tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post8393304945109682042..comments2024-03-27T09:27:33.931+00:00Comments on Idiotic Hat: Home Art GoneMike C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-64647088627430528652011-04-27T22:26:55.101+01:002011-04-27T22:26:55.101+01:00Tony,
Too true, and it's only going to get wo...Tony,<br /><br />Too true, and it's only going to get worse. No, don't recall that name -- actually, I don't remember ever knowing any Sam anywhere, come to think of it (apart from the son of an old Oxford-era friend).<br /><br />Your checkwords are getting too good to be true, but I trust you... Those honed crossword skills clearly make you an ace at unpacking sense from nonsense, if you see what I mean.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-80127996960436932952011-04-27T21:54:33.465+01:002011-04-27T21:54:33.465+01:00Thanks for the poem, Mike.
The more friends you m...Thanks for the poem, Mike.<br /><br />The more friends you make in life, the more funerals there are to go to...<br /><br />Don't know if you remember Sam Fenson, and if you do maybe you don't realise what a great bloke he turned out to be once he'd cured himself of al his addictions (including the fags).<br /><br />Sadly he died of liver cancer a couple of weeks ago after a year or so of great suffering. I'll be attending his funeral on the 5th May.<br /><br />[Checkword unkliv - an oncological condition of the liver?!]Tony_Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-72026100139587234622011-04-27T00:02:04.835+01:002011-04-27T00:02:04.835+01:00Mike
I quite agree about the nonny-no-ery - the s...Mike<br /><br />I quite agree about the nonny-no-ery - the setting of "It was a lover and his lass" in Finzi's cycle clearly has to cope with a lot of it (not to mention the hey ding-a-ding dinging birds). But not all Shakespeare's songs come into this category. The Finzi cycle also includes a superb setting of "Come away, come away death" which is as far from hey-nonny-no-ery as it is possible to imagine!David Brookesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-4535596199354566222011-04-25T15:16:48.063+01:002011-04-25T15:16:48.063+01:00Thanks, Huw.
David,
I'll give it a listen, b...Thanks, Huw.<br /><br />David,<br /><br />I'll give it a listen, but I'm allergic to actual settings of Shakespeare "songs", much as I like the words. I think of them as the equivalent of the "bit with a dog" (see "Shakespeare in Love") that no doubt enlivened every Elizabethan/Jacobean play, but never made it into the scripts.<br /><br />If you can take his vocal mannerisms, one rare exception (for me) is Elvis Costello singing "O Mistress Mine" (Twelfth Night) on John Harle's "Terror & Magnificence" album.<br /><br />Otherwise, all the "hey nonny no" takes people into territory that makes me want to laugh. Peter Sellers had it down with "A Hard Day's Night". Four hundred years from now, I guess people stuck with lyrics but no tune will find similar problems with "Oo-wee, baby" and "yeah, yeah, yeah"...<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-54847236974917321492011-04-23T23:19:08.265+01:002011-04-23T23:19:08.265+01:00Mike
If you don't already know it, I recommen...Mike<br /><br />If you don't already know it, I recommend Gerald Finzi's setting of "Fear no More" from his Shakespeare cycle "Let Us Garlands Bring" - ideally sung by Bryn Terfel.David Brookesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-64923542961614503172011-04-23T17:05:08.202+01:002011-04-23T17:05:08.202+01:00Mike,
Nice picture. Very harmonious.
HuwMike, <br /><br />Nice picture. Very harmonious. <br /><br />HuwHuwnoreply@blogger.com