Composers described in 4 words

[Pianorak]

Barber - Figaro beached at Dover?

[ahinton]

Bridge - A bridge too far?

(better ask French Frank)
Messiaen: "Who's this English Byrd?"

Searle: "Ah! That Hamlet moment!"

[Serial_Apologist]

Walton: My idea came first!

Stravinsky: The past? another country.

Satie: No sugar thank you.

[vinteuil]

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Zelenka : Inspired or incompetent? Dunno...

[Padraig]

Haydn : Slan agus beannacht leat.

[ardcarp]

Complete quotation and guess composer:

If Michael writes rubbish

Schotts can ___ __

(Oh happy days....)

[ardcarp]

Purcell: My laundry seems whiter

[cloughie]

Bridge - A bridge too far?

Surely that was Britten

[Lat-Literal]

Vaughan Williams - The greatest English composer
Blackwood McEwen - The greatest Scottish composer
Grace Williams - the greatest Welsh composer
Turlough O'Carolan - the greatest Irish composer



(Sorry Stan ..........sorry Joan ..........sorry Hamilton )

[umslopogaas]

#51

If Michael writes rubbish,
Schotz can Tippett.

Gerard Hoffnung in 'Punkt Contrapunkt'. The full sequence is

If Britten writes rubbish,
Boosey's can Hawke it.

And if Michael writes rubbish,
Schotz can Tippett.

The joke being that Boosey and Hawkes were Britten's publisher, and Schotz were Tippett's. If anyone doesnt know Hoffnung, do seek out the double CD that features the material originally put out on three LPs. Code is EMI CMS 7 63302 2. Maybe its just my age, but I have seldom found anything funnier. Sadly it doesnt include the material from the original mono 10" LP, including 'The Bricklayer's Tale' and 'Letters from Tyrolean landlords' - I dont know if that has ever been transferred to CD, but if anyone is visiting east Devon, drop in and I'll play it to you.

[cloughie]

#51

If Michael writes rubbish,
Schotz can Tippett.

Gerard Hoffnung in 'Punkt Contrapunkt'. The full sequence is

If Britten writes rubbish,
Boosey's can Hawke it.

And if Michael writes rubbish,
Schotz can Tippett.

The joke being that Boosey and Hawkes were Britten's publisher, and Schotz were Tippett's. If anyone doesnt know Hoffnung, do seek out the double CD that features the material originally put out on three LPs. Code is EMI CMS 7 63302 2. Maybe its just my age, but I have seldom found anything funnier. Sadly it doesnt include the material from the original mono 10" LP, including 'The Bricklayer's Tale' and 'Letters from Tyrolean landlords' - I dont know if that has ever been transferred to CD, but if anyone is visiting east Devon, drop in and I'll play it to you.

Hoffnung at the Oxford Union is availble on CD - used copies on Amazon from £1.21 plus p&p

[EdgeleyRob]

Vaughan Williams - The greatest English composer
Blackwood McEwen - The greatest Scottish composer
Grace Williams - the greatest Welsh composer
Turlough O'Carolan - the greatest Irish composer



(Sorry Stan ..........sorry Joan ..........sorry Hamilton )

John Kinsella - the greatest Irish composer

(only IMVHO Lat)

[EdgeleyRob]

Mieczysław Weinberg - Stalin is dead,phew

[Lat-Literal]

John Kinsella - the greatest Irish composer

(only IMVHO Lat)

Thanks Rob - I will investigate.

[Richard Barrett]

Mieczysław Weinberg - Stalin is dead,phew

Sergei Prokofiev - Stalin is... (heavy thud)