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  • vinteuil
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12765

    Originally posted by Flay View Post
    Purcell's opera King Arthur, libretto by John Dryden:



    I threw that one in for interest. I am also flummoxed.
    ... not flummoxed at all - King Arthur is exackerly what I was after

    Last edited by vinteuil; 16-04-12, 18:39.

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    • vinteuil
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 12765

      so we have
      King Roger (Anna)
      King Arthur (Flay)

      ... all that is needed is a King and a deer in a 20th century piece...

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163

        Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
        ... all that is needed is a King and a deer in a 20th century piece...
        Should we lose our heads over this?

        ("Ride North!")
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • Flay
          Full Member
          • Mar 2007
          • 5795

          Tell me more please, Ferney. I have to go offline too in a minu...
          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
            What's Arnie's Book of the Hangings Gardens like then?Anyone know it?
            Purdy damn fine:
            Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten (The Book of the Hanging Gardens) is a fifteen-part song cycle composed by Arnold Schoenberg between 1908 and 1909, setting poe...
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
              Gone fishin'
              • Sep 2011
              • 30163

              Originally posted by Flay View Post
              Tell me more please, Ferney.
              "I'm not that hero!"

              I have to go offline too in a minu...
              "Nooooow, with a single step, your jou-ou-ourney begins!"
              Last edited by ferneyhoughgeliebte; 16-04-12, 18:55.
              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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              • vinteuil
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 12765

                Ferney - are you thinking of Birtwistle? - I wasn't

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26514

                  Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                  Ferney - are you thinking of Birtwistle? - I wasn't
                  Sir! Sir! Yes he was Sir!
                  "...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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                  • vinteuil
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 12765

                    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                    so we have
                    King Roger (Anna)
                    King Arthur (Flay)

                    ... all that is needed is a King and a deer in a 20th century piece...
                    ... if were to say the King was the deer???

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                    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                      Gone fishin'
                      • Sep 2011
                      • 30163

                      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                      Ferney - are you thinking of Birtwistle? - I wasn't

                      But it's got King Arthur and a Hunting scene, and it's Twentieth Century ... and .... and .... and it's a bloomin' BOAR Hunt, innit?!

                      Just for that, I won't tell you the story of how I walked into David Hockney at the world premiere of Gawain!
                      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                        Gone fishin'
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 30163

                        Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                        ... if were to say the King was the deer???
                        Oh! 'Enze?
                        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                        • vinteuil
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 12765

                          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                          Oh! 'Enze?
                          'Ans Werner 'Enze is yer man - and King Stag is the piece.



                          So we have worthy winners in Anna, Flay, and Ferney.
                          Happy to have a Look at what any of them can come up with...


                          who wishes to offer a Lovely Little one???

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26514

                            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                            Oh! 'Enze?

                            ... I'd run through Le Roi David, King Priam, Le Roi des Etoiles...

                            Over to you for Henze... about whom I know nothing (or rather, a little more than nothing, now)
                            "...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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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163

                              As I said earlier, "I'm not that hero!" - I got a wrong answer and the right one only after a huge clue!
                              Laurels to Anna or Flay, methinks.
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              • Flay
                                Full Member
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 5795

                                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                                As I said earlier, "I'm not that hero!" - I got a wrong answer and the right one only after a huge clue!
                                Laurels to Anna or Flay, methinks.
                                Well I remain flummoxed. Let me finish my food, then I'll Lob one in
                                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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