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Scott

It feels funny this feeling inside!

About Me

I am a dedicated steam enthusiast and work on the East Lancashire Railway in my spare time. I am currently studying Music and Education at Liverpool Hope university and am hoping to do a MA in Music next year then eventually something to do with music as a career but that may change... again!!! Scott Cooper --
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A relative of Isambard Kingdom Brunel
'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.comLooking for people who are fun to have around.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Scott Cooper
Birthday: 25th February 1986
Birthplace: Oldham
Current Location: Royton
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5" 12'
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Steam steam steam!
The Shoes You Wore Today: Leather
Your Weakness: Self-Esteem
Your Fears: Irish Ladies
Your Perfect Pizza: Pepperoni
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Not fall out with anyone like last year!
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: It feels funny this feeling inside!
Thoughts First Waking Up: Life!
Your Best Physical Feature: Dunno!
Your Bedtime: Before dawn
Your Most Missed Memory: No regrets
Pepsi or Coke: Coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: McDonalds
Single or Group Dates: Single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Lipton Ice Tea
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: Cappuccino of course!
Do you Smoke: No
Do you Swear: Yes!
Do you Sing: Yes
Do you Shower Daily: Yes
Have you Been in Love: Yes
Do you want to go to College: I'm there unfortunately!
Do you want to get Married: Yes
Do you belive in yourself: Erm....!
Do you get Motion Sickness: Sometimes
Do you think you are Attractive: Ye, right!
Are you a Health Freak: Yes
Do you get along with your Parents: Yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: Yes love em!
Do you play an Instrument: Cornet
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yes
In the past month have you Smoked: No
In the past month have you been on Drugs: No
In the past month have you gone on a Date: No
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: No- no beautiful girl to take there
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: No
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: No
In the past month have you been on Stage: No
In the past month have you been Dumped: No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: No
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: No
Ever been Drunk: No
Ever been called a Tease: No
Ever been Beaten up: No
Ever Shoplifted: No
How do you want to Die: In bed
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Engine driver!
What country would you most like to Visit: Canada
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Brown
Favourite Hair Color: Brown
Short or Long Hair: Long
Height: Any
Weight: Not meithered but not too heavy
Best Clothing Style: Any
Number of Drugs I have taken: ?
Number of CDs I own: Alot
Number of Piercings: Non
Number of Tattoos: Non
Number of things in my Past I Regret: Non
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My Interests

Steam trains, railways, 1920s-1960s railways.Films, pubs.
Scott Cooper http://steamlocomotives.bebo.com/

Music:

