gazman
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....It is clumsy and confusing legislation deriving from Europe.
Nothing new there then!
There is much work to do on the fees issue and I expect that Robert Leach and I will be writing at length about it again elsewhere.Barry Williams
We'll look forward to it, Barry. It is certainly something that I think many of us feel needs addressing.
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I can just imagine her walking into the stern opening chords of Widor VI - an appropriate choice. Well Done!
I really cannot imagine the mindset of a bride who wants to enter their wedding to organ music like Bach's Toccata in D minor. I guess "I was Glad" or "My beloved spake" is mighty impressive in somewhere big like Winchester, St Albans or St Pauls when it takes several minutes to process up the aisle but I find it rather OTT in an average parish church...
My wife came down the nave of an average parish church to I was glad at our wedding, with me conducting! It worked perfectly, and she "arrived" just as the choir came in. Everybody though it splendid, and not OTT, and the fact that the combined choirs and organist were all friends of ours greatly added to the enjoyment of the occasion.
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Doesn't the present firm of Willis operate out of the old R & D factory?
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Not a difference of opinion, but perhaps just better away from here.
Q
Fair enough.
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Nice to see that this topic gets increasingly more informative!
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Are you suggesting that Mr Kendrick's music is comparable in quality to Mr Handel's Compositions?
Barry Williams
NO!!!!!
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One of the major problems with Mr Kendrick's music and many others of that genre is that he sets his own words and the words of others very badly. The accents are often incorrect, thus weakening the effect of the message it is intended to convey.
Barry Williams
That reminds me:- one of my choirs is set to sing Messiah again this Christmas!
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Fangs for that, MM!
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Perfectly put, MM. Thank you.
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I think that an obtuse reference is being made to certain localised 'outstanding attractions', specifically of a mammary nature.
No....really?
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I don't know what you mean.
Could you elaborate further please?
MM
Intelligence and conversational skills I guess!
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Miss Lusardi had her good points too!
Miss Lusardi had her good points: two!
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Ah yes!
The trouble is, when I'm in a traffic jam looking down, every lady looks like a topless model!!!!!!
Lucinda Lambton.......that was the one....delightfully eccentric and wonderfully intelligent.
I wonder how I, of all people, could think of Linda Lusardi?
MM
A topless model walked in to a church one Sunday morning during Mass, wearing nothing on top.
The priest stopped the service and said "I'm sorry, but you can't come into church without sufficient clothes".
The model replied "But what about my divine right Father?"
"Well, you've got a divine left too, but you still can't come into church undressed like that."
Sorry, I'll get my coat.........
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Very sad, although at least somebody in the choir seems to have retained a sense of humour over this, perhaps.
I remember giving a recital on that organ many years ago, and would understand if the choir had been frightened off by the dreadful Krummhorn (or whatever it was called) that I seem to remember is (was?) on the instrument.
I wonder what the winning bidder will receive.....?
Another score to him with the forked tongue, the hoofs and the spiked tail.
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Of course. I was merely struck by the beauty of the conincidence!
A conincidence?
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NOT! unrelated facts about some five manual and rumors about organ companies spying in Europe. STAY ON TOPIC FOLKS - I really hate this forum for this. I ask a simple question, or look up a topic with the handy search function and have to spend precious time sorting thought a lot of stuff not related to the topic at hand. Simple solution... start your own topic. Check the how-to if you don't know how easy it is to do this. Most of us on here don't even have real names/locations attached to our 'online name' anyways - so if you are trying to show off by appearing intelligent, or projecting yourself into given situations by writing about them, I'm sorry, but I don't care and there are others who share this feeling.
WM
Chill out my friend - life's too short!
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Mind you, (my theory) some people favour electronics because they don't sound quite so bad when played poorly.
And they can get a big console with a lot of stop-knobs with which to play around.
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There! Got it back on topic.
Spoil sport!
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I've lost the plot - what's all this got to do with Ralph Downes?
AJJ
I don't know, but it's a great laugh isn't it! The confusion between Lucinda Lambton and Linda Lusardi has had me in stitches! More fun than considering what levels of dopeyness or berkishness may have been possessed by Ralph Downes IMHO!
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The better known Elegy is published by Paxton and copies are readily available on the second-hand market.
However, there is another superb Elegy by GTB on page 36 of 'The Little Organ Book' , the contents of which were all written 'in loving memory' of C. Hubert H. Parry. That volume was published by Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd. It contains some gems, all in miniature. The pieces are all easy but delightful.
Barry Williams
Yes, I forgot about the other Elegy, and the book in memory of Parry. Something else to dig out and have a look at again. Thanks Barry!
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Hi all,
This piece has become one of my favourites after hearing it quite a few times, but my question is does anyone on this board know where to find a copy on the internet?
Also is it very difficult to learn?
Thanks
JA
Try http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/store and search for Thalben Ball Elegy
It's fairly straightforward to learn.
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Wanda Landowska pointed out, around about 1911, that what everyone else thought was an appogiatura in one of Bach's works was in fact an ink blot. It seems a bit like certain organ advising!
Barry Williams
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There is another way (I'm sure there are probably several, but this is the one I find easiest, and you only have to do it once):
In MS Word, go to Insert | Symbol; choose the character you want; click "Shortcut Key", then "Press New Shortcut Key"; create whatever key-stroke combination you want; "Assign", "Close".
I use Alt+A for ä, Alt+Shift+A for Ä, likewise for ö and ü, and Alt+S for ß.
Thanks. Crumbs, all these methods. My brain hurts!
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You can also simply live in Germany and have a German keyboard. Then it's what you get when you type a question mark without the caps.
You also have to get used to having the "y" where real people have the "z" though. So that whenever I'm "at home" (meaning, where I come from) and write an e-Mail I end up signing myself
Barrz
Vielen Dank Barrz!
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There's a rather amusing tale of a church not too many miles away from me. After it was built in the 1960s to serve a new housing estate, the powers that be realized that the architect had forgotten to make allowance for an organ chamber. This, unfortunately, was only discovered after the church had been built!
So, part of the brand new church was demolished in order that an organ could be installed.
A couple of years back the church building was closed for a couple of months in order for it to be reordered. The church was divided into two by a solid wall. One half of it was to be kept for worship, the other half to serve as a new community hall. It was only after the wall was built, dividing the building in two, that some bright spark realized that the organ had been overlooked and had been left in the community hall part, and that there was no room for it in the part set aside for worship!
I understand that they're still having to sing unaccompanied......!