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Marylebone Hallelujah
On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 13:28:12 +0000
Basil Jet wrote: On 2017\12\04 13:00, Nick Leverton wrote: In article , wrote: On Sun, 03 Dec 2017 15:06:07 +0000 Guy Gorton wrote: Not funny, but joyously serious. And, unless the cameramen and Unintentionally funny. A lot of people find opera(etta) hard to take seriously, me included. editors managed to mislead us, much enjoyed by many of the public. Did it benefit Syria? Hopefully, it did - help is sorely needed. Yeah, right. Some people videoed it , most ignored it and all just got on with their day afterwards. Unless someone has been living in a cave for the last 5 years I suspect anyone with a working braincell is aware of whats going on in Syria, it doesn't need any more "awareness". The basic fact is, its yet another in a long line of conflicts in the middle east. Perhaps there's something in the water there or its the heat or they're just socially disorganised, who knows. Its sad, but at the end of the day, frankly who actually cares? You seem to have mis-spelt "decades of deliberate destabilisation and promotion of terror groups by Western governments, including Britain, for their own political ends". Clearly your own awareness could do with raising ... The West wrote this book which says terrorism is God's will, and is forcing the Middle Easterners to read it. Wait, are you saying Islam *isn't* a Religion of Peace(tm) that didn't bloodily advance out of the near east and take over the western med, north africa and half of spain by the sword in the 15th century leading to the collapse of many christian civilisations including Byzantium? Say it ain't so! |
Marylebone Hallelujah
On Mon, 04 Dec 2017 10:18:55 +0000, Guy Gorton
wrote: On Mon, 04 Dec 2017 07:31:17 +0000, e27002 aurora wrote: On Sun, 03 Dec 2017 15:06:07 +0000, Guy Gorton wrote: On Sun, 3 Dec 2017 08:26:45 -0000 (UTC), Recliner wrote: Offramp wrote: On Saturday, 2 December 2017 22:10:21 UTC, Recliner wrote: A flash mob with a difference: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=...&v=RVaJbY9RJ3o I think Guy Gorton would have enjoyed this if he was in London that day. I remember flash mobs from about 15 years ago. They weren't funny then. Nowadays people simply ignore them. I assume you didn't actually watch the video? The Marylebone commuters certainly didn't ignore this flash mob. And, no, it wasn't funny, or meant to be. I'd like to have been at the brainstorming session for "How do we raise awareness for whatever is it this thing is about". Someone said flash mob as a joke and it was the top idea! Not funny, but joyously serious. And, unless the cameramen and editors managed to mislead us, much enjoyed by many of the public. Did it benefit Syria? Hopefully, it did - help is sorely needed. I came across the thread by Recliiner early this morning before going to church to play the organ for the first Sunday in Advent. It gave me inspiration even though the message was rather different - and I did not play any Handel but did play Bach and did try to encourage the congregation to sing joyfully - which they did.. You are a blessing. I am sure your congregation appreciates you. Perhaps but in general the organist is just part of the audible scenery. Here is a little example - I was asked to play the music for two verses of a quiet thoughtful; hymn which the congregation was not going to sing, but just to think about the message. That required more preparation by me than if it had been sung because my choice of stops, tempo, expression and volume would all be listened to. not sung to. That was the first time I have ever met that idea. Guy Gorton My dad was a professional pianist. In WW2 he was a member of civil defence stationed in a convent. When the mother superior discovered his profession she asked him to play for their services. He had to explain that (a) he was an agnostic jew and (b) an organ is not the same as a piano. Her response was that her order had been founded by two brothers, jewish converts, for the purpose of converting the jews in general. She would stand by him during services and tell him what and when to play. His pay was a bacon and egg breakfast! |
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