tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1977015754712495685.post8782825001061518506..comments2024-03-27T03:36:48.296-07:00Comments on Arts Diary: 29 JuneUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1977015754712495685.post-40716233707272512642020-06-30T05:30:38.636-07:002020-06-30T05:30:38.636-07:00when in that house MPs divide
If they've a bra...when in that house MPs divide<br />If they've a brain and cerebellum too<br />they've got to leave that brain outside<br />and vote just as their leaders tell'em too....Andrew Rilstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05786623930392936889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1977015754712495685.post-50652826016664759182020-06-30T02:15:55.422-07:002020-06-30T02:15:55.422-07:00"I have sometimes said that I enjoy Dickens a..."I have sometimes said that I enjoy Dickens apart from the Dickensian bits." I have somehow missed this if you have written it on the blog, but thanks for describing *exactly* the way I feel about his writing.JWHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01637785437909299947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1977015754712495685.post-73803290347834080232020-06-29T15:28:04.945-07:002020-06-29T15:28:04.945-07:00Something like "young man despair" is pr...Something like "young man despair" is probably a better example of the kind of thing they do. <br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrVSq-J-pgIAndrew Rilstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05786623930392936889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1977015754712495685.post-56097479480119756212020-06-29T15:20:29.664-07:002020-06-29T15:20:29.664-07:00Maybe I've just heard it too many times.
And ...Maybe I've just heard it too many times.<br /><br />And yet I don't feel that way about <i>Something's Coming</i>, <i>Empty Chairs at Empty Tables</i> or <i>Giants in the Sky</i> (the other three songs that were examined, and so rehearsed endlessly.)Mike Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039663158335543317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1977015754712495685.post-55417359975352572532020-06-29T15:10:51.351-07:002020-06-29T15:10:51.351-07:00When all night long a chap remains isn't a gre...When all night long a chap remains isn't a great tune, but in a sense it isn't meant to be -- it's the voice of a stolid sentry. But surely "every boy and every girl who's born into the world alive / is either a little liberal or else a little conservative" is a good line? Andrew Rilstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05786623930392936889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1977015754712495685.post-5264581540479865992020-06-29T14:24:20.097-07:002020-06-29T14:24:20.097-07:00Well, perversely this sent me off to listen to Gil...Well, perversely this sent me off to listen to Gilbert O'Sullivan's <i>Alone Again, Naturally</i> -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_P-v1BVQn8 -- and I was struck by what a fine example it is of whatever kind of thing it represents. The dark turn in the third verse is completely unexepected, and there is something fascinatingly morbid about how the tone of the song continues exactly the same through the part where both parents die.<br /><br />Sorry to digress; but you did mention him.<br /><br />On Gilbert and Sullivan ... this is one of those things, like Bob Dylan, that I am resigned to never getting my head around. My youngest recently took an examination in Music Theatre and had to perform <i>When all night long a chap remains</i> (from Iolanthe) and found it deeply uninspiring alongside the more modern selections. I'm with him. (But it's great that other enjoy it.)Mike Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039663158335543317noreply@blogger.com