Captivated by your Nightingale “thing”, and will have to come back for the rest as it has already made me late for an appointment. But these things are so important, I don’t regret a moment, thank you ❤️.
I only learned recently (through a Wordle type game) that Nightingales are more closely related to Fly Catchers, than to Thrushes and Blackbirds (please correct me if I’m wrong).
I have listened through maybe half a dozen recordings of The Pines of Rome, and none of them has the dynamic range -- especially in the final movement -- that Toscanini wrung out of the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the 1954 rendition (still available on Amazon!). Please correct me if I'm wrong. But I found it really rewarding to watch him conduct the piece, and appear to become more and more emotionally invested by the end. And he could perspire like a rock star.
A couple of years ago, we went on holiday to Delaware, and stumbled on the Johnson Victrola Museum in Wilmington. It was amazing. Highly recommended in you're ever in the area. https://history.delaware.gov/johnson-victrola-museum/
Birds eh? FASCINATING... yes, I seem to remember reading somewhere that those cellist recordings were a bit dodge... but who cares? They're fab! Thanks for another great read.
I have very tired thumbs and I only got as far as Jupiter ...
It’s a big old scroll...
Me too!
There's a quicker way using the rightmost of the row of planet symbols at the top.
And a lightspeed setting bottom right
Captivated by your Nightingale “thing”, and will have to come back for the rest as it has already made me late for an appointment. But these things are so important, I don’t regret a moment, thank you ❤️.
I only learned recently (through a Wordle type game) that Nightingales are more closely related to Fly Catchers, than to Thrushes and Blackbirds (please correct me if I’m wrong).
Thank you so much for every thing 😀.
Yup, the ‘Old World Flycatchers’, also including wheatears and chats and (confusingly) rock-thrushes. Thanks for your kind words!
I have listened through maybe half a dozen recordings of The Pines of Rome, and none of them has the dynamic range -- especially in the final movement -- that Toscanini wrung out of the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the 1954 rendition (still available on Amazon!). Please correct me if I'm wrong. But I found it really rewarding to watch him conduct the piece, and appear to become more and more emotionally invested by the end. And he could perspire like a rock star.
Oh yes, he was an extraordinary musician. Also a terrible bully, by many reports...
Hours of fun!
And that’s just the knots...
A couple of years ago, we went on holiday to Delaware, and stumbled on the Johnson Victrola Museum in Wilmington. It was amazing. Highly recommended in you're ever in the area. https://history.delaware.gov/johnson-victrola-museum/
Yes, sorry to disappoint you but you need to curve around the molten middle of planet Earth to reach me!
Birds eh? FASCINATING... yes, I seem to remember reading somewhere that those cellist recordings were a bit dodge... but who cares? They're fab! Thanks for another great read.
Thank you for yet another superb article sir. 🙏💝
Excellent call out for Pines of Rome. Thank you and I heard an except on BBC R3 last week. Poking around I found they offered a bi-aural version... here https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08twbh0?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Hope the link works Oh and great piece on knots - like maps, an essential part of life! Thank you as ever. Tim