A - Z of composers.....(classical gender please)

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Mon May 22, 2006 1:34 pm

you are all doing very well here - although I am still surprised that there is no Z yet..... (sly smile)

Sousa and others can be put in - please read the first page!!! The only one I refused was Tippet - as I couldn't stand heraing anything by him as it was unharmonic, irregular in beat and noise, and generally was a sign to exit whatever station, place he was playing at!

As to why i dislike BB so much - i find it mindless stupidity with people playacting to a camera to hopefully win money. I dislike the lottery as well as i don't approve of gambling, espcially as it seems to be the poorer people who put more into it and get very little out of if, I am actually pleased to state I have NEVER nor do I INTEND to BUY a lottery ticket. I see it as yet another stealth tax!

Boom Boom!! thunder and lightning very very frightening, scaramoosh, scarramoosh!!

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Mon May 22, 2006 1:54 pm

I can't agree about Tippett, Jude - I sang "A child of our time" as a student under him (well not exactly under him but you get my drift) - a wonderful work - beautiful soul searching harmonies to the spirituals and a racked tension in the build up of the pogrom. Wonderfully, meaningful music.

Oh! and even though I am a social outcast berated (even by my wife) for cultural hypocrisy, I shall defend my right to gaze into the goldfish bowl of sexual tension that is BB!

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Mon May 22, 2006 1:59 pm

Jude wrote:you are all doing very well here - although I am still surprised that there is no Z yet..... (sly smile)

Pay attention at the back!

Please see my previous post - Zelenka and Zipoli!

cj · Post by cj » Mon May 22, 2006 3:37 pm

W - Widor

cj · Post by cj » Mon May 22, 2006 3:41 pm

Zemlinsky, Alexander (von)
Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe

Google is very useful ...

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Mon May 22, 2006 3:47 pm

cj wrote:Zemlinsky, Alexander (von)
Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe

Google is very useful ...

Indeed it is!

So is spending years working with all sorts of classical music labels - names stick in the brain, even if you've never listened to a particular composer's music!

cj · Post by cj » Mon May 22, 2006 8:40 pm

We'd expect you to know the more obscure names, RR, given your line of work!

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Tue May 23, 2006 12:36 pm

Richard Ruck wrote:
Jude wrote:you are all doing very well here - although I am still surprised that there is no Z yet..... (sly smile)
Pay attention at the back!

Please see my previous post - Zelenka and Zipoli!

Sorry RR - as for the rest "CHEATING" using Google - I don't know !!! tut tut , what would Miss Teverner say!

so that just leaves an X I think....?

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Tue May 23, 2006 12:39 pm

Jude wrote:
Richard Ruck wrote:
Jude wrote:you are all doing very well here - although I am still surprised that there is no Z yet..... (sly smile)
Pay attention at the back!

Please see my previous post - Zelenka and Zipoli!
Sorry RR - as for the rest "CHEATING" using Google - I don't know !!! tut tut , what would Miss Teverner say!

so that just leaves an X I think....?

Xenakis has also been mentioned, I think......

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Tue May 23, 2006 12:43 pm

By the way, Jude, someone's flogging a recording of the Barnes Wallis memorial service on e-bay - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHRISTS-HOSPITAL- ... dZViewItem

I'd forgotten that it had been recorded - I think I used to have a tape of it somewhere.

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Tue May 23, 2006 4:09 pm

Richard Ruck wrote:By the way, Jude, someone's flogging a recording of the Barnes Wallis memorial service on e-bay - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHRISTS-HOSPITAL- ... dZViewItem

I'd forgotten that it had been recorded - I think I used to have a tape of it somewhere.

Would it be copyright ?or could someoneone buy it and copy to CDs and then sell them off at sufficient cost to recoup expenses? I would buy a cd for a pound or two. Can't cope with 78s any more!

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Tue May 23, 2006 4:22 pm

Some of the music may still be in copyright.

The same person is also selling records made by the choir and band at various points (including the 1976 recording of the band in which I took part).

Call it coincidence, but this set me thinking about the possibility of tracking down the mastertapes of these recordings (if they still exist) for just this sort of purpose.

There must have been quite a few over the years. I wonder if the school has any kind of sound archive.........

kerrensimmonds · Post by **kerrensimmonds** » Tue May 23, 2006 4:35 pm

Yes I found all those music records on e Bay last night, and am bidding on some of them.
Presumably they would now be out of copyright?
In which case (if I win the ones I am bidding on....) could we get them digitally recorded onto CD?
I bought a CD last year, from an eBay vendor who had sold a 78 which turned out to have been recorded in (I think) 1935 as a 'marketing' device for Old Blues. The vowels were very rounded! It's very moving!
The seller of the record realised that there were Old Blues bidding against each other (it went for an astronomical sum something like Â£25) and offered unsuccessful bidders a CD of it for Â£5, which I accepted with alacrity.
Kerren

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Thu May 25, 2006 10:45 am

I can copy CD-s just zip up the sound track and I have a stack of CD's - perhaps we could add a few others to the CD - I have 3 CH choir CD's in my rack - not certain I like them as they are all Horsham! Still no news on Noayess FLooddee in the 70-'s

ho hum