> Regarding Sebald I have read all the prose books published before his
> untimely death but have avoided the poetry cos I dont think of him as a
poet
> and they cost money in hardback. Austerlitz is prob my favourite but they
> are all worth reading.
Doug, as it happens Austerlitz is my book-to-read for tomorrow. The copy of
After Nature I got my paws on was from the library and, despite having a
recommendation from Andrew Motion on the front cover, I was intrigued enough
to take it homw, and read it yesterday in the launderette.
Best
Dave
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From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 6:45 AM
Subject: Re: Bath in Mozart
> It is amazing how many quality amateur choirs there are in Bath and there
is
> an amateur orchestra and various instrumental groups. It is an enormous
> interest compared with the tiny numbers that turn up for poetry. And the
> time people must volunteer is quite staggering.
>
> Regarding Wells Cathedral did you climb up to the Chapterhouse David L.
> That is my favourite spot. The only time I went to a Festival concert
there
> (Mozart's Ave RErum) i was behind a pillar so I havent been back.
>
> Regarding Sebald I have read all the prose books published before his
> untimely death but have avoided the poetry cos I dont think of him as a
poet
> and they cost money in hardback. Austerlitz is prob my favourite but they
> are all worth reading.
>
>
> Douglas Clark, Bath, Somerset, England ....
> http://www.dgdclynx.plus.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 4:52 AM
> Subject: Re: Bath in Mozart
>
>
> > David Latane wrote:
> >
> >> Last night we heard the 25-year old concertmaster of
> >> the Richmond Symphony (Karen Johnston) play the
> >> Sibelius violin concerto, with her new old fiddle. The
> >> audience for Classical music may be dodgy as Douglas
> >> says, but the quality in places like Richmond,
> >> Virginia, is better than ever.
> >
> >> http://www.standmagazine.org (Stand Magazine, Leeds)
> >
> > I think eccentric might be a better word than dodgy. Saturday last in
> > Leicester, at the beautiful and should not exist church of St James the
> > Greater (built 1899-1914 and not too many doors away from Larkin's
> > favourite
> > attic-flat), we heard the Berlioz Te Deum, some songs by Faure, excerpts
> > from Vierne, and the Duruffle Requiem (a work which was new to me). The
> > performers were the amteur but dedicated City of Leicester choir,
fronted
> > by
> > semi-pro bass, tenor and soprano and supported by the church's organist.
> > Things like this go on all the time, and get little publicity, as a
friend
> > of mine is in the choir I know just how much hard work goes into
preparing
> > their 6 to 8 concerts a year, you know, rehearsals twice a week, almost
> > week
> > in week out, they get the odd 'holiday'.
> > It's quite comparable to the amount of work that goes into supporting
> > 'serious' poetry in the fact of its unpaidness, though I would suggest
> > that
> > the musicians on average are more au fait with the techiques of their
art.
> > I
> > didn't report, btw, just how enjoyable Jack Mapanje's reading here the
> > other
> > week was, one of the interesting things was this was a joint venture
with
> > De
> > Montfort University, which is literally over the road from where I live,
> > for
> > the first time, after living next door for over seven years, I was able
to
> > make links with people based there, the irony of our mutual co-existence
> > at
> > close quarters without mutual awareness was a treat.
> > Anyhow the Mapanje reading was a 'success': we had 34 people there! (The
> > concert had about 150, a 'smallish' turnout!)
> >
> > Just read Hamburger's translation of W.G.Sebald's 'After Nature' -
anyone
> > else know the work - I'd be interested in discussion of aspects of it.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Dave
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