tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post3143952675961122430..comments2023-09-28T10:08:44.827+02:00Comments on Gwynt: An Evening with FriendsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-24416849200655991212013-04-25T09:23:46.133+02:002013-04-25T09:23:46.133+02:00Lucy: Thanks tech support!Lucy: Thanks tech support!Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-59155516504777953202013-04-25T09:12:27.136+02:002013-04-25T09:12:27.136+02:00Looks OK, but we'll see about changing it to a...Looks OK, but we'll see about changing it to a pop-up window.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-10527907799590481612013-04-25T09:10:32.793+02:002013-04-25T09:10:32.793+02:00Just looking in to check if the commenting problem...Just looking in to check if the commenting problems have been resolved. Keep up the good work Matey!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-84746547582400473112013-04-24T10:20:36.477+02:002013-04-24T10:20:36.477+02:00Isabelle: It was a very interesting get-together ...Isabelle: It was a very interesting get-together I thought. Thank you for coming. One of the things that struck me about that evening was how delicious a part imagination and fantasy had to play. And that is a whole, vast field of endeavour.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-20331205302689645002013-04-24T09:46:07.908+02:002013-04-24T09:46:07.908+02:00Goodness, it's THE Tom! Welcome to blogland. I...Goodness, it's THE Tom! Welcome to blogland. I enjoyed your post a lot and felt I was with you in that room. It's most interesting getting your take on things, having "known" you for some years through Lucy's blog. <br /><br />Looking forward to reading more.Pam https://www.blogger.com/profile/12641269043817163165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-34144197243915473062013-04-24T08:38:10.628+02:002013-04-24T08:38:10.628+02:00Marja-leena: You were certainly one of the friend...Marja-leena: You were certainly one of the friends who shared an evening with us. It was a pleasure having you.<br /><br />Sorry you have been having difficulty getting your comment published. Rouchswalwe, similarly, is having difficulties. It is most frustrating.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-74170820118484301192013-04-24T00:46:14.661+02:002013-04-24T00:46:14.661+02:00Lovely writing, Tom, and I wholly responded to you...Lovely writing, Tom, and I wholly responded to your thoughts and feelings about classical music which I love more than other forms. I felt like I was one of the friends having an evening in your home - thanks for having me!<br /><br />(Just want to mention that I'm having great diffciulty commenting, or actually having the comment 'published' - it just sits there doing nothing. I try several times until something tweaks. Same problem at Joe's blog. Hope this one finally comes through - here goes!)marja-leenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634791656471132347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-91632911917088112342013-04-22T17:25:04.629+02:002013-04-22T17:25:04.629+02:00Robbie: I found your comment of great interest, a...Robbie: I found your comment of great interest, and one which regrettably demands more careful consideration than I am able to give at present. Music criticism is not a field I know much about. If I did I'm sure I would also experience your evident frustration. Orchestra management was a kinder discipline.<br /><br />Two specific points I would like to take up. I certainly did not think you had lied. In fact I am grateful that your original comment was incomplete, otherwise it may not have given me the lead-in for which I was searching.<br /><br />The other point I would like to make is, if you have a point to make and it takes more than 150 words, so be it. But do not write in French! I have no intention of spending the rest of my days walking round with a French/English dictionary under one arm, and a textbook on French syntax under the other.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-35272125150237931092013-04-22T12:51:55.367+02:002013-04-22T12:51:55.367+02:00My recommendation was incomplete; if you prefer, y...My recommendation was incomplete; if you prefer, you could say I lied. What I should have said was: Don't do music (posh or otherwise) as I did.<br /><br />I've been writing about music for sixty years, some of it for publication. As the decades have slipped by my dissatisfaction has grown. Since I have only the sketchiest knowledge of musical structure and relationships I have been reduced (like the majority) to write in a subjective way. But was this the correct word? I looked it up for the first time: "Characteric of or belonging to reality as perceived by the observer rather than as independent of the observer".<br /><br />My kind of truth, if you like. Or would you prefer the fifth meaning of subjective: "Lacking in reality or substance, illusory."<br /><br />What's all this got to do with the price of eggs? Simply this. Lacking an agreed and well-defined vocabulary for describing music I was compelled to fall back on metaphor, quite frequently literary metaphor. Yet metaphor sits uneasily with the word "reality", you might even say metaphor was a flight from reality.