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  • Lat-Literal
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    • Aug 2015
    • 6983

    .....Yes, let's do it.

    There was the Uruguayan football team.

    Next:

    The Uruguayan quartet which sounded like it knew Liverpool but whose name could have suggested to some American Christians its historical roots were in Oldham. We also had with this part of the clue "Fanfare For the Common Man", the Beatles and Los Ramblers.

    The Uruguayan someone whose family may originally have come from the shore - he mistreated his very own jazz funeral so that it had a British rock music influence. We also had with this part of the clue Deep Purple's "Burn", Angelica de la Riva and Haydn's Symphony "Trauer" (Mourning).

    The first set of these Uruguayans were Los Shakers.

    Wikipedia describes them as "a popular rock band in 1960s that was a part of the Uruguayan Invasion in Latin America. They were heavily influenced by the look and sound of the Beatles......... they did take one crack at the English-speaking market when they released the album "Break it All" on the US-based Audio Fidelity label in 1966. The record (which featured re-recorded versions of many of the songs on their original LP and even a Spanish-language version of Beatles' "Ticket to Ride") was little more than a curiosity in America and was not a hit, but became a collector's item decades later (2000s)".

    The Liverpool reference in the clue and the link to the Beatles should now make sense. The "Fanfare" was a nod to Copland and onto the Shakers, a sect which while it became better established in the United States essentially originated in Oldham, hence the reference to Oldham in the clue. I thought with your reference Anton to being a fair point man that you were alluding to Fairpoint, Ohio and especially the Mennonites who were active in that sort of area. Like the Shakers they were Plain People but I understand that the Shakers were more to be found to the North East of Ohio in New England.

    Los Shakers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUje4HLuW70

    The other Uruguayan is.........Pedro Ipuche Riva (26 October 1924 - 25 December 1996) who was a Uruguayan composer of classical music. According to the catalogue by the Uruguayan musicologist Elsa Sabatés, he wrote 150 compositions, including 6 symphonies and 2 operas. The derivation of the family name "Riva" is "from the shore", hence the reference in the clue. Angelica de la Riva is not related but was there as a hint via her surname. His "Jazz Funeral Symphony" - and the Haydn was there as a steer towards the fact that the jazz funeral referred to in the clue was a symphony - has three movements. The middle movement is based on "Mistreated" by Deep Purple, a track that appeared on that band's album "Burn". And here now is that movement with the third:

    Pedro Riva - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRrdCWDZTWA

    I will try to make my next one - if there is a next one - less convoluted.

    Letter V goes to you - well done - and thanks very much for tolerating it.
    Last edited by Lat-Literal; 14-09-16, 20:20.

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    • antongould
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8780

      Cheers Lat ..... Looks very like it will be Friday .....

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      • antongould
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8780

        Ok then a V to connect

        Frederic
        Leonard and
        Michael (and Mr. Foreman)

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        • Lat-Literal
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          • Aug 2015
          • 6983

          Originally posted by antongould View Post
          Ok then a V to connect

          Frederic
          Leonard and
          Michael (and Mr. Foreman)
          Cowen and Slatkin.

          George Michael and George Foreman.

          Alas, no V.

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          • antongould
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            • Nov 2010
            • 8780

            Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post
            Cowen and Slatkin.

            George Michael and George Foreman.

            Alas, no V.
            Good try Lat George Foreman is correct ..... !!!! But this Michael had a more famous elder brother ......

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            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
              Gone fishin'
              • Sep 2011
              • 30163

              Originally posted by antongould View Post
              But this Michael had a more famous elder brother ......
              Joe? (And I don't mean "Frazier"!)
              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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              • antongould
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                • Nov 2010
                • 8780

                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                Joe? (And I don't mean "Frazier"!)

                Indeed .....

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                • Lat-Literal
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                  • Aug 2015
                  • 6983

                  Originally posted by antongould View Post
                  Indeed .....
                  Oh.....I was thinking Spinks (And I don't mean Terry!).

                  What Joes are there?

                  Calzaghe? Bugner?

                  I realise I can't just guess at hundreds of Leonards but I will try Bernstein.

                  West Side Story etc.
                  Last edited by Lat-Literal; 17-09-16, 09:26.

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                  • antongould
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8780

                    Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post
                    Oh.....I was thinking Spinks (And I don't mean Terry!).

                    What Joes are there?

                    Calzaghe? Bugner?

                    I realise I can't just guess at hundreds of Leonards but I will try Bernstein.

                    West Side Story etc.
                    You have the Lennie sadly not Goodman .....

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                    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                      Gone fishin'
                      • Sep 2011
                      • 30163

                      The Michael with a more famous elder brother that I thought of is Michael Haydn; Josef's kid brother. (Nowhere near as good a composer - though no slouch; most people aren't nearly as good a composer as Joseph - but Mikie was bantamweight champion in the 18thCentury composer's league seven years in succession, before having seven last bells knocked out of him by Frankie Gossec in 1768. In his retirement, Mikie earned a living from his compositions and from his enthusiastic recommendations of a particular early piano which simultaneously played its own cadenzas and cooked steaks.)
                      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                      • antongould
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8780

                        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                        The Michael with a more famous elder brother that I thought of is Michael Haydn; Josef's kid brother. (Nowhere near as good a composer - though no slouch; most people aren't nearly as good a composer as Joseph - but Mikie was bantamweight champion in the 18thCentury composer's league seven years in succession, before having seven last bells knocked out of him by Frankie Gossec in 1768. In his retirement, Mikie earned a living from his compositions and from his enthusiastic recommendations of a particular early piano which simultaneously played its own cadenzas and cooked steaks.)
                        He's your man ... then there was Fred ....

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                        • Lat-Literal
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                          • Aug 2015
                          • 6983

                          Originally posted by antongould View Post
                          He's your man ... then there was Fred ....
                          Ah.

                          It's the A question I want to win because I am developing a good one for letter B.

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                          • antongould
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                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8780

                            Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post
                            Ah.

                            It's the A question I want to win because I am developing a good one for letter B.
                            Nothing to stop you winning V ..........

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                            • Lat-Literal
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                              • Aug 2015
                              • 6983

                              Originally posted by antongould View Post
                              Nothing to stop you winning V ..........


                              So we have Michael Haydn and George Foreman and Leonard Bernstein.

                              It doesn't necessarily suggest a rumble in a jungle and that took place in Z for Zaire.

                              Frederic......Chopin?

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                              • antongould
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                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8780

                                Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post


                                So we have Michael Haydn and George Foreman and Leonard Bernstein.

                                It doesn't necessarily suggest a rumble in a jungle and that took place in Z for Zaire.

                                Frederic......Chopin?
                                Chopin is good and so in Zaire ........

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