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@El Loro posted:

We get lots of seagulls here as well

Annoying little creatures aren't they El
They've been mating on the rooftops around here and boy do they make a noise doing it
And I see that yet again a nest has been made above the skylight on one property behind us which means more noise from the chicks when they are born. There were three of them last year.

slimfern
@slimfern posted:

Annoying little creatures aren't they El
They've been mating on the rooftops around here and boy do they make a noise doing it
And I see that yet again a nest has been made above the skylight on one property behind us which means more noise from the chicks when they are born. There were three of them last year.

El Loro

A novelty classical piece of music dating from the 1760s. It may have been composed by Franz Joseph Haydn, it may have been by Leopold Mozart (father of the famous Mozart) or by someone else. Volume needs to be turned up as one of the instruments is rather faint compared to the others. It's under 10 minutes long.

El Loro
@El Loro posted:

A novelty classical piece of music dating from the 1760s. It may have been composed by Franz Joseph Haydn, it may have been by Leopold Mozart (father of the famous Mozart) or by someone else. Volume needs to be turned up as one of the instruments is rather faint compared to the others. It's under 10 minutes long.

It's not a piece I'd want to sit through live El

slimfern
@El Loro posted:

A novelty classical piece of music dating from the 1760s. It may have been composed by Franz Joseph Haydn, it may have been by Leopold Mozart (father of the famous Mozart) or by someone else. Volume needs to be turned up as one of the instruments is rather faint compared to the others. It's under 10 minutes long.

love this EL so lively and interesting

Rocking Ros Rose
@El Loro posted 15/4/22:

Joe Root has stepped down as the captain of the England cricket side. Not surprising after only 1 win in the last 17 matches. A bit of a poisoned chalice for whoever takes over though as there aren't the players who can compete at the top level.

And the poisoned chalice goes to Ben Stokes (his appointment has just been announced).

El Loro
@El Loro posted:

Link to a playlist on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/playli...gj0F_Yf2BsJR4RQUeaQd
It's a film called "Concert Magic" which was filmed at the Charlie Chaplin Studios in 1947 and released in 1948. It is the first Hollywood filmed production of a classical music concert.

I got down to the fourteenth piece El and had to stop...overload!
Have to say, am not a fan of Yehudi Menuhin in this...sorry
I know he is a brilliant musician and can make the violin sing and dance ...it was very evident

slimfern
@slimfern posted:

I got down to the fourteenth piece El and had to stop...overload!
Have to say, am not a fan of Yehudi Menuhin in this...sorry
I know he is a brilliant musician and can make the violin sing and dance ...it was very evident

Menuhin was a brilliant violinist but my father wasn't a fan either. My father was a classical purist and didn't think much of his long term work with Ravi Shankar and later Stephan Grappelli

El Loro

J S Bach composed his first set of "The Well Tempered Clavier" in 1722, his second set 20 years later. Each set consists of keyboard pieces written in each of the 24 major and minor keys with a prelude followed by a fugue. The first piece of music is the prelude in C major and Gounod used that as his basis for "Ave Maria".
"Well tempered"  in this sense means that the instrument was tuned so that it was possible to play all the notes without any sounding out of tune with the others. Clavier is another word for a musical keyboard.

El Loro
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