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Published: 2011-06-04 02:08:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 1267; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 0
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Acrylic on canvas, 16x20 inches.Recently touched up.
I had a dream that I found an album of Sibelius' 8th symphony in a second hand store. Sibelius destroyed the 8th sometime during the 1940s....
I have hopes that it may yet turn up.
Since Sibelius died in 1957, and the TV programme Bachelor Father had it's debut in the same year... it is barely feasible that Sibelius could have (if he were so inclined) written a suite or two of incidental music for it...
Just Imagine if Sibelius had written the Rawhide theme
Thanks for looking
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Yes, I thought this was a real album there for a while...
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Fantastic piece, interesting Dream, and what's wrong with the Frankie Layne Rawhide theme?
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Oh, not a thing. But you'll have to admit that giving the Rawhide theme a Finnish twist could be interesting
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From the thumbnail, I thought it was the photo of a real album
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I'm sure the clues to the Eighth's location are encrypted in the first seven - you know, the Sibelius Code?
Or perhaps I only think that because I saw the Narnia Code documentary on Friday and read the accompanying book on Saturday, am currently reading The Kabbalah Code, and began watching The Charlemagne Code (a German movie) last night.
Of those, the Narnia Code is the only one that's on the money. Incidentally it makes several references to Holst's The Planets, to the point where I bought and played an LSO performance of the same over the weekend. An interesting bit of synchronicity in view of the discussion above, which I have only just seen.
Anyway, great album cover -- and do keep checking out those second-hand stores and thrift shops...
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I recently saw a documentary concerning a supposed "Michelangelo Code". Geez, we've got codes galore. Anyone with a brain knows that they were much too busy back then with wet plaster and sodomy to be codifying everything under the sun for future nogoodnicks to sit around deciphering...
Anyway, the Swedish label BIS says that they have yet to locate the 8th - from which I infer they are seriously looking...
There was a very nice BBC documentary about Holst that aired recently. Of The Planets, I prefer the last three
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I had expected the Narnia Code to be a load of old codswallop, but it's actually a serious academic discovery that most C.S. Lewis scholars seem to regard as a genuine breakthrough. It certainly makes a refreshing change from all the other Dan Brown wannabees.
Maybe BIS should post a reward. Add few bounty hunters to the mix and anything is possible...
As a Pisces, I gather that I have Neptune to blame for my interest in the esoteric. 
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On the strength of your review I'll investigate. I'm a Lewis admirer (both C.S. AND Jerry) anyway. But I must say that I'm sick to death of hobbits, trolls, magic, and wardrobes that are anything other than monosyllabic.
A quote from Sibelius' wife, Aino, regarding the destruction of the 8th:
"There was a bonfire tonight, but I stayed in the other room..."
He used part of the 8th in an organ work Surusoitto, which has likely been the source of my recurring Sibelius dreams. It's an unearthly, beautiful work.
I'm a Cancer/Crab, which I must say fits my miserable personality perfectly
Oh, regarding The Planets composer Colin Matthews wrote an addendum movement "Pluto" which should be avoided like the plague. It bears no stylistic resemblance to Holst whatsoever. Not that Matthews is a bad composer, just that this particular enterprise was very ill advised
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Do take a look at it. There's the heavyweight version (a book called Planet Narnia), a lightweight book called The Narnia Code, and a documentary of the same name on DVD. I have the last two.
Hmm, a bonfire sounds fairly final. Perhaps we should opt for mediums rather than bounty-hunters. 
As I scientist, I find it troubling that people so often conform to the dispositions assigned to them by their Zodiac sign. Not sure how to explain it. The phenomenon may warrant a grant application to the NIH, given some credible suggestions that an individual's birth-month influences their risk of developing certain diseases in later life. 
I'll seek Sibelius' Surusoitto and avoid Matthews' Pluto postscript. I guess the latter has lost its legitimacy anyway, what with Pluto's demotion from the planetary canon. A silver lining to that particular cloud...
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I will indeed
Now that you mention it I know of several Aquarians with water on the knee, AND a Sagittarian girl with hairy legs. And then there was the Virgo named Virginia. We called her "Virgin" for short - but not for long.
It's the medication
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I've got Sibelius' 2nd symphony on vinyl, but I'd never even heard of this story before-- always an education!
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Agree with Janet, as usual...it's funny...and downright cool. Again, I only wish I knew where this stuff comes from...but then I suppose you do too
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They already released Rachmaninov 5th piano concerto so who knows? You might find Sibellius' 8th sooner than you expect.
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Though i doubt these musicological inventions can be found on vinyl.
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I've got Tchaikovsky's 7th Symphony on vinyl, though it's an old Ormandy recording...
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Yes, reality always overcome my imagination; i recently read a paper about Gustav Holst's Planets suite and all its posthumous versions with more or less planets each one (you know, Pluto and such things).
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Ah yes; I'm not that fond of the Colin Matthews piece (Pluto), but I did hear an interesting arrangement of The Planets for two pianos, recently...
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