Queens New Years Honours List 2016

[stenka razin]

Some big names in classical music here. Any comments, my fellow CMGers?

Regard,
Mel

http://www.classicfm.com/music-news/new ... l0joU5R.97

[John F]

Thanks for posting. The complete list is here:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015 ... -full-list

No peerages or knighthoods in classical music, but of course some may have been offered and refused. No classical composers, just a handful of performers. Of these, the only really big name in the list is Radu Lupu, and I've no idea why he in particular should be recognized this year with a CBE. The others are good enough musicians and some like Steuart Bedford and Malcolm Martineau are internationally known, but hardly headliners. And they are swamped in a sea of parochial music makers, music educators, music therapists, etc. etc.

[karlhenning]

At the risk of appearing to be the "Punctuation Counts" Nerd, really when I first read the header my near-instinctive response was, To compete with Brooklyn?

(In my defense I drove back east over the Tappan Zee this past Sunday.)

Cheers,
~k.

[lennygoran]

(In my defense I drove back east over the Tappan Zee this past Sunday.)

Karl hope they're making progress on the renovation-it seemed to be going pretty slow for a while--don't want it to turn out like Boston's Big Dig! Regards, Len [fleeing]

[jbuck919]

At the risk of appearing to be the "Punctuation Counts" Nerd, really when I first read the header my near-instinctive response was, To compete with Brooklyn?

(In my defense I drove back east over the Tappan Zee this past Sunday.)

Cheers,
~k.

Actually I thought the same thing momentarily. This is the Lenny Goran effect. With him it's usually Brooklyn, but anytime a borough (or any other place) is mentioned there is some characteristic phraseology in his subject line. Of course you came back on the Tappan Zee. (Karl posted some lower Hudson pics on Facebook.) Considering where you must have been, there was no other realistic possibility.

I'll depart from music to note the honor done Siân Phillips. She is best known for her deliciously evil portrayal of Livia in the series I Claudius. In a documentary on its making where they interviewed her fellow actors, at least one of them said that she was the only one who came to the set the first day with a complete concept of her character. It was only years after that series was produced that I noticed that in the 1964 movie Becket, a film I have loved since I was a boy and have seen many times, she played the Welsh character Gwendolen, Beckett's devoted mistress who kills herself rather than accept Becket handing her over to King Henry II.

[lennygoran]

This is the Lenny Goran effect. ... She is best known for her deliciously evil portrayal of Livia in the series I Claudius. ...... 1964 movie Beckett, a film I have loved

Loved both I Claudius and Beckett-as for the Lenny Goran effect glad it's finally working-took longer than I thought it would! Regards, Len [out the door]

[John F]

That's Becket, the martyr, not Beckett, the playwright.

[jbuck919]

That's Becket, the martyr, not Beckett, the playwright.

Yeah, I spelled it both ways in my post. Sorry. BTW the RC parish in my home town was St. Thomas of Canterbury, one of only two churches in the US at the time named after that important and potentially inspiring figure. The name, alas, was chosen because there happens to be a Canterbury Creek running through Cornwall, NY.

"You are a creature of extremes, aren't you, brother John?" Becket to his new aide, who only recently tried to assassinate him.