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On Thu, 14 May 2009 15:32:06 -0400, nemesis wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 May 2009 10:26:12 -0400, Halbert wrote:
>>
>> > I haven't heard the score yet. (I am a musician too, 2 music majors
>> > in college.) I will keep my ears out for it though.
>>
>> I've got the complete recordings set (all three films), and the music
>> is incredible. Shore demonstrates a wide variety of styles and did a
>> surprisingly good job with it.
>
> Yes, terrific score. That's despite me being a Tolkien fan. :)
LOL
I liked the films, and am a Tolkien fan (I was going to do a special
study of Tolkien in high school, just never got all the books I needed
together for the proposal), but I look at the films differently than most
who consider themselves "hardcore" Tolkien fans.
Tolkien set out to create a mythology for England - most of the
mythologies that existed up to that point were non-English; the Arthurian
legend, for example, was largely adopted by the French in the early
1200s. So while Arthur himself was English, ideas like the Holy Grail
and the addition of Lancelot are generally credited to French authors.
One of Tolkien's goals was to create something that was uniquely English
in origin.
The thing about mythologies is, of course, that they go through a great
many retellings, and often details get changed, parts are removed and
shuffled around, and some parts are dropped.
So approaching the films from a mythological point of view, they hold up
quite well.
Jim
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> I have no idea what a tomato "petal" is. I guess this is what you call
> "posh nosh". LOL!
That's just when you cut out the pulpy core of the tomato,
removing the seeds. Sounds fancy calling it "petals" though.
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Tim Attwood wrote:
>> I have no idea what a tomato "petal" is. I guess this is what you call
>> "posh nosh". LOL!
>
> That's just when you cut out the pulpy core of the tomato, removing the
> seeds. Sounds fancy calling it "petals" though.
...so, posh nosh then? ;-)
Have you looked at the rest of the menu? It's pretty mental...
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On Thu, 14 May 2009 19:53:56 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> Sure, but at the same time, RAH is a pretty good concert hall, so even
>>> the cheap seats will be able to hear things without too much trouble.
>>
>> Well it must be a different RAH that I know. I think that the acoustics are
>> pretty poor. Too many reflections, even with the mushrooms on the ceiling. :(
>
>Mmm, I didn't think it sounded too bad, personally...
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Stephen
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On 14 May 2009 14:39:07 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>Well, in fairness, I've never actually been there, but I've heard it
>described as good.
>
>Maybe it takes a large crowd to get it sounding right?
It certainly has a great atmosphere. Maybe a concert that is mic'ed sounds
better but I've been to a couple of proms and unless you are in the good seats
or the choir (nice one Andrew) voices can sound drowned out or very faint.
Point of interest (or not) When the RAH was being built some boxes were sold in
perpetuum. So there are some people that have a right to go to any performance
without paying.
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Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
> It certainly has a great atmosphere. Maybe a concert that is mic'ed sounds
> better but I've been to a couple of proms and unless you are in the good seats
> or the choir (nice one Andrew) voices can sound drowned out or very faint.
When you have a 25-tonne organ with almost 10,000 pipes in it... you
don't need electronic amplification. ;-)
Heck, half the time I felt like saying to the orchestra "guys, I know
you've practiced this for months, but seriously... GO HOME! We can't
hear anything. The organ is completely drowning you lot." :-P
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On Thu, 14 May 2009 22:26:19 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>Stephen wrote:
>
>> It certainly has a great atmosphere. Maybe a concert that is mic'ed sounds
>> better but I've been to a couple of proms and unless you are in the good seats
>> or the choir (nice one Andrew) voices can sound drowned out or very faint.
>
>When you have a 25-tonne organ with almost 10,000 pipes in it... you
>don't need electronic amplification. ;-)
>
Och! the mass pipes and drums ;)
>Heck, half the time I felt like saying to the orchestra "guys, I know
>you've practiced this for months, but seriously... GO HOME! We can't
>hear anything. The organ is completely drowning you lot." :-P
:-)
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Stephen
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> Have you looked at the rest of the menu? It's pretty mental...
Looks perty good, though I'd skip the snails, they taste earthy.
(Which means they taste like chewey dirt.)
If you could find 3 other couples to split the box with, you
get a date.
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On Thu, 14 May 2009 22:23:39 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> On 14 May 2009 14:39:07 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>
>>Well, in fairness, I've never actually been there, but I've heard it
>>described as good.
>>
>>Maybe it takes a large crowd to get it sounding right?
>
> It certainly has a great atmosphere. Maybe a concert that is mic'ed
> sounds better but I've been to a couple of proms and unless you are in
> the good seats or the choir (nice one Andrew) voices can sound drowned
> out or very faint.
That makes sense, I could see that - there is a concert hall in
Minneapolis that's kinda like that (acoustically) - you could sit in the
back of the third tier and hear the conductor wrinkle a dollar bill, but
I could see that vocal performances could sound quite muddy from time to
time if you weren't in the right place.
> Point of interest (or not) When the RAH was being built some boxes were
> sold in perpetuum. So there are some people that have a right to go to
> any performance without paying.
That is interesting. :-)
Jim
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On 14 May 2009 18:16:17 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> Point of interest (or not) When the RAH was being built some boxes were
>> sold in perpetuum. So there are some people that have a right to go to
>> any performance without paying.
>
>That is interesting. :-)
I thought so. Anyway this will probably my last post for a while as I am moving
apartment and it will probably take about a fortnight to get a internet
connection set up. :(
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Stephen
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