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[AdamHussain07]

WOW, look at this ;-)

And pyreegue had to give Birmingham a whole new look logo wise…

https://twitter.com/x/status/1978046720975274141

 

[JENNYJET]

What has occured here ?

I return to the forum upon the encouragement of a friend only to find nil traffic and nothing to engage with.

Getting back to music, something that is just noise for most, but is ingrained in my life as was trained classically to understandand appreciate the finest works of the great masters of the past upon which modern dross is based. I am known as a Wagner, Beethoven, Mahler, and Mozart fan, but am currently in the Baroque tradition of music, early music as is often known, when it was simple in construction and easy on the ear. Vivaldi is perhaps the best introduction, it was taught to me at The Four Dwellings Comprehensive School at Quinton, Birmingham with a great teacher. Mr Graham Allport, the finest of teachers in my estimation.

 

[Jon Dempsey]

What has occured here ?

I return to the forum upon the encouragement of a friend only to find nil traffic and nothing to engage with.

Getting back to music, something that is just noise for most, but is ingrained in my life as was trained classically to understandand appreciate the finest works of the great masters of the past upon which modern dross is based. I am known as a Wagner, Beethoven, Mahler, and Mozart fan, but am currently in the Baroque tradition of music, early music as is often known, when it was simple in construction and easy on the ear. Vivaldi is perhaps the best introduction, it was taught to me at The Four Dwellings Comprehensive School at Quinton, Birmingham with a great teacher. Mr Graham Allport, the finest of teachers in my estimation.

JJ, as you were at Four-Dwellings, do you have any recollection of my bro-in-law, Barry Farrell - a real cheeky B?

I picked this up off Faceache.
I thought a few of you may appreciate, in particular, @BrumX
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BnZjsQYCb/?mibextid=wwXIfr

 

[rollo]

What a superb photograph truly a picture worth a thousand words.

 

[JENNYJET]

John Dempsey, Gweetings. Regrettably I have no recollection of anyone called Barry. I had a troubled time at that institution as a great many did.

 

[Jon Dempsey]

John Dempsey, Gweetings. Regrettably I have no recollection of anyone called Barry. I had a troubled time at that institution as a great many did.

I don't think Barry was there for much of the time - he was very much a wag artist.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Getting back to music, something that is just noise for most, but is ingrained in my life as was trained classically to understandand appreciate the finest works of the great masters of the past upon which modern dross is based. I am known as a Wagner, Beethoven, Mahler, and Mozart fan, but am currently in the Baroque tradition of music, early music as is often known, when it was simple in construction and easy on the ear. Vivaldi is perhaps the best introduction, it was taught to me at The Four Dwellings Comprehensive School at Quinton, Birmingham with a great teacher. Mr Graham Allport, the finest of teachers in my estimation.

Mrs F did her degree in music and has a particular fondness for the Baroque period, vivaldi, Corelli, Purcell and Handel are a few that I've heard her mention over the years. I'm pretty sure that if I ventured into the loft we still have boxes of her sheet music.

 

[JENNYJET]

May one ask of your good wife if she is aware of the great work of Vivaldi, 'LA fOLIA ' Short cut, go to Appolos Fire orchestra and Vivaldi's friends. They are an American Ensemble that perform to the true instrumentation of the period and are quite magnificent. As is common, go to You tube.

 

[JENNYJET]

Just this moment in time, I am engrossed in the music of Vivaldi, the purest of the discipline, harmony and orchestration, nothing is better in my mind other than the study of Law. I deeply miss my time performing with an orchestra, the comeraderie, and joyful presentation to an audience of the finest of music. I am feeling very nostalgic given my precarious health, my heart is giving me cause for concern, a top London surgeon at St. Barts hospital has declined at this moment to operate given the risk to life, disappointed I may be but the issue is a genetic one and is complex but it is what it is. I wish all my aviation friends, and you ARE my friends, good health and fortune should this be my final posting. THANK YOU ALL,.

