Listener Crossword 4051

[starwalker]

This week's offering is "Joint Wisdom" by Rok.
A fairly straightforward grid fill and a work of art that is worthy of celebration.

[Clamzy]

BC cJ and others - may I call upon your experience of that era to enlighten me as to the relevance of the title?

[cluelessJoe]

Certainly a few joints around in those days Clamzy, but nothing to enhance the wisdom concerning the title. It has me stumped - I keep trying to decipher it as a jumble of DSOTM and something else but get nowhere.

[bobbycollins]

CJ - I saw the Stones in Hyde Park at THAT concert. Brilliant. Sadly, all of my vinyl has gone - including the ninth with Karajan and the BPO. Not quite the same on CD in my view. I quite miss the scractchy bits.

Clamzy, not my area of expertise, I'm afraid. Title a mystery to me as well.

[Archie1962]

When shading the six boxes, I was unsure whether to draw six lines across the grid or to shade each box in a different colour. The former would be more in keeping with the "work of art" but the latter keeps the link with the letters in those six boxes.

So I did the latter. If they wanted lines they should have said. Maybe they'll accept both possibilities.

[Philoctetes]

When I googled the title, I was referred to sales of medication for arthritis, which most of us who were around at the time could probably use with benefit

[robinruth]

Archie 1962, I am sure what you did was the right thing, though the temptation was to draw six lines.
I thought the 'joint wisdom' had the druggie link as well as the fact that there were co-creators to join up - but could see nothing deeper than that.

[cluelessJoe]

Hmmm, THAT concert BC - four of us set off for it in the one car we possessed between us. We got as far as a place called Foston before the smoke started pouring out of the front. Ended up eating awful Melton Mowbray pork pies while we waited for it to cool down, then doing a quick tour of Grantham before heading home. Memorable gig so I gather! As for vinyl, can't get enough of the lovely scratchy stuff - don't have the Karajan but I do have Solti/CSO, Bohm/VPO and Schmidt-Isserstedt/VPO versions of #9 - and somehow four copies of this week's work of art!

[bobbycollins]

CJ - it's an illness I think. I've got more CDs and books that I can possibly hope to read & listen to.

As a complete aside, I won a Listener a year or so ago. It was a radial and the theme was Tallis' "Spem In Alium". I had never knowingly heard it and thought it only right and proper in the circumstances to buy a copy. Wow, what a stunning piece - now one of my most played whilst crosswording , along with Rachmaninov's and Mozart's vespers,

[Cruncher]

bobbycollins - spem in alium (known fondly amongst musos as 'Hope in Garlic') is indeed a stunning piece. As a music student I fell in love with it in my teens - the spatial architecture of it is just staggering. A few years ago I helped to coach a local group of singers and we did a performance of it, in the round, eight groups of five singers arranged around the perimeter of our local church. We were as nervous as hell, even with one or two redoubtable professionals amongst us. It was a summer evening and the church doors were open and a curious springer spaniel wandered in just as we started and a did a complete circumperambulation of the singers. Did wonders to quell the nerves. God and dog and all of that....

[uncletony]

Clamzy, in order to understand the title, you need to find out who is responsible for the artwork for this work of art.

[Clamzy]

Thanks uncletony - got it now.

[bobbycollins]

Sounds wonderful, cruncher - like something from the great PGW

[Clamzy]

turnerjmw. The first question in the name game in today's paper refers to Dizzee Rascal so there really is such a person and I can now "get" the humour in your earlier post.
Now if you had said Dylan Kwabena Mills..........:-)

[cluelessJoe]

..but where exactly does Dizzie Gillespie come into the equation? I'd have thought we'd recently have had more than enough of Australian cricketers to last a lifetime (or at least until the next Ashes series) :-)

[tenflags]

Gorecki's third symphony is right up there but this is my all time top desert island choice.
This is the first time I have tried the Listener so how spooky is that ?
Mind you I started it Tuesday and it has taken me all my spare time this week to finish it - So looking at the previous comments it all makes sense now and I can only admire how quick you eggheads crack this sort of stuff.

[Eril]

I see a couple of corrections have been published. I still think they missed a couple - "One travels..." should surely have been "I travel..."

[segue]

backtracking a moment....I believe it's Bruce's 60th on Wednesday. The least we can do is raise a glass to the old fella