tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post21119086600755035..comments2024-03-26T07:58:59.761+00:00Comments on I'll think of something later: Barry and Jones at the FrontlineDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-71304119437877765372016-04-03T08:52:49.488+01:002016-04-03T08:52:49.488+01:00That I like (I remember you quoting the 'cheap...That I like (I remember you quoting the 'cheaper clarets' bit but wasn't sure of the entire context). Barry 'treats' the text as well as its musical setting, so that one of my favourite lines isn't heard on its entirety - Miss Prism's 'Here is the stain on the lining caused by the explosion of a temperance beverage, an incident that occurred at Leamington'. Barry stops short at 'explosion' and it becomes an ensemble refrain on the tritone, a necessary bit of menacing business at that point.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-49679979995004887982016-04-03T08:42:45.460+01:002016-04-03T08:42:45.460+01:00I have the feeling that those who do not care for ...I have the feeling that those who do not care for the play do not care for or understand Worldly Vanity<br /><br />Wilde cut the play ( to what we normally now see) to advantage, but a few lines should not have been lost. ( This from memory)<br /><br />Cecily - Miss Prism and I have boiled mutton at one o'clock. Uncle John lunches on pate de foie sandwiches and the 1889 champagne at twelve<br /><br />Algernon - 1889? Are you sure?<br /><br />Cecily - O yes. It is on medical advice. Even the cheaper clarets are forbidden him<br /><br />David Damantnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-37526991702414866562016-04-02T22:00:02.391+01:002016-04-02T22:00:02.391+01:00I understand you CAN watch tonight's live-stre...I understand you CAN watch tonight's live-streaming any time you want for the next month (I've added a link in the text above). Germany is excluded because there's some legal thing going on there with YouTube. It worked very well, though a couple of plates remained unsmashed and I reckon the pistol got jammed at the end of the Gwendolen-Cecily spat and let off only one of the five shots.<br /><br />I never much enjoyed the play done with bad tradition. But a two-man show with a psycopathic Cecily had me in fits (interestingly GB hadn't seen it, nor did he seem to know of Baba the Turk's rhythmic crockery-smashing in The Rake's Progress. And your fellow BBP (Best Bloggin Pal) Sue was in London and joined me when I went to review Lucy Bailey's brilliant play-within-a-play version with very old actors for the parts (Martin Jarvis, Nigel Havers, Sian Philips among them) - we were tickled throughout.<br /><br />Also saw director-actor Otto Schenk as Lady Bracknell in Vienna - Bunbury, oder wie wichtig es ist, Ernst zu sein. Sloshed. We had to leave at the interval. Only got to see it because Korngold's Die tote Stadt at Staatsoper was cancelled because of a sick baritone and I didn't want to see a routine Elisir d'amore...Wilde might have liked the piquancy of that.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-64481620210586323132016-04-02T20:32:05.051+01:002016-04-02T20:32:05.051+01:00In one of those strange quirks of serendipity I wa...In one of those strange quirks of serendipity I was listening to a RAI broadcast of Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco's L'IMPORTANZA DI CHIAMARSI ERNESTO only yesterday. It is a piano reduction of the score with percussion - interesting but it lead to a discussion as to whither it did any service to the play. My own feeling was that like the name Jack is produced no music! A rather arrogant young conductor friend of a friend maintained that the play was a humourless piece at the best of times and wasn't worth doing as a play let alone an opera. Would love to here Mr Barry's take on it.Willymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03652532356102638621noreply@blogger.com