiny domw that is the Albert Hall to my right, the vulgar copper-tipped phallus of Queen's Tower in the centre, and the pile of dingy scuzz that is Southside Hall to my left. Word ( Read more... )

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Art of Fugue? anonymous February 8 2005, 23:30:30 UTC

Played by whom and on what medium (harpsichord, piano, organ, string quartet, other)?

Nemesio

Re: Art of Fugue? sonofhealfdane February 9 2005, 03:43:46 UTC

It's on the organ in the Dutch Church in London, played by Colm Carey.

Re: Art of Fugue? anonymous February 9 2005, 10:10:59 UTC

Bah. A Flentrop's revoicing of a 1950s 'Neo-Baroque'
[i]Dutch[/i] organ? No thanks. :P:P:P:P:P

That piece should be played on a 17th c. Schnitger
or a 18th c. Silberman (Andreas or Gottfried). Those
20th c. organs 'in the style of the Baroque' are,
almost without exception, pale imitations.

Flentrop makes nice organ cases (they are pretty to
look at), though. But I wouldn't walk across the
street to hear a free concert on one.

Louis Thiry has a recording on the absolutely drop-dead
gorgeous 1741 Silbermann at St Thomas Church in Strasbourg.
I don't know about this organist, but the organ is one
of the best in the world, hands down. It might be worth
investigating if you like the [i]Die Kunst der Fuge[/i] on organ.

Nemesio

Pancakes anonymous February 8 2005, 23:46:27 UTC

A point of correction: Pancakes don't make the start of Lent
but the end of 'Ordinary Time' or 'Epiphanytide.' People ate
pancakes because it used up those things which, in medieval
times, were forbidden in Lent. Of course, such practice is
anachronistic nowadays, because very few churches insist upon
giving up things like butter or eggs during all of Lent.

As I recall, in the Orthodox church, they continue to abstain
from these things (with some of the restrictions lifted on
Saturdays and Sundays, which are considered apart from Lent).
Lent begins on 'Clean Monday' rather than Ash Wednesday, and
a few of the restrictions are imposed. 'Shrove Tuesday' has a few
more restrictions, but the stuff in pancakes are still allowed. Ash
Wednesday hits, and the full restrictions of 'Great Lent' are in
place for the next six and half weeks.

Nemesio

Re: Pancakes sonofhealfdane February 9 2005, 03:45:48 UTC

My eyes have been opened. I always thought Lent was a vaguely defined period of trying not to eat a muffin or have a wank. Then I thought it was about what one does after teaching ignorant British people how to make proper pancakes, given some hypothetical religious observance. Now I'm enlightened.

Re: Pancakes psuedocanadian February 9 2005, 07:15:40 UTC

Huh, so...you can have a wank during lent?

the sun also rises anonymous February 9 2005, 18:43:15 UTC

that is quite! a good book (despite having been written by ole ernie). i'm glad you're embracing religious culinary practices. while you're at it, you could read the section of the holy book from whence that phrase came.

enjoy your wank,
g dot.

skuunka_prince February 10 2005, 19:15:42 UTC

Hey man. You give anything up, or just help with the food? Man, I'd give up a lot for some good food. This school's cafeteria is quite nasty, I dare say.

kingofeyesores February 12 2005, 09:02:03 UTC

wurd this is m-fizzle from da 207 and i be sportin a new lj. dis is it yo.