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From: Stanislas de Kertanguy on 18 Jul 2006 18:11 David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy a pr?sent? l'?nonc? suivant : > Stanislas de Kertanguy <stanislas.dekertanguy(a)lesptt.net> wrote: > >> Le 17/07/2006, David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' >> th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy a ?crit : >>>> It sounds like a cool program, I'll attend it. Are you invited ? >>> >>> I am, but I'm still not 100% certain I can attend yet. It's a busy >>> month. I'll certainly try though. >> >> And if you never paid a visit to the Cit? de la Musique, it's >> definitely worth the trip - but you surely did ! > > No, I've never been! I will though- I'm definitely going now, and even > my partner can come, as it's a weekend! > > I take it it's a big space? Shouldn't be full then. Just to warn you > when the same programme was premiered in London, the Royal Festival Hall > sold out- also in Berlin, Bruges and Rome. The performances in the > Baltic states last October had a few spare seats in each venue though. > Unfortunately, I've used my two free tickets, so I can't offer you one! > :( It's not a big space (less than 1000 seats, a few more on the stairs), but it has top-notch acoustics. It's still bookable online at a reasonable fare (22 euros). I could get the seat at the "youth" fee of 7 euros but that's a bet, since one has to exchange the 7 euros voucheer for an actual seat 1hr before the performance - if there are such free seats ! -- remplacez "lesptt" par "laposte" pour me joindre substitute "laposte" for "lesptt" to reach me
From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy on 18 Jul 2006 18:14 Stanislas de Kertanguy <stanislas.dekertanguy(a)lesptt.net> wrote: > David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and > prestwich tesco 24h offy a pr?sent? l'?nonc? suivant : > > Stanislas de Kertanguy <stanislas.dekertanguy(a)lesptt.net> wrote: > > > >> Le 17/07/2006, David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' > >> th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy a ?crit : > >>>> It sounds like a cool program, I'll attend it. Are you invited ? > >>> > >>> I am, but I'm still not 100% certain I can attend yet. It's a busy > >>> month. I'll certainly try though. > >> > >> And if you never paid a visit to the Cit? de la Musique, it's > >> definitely worth the trip - but you surely did ! > > > > No, I've never been! I will though- I'm definitely going now, and even > > my partner can come, as it's a weekend! > > > > I take it it's a big space? Shouldn't be full then. Just to warn you > > when the same programme was premiered in London, the Royal Festival Hall > > sold out- also in Berlin, Bruges and Rome. The performances in the > > Baltic states last October had a few spare seats in each venue though. > > Unfortunately, I've used my two free tickets, so I can't offer you one! > > :( > > It's not a big space (less than 1000 seats, a few more on the stairs), > but it has top-notch acoustics. It's still bookable online at a > reasonable fare (22 euros). Yes, that's reasonable, and I think it's a really interesting show. Begins with Ligeti's Po?me Symphonique. (100 metronomes!) One change to the format is to replace Stockhausen's Spiral with Reich's New York Counterpoint. I think that's a good idea, actually. -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org
From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy on 18 Jul 2006 18:45 Martin <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:53:44 +0100, "Keith W" > <keithspam(a)kwillshaw.nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote: [] > >"Anthony and I went to the park" is the correct form , the > >time to use 'me' is when some 3rd party actor is mentioned first > >as in. "Tom took Anthony and me went to the park" > > Let down by a typo :-) Yes, no "h" in AA. No balls either, but that's a different story. -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org
From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy on 18 Jul 2006 18:57 Dave Frightens Me <deepfreudmoors(a)eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:56:35 -0500, barney2(a)cix.compulink.co.uk wrote: > > >But I wonder, apropos of this, > > I can't ever recall hearing 'apropos' in English, It's not an uncommon word. -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org
From: Karen Selwyn on 18 Jul 2006 21:03
barney2(a)cix.compulink.co.uk wrote: > >> Is that a group whose approval someone should want? > > In some cases, yes. For example, if I were marketing a product which > appealed largely to the C2D market - overall less well-educated than the > ABC1 groups - I would be more concerned that these consumers 'approved' of > my language than that it was 'correct'. Point well taken. I'm sure there are also several categories of music in which ungrammatical English is preferable to correct English. I had limited my thinking to a situation in which a person deals with mainstream society. > But I wonder, apropos of this, if there are any cases where a particular > correct /grammatical/ construction - as opposed to vocabulary - would > actually alienate a less well-educated group. One possibility: the rule that calls for the use of posessive pronouns/nouns before an "ing" verb. Karen Selwyn |