WBG@ScottishChess

Anti-social persona non grata.
Interests: music, literature, art, film noir, history, current affairs, chess, football. Brevity is the soul of Twitter.

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@ThatEricAlper The Band by The Band.

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@euandecoup Good for you, Euan. Shame on this company. Being in administration suggests that they are taking unscrupulous measures to grasp whatever they can from honest customers before the business folds.

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@StevenIsserlis "A strange bird is the pelican
It's beak holds more than its belly can..."

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@mikeirons12 I've yet to hear the 13th. The 15th is a recent acquisition which I find very compelling.

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@mrkdrm @OrpheusL 😊😊 Apologies, sometimes ironic comments can be misinterpreted on Twitter.

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@WBGO Archie Shepp 'Four By Trane'.

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@terrychristian As a boy, I recall my Glaswegian parents always referring to the end slices as Cheesers. To this day, I've never heard this term being used elsewhere.

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@JLClayton5 I immediately think of two compelling albums, that I return to again and again, from entirely different genres. Namely 'Kind of Blue' by the Miles Davis Quintet and Nick Drake's 'Pink Moon'.

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@oakroyd Glasgow cooncil have evidently made radical changes since my childhood days there in the 1960s.

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@secretcinema1 I rewatched Citizen Kane recently and was struck by how Herrmann's powerful orchestral soundtrack brought emotional weight to key scenes, not least the closing overhead panning shot leading to the revelation of the mysterious 'Rosebud'.

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@Baerenreiter Thankfully for classical music lovers, despite his deafness he was able to put his despair behind him by creating timeless masterworks in short order, the early 1800s being a most prolific creative period for him.

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@mikeirons12 Beethoven violin concerto
Brahms 1st symphony
Dvorak cello concerto
Elgar 2nd symphony
Schubert 5th symphony
Shostakovich 10th symphony
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
Rachmaninov 2nd symphony
Stravinsky The Firebird
Debussy Preludes

Bonus: Wagner's Ring Cycle

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@RussInCheshire On the whole L & M were equals as songwriters, John's creative dominance during the early Hard Day's Night period offsetting Paul's later prominence.
If we judge Lennon's contribution solely by the Get Back sessions, when his interest had wained, we undervalue his unique legacy.

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@Albawitch_xx It's also been reported that men attending for a scan are being asked if they're pregnant!
If front-line staff feel reluctantly compelled to ask absurd questions that have the effect of undermining patient confidence, there is something badly amiss with NHS leadership.

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@redskyatnight @hoskas Wow!
I achieved a more scientific 2 the day before, my first guess ADORN being readily converted to APRON.

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@redskyatnight Your 3rd guess is identical to mine. Without this letter pattern I would have found the puzzle unsolvable as I've neither heard nor uttered the word before in my life.

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@Film_Noir_Art Me neither. Mitchum's character utters the grisly phrase and maybe the UK distributors thought it more commercial. Classic film noir at its best though.

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@CharlesODohert4 It was first broadcast on TV in 2016, but you can view it on YouTube.