June 11th, 2011 9:12 am
What song, poem, book or other piece of art do you think of as quintesentially English…?
Sir Thomas Beecham? Sir Noel Coward? The Beatles? John Moore? Sir John Betjemen?…Oasis?…Morrisey?…Sir Lawrence Olivier?…
Punktilldie…
I wish all the so called patriots and bedroom warriors on here would read that.
The Soldier
Rupert Brooke
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Sir Thomas Beecham: Interview and Rehearsal
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The Tales of Hoffmann (The Criterion Collection) $39.95 TALES OF HOFFMANN – DVD Movie… |
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Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past [VHS] $29.98 … |
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Haydn, Symphony # 102; Mozart, Symphony # 38, Prague/Sir Thomas Beecham, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (In Color) [VHS] $19.95 The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has collaborated with many of the greatest conductors of the twentieth century, including the charismatic Sir Thomas Beecham. This historic video release from the prestigious Chicago Symphony Orchestra Rosenthal archives provides a unique illustration of both a great musical relationship and of the pioneering days of color television in America. This program features… |
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