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elisi ([personal profile] elisi) wrote2020-05-23 07:43 pm

Update from The House of Plague, Day 68 (and breathe)

Re. today's news, then the parody account of No 10's cat is doing a better job than our Esteemed Leaders:



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Otherwise:



So I give you:



From the presenter's comments at the end:

The Fifth premiered here at The Royal Albert Hall in June 1943 at the height of the Second World War. Sir Adrian Boult (sp?) was listening in on the radio and afterwards wrote to Vaughan Williams that 'the Symphony's serene loveliness is completely satisfactorily in these times and shows, as only music can, what we must work for when this madness is over.'

(Although please don't skip the comments at the start!)

And from the comments on youtube:

More even than The Lark Ascending or the Tallis Fantasia, when my psyche needs repair this is the piece I turn to. In the thirty-seven years I've known it, it has never once let me down.
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[personal profile] kathyh 2020-05-23 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Gorgeous Vaughan Williams. I can always tell when it's a piece by Vaughan Williams the instant I hear the strings playing as he made the violins shimmer somehow.

I think we would be doing a lot better if Larry was in charge at the moment!

[identity profile] ragnarok-08.livejournal.com 2020-05-24 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Lovely music :)

[identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com 2020-05-24 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I read Larry the Cat's thoughts on FB earlier. And I so want someone to ask the PM, and/or Matt Hancock

"So is it correct that your rules during the lockdown actually specified that the only people who could travel away from their homes were those exhibiting symptoms of Covid-19?"
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[personal profile] sea_thoughts 2020-05-24 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Fantasia on Greensleeves will always be my favourite but this is lovely. :)