rjb wrote:No it must be Handle after all he invented the bar.
or disraeli the inventor of gears. - Who!
or Tubular bells but last i heard he had a visit from the fairy.
For that, I suggest you leave the bike at home and take Debussy...
rjb wrote:No it must be Handle after all he invented the bar.
or disraeli the inventor of gears. - Who!
or Tubular bells but last i heard he had a visit from the fairy.
661-Pete wrote:rjb wrote:No it must be Handle after all he invented the bar.
or disraeli the inventor of gears. - Who!
or Tubular bells but last i heard he had a visit from the fairy.
For that, I suggest you leave the bike at home and take Debussy...
Cyril Haearn wrote:Beethoven is celebrating his 250th birthday this year, all his symphonies were performed in Bonn in one day
Looked for the masters works in a concert programme, found nothing, then I realised he was under 'v', van Beethoven
Cyril Haearn wrote:The Symphony Orchestra!
100 or more* people play different instruments for an hour or more to an exact plan, how complicated is that? But it is made of lots of simple actions that combine to make the whole greater than the sum of the parts, +101
Elgar, Sibelius, Beethoven, Bach, Haendel, Mozart, Britten, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner..
Could there be any reason why most of them seem to be German?
* went to a Symphonic Mob concert, 400 musicians, they played 'we hate Nottingham Forest' by Sir Edward Elgar
merseymouth wrote:Hi All, I might agree to the Orchestra being the second best invention of all times, but it could never be first!
For me the Mighty Wurlitzer or Compton Theatre Organ steals top spot!
So versatile, such a rich mixture of sound & tone, with the right person manning/personning the console they run the entire gamut of music, even get the horrible bag-pipes!
I can still hear "The Organist Entertains" running in my head . MM
661-Pete wrote:
Can anyone who's got a piano or keyboard, (a) play it, and (b) tell me who it's by?
Yes. Third movement of his piano concerto. Probably not a mainstream favourite, and not the easiest of listening. I remember a performance of it at the Proms a few years ago, by young virtuoso Benjamin Grosvenor - very impressive!PDQ Mobile wrote:661-Pete wrote:
Can anyone who's got a piano or keyboard, (a) play it, and (b) tell me who it's by?
B. Britten?