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« Reply #480 on: 11:16:25, 12-02-2008 » |
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Question: after some one has reached 10,000 points, should we:
A) reset every one's points total to zero and start again, or
B) simply carry on in a race to 25,000?
Which would Members prefer?
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« Reply #481 on: 16:55:55, 12-02-2008 » |
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How about
C) give us a break, it's too distracting
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« Reply #482 on: 17:01:39, 12-02-2008 » |
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Puzzle 77 is clearly the Eighth Symphony by Mr Mahler. Mr. Barrett is of course quite right. What a long time it took the Membership! Richard - you are not helping your crusade by starting to get them right you know! Baz  |
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« Reply #483 on: 17:49:05, 12-02-2008 » |
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Puzzle 69 is not Bantock IGI - you have not quite gone far enough through the alphabet. Further clue: both this piece and its Russian counterpart have the horse before the cart. Try again then... Baz |
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« Reply #484 on: 18:50:23, 12-02-2008 » |
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IGI - you may be taking "Russian" too literally as a part of the title. You have also not gone quite far enough through the alphabet. The first letter of the composer's name is not yet correct - you should be looking for someone more obvious (with a very Edwardian appearance).
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« Reply #485 on: 19:17:26, 12-02-2008 » |
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Question: after some one has reached 10,000 points, should we:
A) reset every one's points total to zero and start again, or
B) simply carry on in a race to 25,000?
Which would Members prefer?
Since IGI will probably make it to 25000 before anybody else gets to 10000, some kind of interesting handicap system may be in order. Perhaps individual members should make at least 3 guesses for every snatch they post etc. But it's complicated enough, is not it? |
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« Reply #486 on: 20:47:39, 12-02-2008 » |
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IGI - you may be taking "Russian" too literally as a part of the title. You have also not gone quite far enough through the alphabet. The first letter of the composer's name is not yet correct - you should be looking for someone more obvious (with a very Edwardian appearance).
Well, at least that rules Frank Bridge out of my investigations!  Edwardian appearance? Mmmmm, a moustache, perhaps? It doesn't sound much like Elgar ('Friends pictured within' would have been a nice allusion to the Mussorgsky, though). I wonder how much Henry Wood composed...but again, I'm probably thinking of his orchestration of Pictures. Intriguing one, Baz! |
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« Reply #487 on: 21:30:38, 12-02-2008 » |
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IGI - you may be taking "Russian" too literally as a part of the title. You have also not gone quite far enough through the alphabet. The first letter of the composer's name is not yet correct - you should be looking for someone more obvious (with a very Edwardian appearance).
Well, at least that rules Frank Bridge out of my investigations! Edwardian appearance? Mmmmm, a moustache, perhaps? It doesn't sound much like Elgar ('Friends pictured within' would have been a nice allusion to the Mussorgsky, though). I wonder how much Henry Wood composed...but again, I'm probably thinking of his orchestration of Pictures. Intriguing one, Baz!   |
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« Reply #489 on: 22:32:30, 12-02-2008 » |
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Well, that was hard work, Baz! I had been busily searching The Wand of Youth Suites to no avail. I don't think I've ever heard The Nursery Suite at all....it sounds rather fun!
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« Reply #490 on: 22:45:54, 12-02-2008 » |
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The snatch (no. 69) was from Elgar's own recording made in June 1931 with the LSO (at the Kingsway Hall London, apparently in the presence of HRHs The Duke and Duchess of York, and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret).
On the same disc is a 1928 recording of his Cello Concerto, with Beatrice Harrison (cello), and the LSO with strings glowing with luscious and seductive VIBRATO (don't believe what Norrington says! He's wrong!).
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CORRECTION - the Cello Concerto was played with the New Symphony Orchestra (i.e. the LSO was not by then known as the "LSO").
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« Reply #491 on: 13:42:02, 13-02-2008 » |
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apparently in the presence of HRHs The Duke and Duchess of York TRHs, presumably.  |
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« Reply #492 on: 19:56:18, 13-02-2008 » |
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Just a clue/ reminder about Puzzles 73-75, of which No.74 has already been identified as Satie's Le Picadilly. There is a 'musical connection' to be made between them all! |
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« Reply #493 on: 22:19:18, 13-02-2008 » |
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Just a clue/ reminder about Puzzles 73-75, of which No.74 has already been identified as Satie's Le Picadilly. There is a 'musical connection' to be made between them all! 73 sounds like Nielsen but what we know not; 79 (Madame A's) sounds like Brahms, but not one of the quartets, so how/who can it be? Mr. Dish has departed in shame because he did not know the right Mahler symphony, leaving our third never-to-be-solved item; and the remaining participants (including ourselves) all stuck are not guessing. What a how-do-you-do! We had better add a few more very easy snatches in an attempt to revive flagging Members. |
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« Reply #494 on: 22:37:44, 13-02-2008 » |
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When I first heard it, I felt that A's No.79 was perhaps English.
No.73 may sound like Nielsen, but it's not! It's much closer to home...
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