Thursday, June 10, 2004
MUSIC TO THE EARS
Further to the debate over noise at the IOW Hunt, this letter from Philip in the Torygraph. Maybe we are slightly biased, but it seems rather crazed that the hunt based there since 1927 should have to make modifications because the newcomers don't like it....
Sir - You report (May 27) that council officers found the noise of the Isle of Wight hunt "horrendous".
As an opera and concert singer, and vocal coach of some 20 years professional experience, I can report that the baying of the hounds on the Fitzwilliam (Milton) hunt in Cambridgeshire is the most beautiful music on God's earth.
I only regret that I don't have the gift of composition to transcribe their speech for rendition by an orchestra; perhaps Messiaen could have achieved it.
From:
Philip Slane, Old Weston, Cambs
Sir - You report (May 27) that council officers found the noise of the Isle of Wight hunt "horrendous".
As an opera and concert singer, and vocal coach of some 20 years professional experience, I can report that the baying of the hounds on the Fitzwilliam (Milton) hunt in Cambridgeshire is the most beautiful music on God's earth.
I only regret that I don't have the gift of composition to transcribe their speech for rendition by an orchestra; perhaps Messiaen could have achieved it.
From:
Philip Slane, Old Weston, Cambs
