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no 79 is not English IGI , try again  A |
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« Reply #496 on: 13:58:40, 14-02-2008 » |
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HERE and HERE is to be found Puzzle 83; it is so difficult to condense this beautiful music to a sixty-second snatch! Puzzle 82 is from the first movement of the Symphony in E minor (later numbered the Sixth) by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Indeed, Richard, but who are the performers? The phrasing was rather distinctive, don't you think? Sorry but we cannot say who the performers were; much of our music is recorded from wireless transmissions, and for us the composer offers ninety per centum of the interest, the performers ten per centum, so rather more often than not we do not bother to record the latter, even. And announcers can be rather annoying in a number of different ways. Surely only in 'A Land of Ease and Delight' could one (by default) be always happy to ignore as much as 10 per centum of the enjoyment to be had? (Does Mr grew, we wonder, inhabit Tahiti or even [dare we ask?] Alice Springs?) Baz |
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« Reply #497 on: 14:01:27, 14-02-2008 » |
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no 79 is not English IGI , try again A For obvious reasons, I make no comment upon the identity of no. 79 - other than to express my complete ASTONISHMENT that nobody has yet recognized it (being, as it is, a work of both historical significance and standard repertory). Baz |
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« Reply #498 on: 19:08:20, 14-02-2008 » |
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83 sounds more like Khachaturian to me.
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« Reply #499 on: 19:13:15, 14-02-2008 » |
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I see Puzzles 73 & 75 remain unsolved. By themselves, they're reasonably tricky, especially the third, but think about No.74 and follow that line of thought...  |
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« Reply #500 on: 19:15:31, 14-02-2008 » |
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Oh Cardinal dude, I'd already picked up that you were thinking 'Underground Lines'! But I just can't get 'em! Anybody else? Piccadilly, ... ?
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« Reply #501 on: 19:19:23, 14-02-2008 » |
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Oh Cardinal dude, I'd already picked up that you were thinking 'Underground Lines'! But I just can't get 'em! Anybody else? Piccadilly, ... ?
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« Reply #502 on: 19:58:21, 14-02-2008 » |
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Well, seeing as my two correct answers to puzzzles have been declared void by The Esteemed Sydney, I'll go for Hammersmith
Dock me Syd, Dock me!!
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« Reply #503 on: 20:10:07, 14-02-2008 » |
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Could be worth a suggestion on the official test thread, of course...  |
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« Reply #504 on: 20:38:26, 14-02-2008 » |
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As to 79, could it be Brahms?
Sorry, not Brahms, wrong nationality. A |
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« Reply #505 on: 20:43:56, 14-02-2008 » |
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83 sounds more like Khachaturian to me.
I think not Bryn. Please look at the 2nd theme for Brigg Fair (below):  Baz |
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« Reply #506 on: 22:38:56, 14-02-2008 » |
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Absolutely right! We had been expecting Members to suggest Rachmanninoff. It was in Liverpool under the bâton of Sir Granville Bantock that Brigg Fair: An English Rhapsody was first played - in the year 1908. And it was Plato was it not who in 350 B.C. wrote "Musical innovation is full of danger to the state, for when modes of music change, the laws of the state always change with them."
On first hearing the snippet, I was tempted to go for Rachmaninov, but by then Mr Iron had posted the correct solution! I have a beautiful disc of Brigg Fair played by the Hallé under Mark Elder, which also includes Grainger's version and the 1908 cylinder recording of Joseph Taylor, who was first heard by Grainger on his folksong collecting trips in 1905.  |
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« Reply #507 on: 22:46:05, 14-02-2008 » |
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Now this thing about the bâton is a curious point.
In French a bâton is really more a staff of some kind while a baguette is a stick of the dimensions associated with orchestral direction. Nowadays a conductor's stick is called a baguette in French. As is a chopstick, for example. The bâton de direction is basically what a drum-major has. Or what Lully had. But the only thing actually under the bâton of Lully was his foot and we all know what happened there...
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« Reply #508 on: 00:24:03, 15-02-2008 » |
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Madame Antheil - a lot of gentlemen are waiting for you!
Mr. Baziron's number 70 sounds rather like Ravel - but what?
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« Reply #509 on: 01:20:32, 15-02-2008 » |
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I think that No.70 could be by either Bridge or York Bowen.
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