[Ttha-potm] Re:Opps shuddering sexism

[Rosemarie Morgan]

Just to update on the Poetry Competition (you have a good memory, Roy) . We 
didn't receive sufficient entries this time around to make a sensible 
judgement so we'll alter the proposal and bring it back in another form

On another tack, wouldn't it be marvellous if someone discovered a TH 
Notebook on music (akin to Poetical Matter or his notes from newspapers). I 
only wish Hardy had lived to hear Gustav Holst's "Egdon" symphony (first 
performed in New York) . After walking and talking with Holst, on Egdon, - 
and no doubt discussing some wonderful things regarding the music of 
harebells in the wind and heathcroppers chomping and song of dawn sunrise 
(wouldn't you give *anything* to have overheard their conversations as they 
walked the heath?)* -- Hardy must have had his own ideas about the 
symphony. For this listener it's one of the most beautiful evocations of a 
literary piece I have ever heard. It never fails to still my heart.

** is a thought that by the time "they" discover how to broadcast voices 
from the past I fear you and I will both be "past".

Anyway -- a shame Hardy died within weeks of Holst's first performance 
which received rave reviews this side of the pond.

Cheers
Rosemarie
PS Do excuse my typos - I'm going sixteen-to-the-dozen whatever that means

>TH knew well the accidental effect of the "wolf" when tuning the
>musical scale on a poorly made fiddle.
>More deliberately, the augmentation of,
>say, the fourth scale note can, like a sinister choice of a word
>in a poetic phrase, affect the musical impact of the chord or
>arpeggio of which it is part.
>Roy.
>(lured from his dark den).