What did happen to Pianistimo?

[shortyshort]

But WHY do you need to know? You're surely not one of them, are you?

We are all "sinners", and need angels such as "P" to cleanse us of our impurities. 

[ahinton]

We are all "sinners", and need angels such as "P" to cleanse us of our impurities. 

Well, I cannot speak for anyone else, but I do admit to possessing quite a substantial collection of sins, each one of which is identifiable as a single note in any given piece that I have written (and that's only my music - there may well be many other such things!). I have never had any reason to feel that "P" has any kind of negative intent, for all that I simply cannot abide some of the kinds of expression that she used to put forward on this forum; I cannot subscribe to most of what she used to write here, given not only its occasional historical inaccuracy and unproveability but also the fact that I am not a Christian (though I am at the same time not an anti-Christian), but I still have the impression that she is largely well-meaning, even if certain of her expressions (particularly those of a creationist bent) have suggested a background influence from that stranger-than-strange bigotry of the right-wing middle-American Christian fundamentalist Bible-belt. I am still prepared to allow that she has plenty of decent human sentiments and concerns, despite her having been goaded by this kind of bigotry, even though at the same time I have to admit that some of what she has written here in the past gives a less than favourable impression overall. That said, she has self-evidently stopped regaling us with all this kind of stuff for a sustained period of time, so let's give her not merely the benefit of the doubt but a vote of understanding for having ceased and desisted in this way.

Best,

Alistair (self-confessed but not-so-miserable sinner)...

[ahinton]

We are all "sinners", and need angels such as "P" to cleanse us of our impurities. 

P.S. - she's never even tried (at least not in my hearing) to "cleanse" me of the gross impurities with which my music is surely replete (and for just one illustrative example thereof, how's about a piece that includes settings of texts by, among others, a Jewish composer, the Upanishads, a Parsi composer, a Lebanese poet and a Scottish born-again atheist, the last of whom wrote
Life is too short(yshort)
And death the end of all things...)

Best,

Alistair

[shortyshort]

Well, I cannot speak for anyone else, but I do admit to possessing quite a substantial collection of sins, each one of which is identifiable as a single note in any given piece that I have written (and that's only my music - there may well be many other such things!). I have never had any reason to feel that "P" has any kind of negative intent, for all that I simply cannot abide some of the kinds of expression that she used to put forward on this forum; I cannot subscribe to most of what she used to write here, given not only its occasional historical inaccuracy and unproveability but also the fact that I am not a Christian (though I am at the same time not an anti-Christian), but I still have the impression that she is largely well-meaning, even if certain of her expressions (particularly those of a creationist bent) have suggested a background influence from that stranger-than-strange bigotry of the right-wing middle-American Christian fundamentalist Bible-belt. I am still prepared to allow that she has plenty of decent human sentiments and concerns, despite her having been goaded by this kind of bigotry, even though at the same time I have to admit that some of what she has written here in the past gives a less than favourable impression overall. That said, she has self-evidently stopped regaling us with all this kind of stuff for a sustained period of time, so let's give her not merely the benefit of the doubt but a vote of understanding for having ceased and desisted in this way.

Best,

Alistair (self-confessed but not-so-miserable sinner)...

P.S. - she's never even tried (at least not in my hearing) to "cleanse" me of the gross impurities with which my music is surely replete (and for just one illustrative example thereof, how's about a piece that includes settings of texts by, among others, a Jewish composer, the Upanishads, a Parsi composer, a Lebanese poet and a Scottish born-again atheist, the last of whom wrote
Life is too short(yshort)
And death the end of all things...)

Best,

Alistair

Whatever you say, Sir Humphrey.

[thalbergmad]

Whatever you say, Sir Humphrey.

HAHA, very similar styles.

[ahinton]

Whatever you say, Sir Humphrey.

An incomplete sentence there, methinks; "whatever you say, Sir Humphrey" does or says what? Is Sir Humphrey Someone a member of this forum? Incidentally, they never knighted my teacher (Humphrey Searle) although, had he been offered such "honour", I've no idea whether he'd have accepted it...

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

HAHA, very similar styles.

Whatever (if anything) you may mean by this statement, might it perhaps be taken as indicative that you appear to value style over content or even that your eyes, ears and general sensitivities are blinded / deafened / dulled against content and accordingly capable of absorbing - and being conscious - of style alone?

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

Yes Prime Minister

[ahinton]

Yes Prime Minister

Are you seriously contending that the egregious Mr Gordon Brown is now a member of this forum or seeking to put forward messages via another such member? If so - and if you are correct in your contention - you (and/or someone else here) must alert Nils immediately in order to stop this at once!

Best,

Alistair