tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post3389688424995526691..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Now I’m a believer ……Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-74496081303979632022007-03-14T06:54:00.000+00:002007-03-14T06:54:00.000+00:00It's Vano Muradeli.It's Vano Muradeli.Alex Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08023216757229249122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-60731815949424358522007-03-13T18:49:00.000+00:002007-03-13T18:49:00.000+00:00Many thanks to reader Iain who pointed out that I ...Many thanks to reader Iain who pointed out that I had Norris McWhirter's dates wrong - now corrected.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-16498095817295896742007-03-13T15:00:00.000+00:002007-03-13T15:00:00.000+00:00Hi Pliable.I'm not sure about the point you're mak...Hi Pliable.<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure about the point you're making in this post.<BR/><BR/>Are you saying there's an equivalence between "A British Symphony" and works celebrating totalitarianism?<BR/><BR/>You haven't produced much evidence to support the parallel.<BR/><BR/>The person who commissioned the symphony is a Eurosceptic. So what?<BR/><BR/>Do patrons have to undergo some sort of ideological test before they can commision a piece of music?<BR/><BR/>Also, what would be wrong in a symphony celebrating Britain, France, Ireland, Finland, or any other country?<BR/><BR/>It's a shame that you imply there's something sinister in it. Unless you know something we don't?<BR/><BR/>Will we ever be able to hear this piece now, to make up our own minds?<BR/><BR/>Of course if you're right and Barry Wordsworth was not comfortable with the piece for political reasons, then of course, interest in it is only likely to grow.<BR/><BR/>Best wishes,<BR/><BR/>Peter ReavyPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10865582871564415635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-26622061520358191702007-03-12T21:26:00.000+00:002007-03-12T21:26:00.000+00:00Thank heavens that Barry Wordsworth has the freedo...Thank heavens that Barry Wordsworth has the freedom to refuse to perform a piece. Presumably if the conductor of The Decembrists had done likewise, he would have been murdered or sent to a gulag. <BR/><BR/>It still looks like hard luck for the composer - but now one might start to wonder whether he believed in his own work, written to such a commission...?Jessicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01466731742820325857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-14958412817893517032007-03-12T19:24:00.000+00:002007-03-12T19:24:00.000+00:00Why didn't Mr. Wordsworth make these issues known ...Why didn't Mr. Wordsworth make these issues known publically? That certainly puts a different spin on the issue.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12939881701345686354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-89830533878022972742007-03-12T18:59:00.000+00:002007-03-12T18:59:00.000+00:00Some trivia to lighten a rather dark story.Barry W...Some trivia to lighten a rather dark story.<BR/><BR/>Barry Wordsworth went to my school! He is a few years older than me, but was actually in my brother's class.<BR/><BR/>The school was Glyn County Grammar in Epsom, and it had some interesting former pupils. Another one was <A HREF="http://www.theovergrownpath.blogspot.com/2006/11/brittens-champagne-moment.html" REL="nofollow">David Hemmings.</A>Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-88892650446778195342007-03-12T18:46:00.000+00:002007-03-12T18:46:00.000+00:00Jessica has added this to her post:UPDATE, 5.55pm:...Jessica has added this to her post:<BR/><BR/><I>UPDATE, 5.55pm: Over at On An Overgrown Path, Pliable casts some extremely interesting light on the background to the Gant/Wordsworth story. It seems that the political leanings and writings of the work's commissioner, R Atkinson frere, may be not irrelevant and will be highly uncomfortable, not to say repugnant, to much of the British arts community. Pliable applauds Wordsworth's decision. He may be right.</I>Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com