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Elroel
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« on: August 14, 2012, 10:26:43 am » |
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Hello Administrator(s),
I was very pleased to find this forum after the, in my eyes, disastrous changes at 'Unsung Composers'.
i'm sure, in due time, I will find many of my friends from that forum here. I hope that this will be as exciting as I found 'UC'. Hopefully we can mantain the good taste as I got used to.
Only one more wish: please restrict advertising as much as possible.
Best wishes for this forum,
With respect
Elroel
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Admin
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« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2012, 11:19:43 am » |
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. . . Only one more wish: please restrict advertising as much as possible. . . . Many thanks for your message Elroel! Actually your point about advertising surprised me, because I never ever see any advertising here! I've done some experimenting just now, and it has something to do with the way my HOSTS file is set up. I will find out the exact details for you (and others) and post them tomorrow. For now I can say that the probable reason appears to be that I have set the address of "ib.adnxs.com" to 127.0.0.1 in my HOSTS file. |
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cjvinthechair
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« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2012, 12:38:27 pm » |
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Dear 'Administration'.
Right - found you ! Great for me...probably less so for everyone else.
Have loved UC, & hopefully will still find lots of interest there, but have been increasingly enjoying the slightly 'edgier' works which it seems will still be accommodated here. I look forward to increasing my knowledge of such music, &, it appears, many other 'art' topics besides.
Many thanks indeed to you, and to all your uploaders/contributors !
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Clive
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Neil McGowan
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« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2012, 06:09:30 pm » |
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Welcome to both Elroel and cjvinthechair - and indeed to all others who have joined us recently!
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Neil McGowan
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« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2012, 06:34:08 pm » |
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but have been increasingly enjoying the slightly 'edgier' works which it seems will still be accommodated here.
I believe you'll find like-minded people here :) |
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Albion
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« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2012, 09:33:02 pm » |
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Many friends are clearly already here - what a pleasant surprise!
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"A piece is worth your attention, and is itself for you praiseworthy, if it makes you feel you have not wasted your time over it." (Sydney Grew, 1922)
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Christo
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... an opening of those magic casements ...
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« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2012, 09:46:06 pm » |
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Great to see you all here. The first downloads of unsung music have already been noted, with delight. ;)
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… music is not only an `entertainment’, nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found. RVW, 1948
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Christo
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... an opening of those magic casements ...
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« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2012, 10:25:53 pm » |
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Interestingly enough, one of the moderators of another forum (UC, some of us will know it ;)) today identified it to be all about predominantly consonant, tuneful, beautiful music. I find that a remarkable and completely different - from the strict Romanticism norm they recently restricted the forum to - criterion, that would include most composers now banned there. My own first association would be with Ralph Vaughan Williams, ;) but indeed most 'modern' composers would apply. I hope to learn more about them here, just as I hope to learn more about earlier composers of any period. :) |
… music is not only an `entertainment’, nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found. RVW, 1948
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Dundonnell
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« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2012, 04:58:44 am » |
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Hello to all :)
I suspect that those of you who know what has happened over at Unsung Composers and, specifically, the fact that I was summarily banned from that forum after eleven months of-I sincerely hope and believe-useful contributions to that forum will not be at all surprised to see me joining this forum ;D
It will be fantastic to continue our friendships and our mutual respect for musical tastes which, though they may differ in specifics, are linked together by a common love of Music as one of the greatest (if not the greatest) of art forms.
Dundonnell.
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Balapoel
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« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2012, 07:24:30 am » |
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Good to see some old faces (so to speak). I will participate with interest in both fora.
Cheers,
Balapoel
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Caostotale
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« Reply #10 on: August 15, 2012, 08:00:54 am » |
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It's uplifting to see familiar names showing up here. I had only been an active member at UC for a few months and, unfortunately, my primary interests are almost all composers who fall under the umbrella of 'dry-as-dust modernism' that the moderators decreed 'justifiably unsung.'
Here's hoping that this forum provides a comfortable home for all of that great music.
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Neil McGowan
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« Reply #11 on: August 15, 2012, 09:05:11 am » |
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that would include most composers now banned there.
What a peculiar situation, to find composers 'banned' :-[ It seems unduly heavy-handed? But let's leave the rancour where it originated, rather than transplant it here! :) I can't speak for the Administration here of course, but our discussions in the past have been wide-ranging, and covered composers of nearly every period. I hope that the arrival of new members, with their own personal enthusiasms and areas of expertise will only serve to broaden such discussions here in future! |
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MVS
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« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2012, 01:27:57 pm » |
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Ahhh! A new home - with some familiar "faces." And it looks great! :)
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jimfin
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« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2012, 02:43:30 pm » |
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Yes, it almost feels like Unsung Composers with a new colour, people even using the same names. I'm very much an 1830-1960 kind of person, with room for some more recent things too, mostly British music. Good to be here!
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ahinton
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« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2012, 03:23:06 pm » |
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that would include most composers now banned there. What a peculiar situation, to find composers 'banned' Well, just for the record, I've not been "banned" there - or at least not yet - or at least not as far as I know... |
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