tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post5237837353073869919..comments2024-03-28T17:44:11.289+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Swingle SaturdayBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-10340723386291689512020-03-30T23:48:31.111+01:002020-03-30T23:48:31.111+01:00I lived in Child Hall up by the Law School, but Ju...I lived in Child Hall up by the Law School, but July and August were out of term and, if I am not mistaken, I was away playing Captain Fluellen in Henry V at the Cincinnati Shakespeare in the Park.<br /><br />David Llewellyn DoddsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-24746676672018977342020-03-30T07:08:12.541+01:002020-03-30T07:08:12.541+01:00@David - I lived in Boston for the first month, an...@David - I lived in Boston for the first month, and it was only in the second - which was August - that I lived in Cambridge, house-sitting on Brattle Street and working at Maclean's psychiatric hospital, Belmont. IF I had met you, we would surely have talked - because I said hello to anybody I heard speaking in an English accent!Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-78899865831126294332020-03-30T02:39:05.337+01:002020-03-30T02:39:05.337+01:00Wow, we seem both to have been at Harvard in 1980!...Wow, we seem both to have been at Harvard in 1980! Getting the first two Carlos albums a couple years after becoming a choir boy really expanded my knowledge and love of 'classical' music, and made me aware of Gould via his liner note remarks, though I'm not sure I heard any of his work till my cousin gave me a portable cassette player when I was in grad school and I bought his Goldberg Variations - I also got my Carlos Brandenburgs on cassette. I'm not sure when I became aware of the Swingle Singers, but we sang a sheet music version of their Air on a G String when I was in high school - though my first Swingle recording was yet another cassette. I agree in happily thinking of Gould, Carlos, and the Swingles together! Looking at Wikipedia article and linked website, I see how much later Carlos I have not caught up with, but think the present tense appropriate: Carlos is a consummate musician (at 80 years and four months)!<br /><br />David Llewellyn DoddsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-24707520599873824102020-03-29T04:01:16.890+01:002020-03-29T04:01:16.890+01:00These seem to have been a bit before my time - at ...These seem to have been a bit before my time - at all events I don't remember hearing of them before!<br /><br />I actually found the music quite enjoyable - and the Brandenburgs are among my favourite works by one of my favourite composers, so a performance in such a divergent style as this could have seemed like a desecration, or at least a mockery, if done badly or in the wrong spirit - but it didn't really strike me this way. More like a light-hearted but still musically committed re-working of a masterpiece.Hrothgarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03568010718085328982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-4954128896705243222020-03-28T17:42:31.872+00:002020-03-28T17:42:31.872+00:00I was a Swingler too. Which means I bought Bach b...I was a Swingler too. Which means I bought Bach before I bought Mozart or Beethoven. <br /><br />Papa Haydn came decades later for me.deariemenoreply@blogger.com