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So: joint honours to Cali (who got to George and PMD) and mercia (who got the rest): shall we draw lots (or just a few?)
Just leaving for an hour or two so mercia, if you are in the mood, please give in to it !!
"...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..."
Ruy Blas - Mendelssohn
Rigoletto and Ernani - Verdi (and apparently Falstaff too was derived from Hugo's translation of 'Merry Wives of Windsor')
(Which Helena did you have in mind, Cloughie?
"...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..."
Have you returned from Glasgow, or are you still there?
"...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..."
... and Donizetti Lucrezia Borgia - and Ponchielli la Gioconda
Yes, you've been performing silent passe-pieds round the mulberry bush since 2pm, haven't you, plainly knowing the answer already... Didn't feel playful, vinjaune? Only just had a look - been listening to Krips's Mozart, me
No further tidying required, mercs, methinks.
I have to do the necessary now, I think?
"...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..."
On train at the mo. The Mrs and co. want to play cards So must go....
L'enfer, c'est les autres...
"...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..."
A musical I to unite Armenia, Turkey and a mountain range straddling Europe and Asia...
"...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..."
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