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Is anyone listening to Dido and Aeneas on Radio 3 at the moment?

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IorekByrnison · 04/04/2008 14:38

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IorekByrnison · 04/04/2008 15:54

Happy Days indeed, Cali! I was supposed to play Dido at school but my headmistress forbade it on the grounds that it was taking place in the term of my Oxbridge exam, and so the production never happened. I've sung the arias several times in concerts but still never played Dido. And I got rejected from Oxford!

How sad, elasticwoman, about the sailor.

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Elasticwoman · 04/04/2008 15:55

Weren't we all just longing to be Laid in those days?

marina · 04/04/2008 15:57

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IorekByrnison · 04/04/2008 15:59

lol elasticwoman - how true.

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IorekByrnison · 04/04/2008 16:59

Well yes, but doesn't mean you have to sing it like a schoolgirl [snide dig at Ms Kirkby]. Now this is more like it

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IorekByrnison · 04/04/2008 19:50

I know what counter-tenors are like more to the point. Hmm - I know a very much lusted after (not by me) lute/theorbo player, but didn't think he was involved with your place. Initials not JA?

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jura · 04/04/2008 20:10

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marina · 04/04/2008 21:21

This one ain't no girly
But also not a JA
I think he has alas returned to his home country, but we live in hope

Miggsie · 04/04/2008 21:23

I can't cope with Dido and Aeneas, I think it was all that crap at school about how Dido was "the epitome of self sacrificing womanhood" and I piped up "surely the story just shows that men are real gits? She should have thrown HIM on the fire"
I did not get top marks, alas.
I know a male lute player! He makes and collects medieval instruments.

Califrau · 04/04/2008 21:26

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ilovewashingnappies · 04/04/2008 21:33

Music is lush though. On A level syllabus and desperately try to encourage the students to at listen listen to it...

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IorekByrnison · 04/04/2008 21:42

Miggsie you have a heart of stone. Anyway, it's surely about honour and treachery, not self-sacrificing womanhood. Either way it's not a brilliant narrative - but the music!

Jura it's true, altos deal with the guts of the work.

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harpsichordcarrier · 04/04/2008 23:49

this thread is making me lol.
jura you are so right about the sopranos. I loathe singing second soprano, even though it is Good For ME - such hard work...
I am really liking the sound of the lush theorbo player, though.

harpsichordcarrier · 04/04/2008 23:51

theorbo porn:

ooh that's a big one

harpsichordcarrier · 04/04/2008 23:52

size matters

jura · 04/04/2008 23:58

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harpsichordcarrier · 05/04/2008 00:01

my musical director always refers to altos as "sopranos who can't sing"
I have on occasion sung, but it can be a little dull as you say.
is your hair swishy enough to sing sop though jura

jura · 05/04/2008 10:31

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IorekByrnison · 05/04/2008 10:37

You mean like this?

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