What are you listening to now? MKII

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JENNYJET said:
I have just obtained a recording of a rare Baroque opera.
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When I was doing my first degree, I had a six month placement at the Pharmacy Regional Quality Control Laboratory at Selly Oak Hospital. The Principal Pharmacist in charge of the laboratory was also a member of a Baroque choir. I got back to the lab early from lunch one day and he was in his office with the door open practising his singing. His voice was incredible! His name was Mitch Philips (may have had two 'L's). I have done a web search, but can't find any reference to his work.

Kevin
 
Ah! Smelly Oak hospital, gone now but it was functional in its day. I once worked around the back in Raddlebarn Road, interesting times. But back to Baroque music. It certainly have me a solid foundation to understand music at the basics and appreciate what is good and what is not. I can now go from Henry Purcell and JB Lully to Gustav Mahler and Richard Wagner and see the timeline in musical evolution.
 
JENNYJET said:
Ah! Smelly Oak hospital, gone now but it was functional in its day. I once worked around the back in Raddlebarn Road, interesting times.
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I was there for six months, and had a room in the nurses home (there was a men's section). As a 20 year old, it was quite a learning experience - let's just say that one of the student nurses took quite shine to me 🙂 A group of us would regularly go the The Country Girl pub in the evening. While I was there (would have been about 1984), the pub was closed for a few weeks. It reopened having been re-fitted as more of a wine bar. All the character of the pub was gone. Working in the QC lab was great fun. There were only three staff members. The Principal Pharmacist, The QC Chemist and one Pharmacist (they would each do a one month stint). Each week, there would be a presentation to the Pharmacy Dept by one of the drug companies and to persuade us to attend, the reps would always bring plenty of cakes, doughnuts etc. So many great memories from that time.

Kevin
 
The Country Girl changed the area Gentryfied one might call it. First, the University dominated and then Southerners looking for bargain houses.

It was a decent community in those days unlike the one I live in now.
 
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