Marky B

Having just seen the superb "Master and Commander:Far Side of The World",I noted Ralph Vaughn Williams' Fantasia Based On A Theme of Thomas Tallis was used to good effect. As it is one of my favourite pieces of music,has it been used in any other film (apart from Too Long A Winter,about the incredible Hannah Hauxwell).
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Jim

WHAT A COINCIDENCE - I'M SURFING THIS WEBBY AND LISTENING TO V. WILLIAMS FANTASY ON A THEME OF THOMAS TALLIS!!!!

Good morning boys.

Marky B

Thanks,Jim
It's beautiful music and I listen to it a lot. In fact I was going to put it on before I set up my computer,but instead I am listening to the closing theme of Indiana Jone and The Last Crusade.
However,being a keen rambler and lover of the countryside,I think of Ralph Vaughn Williams' Fantasia Based on a theme by Thomas Tallis whenever I am out,strolling down lanes,going over hills etc. Although,I think the tune is more akin to the sea.
Again thanks for your reply.
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Steve Crook

Ralph was first persuaded to write music specifically for the big screen (as opposed to music he had written being used in films) for Forty-Ninth Parallel (1941). His music works very well on the wide, rolling Canadian plains.

There's a short article on Ralph and 49th Parallel by Rolf Jordan of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society at the P&P web site.

Steve

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Jim

THERE WE GO AGAIN MARKY B - ALTHOUGH I CAN'T ROAM THE COUNTRYSIDE LIKE I USED TO, I ONLY HAVE TO BE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE AND VAUHGAN WILLIAMS COMES IMMEDIATELY TO MIND. IT SUMS UP ALL THAT IS FINE IN THIS OLD LAND OF OURS!

OK, I KNOW BRITAIN'S NOT LIKE THAT ANYMORE, BUT IN MY HEAD, IT IS!!! THAT'S WHY I'M ADDICTED TO OUR OLD FILMS. A BIT LIKE WISHING THAT SOME THINGS WERE STILL THE SAME - BUT, ONLY SOME THINGS!

I SUPPOSE IT'S A BIT LKE BURYING YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND, BUT WHAT THE HELL!! [

Good morning boys.

Steve Crook

Why do you think the countryside (or Britain) "isn't like that any more" Jim?
Lots of it is if you get away from the estates of the big barley barons and all the oil seed rape.

Surprising as it may seem on these crowded islands of ours - there are still quite a lot of areas where you can get away from it all.

Steve

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Gibbie

Yes, like the SW coast and here and there in Devon, Cotswolds and East Anglia and the Lake District, but don't tell anybody.

Gibbie

PS - I would also add Purcell and Handel to the list. And, Tutor era lute players and Georgian fiddlers.

Gibbie

Marky B

I did the 192 mile Coast to Coast walk from St Bee's to Robin Hood's Bay last year. The music was going through my mind as I rambled through the august mountains of the Lake District,the Pennines,the Dale and my favourite,the North Yorkshire Moors. Each evening,drinking good beer in good old English pubs,stacking up a hunger for the full English the next morning. The see the North Sea after 190 miles since leaving the Irish Sea,just seems the perfect narrative to the climax of Vaughn Williams' grand score. The supping the best two pints of beer I have ever tasted in the Bay Hotel,Robin Hood's Bay,looking out to the tranquil horizon.
Doing it again this year.
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Gibbie

That trip deserves a composition all of its own.

What would Williams call it - "A Pint of Mountain Lakes" perhaps.

Gibbie

Rob Compton

Sadly, one of the finest interpreters of RVW's Lark Ascending - the hugely talented violinist and conductor Iona Brown - has just died.



rgds
Rob

Jim

THERE WE GO AGAIN - AGAIN!!!! A COUPLE OF PINTS IN THE BAY HOTEL AT ROBIN HOOD'S BAY!!! WE STAYED AT BOGGLE HOLE (YES, THERE REALLY IS A PLACE CALLED THAT), IN NORTH YORKS, WHICH IS ONLY A 25 MINUTE WALK TO R.H.B. MARVELLOUS!

HOWEVER, STEVE, MANY THINGS HAVE CHANGED IN BRITAIN SINCE THE OLD FILMS WERE MADE. BUT SINCE THIS WEBBY IS APOLITICAL, I WON'T GO ANY FURTHER!! NUFF SAID! BUT THANKS TO YOU, AND GIBBIE; MARKY B AND ROB FOR THE INPUT.

Good morning boys.

Steve Crook

Yes, many things have changed - quite a lot for the better :)

It's a matter of attitude. Expect good things & you usually find them.

Steve

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Gibbie

All the best, Jim!

Thanks for the note on Iona Brown's passing, Rob!
She was an excellent musician.

Gibbie

Marky B

Jim,your enthusiasm is infectious.
As he said,there is such a place called Boggle Hole and the north side of Whitby there is somewhere called Ugthorpe.
Maybe I am impartial,but I do love the North Yorkshire Coastline and Gibbie,if you are ever again in Britain,why not visit Whitby and Robin Hood's bay. In RHB,you will meet a lot of people who have completed the C2C walk,including Americans. Last year,as I was leaving the Bay Hotel,satisfied with my beer,I met a couple from New York city who had just finished the walk. They were both I would say in their sixties and he still wore a pony tail.
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Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know