What are you listening to now?

[Michael]

1. No - I must ask her again whose cousin she was ...is.

2. Today I'm listening to the late, great Buddy Holly. Hard to believe it's 50 years ago he died but all I have to do is look in the mirror to remind me.

[Michael]

I am now listening to my daughter on the telephone crying about a lost contact lens.

[PDG]

Crying, Waiting, Hoping?...

[Michael]

Crying, Waiting, Hoping?...

Listen to me, it's so easy, early in the morning, you could lose a contact lens in a heartbeat.
What to do?
It doesn't matter any more.

(Think it over).

[Maurice Colgan]

Michael, Oh Boy! There's an Exhibition of 1956 Elvis Presley photos in the Leinster Gallery in Dublin this week some of Bobby Darin and Buddy holly too, I believe.

If it doesn't snow today, we may pop in to see them.

Anybody like Shostakovich's 5th Symphony? I do, and Iv'e read the critics!

[Peter]

Michael, Oh Boy! There's an Exhibition of 1956 Elvis Presley photos in the Leinster Gallery in Dublin this week some of Bobby Darin and Buddy holly too, I believe.

If it doesn't snow today, we may pop in to see them.

Anybody like Shostakovich's 5th Symphony? I do, and Iv'e read the critics!

Yes I'm fond of Shostakovich but I really have to be in the right mood. The 10th symphony is my favourite.
As mentioned in other thread listeing to Handel's water music.

[Michael]

I like Shos's Ninth, because he deliberately went against the grain and produced a small quirky little symphony with no pretensions to grandeur (not like some others I could mention). Also, he didn't seem to be afraid of the number 9.

[Zevy]

I recall a reviewer in the Gramophone Guide 1994 remarking that if the String Trios, Opp. 3, 8 & 9 had been the only-ever compositions by Beethoven, then he would still today be regarded as one of the Giants of Classical Music. Quite a statement...

Very, very well said. They are amazing!

[Quijote]

On a more contemporary note, three percussion pieces by Xenakis, namely :
Psappha, Rebonds, and Okho. They are - rhythmically - astonishing, and I do wonder how some passages are notated, perhaps à la Ferneyhough?

[PDG]

Very, very well said. They are amazing!

Pleased you're still listening to them, Zevy. Are you familiar with the Quartets?

[PDG]

Listen to me, it's so easy, early in the morning, you could lose a contact lens in a heartbeat.
What to do?
It doesn't matter any more.

(Think it over).

Well All Right, but Peggy Sue Got Married in a Fool's Paradise: True Love Ways that would Not Fade Away.

(Not as good an effort as yours, Michael, but then you did have first pick of the famous song titles!)...

[Quijote]

No, not Peggy, Iannis. Oops, sorry ...

[PDG]

... perhaps à la Ferneyhough?

Ferney Who??

[Quijote]

Ferny Who??

Brian. Strangely enough, an anagram of "brain".

[Sorrano]

This morning I awakened to Wellington's Siege. The cannons were interesting as I was not totally awake and did not immediately recognize the music.