Nereffid
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Mommio, alas there's no settlement. You're mixing us up with another group, the Vita Cortex workers, who've just started receiving their money and who we're linked to on Facebook. But thanks for the support anyway!
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Am I right in thinking that the contents of disc 4 - two masses by Byrd and one by Tallis - are repeated elsewhere in the set, on discs 5 and 22?
Incidentally, disc 1 was one of my choices for the Gregorian chant part of my Classical His… -
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Things seem a bit quiet at the moment, no?
I've submitted a Classical Highlights thing, in the new and improved format.
Hopefully another history chapter by the end of next week.
Also thinking of doing something about in Great Expectations: musicisgood.org is a go! Comment by Nereffid May 2012 -
(Quote) I love how I'm wholly inconsistent about British vs American. Comes from trying to unlearn 14 years of writing in the latter.
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Speaking of, I think it should be pretty obvious who this guy is.
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That's a good point in terms of inclusiveness but I wonder would an album's appearance as a footnote just draw attention to it as something I didn't feel was worth writing about. My new approach has a more "curated" feel to it, something that will d…
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I had what I think is a much better idea for the "Classical Highlights" posts I've done. There's a sample here on my own blog. Similar info…
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Well, Craig suggested BOAC initially so I assumed that was what we were talking about.
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In the latest American Record Guide, Donald Vroon wrote an editorial touching on this subject, which is worth quoting at length:
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I think that, by and large, it's helpful to know what's going on in a piece of music, and t… -
GP, your "study guide" idea was an excellent one, and you did a great job with it, at least from the point of view of someone (me) who doesn't listen to much ambient music and appreciates a pointer or two. It's also a good way of tackling the import…
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Well, that's a coincidence. Just a couple of hours ago I read a highly positive review in International Record Review of a new Holst release that has the Nunc Dimittis on it.
in Help with Holst Comment by Nereffid May 2012 -
Brian Eno: Nereffid says aye.
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Well, any attempt to identify a single song that sums up our entire musical tastes is doomed to failure, so I suggest you say something like "We can't decide between Kate Campbell, Makunouchi Bento, or the Clemencic Consort" or some similar very wid…
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I've submitted my piece on 13th-century motets.
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Having previously remarked that all the fine details are part of the appeal of ASOIAF, I have to say I'm impressed at how GOT has left so much out yet still remained faithful to the overall nature of the books. I made my peace with the "but it wasn'…
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I might have part 5 of my classical history ready by the weekend - certainly by early next week. I've developed a draft outline for the series up to the end of the Renaissance, which would bring it to part 21. Hopefully I can speed up production a b…
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(Quote) White Van Man
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Thanks.
I think some employees were waiting the best part of 20 years to make a Wilson Pickett pun. -
There's a couple of broken links on my "Troubadour influences" post - to the Introduction and to Part 2. Can someone fix please?
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See, I really don't look on ASOIAF as a story about good guys vs bad guys, more as an attempt to present a detailed history of a particular set of events in a fictional world. So although it's shocking when someone is killed unexpectedly, that's the…
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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire.
The books hadn't been high on my radar and I didn't get a chance to see the TV show when it was first on, and when A Dance with Dragons came out there seemed to be so much disappointment and anger directed towards i… -
As long as I don't have to be 100% upbeat then I can say some nice things about buying classical music in the still-existing Tower Records in Dublin. Any attempt to discuss the general state of classical music sales on the island of Ireland would qu…
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Part 4 of A History... now submitted.
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(Quote) I'll happily admit that most of what I've written in the Classical History series is stuff I've learned while writing it.
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OK, there's another Classical Highlights awaiting review, and I should have a History post next week.
I'm really pleased with how MiG is turning out, though sometimes I feel there's a bit too much disparity between what I'm doing and wha… -
Though I've never used the word "curating" myself, that's exactly what I do. There is some vaguely defined goal of an "ideal" collection of classical music that I appear to be working towards - loosely, "all the important stuff and a representative …
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To-do list when I invent the time machine:
1. Kill Hitler.
2. Prevent the misappropriation of the term "neoclassical music".
Oh well, I know it's a well-e…
