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Ibert's younger brother Edouard, and was called Pique-nique.
I've been saying it out loud to myself jean, but I'm being thick....
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
Henry Hall & His Orchestra - The Teddy Bear's Picnic (1932) presentation byR 3 T Я 8 T 8 Rfor the promotion and conservationof the arts and the general pres...
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
Or, to quote a friend of mine, "Karl Jenkins - he gets everywhere... ...like foot and mouth..."
Isn't your friend thinking of - or adapting - Malcolm Williamson's observation about Andrew Lloyd Webber, namely that his music is everywhere - but then so is AIDS? See p.273 of https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...webber&f=false for a follow-up to this in which he apparently topped it by apologising - to people with AIDS. Alan Jay Lerner's retort, in the same paragraph, to ALW's question as to why people took an instant dislike to him rounds this off nicely - "it saves time".
I once overheard someone saying that Karl Jenkins gives Swansea a bad name and thinking that at least there's the redeeming factor of a composer to put things right by giving it a good one...
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