I think this is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, or some such. Whenever I'm on-line there's no question, and vice versa! 
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I'm not sure...Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
Sorry to have been silent. Annoyingly the day job has been getting in the way of question-setting
I think I am close to having one ready, just have to hang a few cryptic baubles on the bare branches. (That's not a clue)
But I am going to be out at meetings, so there won't be much guidance from me until the evening..."...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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Sorry! I wasn't agitating - just observing!Comment
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Fear not, I didn't feel agitated!
I felt I owed the board an explanation anyway...
"...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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With further apologies for the hiatus, here is F
I woke from oniric sleep in France, and having been nourished by a quasi-Proustian creation, I enabled Scheherazade, Antony, Cleopatra, Salome, Oedipus and some monkeys, among others, to find voices (not necessarily vocally).
What F am I ?
As mentioned before, I won't be much online before this evening (though will try and pop back now and again to see what's happening)."...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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Fleg?
It's funny the stuff one comes across playing this game. Apparently in South America there's a Cottontop Tamarin monkey also called the Liszt monkey because they share the same hairstyle.
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Gabriel Faure (can't do the accent)Originally posted by Caliban View Post
1) Apres un Reve
2) He was organist at La Madeleine (Proust's favourite cake)
3) He taught, inter alia, Ravel (Scheherazade), Enesco (Oedipus) and Koechlin (the monkeys from the Jungle Book)Comment
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I think Vinteuil is on to something with Fokin - hmm, as is Gummihals.
My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)Comment
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Rubbers does it again.
Brilliant
Florent Schmitt - SalomeLast edited by mercia; 08-03-11, 17:21.Comment
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Yes, I am sure it was - the oniric sleep of l'Après Midi d'un Faune - the Reynaldo Hahn ballet, the Ravel Scheherazade usw usw - all creations of Михаил Михайлович Фокин...Originally posted by vinteuil View PostComment
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Yes, a couple of convincing answers - up with neither of which could I have come! I await the outcome with interest.Comment
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Ah ha... a double answer perhaps? But where would Proust come in as far as Comrade Фокин is concerned?Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
As for what I had in mind, Comrade Lycraknickers has hit all three nails on the head
Not quite a compete answer - I won't string it out for ardent googlers: missing from the answer were the works of another Fauré pupil Florent Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op.50, and Antoine et Cléopatre, Op.69.
But fault-free otherwise. I knew I should have made the Madeleine clue more cryptic. Not quite as quick as my Finzi answer this morning, but not bad, Spandexdrawers, not bad!
G up, there...."...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 take it back.Originally posted by Caliban View Post
I hadn't noticed that hercule set his Finzi question at 06:02 this morning
So you were considerably more rapid with your answer, Rubbers.
Enchant us with an air upon your (rubber?) G-string..."...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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PS a.k.a. "Les Bandar-log" (Op. 176) - I'd never appreciated till I set this question that the eponymous "bandar-log" are the very same monkeys as appear in that sublime scene from Disney's version... "I'm the King of the Jungle" etc etc with Uncle Louie and BalooOriginally posted by rubbernecker 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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