Mainly classical music- My Favourite composer is Igor Stravinsky, I like evrything by him particular: Le rossignol (The Nightingale) (1914) Renard, a burlesque for 4 pantomimes and Chamber Orchestra (1916)(see also Ballets) Mavra (1922) Oedipus rex (1927) Perséphone, for speaker, soloists, chorus and orchestra (1933) The Rake's Progress (1951) The Flood (1962) L'Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird) (1910, rev. 1919) Petrushka (1911, rev. 1947) Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) (1913) L'Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale), for chamber ensemble and three speakers (1918) Pulcinella, for chamber orchestra and soloists (1920) Les Noces (The Wedding), for soloists, choir, four pianos and percussion (1923) Apollon Musagète, for string orchestra (1928) The Fairy's Kiss (Le Baiser de la Fée) (1928) Jeu de Cartes (Card Game) (1936) Scènes de Ballet (1944) Apollo, for string orchestra (revision of Apollon Musagète) (1947) Orpheus, for chamber orchestra (1947) Agon, for chamber orchestra (1957) Symphony in E-Flat Major (1907) Scherzo fantastique (1908) Feu d'artifice (Fireworks) (1908) Le chant du rossignol (Song of the Nightingale) (1917) Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920) Suite from Pulcinella (1920) Suite No. 2 for chamber orchestra (1921) Suite No. 1 for chamber orchestra (1925) Quatre études, for orchestra (1928) Divertimento (Suite from Le Baiser de la Fée, 1934) Concerto in E-flat Dumbarton Oaks, for chamber orchestra (1938) Symphony in C (1940) Circus Polka for orchestra (1942) Danses Concertantes for chamber orchestra (1942) Four Norwegian Moods for orchestra (1942) Ode for orchestra (1943) Scherzo à la Russe for orchestra (1944, also a version for Paul Whiteman's band) Symphony in Three Movements (1945) Concerto in D, for string orchestra (1946) Tango for chamber orchestra (1940/1953) Greeting Prelude for orchestra (1955) 8 Instrumental Miniatures for 15 Players (1963, orchestration of Les Cinq Doigts) Variations (Aldous Huxley in Memoriam) (1963/1964) Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (1923-24/1950) Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra (1929/1949) Violin Concerto in D (1931) Movements for Piano and Orchestra (1958/1959) Le roi des étoiles (The King of the Stars), for men's choir and orchestra (1912) Pater Noster (1926) Symphony of Psalms, for chorus and orchestra (1930, rev. 1948) Credo (1932) Ave Maria (1934) Babel (1944) Mass (1944-48) Cantata, for mezzo-soprano, tenor, female chorus, 2 flutes, oboe, English horn, and cello (1951-52) Canticum Sacrum (1955) Threni (1958) A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer (1961) Anthem (The dove descending breaks the air), for chorus a cappella (1962) Abraham and Isaac (1963) Introitus (1965) Requiem Canticles (1966) Romance for Voice and Piano (1902) Faun and Shepherdess, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, Op. 2 (1907) Pastorale, for wordless soprano and piano (1907) Two Melodies, for mezzo-soprano and piano, Op.6 (1908) Deux poèmes de Paul Verlaine, for baritone and piano or orchestra, Op.9 (1910/1951) Two Poems of K. Balmont, for voice and piano or small orchestra (1911/1954) Trois poésies de la lyrique japonaise, for voice and piano or chamber orchestra (1913) Trois petites chansons, for voice and piano (or small orchestra) (1913/1930) Pribaoutki, for voice, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola, cello, double bass (1914) Berceuses du Chat, for contralto and three clarinets (1916) Three Tales for Children, for voice and piano (1917) Four Russian Peasant Songs, for female voice unaccompanied (1917) Berceuse, for voice and piano (1918) Quatre chants russes, Quatre chants russes for voice and piano (1918/1919) Petit ramusianum harmonique, for single voice or voices (1938) Three Songs from William Shakespeare, for mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, and viola (1953) Four Russian Songs, for mezzo-soprano, flute, harp and guitar (1954, versions from Quatre chants russes and Three Tales for Children) In Memoriam Dylan Thomas (Dirge Canons and Song) (1954) Elegy for J.F.K., for baritone and three clarinets (1964) The Owl and the Pussy Cat, for soprano and piano (1966) Preludium for Jazz Band Ebony Concerto for clarinet and jazz band (1945) Three Pieces for String Quartet (1914) Pour Pablo Picasso, piece for clarinet (1917) Canon for Two Horns (1917) Duet for Two Bassoons (1918) Suite from Histoire du Soldat, for violin, clarinet, and piano (1919) Three Pieces for Clarinet (1919) Concertino for String Quartet (1920) Octet for Wind Instruments (1923) Suite Italienne (from Pulcinella), for violin and piano (1925) Duo Concertant for Violin and Piano (1932) Suite Italienne (from Pulcinella), for cello and piano (1932/33) (in collaboration with Gregor Piatigorsky) Pastorale, for violin and piano (1933) Suite Italienne (from Pulcinella), for violin and piano (1934) (in collaboration with Samuel Dushkin) Elegy, for solo viola (1944) Septet (1953) Epitaphium, for flute, clarinet and harp (1959) Double Canon, for string quartet 'Raoul Dufy in Memoriam' (1959) Monumentum Pro Gesualdo Di Venosa (arrangement), for chamber ensemble (1960) Fanfare for a New Theatre, for two trumpets (1964) Tarantella (1898) Scherzo (1902) Piano Sonata in F-Sharp Minor (1903-4) Quatre Etudes, Op. 7 (1908) L'Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird) (1910) Petrushka (1911) Le Sacre du Printemps, for one piano, four hands (1913) Valse des fleurs, for two pianos (1914) Trois pièces faciles, for two pianos (1915) Souvenir d'une Marche Boche (1915) Cinq pièces faciles, for two pianos (1917) Valse pour les Enfants (1917) Piano-Rag-Music (1919) Chorale (1920) Les Cinq Doigts (1921) Trois mouvements de Petrouchka (1921) Piano Sonata (1924) Serenade (1925) Concerto for Two Pianos (1935) Tango (1940) Sonata for Two Pianos (1943) Two Sketches for a Sonata (1967)Shostakovich & Kabalevsky: Like their Symphonies, Concertos and Sonatas, Rimsky-Korsokov: Opera suites Bruckner: Symphonies Suppe: Suitesand many more... Walton, John Williams, Beethoven, Haydn, Gregson, Bernstein, etc. Also love 1960s music.Like composing my own music as part of my uni course as well. Some types of pop music- listen to Smash Hits Radio.

Movies:

The Day After Tomorrow, King Kong, Jurassic Park

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Television:

Not much mainly Heartbeat and Coronation Street.

Books:

Don't really read much.

Heroes:

A girl who would allow me to take care of, look after and treat perfectly. Someone who I can love and call hunny bunny!

My Blog

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Posted by Scott on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:31:00 PST

Concerts

Concerts that I am going to& ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />  10th February 2007 at the Bridgewater Hall in ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-m...
Posted by Scott on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 02:49:00 PST

Radio 3 Tckaikovsky and Stravinsky Season!

09:00..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> The Tchaikovsky Experience Saturday 10 Feb 07 Tom Service BBC Radio 3 devotes the next week to broadcasting the complete ...
Posted by Scott on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:39:00 PST

Tricky subject... awh!

Honestly1. Do you like anyone?: i do :)2. Do they know it?: yes she does.3. Simple or complicated?: complicated! In The Last Month Have You4. Had sex: not til' my wedding night.5. Bought something: no...
Posted by Scott on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:00:00 PST

Composing

Just to say I'm loving uni this year after quite a bad year last year. It's going great. Doing Revolutionary of Children's Learning and Servcies, Leadership in Management and Education, Music Since 19...
Posted by Scott on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:57:00 PST

My steam enthusiasm!

Steam is the Theme! IT seems I am back on track with my steam enthusiasm after a year of uncertainty after the big mess&   Here's what I have been upto in the last few weeks!     East L...
Posted by Scott on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:32:00 PST

My first blog posting, feeling more cheerful

Hello ppl! Welcome to my first blog!   Well most of you know uni wasn't very good last year. I was very deressed and failed the teaching part of my course. I have now decided to swap from BA QTS ...
Posted by Scott on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:01:00 PST