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Ollie, you're still up. Bed. This minute.
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« Reply #4951 on: 12:47:03, 13-08-2008 » |
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Grainger: Handel in the Strand (Has anyone ever heard or played that piece, which seems to crop up in R30k games endlessly?)
I certainly haven't and hope I can look forward to many more happy years of not hearing it. I certainly have and hope I can look forward to many more happy years of not hearing it. Tommo Well, it's not my favourite Grainger work by some distance either (being in the group of pot-boilers created primarily for a quick buck), but it never offends me when I hear it: few other composers achieve his unbuttoned sense of pure joy. As I've mentioned before, there's very much more to him than the handful of works that most people know reveal, and were I ever to need to have a major clear-out of CDs, the thirty-plus I have dedicated to his music (as well as many more where he shares space with others) would still be on my shelves long after several better-known composers had been given the old heave-ho. A real original, and a total tonic. |
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« Reply #4952 on: 14:28:26, 13-08-2008 » |
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This is a tough one all right. I should print out the plan of the Monopoly board because every time I think of something - usually a pop song - that's a likely match it turns out it's not on the board. How dare Waddingtons miss out Waterloo, Victoria, Baker Street etc! Even Ray Davies, who seems to have namechecked half the locations from Berkeley Mews to Willesden Green has, afaik, steered clear of the Monopoly locations. I'm resisting the temptation to google, except for verification; and I have used it to confirm my hazy memory of an early David Bowie song called 'Maid of Bond Street'
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« Reply #4953 on: 00:50:25, 14-08-2008 » |
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Could it be Cluedo? Tchaikovsky: Professor Plum (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy) Howells/RVW: Reverend Green (Forest Green (RVW)) Scriabin/Bernstein: Mrs White (A White House Cantata (Bernstein)) Hillborg: Mrs Peacock (Peacock Tales - Clarinet Concerto) Liza Lehmann: Colonel Mustard (Mustard and Gress) Frank Wildhorn: Miss Scarlet (Scarlet Pimpernel) L_DHS, in the music room, with the piano  IGI reporting here, back from the bright lights of London. Lovely to meet Lady_DHS in person to congratulate her on the Cluedo connection, but it would be remiss of me not to post a glass of  here! Monopoly...always ended in an argument in our house, so let's roll those dice and get the old boot moving! How about the following? Grainger - The Duke of Marlborough Fanfare, for brass band Pärt – I am the true vineHaydn Wood - London Landmarks Suite March: the Horseguards, WhitehallReich – Electric Counterpoint Leighton - Coventry Carol Gurney - The Night of Trafalgar |
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« Reply #4954 on: 01:52:40, 14-08-2008 » |
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Debussy's La Strada del Vino surely deserves a mention. Or Ennio Morricone's theme from The Magnificent Seven, now indelibly associated with Marlborough Street cigarettes. (In this neck of the woods also with Victoria Bitter but alas you don't have that station on the board...  ) And the various settings of Goethe's Nur wer die Sehnsucht Kent. |
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« Reply #4955 on: 02:43:01, 14-08-2008 » |
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Debussy's La Strada del Vino surely deserves a mention.
I'm too dense to get this joke, unless you meant to write La Puerta del Vino. Not an error I would expect from vous. In my defence I'll say: I don't have a Monopoly board at home. |
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« Reply #4957 on: 02:53:50, 14-08-2008 » |
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The version in my parental home bore the names listed in the middle column here. |
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« Reply #4958 on: 02:57:11, 14-08-2008 » |
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Hm. Somewhat lacking in poetry if I may be so bold...
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« Reply #4959 on: 03:28:48, 14-08-2008 » |
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How is 'Goethestrasse', 'Schillerstrasse', and 'Lessingstrasse' lacking poetry?!
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« Reply #4960 on: 04:08:06, 14-08-2008 » |
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Lacking in poets, I did not say...  |
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« Reply #4961 on: 06:39:59, 14-08-2008 » |
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This is a different sort of puzzle. Here is a list of composers:
1. Frederic Chopin, for example
2. Ludwig van Beethoven
3. Felix Mendelssohn
4. Aleksandr Scriabin or Gabriel Faure
5. Edward Elgar or Nikolai Medtner
6. Fernando Sor
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8. Reinhold Glière
9. Sergei Rachmaninov
10. _______
11. David Popper
12. Charles Alkan or Robert Schumann
Can anyone find a composer to fill in either of the blanks? I cannot, to be honest. Plus the presence of Popper relies on a pun.
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« Reply #4962 on: 16:52:22, 14-08-2008 » |
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Is the David Popper his Dance of the Elves?
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« Reply #4963 on: 17:12:23, 14-08-2008 » |
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Turfers, if I read you aright, we're not looking for works, are we. There's some sort of pattern in that list of composers, and the blanks fit it. Right? (Although, I can't see how the Popper 'pun' fits in...  ) |
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« Reply #4964 on: 17:14:48, 14-08-2008 » |
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(Although, I can't see how the Popper 'pun' fits in... ) I wondered if it was something numerical, and isn't 'eleven' in German 'elf'? |
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