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« Reply #4785 on: 21:38:46, 03-08-2008 » |
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OK
Janacek Intimate Letters
Puccini La Rondine
Verdi Oberto
Warlock Bethlehem Down
Puccini IL TABARRO?
 Yes, indeed, hh, and you even went for Oberto, which was on my list, whereas I just realised most would have picked Otello, the more obvious answer! Champers to George too who had also spotted the mystery work (and to Anty, of course, for kicking us off with Aleko!  ) Intimate Letters – Janacek Lark Ascending - VW Tintagel - Bax Alpine Symphony – R Strauss Bethlehem Down - Warlock Aleko - Rachmaninov Rondine - Puccini Rite of Spring - Stravinsky Oberto - Verdi Il Tabarro, of course, is being performed at the Proms on Monday 11th August - I'll be there!  |
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« Reply #4786 on: 21:41:23, 03-08-2008 » |
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Sorry, excuse moi, being as I am the only one to have gained an alphabetical point (A), so to say (dead clever those Welsh), but is the answer in the same order as the clues?
No, Anty, the composers are in alphabetical order, so you'll need to juggle! Last time I looked at the alphabet it was in alphabetical order  Has this changed? Am I confused? The clue is in the word Anna-gram, Antheil. |
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« Reply #4787 on: 09:59:06, 04-08-2008 » |
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I may well devise another anagram-related one for later in the week, but in the meantime one of the more traditional connection puzzles. Link these four:
Mozart
Handel
Offenbach
Richard Strauss
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« Reply #4788 on: 10:51:48, 04-08-2008 » |
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Making my first foray into IGI's fiendish quizzes, is there a Don Juan link?
Mozart: Don Giovanni
R. Strauss: Don Juan
Offenbach: Doesn't Tales of Hoffmann take place after a performance of Don Giovanni?
Handel: err, umm, so perhaps there isn't a Don Juan link after all
Exit stage right, pursued by a statue on horseback.
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« Reply #4789 on: 11:00:44, 04-08-2008 » |
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Egypt?
Handel Israel in Egypt
R. Strauss Die ägyptische Helena
Mozart Thamos, König in Ägypten
Haven't found anything for Offenbach yet...
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« Reply #4790 on: 11:04:39, 04-08-2008 » |
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Offenbach: Doesn't Tales of Hoffmann take place after a performance of Don Giovanni? During, actually! |
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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« Reply #4791 on: 11:05:21, 04-08-2008 » |
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Offenbach Les 132 couplaies de celles d’Egypte for chorus apparently.
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« Reply #4792 on: 11:06:50, 04-08-2008 » |
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Making my first foray into IGI's fiendish quizzes, is there a Don Juan link?
Mozart: Don Giovanni
R. Strauss: Don Juan
Offenbach: Doesn't Tales of Hoffmann take place after a performance of Don Giovanni?
Handel: err, umm, so perhaps there isn't a Don Juan link after all
Exit stage right, pursued by a statue on horseback.
A very good first attempt, Your Ladyship, especially the cunning Hoffmann link, but it's not a Don Juan connection... Egypt?
Handel Israel in Egypt
R. Strauss Die ägyptische Helena
Mozart Thamos, König in Ägypten
Haven't found anything for Offenbach yet...
...neither is it an Egyptian link, although I'm sure that among his many, many operettas, Jacques could well have set something in the land of the pharaohs! |
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« Reply #4793 on: 04:41:12, 05-08-2008 » |
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Franz Xaver Mozart: "Klage an den Mond" Richard Strauss: Notturno "Hoch hing der Mond" op. 44 Offenbach: Le voyage dans la luneGeorge Frideric Handel: Fara mondo, HWV 39 feeling sheepish: .jpg) |
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« Reply #4794 on: 07:47:57, 05-08-2008 » |
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Far more ingenious than the actual connection, I fear, turfers, so don't feel too sheepish! Although it's a common word link, it only appears in one actual title (so far)...  |
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« Reply #4795 on: 09:13:55, 05-08-2008 » |
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IGI, are we on our travels?
Mozart: L'oca del Cairo
Handel: Israel in Egypt
Offenbach: La Marocaine
Strass: Die Egyptische Helena
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #4796 on: 09:42:22, 05-08-2008 » |
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Is there an arboreal theme, viz
Handel: Ombra ma fui (sung to a tree)
Mozart: Che soave zefiretti (anticipating an encounter under a tree)
R. Strauss: Daphne (sung by a tree at the end)
Offenbach: Tales from the Vienna Woods (no idea about this, but apparently there is such an SATB work. Thank you, Friend Google).
If so, please may I have a bonus point for mentioning Butterworth's Loveliest of Trees?
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« Reply #4797 on: 12:44:18, 05-08-2008 » |
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No travels or trees, I'm afraid... If so, please may I have a bonus point for mentioning Butterworth's Loveliest of Trees?
One of my favourite poems, although I wasn't overly impressed with its rendition before A Shropshire Lad at the Proms last week - good idea, but not well carried out, I felt. I watched a DVD of Daphne from La Fenice at the weekend - I think it's a beautiful opera. Difficult last scene to stage, of course! I'm in benevolent mood, so here's a fifth composer: Mozart Handel Offenbach Richard Strauss Leroy Anderson |
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« Reply #4798 on: 13:43:41, 05-08-2008 » |
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Jupiter?
Mozart - Symphony No 41
Handel - Semele (which is in part a tale of Jupiter's misdoings)
Strauss - Die Liebe der Danae (in which Jupiter features)
Offenbach - Orpheus in the Underworld (ditto)
Leroy Anderson - Song of Jupiter
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #4799 on: 14:10:19, 05-08-2008 » |
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'Spot' on, pw!  The Strauss Liebe der Danae is another favourite - I much prefer this and Daphne to Arabella, Capriccio et al. Perhaps it's the mythological setting? Obviously, Holst was on the subs' bench... |
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