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Griffin, I'm glad you were acquitted! Because it's been nice to make your acquaintance....
(darn those automatic spell checks, eh?!)

AW, the charge was only wearing a loud shirt in a public place though!

Oh Boy!! Would you believe I actually get paid to proof read things?! It was my day off, and the spell checker couldn't handle it! How's that for an excuse?

Pretty funny! Thanks PJ!

No loud shirt then after all?

Hi everyone. Don't be too concerned if you don't hear from me for the next few days. I've got one of those extremely busy work periods ahead of me. I'll be lurking, however. I'll look forward to listening to some of your posts when time permits.

Have a great day! Off I go!

I thought I would start today off with one from the master of analogue synthesis: Tim Blake and "Lighthouse" from the excellent Crystal machine albumn.

Hi everyone!

I’m going to post about the French composer Darius Milhaud. He was a master of the polytonality, an interesting technique where several tonalities are used at once. The sound is really attractive, and this music can offer many ways of expression.

One of the most popular works by Milhaud is “Le boeuf sur le toit” (The Ox on the Roof). It was composed originally for violin and piano, to be used like stage music for a silent film of Chaplin, although I don’t know if this film was made finally. Later the piece was orchestrated by Milhaud to become ballet music.

Here’s the original version for piano and violin. I hope you like it.

Excellent Recaredo, you know a guy posted that his auntie or mam or someone was a silent film pianist, and he had a book, with such things in as "chase" "love" and other such pieces.
I meant to follow it up and Pm him for the name of the book, and I have now forgotten where the post was!!

Typical of me!!! AAArggghh.

It was I.
It was my Grandmother whom was a silent film pianist in London.

Oh excellent Chrisbell, i knew I had read it somewhere, Could you possibly be so kind as to let us know the name of the book/ ISBN number? that would be fantastic.

Thanks.

No print. It was hand-written, I only have some sketches somewhere that my mother (we're 4 generations of pianists) copied for me. The actual note-book is locked away - together with a massive collection of original scores.

Oh no!!! that would have been so wonderfull to look at!!
It seems a shame that it is all locked away though, is it in a fragile condition?

Old paper.

Wonderfull you are lucky and have a treasure to look after!
Your grandmother must have been a remarkable lady indeed.

Anyways, time for some music, And a Hungarian dance will fit the bill methinks!!!

Brahms, #5 !!

Enjoy!

Oh yeah, I almost forgot, it was daylight savings time a couple of days ago. . .

Boba fett playing the accordian, we have indeed lost time PPP, or have we gained it?
I am never sure.


I have allways loved this...

Just found out, tommorrow I will be starting on this at my piano lesson, It is for four hands, I will be expected to play the lower part, but it does become the lead at one point.

Excellent!!

I love it!
Will you be wearing a similar dress and have your hair up?

Possibly similar dress, but hair down because I just washed it and so its not greasy!

nice piece though, and good to get me working with both hands in the bass clef!!