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  • #621301
    Steve Knight
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    I was pleased to read the lyrics of the BAA song in the Feb 1924 edition of the journal.

    Perhaps it is time to resurrect it at Winchester Weekend?

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    #621307
    Duncan Hale-Sutton
    Participant

    Yes, definitely resurrect it. Brilliant!

    #621308
    Grant Privett
    Participant

    Sempiternal is my new word learned today.

    I did go to a Comprehensive.

    #621309
    Alan Dowdell
    Participant

    Steve
    I wonder if I can get a volunteer to give give it a try
    I will be willing to buy them a drink in the bar on the Saturday night

    Alan

    #621310
    Gary Poyner
    Participant

    Why don’t we all try it in the bar on Saturday night? The tune is well know. Sounds like a choral hit to me, rather than a solo.

    Gary

    #621322
    Pauline Phillips
    Participant

    I will need a few gins inside me first…

    #621334
    Dr Paul Leyland
    Participant

    Everyone else would need ear protection if I were to join in.

    Only dogs like my singing; they howl along with me.

    #621336
    Jeremy Shears
    Participant

    Why don’t we all try it in the bar on Saturday night? The tune is well know. Sounds like a choral hit to me, rather than a solo.

    Gary

    Sounds like an expensive round for Alan!

    #621338
    Lars Lindhard
    Participant

    Will this meeting be on Zoom or livestreamed to YouTube?

    Or better yet be recorded so everyone can enjoy the singing 🙂

    #621346
    Gary Poyner
    Participant

    Winchester weekends have never been streamed live or recorded in the past, so it’s unlikely you’ll get to experience this if you don’t attend – if it ever happens of course! Just maybe though, someone might record it on their phone and post here.

    Gary

    #621347
    David Arditti
    Participant

    OK, I’ve given this a go, and I found the words are extremely difficult to fit to the tune, especially the final line of each quatrain. The secret is to put the main stresses there on the B of ‘British’ and the A of ‘Association’. The final word has to be sung ‘As-so-ci-a-tion’, not, as printed in 1924, ‘Associ-a-ti-on’

    To get a unified rendition of it, with a group, one would need to print up an accented copy of the words, similar to what church choirs use for singling psalms.

    It would work best, exactly as the report says, with one person singing all the words, and the rest joining in only on the choruses consisting of repeats of the last pair of lines in each quatrain.

    If people are serious about this, I’ll offer to conduct a rehearsal.

    #621348
    Nick James
    Participant

    Sadly, I’ll miss Winchester again this year so you’ll be denied the experience of my G&S baritone but please record this if it goes ahead. It should be a hoot. Something to feature in the next Christmas Sky Notes.

    #621349
    Lars Lindhard
    Participant

    Maybe you could make a CD to be sent out with the next journal?

    I am ready to participate in a crowd funding 🙂

    #621363
    David Arditti
    Participant

    I’ve had a further think about this, and decided we are not going to do it in a drunken manner in a bar, we are going to make as good a job of it as possible. I’ve put it on the agenda for Sunday afternoon at Winchester, and the words will be printed in the programme.

    #621403
    Nick James
    Participant

    David – Are you sure that is the best idea? It is a well-known fact that people are a lot less inhibited in bars which is why you don’t often see decent karaoke anywhere else. Perhaps you could do both. A formal concert version and a bootleg B-side bar version.

    #621405
    David Arditti
    Participant

    It is possible to reduce undesirable inhibition through methods other than alcohol, Nick, and other inhibitions had best not be reduced. We want to remain in Sparsholt College’s good books.

    #621416
    Nick James
    Participant

    I doubt very much that a few singing astronomers will rank very highly on that bar’s rowdy meter. It’s a student bar for farmers…

    #621468
    Peter Carson
    Participant

    ….and people suggest the BAA is full of eccentrics. It appears tame now compared to 1924.

    #621469
    Alex Pratt
    Participant

    The average age at a Winchester Weekend is nearer to 81 than 18, so a bar room brawl is rather unlikely… 🙂

    Alex.

    #622529
    David Arditti
    Participant

    Performance now live:

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