 

[gulftraveller]

There are few better medicines than Vivaldi. I recommend the Lute Concerto in D major. All good wishes.

 

[JENNYJET]

I suggest the Bach Concerto in A \Minor for four Harpsichords, perfection, J S Bach, eat your heart out sire ! Transcribed from a Vivaldi composition.

 

[Scottie Dog]

Jenny, what can I say after your last couple of posts?
Enjoy your music and may it help you to find continued peace. You are such a strong lady and it has been my honour to know you - even if only in a virtual way.

 

[JENNYJET]

Sholto, I ain't gone yet but thank you for your kind words, you be a moderator, please impart that I am unwell, I have a serious heart condition, have had several heart attacks, at least four but often not idetifyable as such, my Esteemed London Surgeon has declined to operate given risk to life, it is a complex genetic problem that perhaps a transplant can resolve but is not in my acceptance, my religeon may forbid it.

 

[Ray Finkle]

May one ask of your good wife if she is aware of the great work of Vivaldi, 'LA fOLIA ' Short cut, go to Appolos Fire orchestra and Vivaldi's friends. They are an American Ensemble that perform to the true instrumentation of the period and are quite magnificent. As is common, go to You tube.

Most definitely, I saw/heard her play it on numerous occasions whilst she was studying and even with a student orchestra it's a fabulous piece. It's a shame that life got in the way and she rarely plays anymore as she was very talented.

In the past I'd dabbled with a bit of classical music but I think meeting my wife gave me a true appreciation for it.

 

[Jon Dempsey]

Most definitely, I saw/heard her play it on numerous occasions whilst she was studying and even with a student orchestra it's a fabulous piece. It's a shame that life got in the way and she rarely plays anymore as she was very talented.

In the past I'd dabbled with a bit of classical music but I think meeting my wife gave me a true appreciation for it.

Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto de Aranjuez has had me welling up more than a few times - special memories.

 

[JENNYJET]

Sir Raymond and others, may one thank you for engaging with a specialist subject. Vivaldi at school gave me the entry portal into music, not the dross of Pop music or the terrible noise that is Jazz . Music to me is the understanding of the mechanics, the tones, scales, chords, time signatures, all that makes music what it is. Vivaldi gave me those mechanics to thus understand the later masters, Beethoven, Mahler, Wagner, Bruckner and obviously Mozart and Haydn. I tried but failed to enter into the Birmingham Conservatoir on the back of my involvment in the CBSO School division performance of Verdi's Requium, a monster work of music. That failure gave me impulse to seek another path and I thus entered into a Law Firm based near the Victoria Law Courts on Corporation Street as a humble messenger and over time, I studied Law and gathered Batchelors, Masters and Doctors degrees but never forgot the beauty of pure music. VIVALDI !!!

 

[Brum X]

Birmingham Airport Set to Land at LEGOLAND® Discovery Centre Birmingham​

Forget the kids, I wanna go

https://www.birminghamairport.co.uk/latest-news/birmingham-airport-set-to-land-at-legoland-r-discovery-centre-birmingham/

 

[thunderchild]

My eldest will love this, he’s Lego mad!

 

[Brum X]

Ok then as nobody has mentioned this new Birmingham attraction, do you think BHX will ask for the Chimney stacks to be shorter, I think the tallest ones are over 100 metres and a bit closer to the airport than some of the city centre towers ?

I am sure it will be fine with a few lil aircraft warning lights

 

[Scottie Dog]

May one ask of your good wife if she is aware of the great work of Vivaldi, 'LA fOLIA ' Short cut, go to Appolos Fire orchestra and Vivaldi's friends. They are an American Ensemble that perform to the true instrumentation of the period and are quite magnificent. As is common, go to You tube.

Just to say that, whilst working in my records, I enjoyed listening to your suggested pieces. Very enjoyable and a little different from the Classic FM produce.