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  • kernelbogey
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    • Nov 2010
    • 5848

    Missing consonants

    Guardian readers may remember this witty feature. Proofreading my post just now I noticed that I had typed 'Beethoven boos' instead of 'Beethoven books'.

    So I thought, given the extraordinary ability of members here to make witty musical remarks, we could have a thread for missing consonant remarks about musical works, composers and performers.
  • LMcD
    Full Member
    • Sep 2017
    • 8870

    #2
    Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
    Guardian readers may remember this witty feature. Proofreading my post just now I noticed that I had typed 'Beethoven boos' instead of 'Beethoven books'.

    So I thought, given the extraordinary ability of members here to make witty musical remarks, we could have a thread for missing consonant remarks about musical works, composers and performers.
    I can offer a couple of Haydn symphonies - 'The He' and 'Fie'. Then there's Mozart's 'Hun' quartet and Holst's 'The Planes'.

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    • kernelbogey
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 5848

      #3
      Originally posted by LMcD View Post
      I can offer a couple of Haydn symphonies - 'The He' and 'Fie'. Then there's Mozart's 'Hun' quartet and Holst's 'The Planes'.
      Böhm Böhm!

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      • kernelbogey
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 5848

        #4
        There is Bizet's abandoned project for an opera, the sad tale of fishermen forced, by loss of a boat, to work in an orchard: The Pear Fishers.
        Last edited by kernelbogey; 23-07-20, 06:02.

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        • LMcD
          Full Member
          • Sep 2017
          • 8870

          #5
          Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
          Böhm Böhm!
          Vaughan Williams: The Wasp (or, if you prefer, He Wasps).
          Butterworth: Bans of Green Willow
          Britten: Plymouth Tow
          Debussy: La Plus Que Len
          Grieg: Pee Gynt Suite
          Britten: The Ape of Lucretia

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          • DracoM
            Host
            • Mar 2007
            • 13009

            #6
            Pritti Patel misses the full, final 'ing' and turns it into 'in' in almost every word she says needin' an 'ing' soundin endin'

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            • kernelbogey
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 5848

              #7
              Johann Strauss's unfortunate restaurant experience on holiday in Provence led to the composition of The Blue Daube.

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              • oddoneout
                Full Member
                • Nov 2015
                • 9439

                #8
                Missing consonants are an occupational hazard of communication with the natives of this neck of the woods.

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                • LMcD
                  Full Member
                  • Sep 2017
                  • 8870

                  #9
                  Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
                  Missing consonants are an occupational hazard of communication with the natives of this neck of the woods.
                  'As roight, bor!'

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                  • Pulcinella
                    Host
                    • Feb 2014
                    • 11268

                    #10
                    Britten's sequel to Billy Budd: The turn of the crew.

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                    • LMcD
                      Full Member
                      • Sep 2017
                      • 8870

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
                      Britten's sequel to Billy Budd: The turn of the crew.
                      Excellent!
                      Don't forget where the prison officer brews his tea: 'The Urn Of the Screw'
                      And, especially for you, Stravinsky's 'Ire Bid' and 'Symphony in Tree Movements'.

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                      • Dave2002
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 18062

                        #12
                        Popular opera Rimsky's "The NOW maiden" or Abrahamsen's "The NOW Queen".

                        For sailors - or maybe tree lovers - "The Arber of Seville".

                        For politicians "The Lying Dutchman".

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                        • teamsaint
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 25255

                          #13
                          I was wondering about something by 'erbert Vowells.
                          I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                          I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                          • Pulcinella
                            Host
                            • Feb 2014
                            • 11268

                            #14
                            Papageno has to learn a new instrument for his role in The Magic Lute, given that wind instruments might be off the agenda for a while.

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                            • LMcD
                              Full Member
                              • Sep 2017
                              • 8870

                              #15
                              Q: Where did Bottom write down his lines in case he forgot them?
                              A: On a Midsummer Nit's Ream
                              Q: Where did Sibelius - a noted alcoholic - spend most of his time?
                              A: The Bar
                              Q: Which famous piece by Samuel Barber was commissioned as background music for a jeweller's shop?
                              A: Adagio for Rings

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