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  • Northender

    Exaltation and Orgy are two of Turina's Danzas Fantasticas for piano. Might the dream be the Fantasy from the same opus?

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    • Nick Armstrong
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      • Nov 2010
      • 26524

      Originally posted by Northender View Post
      Exaltation and Orgy are two of Turina's Danzas Fantasticas for piano. Might the dream be the Fantasy from the same opus?

      Do you mean the movement called in Spanish EnsueƱo ?
      "...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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      • Anna

        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        Maybe you haven't knocked on enough front doors?
        Maybe they saw me coming up the garden path and hid? Oh, I dismissed Turina. Never mind, well done Northender. And, programme alert: Twenty-Twelve is on tonight 10pm

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        • Northender

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post

          Do you mean the movement called in Spanish EnsueƱo ?
          Yes - I think you may have chosen the first three dances, yes?

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          • Northender

            Originally posted by Anna View Post
            Maybe they saw me coming up the garden path and hid? Oh, I dismissed Turina. Never mind, well done Northender. And, programme alert: Twenty-Twelve is on tonight 10pm
            It's all good

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            • Anna

              Originally posted by Northender View Post
              It's all good
              I never knew Hugh Bonneville could be a comic actor!! Ahem. As you were, continue solving the puzzle.

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              • Nick Armstrong
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                • Nov 2010
                • 26524

                Originally posted by Northender View Post
                Yes - I think you may have chosen the first three dances, yes?
                I actually thought there were only three

                Perhaps that's just the orchestral version.

                So: yes, Northo

                Joaquƭn Turina - Danzas fantƔsticas

                1. Exaltation (ExaltaciĆ³n)

                2. Dreaming (EnsueƱo)

                3. Orgy (OrgĆ­a)

                Over to U
                "...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
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                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26524

                  Originally posted by Anna View Post
                  Maybe they saw me coming up the garden path and hid?
                  I had visions of twitching net curtains and trembling aspidistras!

                  Originally posted by Anna View Post
                  Maybe they saw me coming up the garden path and hid? Oh, I dismissed Turina. Never mind, well done Northender. And, programme alert: Twenty-Twelve is on tonight 10pm
                  Like, totally!!

                  The almost supernaturally-awful Siobhan Sharpe has her own Twitter page, amusingly: https://twitter.com/perfect_siobhan

                  Brilliant work from Jessica Hynes, as well as Mr Bonneville

                  EDIT: he also has a Twitter account in his own name, which is fun too, e.g. re: tonight -

                  Hugh Bonneville ā€@hughbon
                  In an attempt to reduce or in some ways maximise confusionality, the UK tx of ā€Ŗ#TwentyTwelveā€¬'s final eps is now Tues 10 July (not Mon 9)

                  "...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

                    New York (upstate), Virginia, North Carolina, Hawaii, and 'U' (simultaneously). What and where is 'U'?

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                    • Anna

                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                      I had visions of twitching net curtains and trembling aspidistras! :whistle
                      I deny All Knowledge of Gordon Comstock!!
                      (and, dear Cali, if you get that literary reference you are more than half the man that I originally thought you were)

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                      • Nick Armstrong
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26524

                        Originally posted by Anna View Post
                        I deny All Knowledge of Gordon Comstock!!
                        (and, dear Cali, if you get that literary reference you are more than half the man that I originally thought you were)
                        That means I am less than half. I think

                        Never 'eard of 'im

                        (No google-based pretence for me )

                        Care to elucidate?
                        "...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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                        • Anna

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          That means I am less than half. I think
                          Never 'eard of 'im (No google-based pretence for me )
                          Care to elucidate?
                          George Orwell, one of my favourite authors. Keep the Aspidistra Flying. 1930s London. Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results. He has to trim his shirt cuffs with nail scissors and is a dismal failure, particularly with his girlfriend on a disastrous outing to Burnham Beeches and never has change for the gas meter. He is a literary failure because he is poor. His slim volume of poetry was called Mice.
                          Cannot believe you have never read Orwell?

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                          • cloughie
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                            • Dec 2011
                            • 22115

                            Originally posted by Northender View Post
                            New York (upstate), Virginia, North Carolina, Hawaii, and 'U' (simultaneously). What and where is 'U'?
                            Is there a musical link as allI can google is Union?

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                            • Nick Armstrong
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                              • Nov 2010
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                              Originally posted by Anna View Post
                              George Orwell, one of my favourite authors. Keep the Aspidistra Flying. 1930s London. Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results. He has to trim his shirt cuffs with nail scissors and is a dismal failure, particularly with his girlfriend on a disastrous outing to Burnham Beeches and never has change for the gas meter. He is a literary failure because he is poor. His slim volume of poetry was called Mice.
                              Cannot believe you have never read Orwell?
                              I have but not that. Shameful, since my dad (English lit teacher) was often referring to the aspidistras in neighbours' and his mother's front windows. And I had an inkling after my post above...

                              I read that "As the book closes, Gordon wins an argument with Rosemary to install an aspidistra in their new small but comfortable flat off the Edgware Road."
                              "...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
                                • 22115

                                Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                                Is there a musical link as allI can google is Union?
                                Pearl Habour and Virginia Class submarins called Carolina and a guy from NY state...

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