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I have just found a much better sounding version,
The first version was played on a steinway, so its no wonder this version sounds better..
Its a Bosendorfer !!!

anyways, better go and get sleep if I want to be awake at tommorrows lesson!!!!

Yes, it does sound better!

I always remember the first part of the Dolly suite, as it was used as the theme tune for Listen With Mother on Home Service/Radio 4, back in the day, so it's kind of imprinted on my before-I-can-remember memory.

More on Ms Hester Booth and her superb harlequin outfit: after my enquiry to the V&A a couple of days ago about the image not being available from their shop/print service, it is now there!

http://www.vandaprints.com/image/81...ooth-as-a-female-harlequin-by-john-ellys

I may get a print and frame it myself, to install in the new music room. Okay, okay, she's not a musician, but she is pretty Baroque. I think she would fit in well next to Vermeer's The Concert. (Stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and yes I have the original! )

And lest anyone from the bad-ol'-US-of-A decide that they should issue an extradition warrant for me (this situation with UK extraditions to USA is getting really totally stupid now...), and/or should any US customs officer decide I am now an undesirable in terms of entering the USA (UK 'denied entry' situation also reaching stupid proportions e.g. on basis of five words on twitter), I was of course *joking* when I said I had the original. Joking. For the avoidance of doubt: I *do not* have this painting, and I have never had it, and I don't know who has it.

BBC Radio 3's composer of the week next week (from Monday) is Philip Glass:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnxf/episodes/upcoming

Good evening all!

I’ve found this scene from a film about Handel’s life. This scene shows a sort of contest between Handel and Scarlatii, playing the harpsichord. It’s funny.

Rossy, how did your lesson go?
Recaredo, that's some strange contest. They're both playing Handel!

Yes Eglantine, you're right. Probably for this reason Handel won

Today, Radio 4's Feedback reported that radio listeners had been complaining of 'too much Facades by Philip Glass'. Every downbeat documentary apparently uses Glass these days.

Well just in case you haven't heard enough of Facades, here's the great Jon Gibson playing alto sax, with the Glass Ensemble.

My lesson went extremely well today,. thanks for asking folks! Excellent posts Eglantine and Recaredo!!
Handel won! classic!!!
My piano lady's father is send ing me a book on sight reading, which he recomends, and after talking with him on the phone, I learned a lot. he is amazing, no wonder his daughter is so talented!
I have been extremely lucky and am well happy.
A lot of practice over this next week for me!!! And during the day, because the neighbours whine when I practice FF scales at night, moaning gits.lol.
I tell them they are lucky, I could be playing jazz, on a steinway, in drag, with howling dogs, and boiling cabbage on the stove?

Or, worse yet, you could be playing this:



Here is the guy who composed that giving a lecture or clinic or something:

ppp- MAJOR YUK ! although I think my 9 YO would find it "awesome!" which tells you quite a lot...actually, I think that pianist might be having a seizure!


Ok, I'm beating everyone to the punch for Sunday- oops, I thought it was Sunday tomorrow. Oh well, I can't wait. Sorry if this has already been posted...
Rossy, here's one your neighbors might also like.
ps. if they complain, tell them you can always switch to DRUMS!

My caption to that PPP would be; "Don't ever come into my piano shop again" lol.
However, I would like to learn it to educate my neighbours that I have found something marginally worse than the jackhammer they used for three months solid taking all the render off their outside walls.

This woke me up every morning and went on all day till eight oclock at night.

Every day without exception for three months. I nearly went insane. I could not hear myself think inside the house, I could not hear Mrs R talk. I could not hear the radio.

And then one day when I was playing the keyboard with vigour, the man came round to complain and ask me to turn it down, Citing, their new born baby was trying to get to sleep.

Which coincidently, was at exactly the same time that I "lost it"

I may have mentioned that if I was foolish enough to go round making babies, that I would not live next door to a pianist , but would choose to educate my baby in the wonderfull Harmonic structures of the Navvies jackhammer instead, as I would want folk to see me as a good father.

Which by sheer co-incidence was at exactly the same time Mrs R dragged me away from the front door, explaining to the neighbour at the same time, that I had been suffering from a noise related stressfull illness of late and wasnt feeling my best.

I may play that piece you just posted Polyphasic, on a hot day with the windows open, whilst I am outside, so the neighbour in question realises just how lucky he is, and also, so that I am in full view and cannot be blamed for playing it!!!

Klavier well and truly 'stucke'!

Did you know Stockhausen's opera Mittwoch Aus Licht is being performed in full in London this summer for the first time? That's the one with the four helicopters.

Rossy, you might find this interesting and a bit sad

Spot on PPP, excellent, I was waiting for the jackhammer, but it was better!!

Really? I personally find it absolutely crazy that anyone would attempt such a feat. Of course, it would be highly entertaining, and, as a sort theatrical oddity or rarity, it would probably sell tickets. However, from a purely acoustical point of view, there is simply no good way a live performance of a work like that could be accurately transmitted to a concert audience. The sheer visual and acoustical scope of it demands something like cinema to do it any justice. It needs to exploit what the microphone and camera can do if it is to have any real chance at fulfilling its artistic goals. That being said, I would still go and see it.

I confess to being totaly ignorant of Stockhausen, apart from the two videos PPP just posted, but it has made me curious to find out more and learn something new. Thanks for that Polyphasic, he seems an interesting character.
I will do some research in the morning. Much to tired right now, must sleep,
So night night dudes and dudettes, sleep well, love you all lots.
later.

Let me tell you, Karlheinz Stockhausen is weird. I mean, seriously, weird. He takes Serialism to levels that . . . I don't even know what. Even as someone who likes a lot of, let's call it, strange music, I find very little of what he composes to be actually intelligible. In many respects I am more fascinated by him, than by his actual compositions. There is just something so morbidly appealing about his odd nature and the utter conviction he has towards the music he creates.

Here is a commercial for the CBC Glenn Gould made years ago, which contains a parody (named Karlheinz Kloppweiser) he created of Stockhausen's character.

22-25 August. Birmingham not London (but part of London 2012) and live streamed to The Space.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17350688

Hi. Haven't dropped by for a while. Where have I been (apart from the day job)? Working hour upon hour to play this