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Seconded. And congratulations to Member Inquisitor for the excellence of his snatch-spotting. He must now surely be a hot favourite for the four-star prize! Can we seriously imagine another Member reaching the giddy heights of 33750 points? Let us charge our glasses.  |
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« Reply #1217 on: 10:14:32, 13-03-2008 » |
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Puzzles 335 336 and 337 have something in common. . . .
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« Reply #1218 on: 10:22:07, 13-03-2008 » |
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Puzzles 335 336 and 337 have something in common. . . .
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« Reply #1219 on: 11:02:01, 13-03-2008 » |
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337 is a German Dance by Schubert, as orchestrated by that nice Nazi, Anton Webern. Correct! (Do you mean some Nazi composers were not nice? ) We are not sure that he intended it to be played so slowly though. D820 to be precise. Well at least one of them was not Weill! |
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« Reply #1220 on: 11:42:30, 13-03-2008 » |
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Could it in that case be Colin Matthews' superfluous composition Pluto?
Indeed it is - and (at least to me) it doesn't sound that much like Holst (even if it's not supposed to). Well done Richard. The problem is it doesn't really sound much like anything, plus the very idea of it is pretty ill-conceived if you ask me. Could anyone here put their hand on their heart and say what Holst's piece really needs is another movement? Where would it all end? Hmmm... the problem with Wozzeck is it just doesn't have that "feelgood factor" - I know, let's get Sir Paul McCartney to write a happy ending for it where it was all a nasty dream Colonel Wozzeck (retd.) had on falling asleep next to his swimming pool. |
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« Reply #1221 on: 11:44:07, 13-03-2008 » |
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Maybe what it needs now is a movement called Earth. Birtwistle? Finnissy? Ferneyhough?  |
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« Reply #1222 on: 13:43:35, 13-03-2008 » |
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So - is not Mr. Thompson's 287 from Elgar's Violin Concerto?
Absolutely spot on, Member Grew. Yehudi (age 14) and the LSO under the composer. Many thanks for furnishing me with multitudes of bonus points. Mr 1780 Well we are truly sorry to have to disappoint the Member's expectations, but we have been looking at the list of unsolved puzzles and realized that 293 296 and 297 have all expired, and that being the case the earlier 287 must have expired too! It is during the last half day of a puzzle's life that lashings of simple clues are called for if the setter wishes to gain a time bonus are they not? Even Mr. Inquisitor's puzzle 306 will expire at 6 p.m. to-day.[ Sorry - most of the above message was wrong - we were labouring under a misapprehension as to what day it was.] |
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« Reply #1223 on: 14:55:26, 13-03-2008 » |
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11.19:13 on 8 March. 5 days later is 11.19:13 on 13 March (Today). And Member Grew "got it" on.. Thankfully now that the scoring can be done at the touch of a button we have the opportunity to download some of the items.
So - is not Mr. Thompson's 287 from Elgar's Violin Concerto?
Today, at 11.34! Only a quarter of an hour out! Big Piles of Ordure! I am most distressed. Tommo |
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #1224 on: 15:17:31, 13-03-2008 » |
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Well we are truly sorry to have to disappoint the Member's expectations, but we have been looking at the list of unsolved puzzles and realized that 293 296 and 297 have all expired
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I think puzzle 297 which was posted at 22.17 on the 8th will not officially expire until 22.17 on the 13th so I believe my correct answer at 11.05 on the 13th is still eligible for the points?
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #1225 on: 17:36:54, 13-03-2008 » |
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I think puzzle 297 which was posted at 22.17 on the 8th will not officially expire until 22.17 on the 13th so I believe my correct answer at 11.05 on the 13th is still eligible for the points? Yes sorry missed that - now fixed - we were multiply confused. |
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« Reply #1226 on: 18:15:13, 13-03-2008 » |
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Sorry Bryn, I've Listened Again and my mind is blank.
Gershwin's family were from Ukraine, weren't they?
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« Reply #1227 on: 18:18:35, 13-03-2008 » |
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Sorry Bryn, I've Listened Again and my mind is blank.
Gershwin's family were from Ukraine, weren't they?
richard, richard, what piece did Stravinsky get in trouble over, when he made an arrangement of it? I think he even spent a night in jail as a result. |
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« Reply #1228 on: 18:23:32, 13-03-2008 » |
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Just been checking up. No night in jail for Stravinsky, but at a performance in Boston, the police turned up and removed the music from the stands as they held it was "tampering with a national property".
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« Reply #1229 on: 18:24:32, 13-03-2008 » |
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richard, richard, what piece did Stravinsky get in trouble over, when he made an arrangement of it? I think he even spent a night in jail as a result.
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