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  • amateur51

    Originally posted by cloughie View Post
    Nijinsky?
    not Nijinsky but as mercs has suggested a horse is involved Follow the literary route but not in English

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    • mercia
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      • Nov 2010
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      Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
      The intention was to publish a series of five but that's where the unusual circumstances referred to in the clue #18197 come in
      OK Irene Nemirovsky intended to write five but died in Auschwitz before that could come about

      there's a film "The Horse" with film score by Edward Nemirovsky, don't know anything about the film or whether Edward is any relation of Irene. don't know anything about the balls

      if cloughie can finish this off I'd like him to win the prize

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      • cloughie
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        • Dec 2011
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        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
        not Nijinsky but as mercs has suggested a horse is involved Follow the literary route but not in English
        There you go and with good reason I thought it was a racing certainty!

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        • cloughie
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          • Dec 2011
          • 22127

          Originally posted by mercia View Post
          OK Irene Nemirovsky intended to write five but died in Auschwitz before that could come about

          there's a film "The Horse" with film score by Edward Nemirovsky, don't know anything about the film or whether Edward is any relation of Irene. don't know anything about the balls

          if cloughie can finish this off I'd like him to win the prize
          No chance, merc, I'm back to sq 1, the horse is a gelding!

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          • amateur51

            Originally posted by mercia View Post
            OK Irene Nemirovsky intended to write five but died in Auschwitz before that could come about

            there's a film "The Horse" with film score by Edward Nemirovsky, don't know anything about the film or whether Edward is any relation of Irene. don't know anything about the balls

            if cloughie can finish this off I'd like him to win the prize
            Spot on, mercs she was a remarkable writer and all manner of her previous work has now been re-published. Edward Nemirovsky writes music, some for film but also chamber music. Two of the films are titled 'The Horse' and 'The Billiard' hence a load of balls

            O, it's your mercs but I guess that you could hand over to cloughie if that is your wish and he is willing ...

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            • mercia
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              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
              O, it's your mercs but I guess that you could hand over to cloughie if that is your wish and he is willing ...
              yes please, if he's willing

              great N question
              big heading in wikipedia "was Irene an anti-semite ?"
              <doh> billiard balls, of course

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              • cloughie
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                • Dec 2011
                • 22127

                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                Spot on, mercs she was a remarkable writer and all manner of her previous work has now been re-published. Edward Nemirovsky writes music, some for film but also chamber music. Two of the films are titled 'The Horse' and 'The Billiard' hence a load of balls

                O, it's your mercs but I guess that you could hand over to cloughie if that is your wish and he is willing ...
                Despite being able to supply two credible alternatives, I got nowhere near the 'card' answer the O is mercs, even though his enthusiam for the task appears less than totally enthusiastic!

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26540

                  Blimey, ammy you've been cock of the walk this morning... with the balls to go with it! I'd have been nowhere on that one.

                  We need an O tho' !
                  "...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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                  • mercia
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                    the O is mercs
                    well this is probably completely against the rules but I can't think of an O, it will have to be P. perhaps the winner of this can double-back ?????



                    P connecting

                    the first of 3 musical "prints", an ugly little empress (musical), a Cranko collaboration

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26540

                      Originally posted by mercia View Post
                      well this is probably completely against the rules but I can't think of an O, it will have to be P. perhaps the winner of this can double-back ?????



                      P connecting

                      the first of 3 musical "prints", an ugly little empress (musical), a Cranko collaboration
                      That would I think be Pagodas...

                      - Debussy 'Estampe' No1
                      - Ravel - Mother Goose Suite Princess of the....
                      - Britten's ballet Prince of the...
                      "...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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                      • mercia
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8920

                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        That would I think be Pagodas...

                        - Debussy 'Estampe' No1
                        - Ravel - Mother Goose Suite Princess of the....
                        - Britten's ballet Prince of the...
                        very quick, very fulsome, very smart

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                        • amateur51

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          That would I think be Pagodas...

                          - Debussy 'Estampe' No1
                          - Ravel - Mother Goose Suite Princess of the....
                          - Britten's ballet Prince of the...
                          By the left, Caliban - did the coffee trolley have a pokey blend on this morning?

                          Later: will he go for the Q or the O?

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26540

                            Thanks, chaps... I think I looked into pagodas recently, there may even have been a question about them (or which I thought was about them).

                            I do have a modest O... ahem... if no one minds...

                            This O links a visit to a cathedral (it might seem) by Holst, to a public school by Vaughan Williams, and a joke by Tchaikovsky.
                            Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 23-04-12, 12:04. Reason: Spellink & clarity to the question
                            "...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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                            • cloughie
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2011
                              • 22127

                              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                              By the left, Caliban - did the coffee trolley have a pokey blend on this morning?

                              Later: will he go for the Q or the O?
                              Or do a merc and go for R?

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26540

                                Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                                Or do a merc and go for R?

                                Was too quick for ya, Cloughie

                                Actually I'm ok with jumping one and going back - keeps things flowing, in case of difficulty... and O is tricky. We could call it the Mercia Skip.
                                "...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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