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 Music and a memory. - Ted

Do you have a piece of music that immediately evokes a memory from your past life.
Not a concert or some particular performance, but something quite unusual.

In my case this occurs with one particular piece. I was lying in the bath this evening wondering why my six pack has become a barrel when on it came. Rimsky-Korsakov's ' Sheherezade '....the full performance.

So, what did it bring into my mind, a girlfriend, a holiday or family event ?
Not a bit of it,...Manchester's Victoria Station. The very place I was hit with a bus lane fine earlier.

The story...Back in about 1963, SWMBO2B was at college and was charged with the task of doing an architectural description of a building in the City. As a rail anorak, I suggested the 1904 station with it's fine building, mosaic domed buffet, large white tile map of the system and the war memorial to the fallen Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway employees in WW1.
After the photos were developed, we spent a few happy evenings putting the project together, largely to Rimsky's masterpiece. ( in between snogging sessions !)

I still see in my mind, a Leeds/Liverpool express drifting down Miles Platting bank in the faster sections or an engine simmering at the buffers in the quieter bits. It just does it for me every time.

This way, madness lies, I think !

Ted
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 Music and a memory. new Ted 30 Mar 10 00:33
 Music and a memory. new L'escargot 30 Mar 10 07:37
 Music and a memory. new Pat 30 Mar 10 08:15
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 Music and a memory. new Ted 30 Mar 10 10:15
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 Music and a memory. new Fenlander 30 Mar 10 12:47
 Music and a memory. new RattleandSmoke 30 Mar 10 13:47
 Music and a memory. new - 30 Mar 10 16:39
 Music and a memory. new Focusless 30 Mar 10 16:57
 Music and a memory. new Zero 30 Mar 10 17:18
 Music and a memory. new - 30 Mar 10 17:23
 Music and a memory. new spamcan61 30 Mar 10 17:23
 Music and a memory. new .... 30 Mar 10 17:33
 Music and a memory. new R.P. 30 Mar 10 17:36
 Music and a memory. new .... 30 Mar 10 17:43
 Music and a memory. new spamcan61 30 Mar 10 17:43
 Music and a memory. new R.P. 30 Mar 10 17:46
 Music and a memory. new spamcan61 30 Mar 10 17:57
 Music and a memory. new Pat 30 Mar 10 17:55
 Music and a memory. new Robin O'Reliant 30 Mar 10 18:16
 Music and a memory. new Pat 30 Mar 10 18:19
 Music and a memory. new Zero 30 Mar 10 18:22
 Music and a memory. new Focusless 30 Mar 10 18:25
 Music and a memory. new Pat 30 Mar 10 18:30
 Music and a memory. new smokie 30 Mar 10 20:17
 Music and a memory. new Alastairw 30 Mar 10 22:09
 Music and a memory. new R.P. 30 Mar 10 22:17
 Music and a memory. new Alastairw 30 Mar 10 22:23
 Music and a memory. new R.P. 30 Mar 10 22:25
 Music and a memory. new Ted 30 Mar 10 23:30
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