Franz Schubert

So it's a lot freer harmonically.

And then of course the other thing thing I think that makes her music is so great is she had this incredible facility with melodies and there's just beautiful lines of music that I really, I think she, I think she rivals Schubert in her leader writing her, her, her melodies.

Yeah.

And it's so like, there are so many pieces where you hear them, you can hear them for the first time and go, this sounds so familiar, right? Because the, the, the shape of the melody makes so much sense.

There's John Donne, the poet.

Uh, Ravel, Renoir, Schubert.

A lot of musicians and artists and poets.

Holst, of course Holst was the one who composed The Planets, uh-

shudder that it was very deep thinking privately that if this was a specimen of bingo's

usual treatment of the natives it would be odd if he did not find himself still deeper before probably just before he died poor faithful old doggie murmured mrs curry he thought tax was a nasty burglar didn't he he wasn't going to see master robbed was he capital house-dog sir struck in the colonel gad i shall never forget how he made poor heavisides run for it the other day ever met heavisides of the bombay fusiliers well heavisides was staying here and the dog met him one morning as he was coming down from the bathroom didn't recognise him in pyjamas and a dressing-gown of course and made at him he kept poor old heavisides outside the landing window on top of the cistern for a quarter of an hour till i had to come and raise the siege such were the stories of that abandoned dog's blunder headed ferocity to which i was forced to listen while all the time the brute sat opposite me on the hearth-rug blinking at me from under his shaggy mane with his evil bleared eyes and deliberating where he would have me when i rose to go this was the beginning of an intimacy which soon displaced all ceremony it was very pleasant to go in there after dinner even to sit with the colonel over his claret and hear more stories about bingo for afterward I could go into the pretty drawing-room and take my tea from Lillian's hands and listen while she played Schubert to us in the summer twilight.

The poodle was always in the way, to be sure, but even his ugly black head seemed to lose some of its ugliness and ferocity when Lillian laid her pretty hand on it.

On the whole, I think that the Currie family were well disposed toward me, the Colonel considering me as a harmless specimen of the average eligible young man, which I certainly was, and Mrs. Currie showing me favour for my mother's sake, for whom she had taken a strong liking.

Right now, I'd like to give you some of the listening highlights of tomorrow's Monday Night of Music on NBC.

The life and music of Franz Schubert is the basis for the Railroad Hour's presentation of Blossom Time tomorrow evening.

Starring Gordon McRae and Nadine Connor, Blossom Time is one of Sigmund Romberg's most famous musical romances.

Be sure to hear it tomorrow as presented by the Railroad Hour.

And then he asked me in a casual tone, "Do you ever play pianoforte duets?" "Often," I replied unsuspectingly, "with my aunt.

We play the symphonies of Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Haydn, and overtures, and so on." "Awfully good fun, isn't it?" He smiled.

"Splendid," I said.

"I've got Tristan here arranged for pianoforte duet," he said.

Ach, werd ich erst einmal Einsam im Grabe sein, Da lässt sie mich Thank you.

From Franz Schubert's Winterreise-Cycle, Das Wirtshaus.

My journey has brought me to a graveyard.

Here, I thought to myself, I will rest for the night.

And, like, that is about 1% of it, of being like, ooh, should we make the lovely aerial duet wear pink? That'd be nice.

What about that piece of music? Let's use a Schubert aria for that lovely thing.

Like that bit is 1% of the job and 99% of it is dealing with the bullshit of just the risk and the marketing and the PR and the artists and the agreements and the insurance and the visas and the...

You're not selling it to me, Simon.