Mad Over Fifties Club

[nungate]

Saturday Night and the doors of Nungate Towers are again opened in welcome to all Mad over fifties. For your delectation tonight's Hot Plate special comes by way of a special request, Minty just for you we have a delicious Toad in the hole (real toads of course) with onion gravy and on the pudding trolley we have apple dumplings and custard. We also have a fine selection of volly vonts and canopies. Our tailcock tonight is the Dragon's Breath, a spicy liitle number, and yes there is more than a hint of chilli! The Minstrels are already in the gallery, tuning up, in addition to their usual selection of madrigals and toccattas, they have decided to give us a selection of music from the Oscars - not too sure what they have in store for us but it could be worth a listen. Sadly the bungee is out of commission this evening, the new elastics haven't arrived in time to be fitted, but all being well it shall be restored to us next time. However, the hot tub is all fired up and the mini bar is well stocked up there on the North Tower, and I've opened up the games room, where we have all sorts of games and amusements on offer from snakes and ladders, to our billiards table, and the ten pin bowling alley has been set up down in the cellars - please take care not to upset Sir Cumference if you are playing down there, for a castle ghost he's very shy and easily upset. I regreet to say that Queenofmean will not be in attendance this evening owing to a prior engagement but I'm sure we will do our best not to miss her too much.
A warm welcome is assured for all who dare enter these portals

Carriages at midnight

[DTCwordfan]

Good evening, I come in a transparent suit liek a space one so that I do not infect you with my lurgy......I may be and out this evening as I am sporting a good temperature and filling myself up with chicken, cashews and chilli and then scotch (I think).

It's nothing to do with the infection that Answerbank has picked up, and I think numbers this evening may be very low....

one organ pipe
one musical note
one reed
one stop
one pedal
one organist called Dick
one toccata, an italian spaghetti dish that will make you sing in more ways than one
one nail
one conductor's baton - broken
one used ticket to the Wigmore Hall
one score of something......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtj300j129k

[nungate]

Good evening DT, nice to see you, I was getting a bit lonely just me, best beloved is floating around somewhere and the grand kitties - one of whom has abandonment issues when Queenie isn't around. Loved the Widor by the way nice piece that....

[DTCwordfan]

it's a famous one - grew up with that at school as the music master loved to play it on the chapel organ......all stops open.....

[nungate]

Good and loud huh? Never heard the organ in Notre Dame any time I was in there, but it's just the place for all stops out wouldn't you say?

[DaisyNonna]

Evening nungate and DTC. Quiet tonight. For the riffly thing I have a bunch of daffs and a single red rose. An unused address book and nearly smooth emery board. Would love a Dragon's Breath (It is a Welsh, red one I hope) and a canopy would be lovely. Not eaten yet.

[DTCwordfan]

Here's the Bach in D that will shake out the cobwebs in the attic....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVJD3dL4diY

[nungate]

Well Hello there Daisy, I hope you are well. How were the flying conditions tonight? Very clear here, frost expected, had some flurries of snow today but nothing much really. Igor will be along in a moment with your Dragon's breath - not sure of the "colour" but I'm sure it will hit the spot.

[DTCwordfan]

more loft cleaning, courtesy of Notre Dame....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSxVO3EoCRM

[DTCwordfan]

evening daisy....

[nungate]

Love the Bach DT. Have you ever seen an old Powell and Pressburger film callem A Canterbury Tale? long convulted plot that I won't go into but in the film Dennis Price (remember him?) played a Cinema organist drafted into the army and he visited Canterbury Cathedral in the film and the organist allowed him to play and it was the Bach in D, it was glorious in the film, one day I'd like to be back in Canterbury and hear someone play that piece on the organ there.

[DaisyNonna]

Thanks nungate, bitterly cold with a knifing wind. Did have some attempted snow this morning but the sun was shining! Most odd. The magpies and starlings are fast eating me out of suet pellets and dried mealworm.

[DTCwordfan]

No I haven't, nungate. One of my favourite films that involved an organ in it, a ciema one at that, was Cinema Paradiso....that won an Oscar for Best Foreign Movie.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMgTCtSxOHE

[Mammar]

Evening all x x
How are the Minstrels going to compete with Bach? As long as they don't play that ruddy Titanic theme. I trust they'll stick to this year's Oscars so anything from Les Mis is ok with me.

[nungate]

Ah Daisy, just the same here, except it's goldfinches and sunflower seed hearts! If there's a finch in the neighbourhood they are at my feeders - I love the little siskins best I think (after the robin)

I've never seen Cinema Pardiso DT, I must make a point of it. I tried to find the bit with Dennis Price playing the Bach but all I could find was him "playing" Onward Christian Soldiers which comes at the end of the film. Maybe I was mistaken about hearing Bach - I'll dig out my box set of Powell and Pressburger films tomorrow and watch it. Hearing all the organ music took me back to when I got married, no Mendelssohn for me! I had Handel's Entrance of the Queen of Sheba (delusional that's me!) whic was easy to find for playing on an organ the hard part was finding Beethoven's Ode to Joy from the 9th in organ music form - I found it in the end though.

[DaisyNonna]

Hi Mammar. I love the Les Mis music. Please don't let them play Bring Him Home as it reduces me to a sodden wreck every time I hear it.

[nungate]

I promise no Titanic Mammar, though I trust you will not object to John William's music from Star Wars?
Dragons Breath perhaps? Igor, bring the tray of drinks over here please...

[DTCwordfan]

This is one of my favourites, the Organ Symphony in C minor from Saint-Saens, final movement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hopaQjQFUYw

[nungate]

I'm saving all these organ pieces to play in full whack tomorrow when there's no one about - when Best beloved goes into town to pick up Queenie will be the best time - they always complain when I play music loudly, looking forward to it...

[nungate]

IS that Raphael's School of Athens?

[DTCwordfan]

believe it is, nungate, without looking it up.