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[Rachel]

Thanks for your kind comments Mike and .....

Oops .... thanks to all of you for the other comments from last year.

Walker, there is still a big concert hall at Snape Maltings.

[John Parry]

Rachel

I'll watch out for 'The Who' live at Snape Maltings. Only joking. It would be nice, once in a while, just to see one of the old never-going-to-make-it-but-still-trying bands at a local hall. Our local lads were called the 'Aztecs' . Did a mean cover version of songs by the 'Pretty Things'.

Regards - John

[Rachel]

John,

I don't think you'd find the likes of The Who at Snape Maltings More likely to be opera or orchestral music; something Classical anyway. I may be wrong though Never been to a concert there as it's a little too far for a comfortable drive home afterwards late at night.

Outdoor concerts for such as The Who seem to be the fashion these days but I think that the weather is too unreliable here. Local pubs often have a local group playing ..... so I'm told.

Regards - Rachel

[PeterW]

Hi Rachel:

I don't think you'd find the likes of The Who at Snape Maltings More likely to be opera or orchestral music; something Classical anyway.

You mean The Who aren't classical? . Er, well, perhaps not. Perhaps 'classic rock' would be a better phrase. But then ragtime (I mean 'classic' ragtime, not up-tempo dance band rubbish) was once looked down on by concert goers. Now, pieces by Joplin are performed at Classical concerts by pianists like Joshua Rifkin. Come to think of it, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring was considered by many to be discordant cacophany when it was first performed - some people think it still is .

Maybe time sorts out the 'classical' music of any genre, and the 'classical' instruments, but I for one would hate to predict the 'classic' electric guitarists of the past 10 or 15 years whose music will eventually become 'Classical'. Musically, some of them went, and still go, very deeply. People like Jeff Beck, Ritchie Blakemore, Brian May and Stevie Ray Vaughan, for example.

Not everyone's cup of tea, but I love listening to them, as well as to music by Haydn, Bach, Stravinski, Mussorgski et al and, of course, the master - Beethoven.

PeterW

[mickeyobe]

All right all ready.
What are/is Snape Maltings???
I am embarrased by my poor knowledge of English.

Mickey

[Rachel]

mickeyobe said:

All right all ready.
What are/is Snape Maltings???
I am embarrased by my poor knowledge of English.

Mickey

www.snapemaltings.co.uk/

[Rachel]

peterw said:

You mean The Who aren't classical? .

Oops Peter ....... well you know what I mean

I like all sorts of music and there are also lots that I don't like

[kiev4a]

We should have visited Snaps Maltings while we were in the U.K. Looks like we were only 20 or 30 miles away when at Lakenheath. Got to admit some of your town names threw me--like the castle at Castle Rising which is called Castle Rising Castle!

[PeterW]

Some UK town names must indeed sound peculiar to American ears. Some of them are even a little peculiar to our ears!

How would you like to have an address like Aston juxta Mondrum, or Combeinteignhead, or perhaps Giggleswick?

Some of the place names in the Western Isles of Scotland, and in Wales, are almost unpronouncable to those who don't live there, or don't speak the language, including of course one that my sister in law, who is Welsh, can rattle off at high speed:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. It translates, I am told, as "The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave". Try putting that one on a signpost in Idaho. .

PeterW

[PeterW]

Rachel:

I like all sorts of music and there are also lots that I don't like

I take it, then, that you may not be a sufficiently cool cat to visit the two evenings of jazz concerts I understand will be held at The Maltings in August?

Jazz at the Maltings! ... the electric guitars I predicted may not be so far in the future after all. They've been featured in the Albert Hall on several occasions.

PeterW

[mickeyobe]

Rachel,

Thank you. If I ever get back to U.K. Snape Maltings will be a must on my itinerary.

I have just explored it on the internet and it appears to be a wonderful and most appealing place.

I noticed that one of the former brewery owners was named Gooderham. In Toronto, one of the major industries in the 1800's and early 1900's was Gooderham & Worts Distilleries. I wonder if there is a connection.

The massive G & H property is now called The Distillery District. It, too, is a great place to wander about and see the shops and theatre events. It is not nearly as extensive as Snape Maltings but it is growing.

Here is a photo of part of it the main square.


Mickey

[Rachel]

peterw said:

Rachel:
I take it, then, that you may not be a sufficiently cool cat to visit the two evenings of jazz concerts I understand will be held at The Maltings in August?

Don't know about being a "Cool Cat" but I do like some jazz. Dave Brubeck is a particular favourite of mine; also John Dankworth and Cleo Laine.

And I see I was wrong about the concerts at Snape if they are going to include Jazz I don't think, though, that we will see "Take That" or similar at the concert hall for a while

[Rachel]

Thanks for the photo Mickey. If anything it looks bigger than Snape Maltings. Seems a popular trend to convert old industrial premises into shopping and heritage centres; good film fodder for our cameras.

[John Parry]

....or Oswaldtwistle, or Cholmondely (pronounced Chumley). Much Binding on the Marsh was a well loved locality. Or, for the masochists among you, you could visit Whipmawhopma Gate (honestly!!) - the street in York where the choirboys from the Minster used to be whipped for impertinence. You couldn't make it up!!

Regards - John

[Randy]

Not any worse than some of the towns in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Names like Blue Balls, Bird in Hand, Climax, Tidioute, Tionesta, Intercourse, Gunattenhooten, or Hearts Content.