<br /><br />There had to be a better way and this was what I tried to do in Tone Deaf. I wanted to see if I could write verifiably about music. In a way that got closer to what I had heard without blurring things by analogy. This is in fact possible when writing about music itself (eg, the trumpets come in late in a movement and add an edge to the quiet tune on the strings) It's harder when writing about performance since this usually assumes much more experience of an individual piece than most of us have time to accumulate. Thus if we say say "the third movement was played too quickly" can we be sure that this would be generally agreed or are we comparing the speed with that of the first version of the work we ever heard (which, in my own case, frequently sticks in my memory for years and years).<br /><br />Does writing verifiably suggest I'm tearing the wings off the butterfly, reducing this most personal of the arts to dry as dust analysis? I would say that we must write as precisely as we can because, otherwise we run the risk of betraying the work and our experience of it.<br /><br />Not that it matters. There is a worthwhile speck of truth in this theory but it required more effort (and time) than I had available, given I had other fish to fry. Funnily enough it worked best when I applied it to pop music (about which I know nothing). Anyway after about 150 posts, and for other - quite venial - reaons I dropped it.<br /><br />I wanted to respond also about deafness which troubles me but not, thank God, relative to music. But writing the above brought about a Damascene memoment. You didn't embark on a blog to have me clog up its arteries (Metaphor! Yah, boo.) with long windy personal emboli. In future I'll limit my comments to one para, 150 words tops. In French perhaps. Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-70540720951929920302013-04-22T08:12:00.326+02:002013-04-22T08:12:00.326+02:00Zephyr: Thank you, I am honoured. To search and ...Zephyr: Thank you, I am honoured. To search and to find is a rewarding task. So glad I piqued your interest.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-72809514867809020032013-04-22T08:08:26.132+02:002013-04-22T08:08:26.132+02:00Of course! Why didn't I see the connection wi...Of course! Why didn't I see the connection with Posh Spice? Love your description of the voice of Cecilia Bartoli.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-76123707693305608512013-04-22T08:06:52.365+02:002013-04-22T08:06:52.365+02:00Ellena: It was a pleasure, and you couldn't h...Ellena: It was a pleasure, and you couldn't have overstayed your visit. However, it was getting very cold and frosty and you all had to get home safely.<br /><br />Yes, that is the meaning of posh, but also smart and elegant. It can also be used (in a slightly derogatory manner)to imply a sense of an elite minority.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-57071931007247697672013-04-22T07:58:00.170+02:002013-04-22T07:58:00.170+02:00Martha: Thank you for the compliment, and I wish ...Martha: Thank you for the compliment, and I wish you success in your search.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-24847567042664707672013-04-22T03:18:04.939+02:002013-04-22T03:18:04.939+02:00It's lovely being in your company...and while ...It's lovely being in your company...and while i do appreciate an odd and limited assortment of posh music, you have definitely piqued my interest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-65561593113489493812013-04-22T02:09:37.301+02:002013-04-22T02:09:37.301+02:00Maybe they meant to warn you off of Posh Spice mus...Maybe they meant to warn you off of Posh Spice music?<br /><br />I will listen to anything Cecilia Bartoli sings. Her voice is dark and mellow and rich, burnt butter & mizithra.Zhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-43542852815890728942013-04-22T01:28:42.849+02:002013-04-22T01:28:42.849+02:00Thank you for this lovely evening, Tom. I almost o...Thank you for this lovely evening, Tom. I almost overstayed my visit but, you handing out coats and hats was a clear message.<br />I heard the word 'posh' a lot in Germany. Did not know that it exists in the English language. Upper class- aristocracy? Ellenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14965850008354379369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-2500038352288819592013-04-22T00:56:51.828+02:002013-04-22T00:56:51.828+02:00You paint with words as masterfully as you do with...You paint with words as masterfully as you do with colors. I am inspired to visit YouTube to find the music you've mentioned here.<br /><br />If I find them, I'll close my eyes while listening and try to imagine you, Lucy and Molly settling in for an evening of musical pleasure.<br /><br />Thanks, Tom.<br /><br />The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-59922971677309801822013-04-21T22:01:40.877+02:002013-04-21T22:01:40.877+02:00Tristan: That's good!Tristan: That's good!Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-70488504303229398952013-04-21T21:48:10.022+02:002013-04-21T21:48:10.022+02:00interested enough to look forward to the next ...interested enough to look forward to the next ...tristanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13268216095376583052noreply@blogger.com