Originally posted by vinteuil
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lordy no! (I had thought my # 730 at 14:11 might have helped
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So - not the Bard Music Festival (#733) then?
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nope. (I ha'e to confess I've never heard of sich a thing as yon Bard Music Festival (tho' I do know about Scotch Reviewers... )Originally posted by LMcD View PostComment
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... just because Berlioz and Balfe happen to begin with a B - I wouldn't want you to assume that the third composer begins with a B : he doesn't.
But he will lead you to the B you need...
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Is the bard in question pretty ancient?Originally posted by vinteuil View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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No. You said he wasn't a B.Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
... it's not Blake, if that were your guess
.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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... the third composer is not a B - but what you're looking for is a B.Originally posted by french frank View Post
And big clues in # 730 at 14:11 and # 735 at 16:38
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Are we looking for a bard like Baudelaire or Byron?
Would Gordon B lead to Robert Russell Bennett being born in Kansas City? But he shouldn't begin with B!
How about Virgil Thomson, from Kansas City, of "Lord Byron" opera fame (new to me).
Childe Harold might be Berlioz's Byron.
Wikipedia has "The Bohemian G-yurl and the Unapproachable Pole is a musical burlesque in two acts, with a score by Meyer Lutz to a libretto by Henry James Byron... ... It was a parody of the popular opera The Bohemian Girl composed by Michael William Balfe with a libretto by Alfred Bunn."
I'm floundering.Comment
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you are not floundering.Originally posted by AuntDaisy View Post
G Gordon Byron Lord Byron is your man, he of English Bards and Scotch Reviewers among other things.
Berlioz and Balfe have been identified - can you propose some Byronic works?
And indeed Virgil Thomson, native of Kansas City, composer of the opera Lord Byron...Comment
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Fiendish vinteuil
Lordy & Gordon went over my head 
Balfe... Maid of Athens? The Page or Mazeppa?
Berlioz... Harold in Italy? Childe Harold?Comment
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Yes, the ancient bard I meant was VirgilOriginally posted by vinteuil View Post
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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... entre autresOriginally posted by AuntDaisy View PostFiendish vinteuil Lordy & Gordon went over my head
Balfe... Maid of Athens? The Page or Mazeppa?
Berlioz... Harold in Italy? Childe Harold?
I think AuntDaisy wins the C
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Merci.Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
... entre autres
I think AuntDaisy wins the C
Although LMcD did get Balfe - who was new to me.
And the Burt Bacharach / Shakespeare links could easily fit in to French Frank's NTITRE "No, no: this is the real explanation" (#149)Comment
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... ah! NTITRE!! - well remembered (Great thing of us forgot!) - yes, with a bit of work FrenchFrank's sideways approach would pay dividends - but when she enquired whether the bard (by which I meant the poet, starting with B) was ancient - I took this as a hint from her towards The Voice of the Ancient Bard by Blake... whereas it seems she was ahead of the curve in identifying Virgil as in Thomson.Originally posted by AuntDaisy View Post
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C what you can come up with, Aunt Daisy (something a little less fiendish, perhaps?Originally posted by AuntDaisy View Post
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