[craigmc]

Hi, i was wondering if anyone could give me a hand finding out the name of a track please?

It's the classical song that Chris & most Radio 1 DJs play underneath as a bed when they start talking about love, I can remember Chris playing it to Carrie while talking to her about her affection for Frank Lampard for example?

If anyone out there could tell me what this song is called, it would be much appreciated

Ta very much

Craig

[Andy B]

Do you mean the theme from Romeo and Juliet more commonly known as "Our Tune" which was Simon Bates' forerunner to Whiley's Changing Tracks?

[Yudster]

Yes, he does. Not however one of the real Romeo and Juliet themes, by Tchaikovsky or Prokofiev, but the theme to the 1968 Franco Zeffirelli movie, composed by Nino Rota.

[Andy B]

Oooh get you and your classical music knowledge.......Isn't one of the Romeo and Juliet themes used in weddings these days or something?

[Yudster]

You can use any music you like for your wedding, but only if you are getting married in church. In civil ceremonies you aren't allowed to use music which carries any religious connotation or significance, even if its an instrumental version of something which normally has words mentioning anything remotely religious. So I can't see why Romeo and Juliet pieces wouldn't be popular, they are very beautiful - I think they'd be ideal.

Why Andy? Thinking of popping the question to Ms B? Don't do it, you know she'll say no..............

[Andy B]

I meant the bit of music the play at the end of the church service. Not the Wedding march, the other one.....

The only question I'm thinking of popping is to do with the location of my socks.

[Yudster]

But there are loads of "exit pieces" that get used, literally dozens of popular ones.

[Andy B]

Ah my bad, the one I'm thinking of is from Midsummer Night's dream rather than Romeo and Juliet. And every bloody church wedding I've ever been to has used it to end. I was a choirboy in my youth so I spent a lot of time in churches....not all of it singing either.

[foot-loose]

I quite like The Killers cover of it.

[ladbroke]

But there are loads of "exit pieces" that get used, literally dozens of popular ones.

Toccata from Widor's 5th Symphony is my favourite, and probably the most used. You need someone who is used to getting to grips with a big organ though! Oo er! Looks technically very difficult.

[Chris]

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[Yudster]

But there are loads of "exit pieces" that get used, literally dozens of popular ones.

Toccata from Widor's 5th Symphony is my favourite, and probably the most used. You need someone who is used to getting to grips with a big organ though! Oo er! Looks technically very difficult.

We had that as our exit, played by the only organ finalist ever from the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition (he's a friend of ours). He was robbed too, he really should have won - he came second in the final. He's the organist at Westminster now.

[ladbroke]

Had it as our exit music too, but I'm now divorced. Don't think the two are conected............

[Boboff]

You can use any music you like for your wedding, but only if you are getting married in church. In civil ceremonies you aren't allowed to use music which carries any religious connotation or significance, even if its an instrumental version of something which normally has words mentioning anything remotely religious. So I can't see why Romeo and Juliet pieces wouldn't be popular, they are very beautiful - I think they'd be ideal.

Why Andy? Thinking of popping the question to Ms B? Don't do it, you know she'll say no..............

We got married in a Pub ! we had "going to the chapel" as the entrance piece, and on the Wings of love by Westlife as our exit. It made people happy. Probably different in a registry office, but the registrar who came to the Pub did add a little bit of "god" by way of a prayer, and a little sermon. She was very Cornish and it was very nice indeed.

I could not get married in the church my Grand parents were married in as I had previously been married in another Church, to a different lady. I think after the big wedding and 12 months of arguing she deiced to join Rusty in Brighton.

[MK Chris]

I turned someone lesbian once too.

It's possibly not something to be particularly proud of, but I found it very funny.

[foot-loose]

I'm pretty sure you can't 'turn' someone lesbian.

[MK Chris]

Well, after she went on one or two dates with me, she worked out she preferred women.

Draw your own conclusions.

[Boboff]

Yes, it's the second time it happened to me, I think once could have been an accident, but twice it's starting some sort of pattern. Although I think the first one just liked sex, and as the first serious girlfriend I had brought home, when my Mum asked what "his" name was I was very embarrassed indeed.

[foot-loose]

Well, after she went on one or two dates with me, she worked out she preferred women.

Draw your own conclusions.

I conclude that she worked out she prefers woman. How does that mean you turned her?

[Yudster]

Certain experiences can confirm or deny feelings or preferences. If you're the one who provided those experiences, I think its fair to take some of the credit. Or blame. Or both.

[Boboff]

Well, after she went on one or two dates with me, she worked out she preferred women.

Draw your own conclusions.

I conclude that she worked out she prefers woman. How does that mean you turned her?

Oh come on we all know you were abused by a bloke when you were a kid and that is why you turned out gay.*



*As a joke that could cause offense, if so, * off queer boy!**


** again that could be considered offensive, if so sorry, it's a joke, based on some very shallow peoples opinions.

[foot-loose]

Certain experiences can confirm or deny feelings or preferences. If you're the one who provided those experiences, I think its fair to take some of the credit. Or blame. Or both.

That's bollocks, but I can't be arsed arguing.

[Yudster]

Yes, you're right - that is utter bollocks. But its not what I meant. Its what i said, but not what i meant.

What I was trying to get at was the kind of scenario where someone is trying (consciously or subconsciously) to suppress what they really are by behaving in an accepted "normal" way. Surely many gay people have had their true sexuality, which they may have been denying, confirmed at least in part by failed attempts at relationships with the opposite sex? A friend of Mr Yudster's really only finally came to terms with his homosexuality when he was almost married. He literally jilted the poor girl two days before the wedding - which was awful (especially as I'd bought a new dress!), but she's forgiven him because she knows it was awful for him too, he was in pieces - and she is sensible enough to know he did the right thing, if a little late. I don't suppose many people let it get quite as bad as that, but I imagine it happens on some level or another to a few people at least.

Foots, why hasn't your fence got a black line?

[MK Chris]

In fairness, our mutual friend said 'after you, she knew she was gay.'

She was very nice too.

[foot-loose]

What I was trying to get at was the kind of scenario where someone is trying (consciously or subconsciously) to suppress what they really are by behaving in an accepted "normal" way. Surely many gay people have had their true sexuality, which they may have been denying, confirmed at least in part by failed attempts at relationships with the opposite sex? A friend of Mr Yudster's really only finally came to terms with his homosexuality when he was almost married. He literally jilted the poor girl two days before the wedding - which was awful (especially as I'd bought a new dress!), but she's forgiven him because she knows it was awful for him too, he was in pieces - and she is sensible enough to know he did the right thing, if a little late. I don't suppose many people let it get quite as bad as that, but I imagine it happens on some level or another to a few people at least.

But that isn't what Topher said.

Foots, why hasn't your fence got a black line?

The black line was for bebo, not the sig.