tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post2577963671433888314..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Then a wail for their sinsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-27341739333441363042008-10-11T20:50:00.000+01:002008-10-11T20:50:00.000+01:00Pliable,Do you still have a copy of Mrs Penny Powe...Pliable,<BR/><BR/>Do you still have a copy of Mrs Penny Powe11's book in your library? I would love to see a picture of the original published dora letter.<BR/><BR/>TreeakaTreeFinderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06744406814196678680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-70804629224599647242008-01-30T19:33:00.000+00:002008-01-30T19:33:00.000+00:00Glad you enjoyed the Elgar, Pliable, but I prefer ...Glad you enjoyed the Elgar, Pliable, but I prefer his larger utterances (I just got the Barbirolli <I>Gerontius</I> and it's wonderful). <BR/><BR/>Instead of leaving long-ass comments on blogs, I've decided to start blogging. Yikes. Scott, a response to your comments is <A HREF="http://myislandelysium.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">at my place</A>.Henry Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15871451112170286316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-74756217866723452762008-01-27T19:24:00.000+00:002008-01-27T19:24:00.000+00:00Perhaps Frank Bridge's time has come?This was the ...Perhaps Frank Bridge's time has come?<BR/><BR/>This was the second live performance of his music that I have heard in just over a week. On Friday January 18th I heard his Three Idylls for String Quartet played by the Heath Quartet at an Aldeburgh Friday lunchtime concert. <BR/><BR/>The coupling was Beethoven Op. 132. A very wet January lunchtime in Aldeburgh - completely sold out. And classical music is dead?<BR/><BR/>http://www.heathquartet.com/Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-87652183419586992032008-01-27T17:32:00.000+00:002008-01-27T17:32:00.000+00:00"It's probably just me, but if I'm told that a pie..."It's probably just me, but if I'm told that a piece of music is "uplifting" or "touches the core of what it is to be human", I run as fast as I can from it - comments Henry Holland on The composer without a shadow? "<BR/><BR/>Well ... yes, it is, Henry, as least as far as I'm concerned.<BR/><BR/>It strikes me as a marvelously silly and cynical conceit to dismiss a piece out of hand simply because someone has been touched by it beyond interesting sounds and technical ingenuity.<BR/><BR/>It sounds to me like a singularly cold and soulless manner in which to live. But to each his own.<BR/><BR/>Note that I'm not saying that Henry Holland is silly or cynical or soulless; I have no idea whether he is or not. I'm just saying that his comments strike me that way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com