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Il Grande Inquisitor
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« Reply #4125 on: 12:43:52, 18-03-2008 »
Aha, you've been busy this morning, I see, with some success!

Chopin
Johann Strauss II - Roses from the South
Torke – Bright Blue Music
Sousa
Tchaikovsky – Serenade for Strings
Donizetti
Copland – The Red Pony
Poston – Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
Rachmaninov
Harty - With the Wild Geese
Dvorak

If you get the Chopin, I've a feeling it will all fall into place (and you will groan heartily!) The Dvorak is a particular piece within a larger composition, as is the Rachmaninov.

Right, back to work in the real world...RE this afternoon following our efforts at algebra this morning!  Cheesy
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« Reply #4126 on: 12:49:08, 18-03-2008 »
Is the Chopin the Raindrop prelude? I wondered whether the connection is the words of a song. For a minute I thought it was something from the Sound of Music.
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« Reply #4127 on: 12:53:35, 18-03-2008 »
You may be onto something there, Tony!

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,
bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens,
brown paper packages tied up with strings,
these are a few of my favorite things.

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels,
door bells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles.
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings.
these are a few of my favorite things.

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« Reply #4128 on: 13:01:49, 18-03-2008 »
Gosh, martle, sounds as though you have hit it on the head.

Sousa - copper kettles, warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages?
Donizetti - cream coloured?

Rachmaninov is Sleigh Bells, but I don't know which piece and Dvorak must be Rusalka's Song to the Moon.
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« Reply #4129 on: 13:08:13, 18-03-2008 »
The Sousa could be 'There's a merry brown thrush'...
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« Reply #4130 on: 13:13:14, 18-03-2008 »
The hills are alive...

(I have a terrible confession that when I saw the movie of The S of M, I wept during Climb Ev'ry Mountain.  But I have always had a thing about nuns.)
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« Reply #4131 on: 13:19:47, 18-03-2008 »
The Donizetti wouldn't be Favorita, by any chance?
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« Reply #4132 on: 13:23:26, 18-03-2008 »
Quote from: perfect wagnerite on 13:19:47, 18-03-2008
The Donizetti wouldn't be Favorita, by any chance?

In Italian translation, but in the original French La Favorite.  Sounds good to me.  (Anyone know the work in question?  I feel a Donizetti phase coming on.)
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« Reply #4133 on: 14:25:17, 18-03-2008 »
I played the clarinet in a school production of the Sound of Music once. It was the original stage version and in that Maria sings "My Favourite Things" to the Mother Superior before she leaves to become a governess. When it's the thunderstorm at night and the children come to her room for comfort, she sings "The Lonely Goatherd".

But at least I can say with some pride that I didn't know the words of the second verse, which is why I was a little hesitant earlier.
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« Reply #4134 on: 14:50:45, 18-03-2008 »
Tony, Mart - you are geniuses (genii?)

Quote from: martle on 12:53:35, 18-03-2008
You may be onto something there, Tony!

Raindrops (Chopin) on roses (Straus II) and whiskers on kittens,
bright (Torke) copper kettles and warm woolen mittens,
brown (Sousa) paper packages tied up with strings (Tchaikovsky),
these are a few of my favorite (Donizetti) things.

Cream colored ponies (Copland) and crisp apple (Poston) strudels,
door bells and sleigh bells (Rachmaninov) and schnitzel with noodles.
Wild geese (Harty) that fly with the moon (Dvorak) on their wings.
these are a few of my favorite things.


I'm just disappointed that IGI din't slip in something for whistkers, mittens, kittens....  Smiley

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« Reply #4135 on: 15:44:27, 18-03-2008 »
Quote from: Don Basilio on 13:13:14, 18-03-2008
But I have always had a thing about nuns.)
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« Reply #4136 on: 15:51:58, 18-03-2008 »
This one looks a bit safer.
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« Reply #4137 on: 16:16:52, 18-03-2008 »
Wot, no Coltrane ?
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« Reply #4138 on: 17:24:31, 18-03-2008 »
 

Wow, I'm seriously impressed, guys!!  Cheesy  I thought I'd have to highlight all the key words in big, bold font before you necessarily spotted the lyrical link...

Quote from: thompson1780 on 14:50:45, 18-03-2008

I'm just disappointed that IGI din't slip in something for whistkers, mittens, kittens....  Smiley

Tommo

Ah, but he did! The Sousa was his March of the Mitten Men. I was going to offer Zez Confrey's Kitten on the Keys and Playford's Kettle Drum as final clues.

The full line-up:

Chopin - Raindrop Prelude
Johann Strauss II - Roses from the South
Zez Confrey - Kitten on the Keys
Torke – Bright Blue Music
Playford - Kettle Drum (from the Playford Compleat Dancing Master)
Sousa - March of the Mitten Men
Tchaikovsky – Serenade for Strings
Donizetti – La Favorita
Copland – The Red Pony
Elizabeth Poston – Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
Rachmaninov – The Bells – Sleigh Bells
Harty – With the Wild Geese
Dvorak – Rusalka – Song to the Moon


Well done, Tony, martle, Don B and pw!!



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« Reply #4139 on: 17:28:18, 18-03-2008 »
Quote from: richard barrett on 15:51:58, 18-03-2008
This one looks a bit safer.

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