<div style="text-align: center;">===========================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 18 April 2009 - Volume 01<br>===========================================<br></div><br>From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">G Tighe</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:tighe@sympatico.ca">tighe@sympatico.ca</a>></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Traditions" 2009.04.16 (04) [E]<br></span><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">Ron Wrote:</span></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">"Should
any of our Lowlanders have been visiting a different planet while this
was going on, here are three video clips to fill you in:"<br></span></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">I confess!</span></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">And thank you Ron for the Links.</span></p><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">Gerald Tighe<br><br>----------<br><br></span>From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Tom Mc Rae</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com">thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com</a>></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Traditions" 2009.04.17 (02) [E]</span><br><span class="gI"><br></span><div><div>On 18/04/2009, at 12:15 AM, <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Martha-Luise Lessing</span> <span><<a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de" target="_blank">marless@gmx.de</a>></span></span> wrote:</div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:<span>Â </span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "Traditions" 2009.04.16 (04) [E]<br></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</div><div class="im"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">while
I was a student at Hamburg University, I was an excessive visitor of
Hamburg's many and excellent theatres, because students could get
unsold tickets, even the best seats, for 11 DM (DM then!) 1/2 hour
before the performance began.</span></div></span></blockquote>Takes me
back many years to my army service days. At 4pm daily London's Nuffield
Centre, a club exclusively for service personnel and nurses, would
start issuing vouchers for unsold theatre tickets FREE OF CHARGE. All
we had to do was exchange the voucher for a ticket at the relevant
theatre to get the best seats in the House. Other special</div><div>offers
also turned up at times. Believe it or not I was once co-opted to be
part of a chorus backing Britain's Beverley Sisters in a recording for
which I was paid</div><div>5 pounds sterling. Song title "It's Illegal, It's Immoral, Or It Makes You Fat". <div class="im"><br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, in the theatres it was quite usual to rise while applauding a very fine performance. </span></span></blockquote>
</div>According to
Graham Abbot, a veteran Australian conductor with 70 "Messiahs" under
his  belt ,orchestras and conductors loathe the idiotic practice of the
entire audience</div><div>rising when the Hallelujah chorus is played
during this oratorio. (Not this fellah, I remain seated to many hostile
gazes.) Story goes that when King George</div><div>whoever attended the
first performance he rose to his feet either in admiration or because
he thought they were playing "God Save the King". This is a total
fallacy </div><div>as the premier performance of Handel's magnificent work was held in Dublin.</div><div>All
this silly custom does is disrupt every performance, first audience
rises like sheep shuffling and clattering then at the conclusion they
babble to one another as they sit down.</div><div>This mass stupidity
disrupts every performance of Handel's masterpiece, has no historic
foundation, and orchestras wish it would go away. If you attend a
performance of this might work STAY SEATED and glower at the morons who
stand.</div><br> <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="">
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<div><div style=""><div style=""><div>Regards</div><div>Tom Mc Rae</div><div>Brisbane</div><div>AUSTRALIA</div><div>"Oh wad some power the Giftie gie us,</div><div>Tae see oorsels as ithers see us</div><div>Robert Burns</div>
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