pepe63xnotuse Posted January 3, 2012 Posted January 3, 2012 Funny you should say that Colin...I was just thinking what a "pleasant" thread this was...! :-) (..maybe there is hope for "chatterbox" after all... ;-) )
Lord Braykewynde Posted January 3, 2012 Posted January 3, 2012 Symbol Owner - 2012-01-03 5:18 PM LordThornber - 2012-01-03 5:08 PM Positively uplifting. May the Angels take us indeed to Paradise... Martyn It sure is, Martyn. I'll tell you what, it takes all of my experience and concentration to sing the tenor entry (on the word 'Jerusalem') after that heavenly soprano opening -- tears are usually welling up by this time ..... very difficult! Colin. Try wearing underpants two sizes larger :-)
laimeduck Posted January 3, 2012 Posted January 3, 2012 Excellent - Thanks for that - it does work ‰‰ :D :D But not for all characters, hence the edit? *-)
Lord Braykewynde Posted January 3, 2012 Posted January 3, 2012 Click the start button and in the search box type 'charmap'. When it shows in the search result double click and up it comes. Pretty obvious from then on.
Symbol Owner Posted January 3, 2012 Posted January 3, 2012 Lord Braykewynde - 2012-01-03 5:58 PM Try wearing underpants two sizes larger :-) Trust you to come up with something like that L.B. >:-( and bring us down to earth with your scatology! As usual, you are barking up the wrong tree............If I did that I'd be singing bass :-D I need the tight trousers and the iron underpants to maintain my high tessitura (!) Cheers, Colin.
Symbol Owner Posted January 3, 2012 Posted January 3, 2012 pepe63 - 2012-01-03 5:54 PM Funny you should say that Colin...I was just thinking what a "pleasant" thread this was...! :-) (..maybe there is hope for "chatterbox" after all... ;-) ) Yes, Pepe, .........and then along comes the ungainly oaf ( i.e. Lord Fart!) to spoil things >:-) Cheers, Colin
Brian Kirby Posted January 3, 2012 Posted January 3, 2012 laimeduck - 2012-01-03 6:00 PM Excellent - Thanks for that - it does work ‰‰ :D :D But not for all characters, hence the edit? *-) All characters should copy over to any Microsoft program (Word, Excel, Nonepad etc) but this forum can't handle them all. I had a go at spelling Colin using Greek characters and all I got was ?????. Probably appropriate, somehow! :-)
pepe63xnotuse Posted January 3, 2012 Posted January 3, 2012 Symbol Owner - 2012-01-03 6:40 PM pepe63 - 2012-01-03 5:54 PM Funny you should say that Colin...I was just thinking what a "pleasant" thread this was...! :-) (..maybe there is hope for "chatterbox" after all... ;-) ) Yes, Pepe, .........and then along comes the ungainly oaf ( i.e. Lord Fart!) to spoil things >:-) Cheers, Colin I suppose it was nice while it lasted,eh?.. :-D (..I expect it's only a matter of time before the rest find the hole in the fence... (lol) )
Lord Braykewynde Posted January 3, 2012 Posted January 3, 2012 peter - 2012-01-03 8:29 PM Someone call?. (lol) Go on back through the fence peter. One or two aren't very appreciative in this thread. In fact I think Pepe has been at the peperami again and I'm unsure of which orifice that he's been shoving it that gives him such a nasty disposition :-)
Lord Braykewynde Posted January 3, 2012 Posted January 3, 2012 Symbol Owner - 2012-01-03 6:40 PM Yes, Pepe, .........and then along comes the ungainly oaf ( i.e. Lord Fart!) to spoil things >:-) Cheers, Colin Sorry Symbol me ol' clanger but ungainly I ain't. When I take to the dance floor they come from miles around just to see me perform. They haven't christened me Sweetmover Windy for nowt :->
Symbol Owner Posted January 3, 2012 Posted January 3, 2012 Apologies, your windyship -- but I was under the impression that you weighed17 stone -- information gleaned from that fount of all knowledge, F.G. ;-) Cheers, Colin.
Lord Braykewynde Posted January 3, 2012 Posted January 3, 2012 Symbol Owner - 2012-01-03 10:50 PM Apologies, your windyship -- but I was under the impression that you weighed17 stone -- information gleaned from that fount of all knowledge, F.G. ;-) Cheers, Colin. Well I am on a diet as I posted in a thread to Lord Thornber so I can assure you that The Gump isn't privy to any information that others aren't. Maybe if you had paid attention yourself you would have noticed :-) As for being 17 stone I'm no where near that weight, that was probably The Gumps attempt at humour, but more likely sarcasm, but somehow I don't think you are being 100% truthful ;-) Apologies to those on the forum WHO ARE 17 stone or above and whom Symbol seems to be ridiculing *-)
Symbol Owner Posted January 4, 2012 Posted January 4, 2012 Martyn(Lord Thornber) -- if you still have the will to live (regarding this thread that you started, that is) then how about this -- from the same work? More transcendant magical beauty from M. Fauré. Cheers, Colin.
