tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post5475678451328659269..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: I want the idea to be universalUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-5201548036269069672010-04-04T19:29:59.559+01:002010-04-04T19:29:59.559+01:00Which raises an interesting question. Can you tell...Which raises an interesting question. Can you tell the state of a nation by the quality of its train services - as well as its bookshops? (http://www.overgrownpath.com/2008/07/bookshops-and-state-of-nation.html)<br /><br /><b>Today, in 2007, a high-speed train begins its trip between Paris and Lyon - lasting a little less than two hours - almost every thirty minutes, and nobody finds that remarkable. The one daily Amtrak service between San Francisco and Los Angeles, a comparable distance between comparable population concentrations, takes almost a full day, and plans for a high-speed line are no more than doodles on the drawing board -</b> from <i>In Europe</i> by Geerd Mak<br /><br />There are lots of links between trains and classical music -<br />http://www.overgrownpath.com/2008/02/short-ride-in-fast-machine.htmlPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-30056365149751619352010-04-04T19:17:30.334+01:002010-04-04T19:17:30.334+01:00'Asked for an intermezzo to cover a scene chan...<i>'Asked for an intermezzo to cover a scene change during the Covent Garden rehearsals, he composed some of it in the train between London and his home station of Dorking in Surrey'.</i><br /><br />http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts/slow-progress-for-a-music-pilgrims-opera/2008/03/26/1206207200262.html<br /><br />Given the decline of train services in England one can only think that if RVW was alive today not only would he have been able to compose the entire opera on one journey from Dorking to London, but probably all nine symphonies as well.<br /><br />My photos of Dorking were taken a few weeks ago. We tried to travel from Norwich to Dorking and back by public transport but gave up as it was going to cost a fortune and take for ever. So we drove - sorry ozone layer.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-66005099474872839012010-04-04T19:02:16.724+01:002010-04-04T19:02:16.724+01:00> The Pilgrim's Progress was
>composed...> The Pilgrim's Progress was <br />>composed in The White House off <br />>Wescott Road<br />Apart from one interpolated number, as they say in the musical theatre business, which, if I recall correctly, RVW boasted of having composed on the train up to London.<br /><br />The recording is certainly worth acquiring at that price. I have the LPs, which I must get around to transcribing to CD or SD card.Frank Littlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12447989626809704972noreply@blogger.com