@Jezetha I'm not aware of any conductor "making the first note dotted …" in that fanfare. The score appears quite unambiguous: the rhythm should be a crotchet and four semiquavers. What we've instead been getting recently (i.e. in the last 30 years+ !) is a triplet rhythm. Neither version is dott...
@omfgomfg17 Uh, because we're not complete animals? Sure, if all I need to know is how to shovel stuff into my mouth, I can learn that from watching the Doberman next door.
Thanks so much for this! I can't believe the BBC missed the opportunity to televise such a remarkable event. (I wonder if anyone sneakily videoed the whole thing?)
I was up in the gallery - it's good to see what things were like from the perspective of the arena!
It's great to see that there's much more to Hitchens than the Dawkins-type fanatical atheist extremist that he has sadly managed to get himself typecast as. The open contempt he has for Maher and his cretinous audience is wonderful to behold!
@Jezetha I'm not aware of any conductor "making the first note dotted …" in that fanfare. The score appears quite unambiguous: the rhythm should be a crotchet and four semiquavers. What we've instead been getting recently (i.e. in the last 30 years+ !) is a triplet rhythm. Neither version is dott...