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Post by pippa on Apr 14, 2013 20:33:35 GMT
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Post by jean on Apr 14, 2013 21:42:09 GMT
The massed violins are a bit odd, aren't they?
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Post by aquatic on Apr 14, 2013 22:41:09 GMT
I love it!
I first heard it (ie, the original) when I was 11 or so, when my cousin - a jazz freak - was trying to inveigle my sister. (I let them get on with it. I had no choice, being only 11 or so.)
I love the original, but this one more.
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Post by cleefarqhuar on Apr 15, 2013 7:52:31 GMT
Is this a Matthew Bourne production? God he gets around!
I must say the musicians look more butch than his dancers of Swan Lake
How can a feminist possibly love such a paternalistic macho display?
I liked it,but then I am not a feminist
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Post by pippa on Apr 16, 2013 0:15:19 GMT
since there were no women in the original i don't see why there ought to be in this take. but if it's women you're after clefarqhuar how about abida parveen? here she sings bulleh shah (sufi philosopher, humanist and poet). her audiences are always packed. a little heavier going than jazz-pop but the subtitles help. and if you've got ten minutes to spare - well, you never know.....
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Post by pippop on Apr 19, 2013 11:39:01 GMT
but if it's women you're after clefarqhuar... Actually cleefarqhuar seems more interested in the butch and the macho!
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Post by ncsonde on Apr 25, 2013 12:51:56 GMT
I've just heard Dave Couse's updated version of Endless Art; it's already seven years old - I don't know how it's passed me by. Here's the original brilliant classic:
I don't really know what to make of the new one. I like the acoustic arrangement...and I'm delighted he's still out there...but there's something a little upsetting about messing around with something as iconic as this. A bit like colouring Casablanca. Also, some of his inclusions - really. Maybe it's just I'm getting old. Old, old, man.
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Post by ncsonde on Apr 25, 2013 13:01:21 GMT
Oh, sorry! That's not the original version at all! Still brilliant, though.
This is the original:
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Post by ncsonde on Apr 25, 2013 14:03:32 GMT
I've just twigged that other version only has wimmin in it! He must have got it in the neck from a girlfriend. In case any of you don't know who the inimitable Jean Stafford was, here's her greatest hit:
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Post by ncsonde on Apr 25, 2013 14:44:07 GMT
Well, knock me over...I've been listening to that for nearly a quarter of a century and I've also only just twigged that the original only has blokes in it! Remarkable.
Maybe they're both original, and the women were on the B-side?
I shall research the matter...
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Post by ncsonde on Apr 25, 2013 14:51:14 GMT
Oh no, I was right. He must at some point have gone out with LMH. He is Irish, after all. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endless_ArtFor the first appearance of the song on Bingo, the band received some criticism for the fact that the artists listed in the song are all male, so they recorded a second version where all the artists are female.[3] This is the version called "More Endless Art". In "More Endless Art", the melodic quoatation from Beethoven is substituted with one from Carl Orff, who, it might be quibbled, is not a woman, while the substitution of "Walt Disney's Minnie Mouse" for his Mickey Mouse may not quite right the gender balance either. Still, "More Endless Art" was better than a defence Dave Couse had offered in interviews, that the band had thought that Joan Miró was a woman.[/b][/quote] ;D ;D ;D I wonder how he let George Eliot creep into the wimmin list?
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Post by ncsonde on Apr 25, 2013 14:55:54 GMT
"Orff"!!!
Easy mistake to make. ;D
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Post by ncsonde on Apr 25, 2013 15:20:23 GMT
That works on a number of levels.
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Post by ncsonde on Apr 25, 2013 15:21:19 GMT
Sorry! Doesn't, I mean.
It's me sciatica.
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Post by ncsonde on Apr 25, 2013 15:23:17 GMT
A better quibble might be that it isn't. Not on this version anyway. How many bleedin versions are there?
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