Vinteuil ~
I've turned into a prune and you are churlish ~
I can't discover any way to come up with an answer.
~sigolene
I've turned into a prune and you are churlish ~
I can't discover any way to come up with an answer.
~sigolene
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All I've got is to know a quartet which contains two brothers, but no further, in spite of being a bit of a motor racing enthusiast! (But then maybe the required quartet is a piece of music, not a group, anyway.)
Second afterthought. (Or rather second straw being clutched). Weill's Seven Deadly Sins has that family quartet building the brick wall in the background, representing father, mother and two sons. Might get us to Ute Lemper, who at least is a U.Comment
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Got me stumped too, and I've been a motor racing follower since the days of James Hunt and the Lord Hesketh.Originally posted by Don Petter View Post"...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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I was a great fan of James, someone a bit in the Mike Hawthorn mould. Sometimes I feel as if I've been a follower since Gordon Bennett.Originally posted by Caliban View PostComment
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1975 was the year the bug bit me, all those tall airboxes. Loved the whole Hesketh enterprise and the victory at Zandvoort, and great cars like the UOP Shadows and the Ferraris with the tall white airboxes with Italian tricolore stripes (as well as awful lumps like the late BRMs). Then there was the drama of Lauda's crash the next year and Hunt splashing to the championshipOriginally posted by Don Petter View Post"...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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I'm now getting images of the Karamazov Quartet, a little known Russian ensemble from between the wars - a father and three sons, and presumably the Moskvich factory, and it was all in the USSR, and ... Help! It must be a dream. You see what extremes you've driven us to, vinteuil. (And I had a good question for V in readiness, too.)Comment
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rubbernecker has gone very quiet... needs to get his thinking cap on...!"...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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Likewise, I am being driven round and round in circles (appropriately enough). Have even been through a global list of motor racing circuits hoping for inspiration. String quartets, are we talking the name of an ensemble or the nickname of a work? Bro-dsky, Concord... Aagghh. We're all probably ready for another clue, Vinteuil...Originally posted by Caliban View PostComment
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OK, a clue.Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
The city, the circuit, the quartet, and the U which has a connection with all three - are all Italian...Comment
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You beat me to it!
I also think it is Umbria. The city is Turin not Milan (that's for fashionistas!). The Umbria Jazz Festival...maybe some quartet there ..all brothers? I have to confess i thought the circuit was Monza but that is in Lombardy.Comment
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betweenthestaves was right - the circuit referred to is Monza...Originally posted by BetweenTheStaves View PostComment
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... and betweenthestaves is also right that the city is Turin...Originally posted by BetweenTheStaves View PostComment
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Turin, that's what I meant! Always was a fashion victim...Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
I think in the light of my faux-pas, betweenthestaves was the true victor and should set the next question on the letter VComment
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rubbernecker - hold your horses! no-one's won yet - I still need to know the quartet and the identity of the "U"....Originally posted by rubbernecker View PostComment
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