Edward Elgar, Britain's Musical Icon, Turns 150

[bunrab]

That was a headline in the arts section of my Yahoo page this evening. Um, I think he would be famous for more than his music if he is turning 150 now. They might want to rephrase that...

We watched the Branagh Henry V on DVD this evening. I had, believe it or not, never seen it, though I know every note of the music, of course; that is a beautiful score. But I hadn't seen any production of Henry V in oh, 30 years. Since long before I met angevin2. Before Lea and her studies, I had always thought, well, I understand a bit more Shakespeare than the average physics major or average accountant. Now I sit there nudging squirrel_magnet and saying "pay attention to the homosexual subtext" and snickering every time leeks are mentioned. Lea, you are a bad influence.

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[angevin2.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

That's what I do. Yay for Shakespearean homoeroticism!

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

'Course, Elgar's a bit recent for either my tastes or yours, if I read your interests list, which mentions early music, aright. I'll try to remember to tag any early music posts I make, so that should you decide to surf this way again, you can spot them. (Usually these days it's concert band music, though. I rarely get to play my recorder any more; the world only needs about 3 recorder players anyway, and Michaela Petri is two of them, so I mostly play the saxophone these days.)

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

I used to teach HTML to college freshbeings, English majors and theater majors and whatnot. The missing quotation marks are one of the hardest things to proofread for!

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I think I have most of Pifarro's stuff already, and at least one album from when they were still the Philadelphia Wind Consort.

Krummhorns are automatically adorable.

BTW, my youngest brother got his MBA at University of Chicago!

[elfbiter.livejournal.com]

I though the Bard's sonnets were supposedly bi-erotic or something like that...

[momily.livejournal.com]

I *love* that movie. I even love Much Ado About Nothing, in which he is Benedick (sp?).