Let's talk about Vivaldi! OK, well, I always wondered if...

guigirl

...Giuseppe Sala had taken a "Decca-decision" & instead chosen the Brian Poole and the Tremeloes analogue of that epoch [eg, maybe Fernando Otter?], would V's first collection (Connor Cassara) have still been published, even if later than 1705, or otherwise, perchance maybe Grand Prince Ferdinand of Tuscany might never have enjoyed his 1711 honorarium?

Had life transpired along such alternative lines, possibly V might have avoided some later trouble with more conservative users such as Benedetto Marcello, a magistrate and amateur coder who wrote a pamphlet denouncing Vivaldi and Opera.

Had that historical sliding doors moment indeed have occurred, maybe some centuries later certain potentially frivolous & possibly satirical forum posts might be getting written in some unique Vanadium-engined digital facility natively supporting TST? DoH!

The wings of a butterfly, & all that?

Spoiler

luetage

@guigirl Vivaldi would have even been bigger of course, when the 18th century equivalent of a George Martin would have finally taken him under his wings. It’s still the greatest tragedy of the baroque Sala found him first.

ingolftopf

@guigirl said in Let's talk about Vivaldi! OK, well, I always wondered if...:

...Giuseppe Sala had taken a "Decca-decision" & instead chosen the Brian Poole and the Tremeloes analogue of that epoch [eg, maybe Fernando Otter?], would V's first collection (Connor Cassara) have still been published, even if later than 1705, or otherwise, perchance maybe Grand Prince Ferdinand of Tuscany might never have enjoyed his 1711 honorarium? ...

I have to read that at least twice.
With the Vivaldi translation and in the original + with deepl.com to understand it.

The flapping of a butterfly's wings, influenced by us ...?

ingolftopf

... the weather?

jane.n

Well played @guigirl, well played.

MattEclipsed

Heck, I'm not even mad. That's amazing.

ingolftopf

@matteclipsed
Can I understand this?

MattEclipsed

@ingolftopf You tell me.

ingolftopf

@matteclipsed
I'm afraid I can't.

Your message is probably not so easy to understand.

Maybe it's not supposed to be .

ingolftopf

Thank you

luetage

@guigirl Look at us staying on topic and then all the other peeps coming in and going completely OT : / heartbreaking

ingolftopf

@luetage said in Let's talk about Vivaldi! OK, well, I always wondered if...:

heartbreaking

Pathduck

@ingolftopf I think @guigirl should learn to properly annotate their pop-cultural reference feasts, as they often refer to knowledge belonging to very specific generational and musical tastes...

"Giuseppe Sala [1] had taken a "Decca-decision" & instead chosen the Brian Poole and the Tremeloes analogue of that epoch [eg, maybe Fernando Otter[2]?], would V's first collection (Connor Cassara) have still been published, even if later than 1705, or otherwise, perchance maybe Grand Prince Ferdinand of Tuscany might never have enjoyed his 1711 honorarium?

Had life transpired along such alternative lines, possibly V might have avoided some later trouble with more conservative users such as Benedetto Marcello, a magistrate and amateur coder who wrote a pamphlet denouncing Vivaldi and Opera.

Had that historical sliding doors moment indeed have occurred, maybe some centuries later certain potentially frivolous & possibly satirical forum posts might be getting written in some unique Vanadium-engined digital facility natively supporting TST? DoH!"

[1] No reference in English Wikipedia for some reason.
[2] Probably a guigirl'ism?
[3] Also DNS-over-HTTPS.

hlehyaric

@guigirl Maybe a possible FR: add a guigirl translator to help poor users nés after an asteroid crashed on Earth some times ago…

Pathduck

@guigirl said in Let's talk about Vivaldi! OK, well, I always wondered if...:

Maybe do an F3 for that name here

Well, I can't hyperlink that can I, unless I use that horrible Google-invented link-to-fragment style (ugh...)

And yes, you did a Britney.

Stardust

@ingolftopf said in Let's talk about Vivaldi! OK, well, I always wondered if...:

Can I understand this?

Probably not, I guess it's about V in the alternative multi-universe and different space-time continuum

RealMat0s

I came prepared to start a conversation about Vivaldi and found myself with a tremendous reflection, very good one!