1969: Is ROSEMARY BROWN Channelling the GREAT COMPOSERS? | Classic BBC Music | BBC Archive

[@hilaryepstein6013]

An extraordinary story. I agree with Richard Rodney Bennett and keeping an open mind. Whatever the reality I thought the "Schubert" piece was lovely and even if she wrote it herself and all the others she deserves recognition.

[@bradpaul8576]

What a peculiar story. I had heard of this years ago, and recently I heard her voice sampled on a song by Australian group, Avalanches. Very well spoken.

[@cm-rl4he]

It’s possible to do the same thing if you have 1. a friend which is a well trained musician or a composer who can create music in a historical manner (it’s often called Period composition) 2. ability to memorize a great amount of stuff (like Hyperthymesia) 3. basic music skills to write down what you’ve remembered. I personally find this story very interesting (I read her book “Musik aus dem Jenseits” and listened to her recordings) but for me honestly, it’s really hard to believe.

[@1951oceano]

Não é esse o caso. Ms. Brown é autêntica

[@MbartM96]

Whatever people may say this woman was observed by professionals and they found her compositions demonstrated a knowledge which it is unlikely she would've had without rigorous training, while this lady worked full time. Whether she was imagining it or not, you can't call her a sensationalist.

[@gwheregwhizz]

I believe it, but then again, I'm Brahms and Liszt.

[@1951oceano]

Sua opinião está fora do fato

[@StephenMerchant-up8sg]

Pity Monty Python didn't get hold of this. The sketch that wrote itself!

[@PhilUKNet]

At first, I was sure it was Eric Idle or Michael Palin.

[@RolandoRatas]

@@PhilUKNet LOL

[@grahamc8840]

Eric Idle did indeed write a whole sketch on this for his radio show ‘Radio Five’ in the 1970s - available online if you search for it.

[@therealyogibear2k225]

I am glad she's different to that bloody awful other Mrs Brown (played by Brendan O'Carroll,) and her boys. This 1969 one sounds really sweet.

[@davehendry8056]

I can't stand him

[@user-ve3gh5xg9q]

Old 🇬🇧♥️

[@shingitai5882]

Balham gateway to the south (Peter Sellers) 😂🤣

[@thetiredtomcat]

Bal-HAM. Absolute genius that man. And is there honey still for tea?

[@JJONNYREPP]

1969: Is ROSEMARY BROWN Channelling the GREAT COMPOSERS? | Classic BBC Music | BBC Archive 0804AM 18.12.24 old rosey was a genius in her own right. as for channeling - a load of old pony... look at that damp!!! and they whinge about a bit of mold in the modern era of cleanliness and easy living.... i think Dudley Moore referenced her in one of his and cook's comedic discussions... after such guff of prodigious proportions i imagine old Beethoven and Schubert flushing the lav: flush it once... wait a bit... flush again and then catch it unawares - and the lav should work. after her and her husband got completely rat arsed at the lamb and flag she, nay they both, decided it would be best placed to suggest to the irate and easily disturbed that her innate genius was of some other source a la Blake. and i challenge the less than erudite chap who inferred such a stance served two purposes - to ward off the jealous & furious and to sate any laughter should the scores fail to please... there's nothing dubious about any of this other than your desire to denigrate something she needed to do ie: play the damn piano....

[@SkyWidows]

....what a read!!

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@SkyWidows Comments on ‘1969: Is ROSEMARY BROWN Channelling the GREAT COMPOSERS? | Classic BBC Music | BBC Archive’ 0827am 18.12.24 old beethoven in the bedroom shouting out dictation would be a tad disconcerting...

[@oscarwilde5473]

JJONNYREPP When grooving that bag, and building an extension - um um chikidi aah - diminutive Dud, when asked if he had any difficulty with tall women, said, "Women's height is all in the legs. When you get them horizontal, they're all the same height".

[@whiteonggoy7009]

Love old songs "Mrs brown you got a lively daughter"

[@craggyisland8770]

“Schubert” piece is more Chopin-ian if anything

[@myshco-m6g]

I'll be Bach

[@1951oceano]

Isto é mediunidade. Autentica.

[@sleepyheadsleeps]

😮

[@LookToWindward]

She was a music-generation AI decades before the fact! 😁

[@andydixon2980]

Maybe there is something in this, no matter how absurd it may seem. Paul McCartney has said on a few occasions that he feels almost like he is 'receiving' his music/songs on occasion. His most famous and successful song 'Yesterday', was written while he was sleeping. He wasn't even in a waking state to create that masterpiece.

[@PaulMann-u1d]

Difference is, he’s a genius. She was a total nutcase.

[@tancreddehauteville764]

She was obviously a fraud, but a clever one for sure.

[@JJONNYREPP]

1969: Is ROSEMARY BROWN Channelling the GREAT COMPOSERS? | Classic BBC Music | BBC Archive 0814am 18.12.24 old Nietzschean scores found in packet of swan vestas, no doubt?

[@craggyisland8770]

“Schubert” piece is more Chopin-ian if anything