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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26540

    Originally posted by mercia View Post
    speak for oneself
    oh - you were

    I care about Symphonies too....

    And your idea of counting backwards from 100 to 99 is extremely shrewd !!!!
    "...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
      the only one "only just in double digits" in E-flat major is No 11
      oh, I was thinking [obscurely] that 99 could be "only just in double digits" if you work backwards from Haydn 100
      cross-posted

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      • Anna

        99 Balloons?
        Last edited by Guest; 09-06-12, 19:50.

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        • mercia
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          • Nov 2010
          • 8920

          I hope I'm not leading us all up a blind alley
          could "96 miles to Bakersfield" be a satnav message ?
          better still "99 miles to San Francisco" by April Matson ?
          how's the soccer ?

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          • Northender

            99 Red Balloons by Nena (UK No. 1 for 3 weeks, originally a German protest song).
            Haydn's Symphony No. 99 (the last 'double-digit' symphony, followed immediately by the 'Military')
            The other song has been recorded by, among others, Albert Hammond and Johnny Mathis, and they are 99 miles from....

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            • Northender

              Back after the second half (of the Rostropovitch - Euro 2012 if you want to )

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              • mercia
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8920

                Originally posted by Northender View Post
                99 miles from....
                ........ LA

                thanks for all the clues. great question
                I'm signing off now ............. I guess we're not in a hurry for another question

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26540

                  Originally posted by mercia View Post
                  I hope I'm not leading us all up a blind alley
                  On the contrary, mercia, as so often you are leading us towards the light
                  "...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 Caliban View Post
                    On the contrary, mercia, as so often you are leading us towards the light
                    That northenders clues are a bit cryptic don't you think, Cali, why's he make them so difficult?

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26540

                      Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                      That northenders clues are a bit cryptic don't you think, Cali, why's he make them so difficult?


                      They are! But do not think I am ever criticising anyone who sets nice testing puzzles, Cloughie! Any grumble that may occasionally emanate from Caliban's lair is born of frustration at his own stupidity!
                      "...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
                        • 26540

                        Originally posted by mercia View Post
                        I'm signing off now ............. I guess we're not in a hurry for another question
                        I wonder if mercia would mind if I set a nice easy O to tide us over... I suspect he wouldn't

                        A Saturday night O bringing together Arnold, Max and Georges
                        "...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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                        • Northender

                          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                          That northenders clues are a bit cryptic don't you think, Cali, why's he make them so difficult?
                          Cryptic - moi?
                          I'm not sure whether I need to summarize, but for the record:
                          Nena had a No. 1 UK hit with '99 Red Balloons'
                          A Californian satnav might tell you you were '99 Miles From L.A.'
                          Haydn's Symphony No. 99 is in E flat Major.

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26540

                            Originally posted by Northender View Post
                            Cryptic - moi?
                            En effet....! I don't think that your puzzles e.g. that N, tend to be cryptic, do they? Just tricky With the nice sleight of hand for which I fell but mercia didn't, of the 'double digit' misdirection

                            I watched that Rostro doc last night. Good isn't it? Clever how they knitted the archive film with no soundtrack, with the radio recording of the same concert, to produce that record of the concert with Britten conducting. Nice to see my avatar in the audience applauding afterwards too!
                            "...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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                            • Northender

                              I thought there was something familiar about your avatar - I should have recognized him from the spectacles! There can't be that many pictures of DSCH in such an apparently jovial mood - or had he just come off second-best in a drinking contest with Slava perhaps? I, too, was very taken with the sequence towards the end featuring the Britten - what a wonderful find the film was, and what a wonderful use to make of it.

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26540

                                Originally posted by Northender View Post
                                I thought there was something familiar about your avatar - I should have recognized him from the spectacles! There can't be that many pictures of DSCH in such an apparently jovial mood - or had he just come off second-best in a drinking contest with Slava perhaps? I, too, was very taken with the sequence towards the end featuring the Britten - what a wonderful find the film was, and what a wonderful use to make of it.
                                This is another nice one, with BB:

                                "...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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