Symbol Owner Posted January 4, 2012 Posted January 4, 2012 Or this perhaps? regards, happy listening! C.
Symbol Owner Posted January 4, 2012 Posted January 4, 2012 Now I'm showing off -- if this works! This is one of 'my' choirs -- singing another piece by Fauré -- the 'Cantique de Jean Racine', in concert last year. I'm the grey-beard tenor to the far left of the picture as you look at it. http://oakfieldchoir.co.uk/?page_id=239 Cheers, Colin.
Syd Posted January 4, 2012 Posted January 4, 2012 Thank you for the music, I have only recently been able to find the time in my life to sit and listen to classical music and oh how I am enjoying it. Not in your favourites list maybe but the BEST Nessun Dorma that I have heard so far if by Camilla Kerslake, Blake and Enchanted vioces, live from the Classical Brits
Symbol Owner Posted January 4, 2012 Posted January 4, 2012 Syd -- you've made my day! I feel so priviledged, that, because my father made his living ( or part of it, sometimes) from classical music, so that it 'seeped in' to me' through the pores' so to speak, I didn't have to try for it to become part of me and my life, and: 'an ever-present solace in times of trouble'. For you to make time for it now is wonderful, enjoy! Opera is not usually 'my bag' (wasn't able to afford to go to it until very recently) and I used to be very snooty about 'Purple patches from Puccini', when I was younger, but I do like 'Nessun Dorma' and have even tried to sing it myself -- but only in the bath!! :-> Cheers, Syd and thank you, Happy listening! Colin.
Syd Posted January 4, 2012 Posted January 4, 2012 As I now understand it there is a femail part to nessun dorma, I had thought that it was an all male song. My personal favourite to date has always been the 1812 overture closely followed by Verdi's Corus of Hebrew Slaves sung by the Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. I know very little about any composers having, as I said, just discovering it all
Symbol Owner Posted January 4, 2012 Posted January 4, 2012 I haven't heard the version of 'Nessun Dorma' that you mention, Syd, it must be some kind of arrangement. As far as I know, it is a tenor (i.e. male) aria (song), the English translation is:"None shall sleep", from the last act of Puccini's opera 'Turandot', and made famous, some years ago by Pavarotti and co. during a world cup football series. Keep discovering Syd -- here's another one specially for you -- with a story attached to it. When I was just seven years old, my family moved from a bomb-damaged flat in the East London Borough of Walthamstow, to a large old ex-farmhouse the Forest of Dean, in Gloucestershire. My father's grand piano, which had been in storage with his ex-wife for some years, had been delivered to our new abode a few days before, and had seen the attentions of the local piano tuner during the afternoon. I had been put to bed, along with my two brothers, but was unable to sleep - too excited by all the changes probably. As I was trying to drift off, I heard the sound of music, and like a little mouse, crept down stairs, to sit on the bottom step, with my bare feet on the cold flagstone floor,and listened to this: Some memories never leave you Syd -- I hope you enjoy this. Colin. P.S. My father died ( of cancer) when I was twelve, so any memory of him ( and his music-making) is very precious. We do have a privately- made 78 r.p.m. disc ( by the HMV Company) of him accompanying a boy singing pupil of his, in two songs. That too, is very precious to me. Apologies if I have 'gone on' about myself too much ( again) Syd, but I thought that you might be interested -- the music is the thing though -- that's undeniably great for all time. C.
Syd Posted January 4, 2012 Posted January 4, 2012 Thanks for that, have heard it previously but it is still well worth listening to again. Will go back onto U Tube and listen to some others that I saw there when time permits I am currently enjoying my way through two Jackie Evancho Discs, quiet an amazing voice for such a young girl. Her Nessun Dorma is interesting too
LordThornber Posted January 4, 2012 Author Posted January 4, 2012 Colin, many thanks for the links and putting MY THREAD :D :D :D back on track. Will have a proper listen tomorrow. Martyn
Symbol Owner Posted January 4, 2012 Posted January 4, 2012 Cheers, Martyn, thanks, Happy listening! Colin
Colin Leake Posted January 4, 2012 Posted January 4, 2012 Symbol Owner - 2012-01-03 5:10 PM Home & Away? Errr..................NO! (But then, you knew that, didn't you, Colin) ;-) Cheers, C. Yes your right silly me I remember now it was the theme music from Bonanza. I suspect few of you will be old enough to remember the series even if you could afford a telly in those days. I used to go round to my Aunty Mays to watch it. She was a midwife who covered an area of about seven miles on a push bike. Those were the days.
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