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  • Flay
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 5795

    Grace notes are ornaments!
    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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    • Flay
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 5795

      Grace Williams wrote The Parlour! An opera.

      Sorry, mercs. Assuming calibs is correct, would you like to set a early Hours H?
      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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      • rubbernecker

        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        Ah....

        Is the G Grace?

        Because Grace Bumbry played Venus at Bayreuth in 'Tannhauser' in 1961, the first black singer to appear there...

        Can't connect the parlour and ornamental elements yet...
        I suspected that nudge would help. Sorry I had to retire before witnessing the denouement...

        Grace Bumbry indeed. (I think I've set this clue before).

        Well done Calibs, and well done Flay for getting the other two.

        I guess it falls to one of you to take us onto H

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26506

          Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
          I suspected that nudge would help. Sorry I had to retire before witnessing the denouement...

          Grace Bumbry indeed. (I think I've set this clue before).

          Well done Calibs, and well done Flay for getting the other two.

          I guess it falls to one of you to take us onto H
          I think it was the capital B on Black that was misleading, no doubt deliberately. I kept thinking of Poulenc's Black Birgin...

          Flay, how do you feel about Haitch? I've got one germinating, but if you h-h-h-have one in full flower, do go for it, unless Mrs F is hovering ominously about the breakfast table...
          "...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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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26506

            No "me sir, me sir, me sir!" from Flay. So h-h-h-here you go:

            Dancing elves? What a load of balls! Diabolical!
            "...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
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              Dancing elves? What a load of balls! Diabolical!
              I tink this would be Hubay
              except I can't find any balls (does Hubay or ballaton mean ball ??)

              Dance of the elves opus 86 - 3 Morceaux
              Danse diabolique - either opus 10 Morceaux or opus 51 Morceaux

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26506

                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                I tink this would be Hubay
                except I can't find any balls (does Hubay or ballaton mean ball ??)

                Dance of the elves opus 86 - 3 Morceaux
                Danse diabolique - either opus 10 Morceaux or opus 51 Morceaux

                A rare 'no ball' from mercia...

                Actually, more of a 'wide' as there are valid aspects of that answer, highlighted in red



                PS1 The cricket analogies are not intended as a hint
                PS2 Good morning, mercia
                "...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
                  • 22109

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                  A rare 'no ball' from mercia...

                  Actually, more of a 'wide' as there are valid aspects of that answer, highlighted in red



                  PS1 The cricket analogies are not intended as a hint
                  PS2 Good morning, mercia
                  Hellmesberger

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                  • mercia
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    PS2 Good morning, mercia
                    good morning
                    and cloughie has just pipped me to Hellmesberger

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26506

                      Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                      Hellmesberger
                      Well done, Cloughs

                      Indeed. Joseph Hellmesberger II: wrote Strauss-like waltzy stuff (featured in various Vienna New Year's Day concerts) including (I know you chafe sometimes under Anna's Law ):

                      Elfenreigen (Dance of the Elves) - featured in Mehta's programme on 1.1.07
                      Ballszenen (Ball scenes)
                      Danse Diabolique (Diabolical Dance) - featured in Jansons' programme on 1.1.12


                      I think you're on, 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..."

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                      • cloughie
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2011
                        • 22109

                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        Well done, Cloughs

                        Indeed. Joseph Hellmesberger II: wrote Strauss-like waltzy stuff (featured in various Vienna New Year's Day concerts) including (I know you chafe sometimes under Anna's Law ):

                        Elfenreigen (Dance of the Elves) - featured in Mehta's programme on 1.1.07
                        Ballszenen (Ball scenes)
                        Danse Diabolique (Diabolical Dance) - featured in Jansons' programme on 1.1.12


                        I think you're on, Cloughie
                        Morning all

                        Google-poaching mercs good work, I'm not around the rest of the morning so I'm happy to pass on the I.

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26506

                          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                          Morning all

                          Google-poaching mercs good work, I'm not around the rest of the morning so I'm happy to pass on the I.

                          Go on then mercia... an I (or a "Mercia's Excuse Me" J, perchance? )
                          "...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
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8920

                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            a "Mercia's Excuse Me" J, perchance?
                            funny you should say that because I honestly can't think of an I though I have a silly J at hand

                            does cloughie really not have time/inclination ?

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                            • rubbernecker

                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              I think it was the capital B on Black that was misleading, no doubt deliberately.
                              Huh?? You are misleading yourself: it was lower case black, upper case Venus. I could have uppercased parlour, but that would have made it too easy.

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                              • mercia
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8920

                                a rubbery I ??

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