Wrighty

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  • Birthday 11/27/1947

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    ALL SPORT, ALL MUSIC (esp. classical), COOKERY, HYPNOSIS, NLP, ANYTHING CONCERNING THE MIND-BODY LINK, ALL MOVIES with QUALITY ACTING, GOOD COMEDY (now that's subjective), QUIZMANIA....
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    Peter Wright
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    Anything by Mahler, Beethoven, Bruckner, Schubert, Nielsen, (the list goes on.....), Gershwin, Latin Jazz, good Rock.
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    I am a Performance Coach (including Sport, Business, Life) and Mind therapist working with hypnotic phenomena, NLP, Time Line Therapy (TM), TFT, IEMT, Clean Language and other allied paradigms. I am also a technical sports coach in cricket and rugby and a consultant presenter in communication and realities for a personal trainers training company. Author of an NLP beginners guide - "Don't Think of a Black Cat" and regular blogger on the technical and practical discoveries and uses of my daily working life.

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  1. Wrighty

    Ludovico Einaudi

    Thanks Blake - Due Tramonti is awesome and is my particular favourite of Ludovico Einaudi. Peter
  2. Wrighty

    youtube

    Bruckner in the hands of Gunter Wand becomes a whole new experience..... Here is part of Symphony 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dh9sCcdLGg...feature=related There IS more of this work from the concert in Lubeck -
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    youtube

    Bruckner <Locus Iste> Simple and yet deep on many many levels...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSC5Kjq4aIw...feature=related and another version.......
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    youtube

    Special song + special voice = something you'd want to hear over and over again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-cxtm6JJv4...feature=related Christine McVie
  5. The French always act with one consideration - will it be good for La France et les francaises. No looking over the shoulder to see what the world (and the media) might or might not say. No worry about being PC. We might criticise them but deep down we admire them (certainly from this side of the English Channel!). They are free of the shackles - as are the Australians. Maverick, revolutionary - call it what you will. There should be no place for piracy in the 21st Century - its old fashioned opportunism for the involved Somalis. "We have a coastline - lets do it. If we were landlocked we wouldn't be able to after all." Well done the SEALS and US Navy.
  6. For me it is about the fusion of a variety of elements - melody, rhythm, harmony and dissonance, lyrics, performance, performer(s), associations and visceral responses. Within all these there are sub-elements like voice quality, instrumental tone, diction, tempo etc. Balance this lot up (plus the ones I've missed) and you get a recipe for a catholic taste - which probably sums me up. Moderation coms into it as well - imagine endless hours of one musical genre.....even the sharpest and widest of palates can become dulled then. However, I guess it can best be defined as something with enduring quality on a personal level. What would you happily take with you to be left with on that "desert island". I posted my favourites a while back - and while one or two might change on a re-visit, there will always be those perennials that actually mean more to you every new time you hear them. For me that has to be the Eroica and Mahler 2nd. PW
  7. Congrats, Andrew. Getting a degree is a huge achievement, and I always salute those who've made it and put in the hard yards and hours burning midnight oil. Do your red eyes match your scarf?? Best Wishes, Peter
  8. With no family to look after them as they grow older, what will these saddoes do then.....will they expect the state to care for them? Presumably they will be tended by the vile offspring of hordes of selfish contemporaries?! And when they die, how are we to dispose of their bodies - for then and only then will we discover the true nature of their footprints! At what point in their own existence did they metamorphose from polluting babies <disgusting creatures so they are> into responsible adults? Unfortunately benign fanatics (as we shall call them) often beget ones far more malignant....... As with all problem children, I blame the parents!!
  9. Pam - sound alikes in English cause many pitfalls....but consider this poor opera singer rendering the Croatian National Anthem before a recent international match in London between England and Croatia... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/7109058.stm Its right up there with "Ich bin ein Berliner" Peter
  10. Thank you so very much for all these. Laughter IS the best medicine and this has been a total overdose!! Delegates from the original thirteen states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin had gone to Boston carrying all his clothes in his pocket and a loaf of bread under each arm. He invented electricity by rubbing cats backwards and declared "a horse divided against itself cannot stand." Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead This passage had me in tears...I then read on and came back to it later. And I still laughed till I cried!!
  11. Away from the sports hall- and into the concert hall....for more Mahler! I had the pleasure last month of being at the refurbished Royal Festival Hall, London for a concert including Mahler 1. For the first time ever I sat in the choir seats and it was absolutely riveting, especially as they are the cheapest seats in the house! The conductor was Neeme Jarvi - who is something of a legend anyway. But to watch him at work face on was spellbinding. A real and added pleasure was the inclusion of the "Blumine" movement in its proper place in the Symphony. Since its discovery it has appeared on recordings usually as an afterthought - but here it was in a public concert neatly shoehorned in between the first movement and the (previous) 2nd - landler - movement. And it made total sense - plus the lyrical passages in the finale clearly refer back to it as well. Have any of you heard the symphony recently in this "complete" version? If so how did it come across to you? For me it was a totally memorable evening - and my heartiest thanks go to Neeme Jarvi in so many many ways - the sad thing is that if I have to wait another 30+ years before hearing Mahler 1 live, I probably wont be around!! Peter
  12. But is the pun or wordplay purely related to the English language or are there instances elsewhere?? .....couldn't let it pass by without: "Where did Noah keep his bees?".......In the archives.
  13. Wrighty

    Puccini

    I have not. Do you have a YouTube link for it? Judith Not sure which Pavarotti version Barbara is referring to but here is one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYrmYXsujI...ted&search= However, interesting to compare it with this........ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OZ1SzFQHkI...ted&search= Thanks for the Jussi Bjorling link to Fanciulla del West. Simply beautiful. That got me playing more Bjorling clips and of course the famous Pearl Fishers Duet..... In case we should ever miss maestro Pavarotti, here are a couple of earlier reminders of how powerfully he could perform, let alone give us that wonderful voice.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky271W94VHA...ted&search= Peter
  14. Bob, how far do you see these "wretched folk" being responsible for digging their own hole ?? And what is the nature of that hole......just the inflation, or the whole oppressive dictatorship? If the latter, then surely historically (by your criteria) every nation's people is responsible for digging their "own hole" - and it is the fault of every repressed and victimised section of that nation for bringing that misery upon themselves? (Some dangerous precedents here). And should the rest of the world sit idly by when this happens? (It usually does, especially at the outset). Sadly, I feel the only effective pressure upon Mugabe and his men will come from other African governments. And that could be a long time coming.
  15. Michael - if only......but then we don't always get what we vote for over here. Its the system!! However - this very system we have been aching to give away to the dreaded collective EU for some time now........ except we (the people) don't want to give it away. And neither does any other European people want to give their system and identity away. Keep reading Melanie Phillips' latest gleanings and comments http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=522 from time to time just to reassure yourself that we're not all lemmings. Peter