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  • mercia
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8920
    #2491
    well Caliban got 2 out of 3

    Lady Harriet Durham principal character in von Flotow's Martha
    Harriet Cohen gave first all-Bach recital in Queen's Hall in 1925
    Harriet Smithson first wife of Berlioz and mother of Louis



    back to the dog-house for me

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    • rubbernecker
      #2492
      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      With my talk of cocktails earlier, it seems a number here may have hit the bottle early today!
      I think Don's on a slow android dongley connection in Torquay, that's why...

      Well done, Caliban. Beat me to it.

      A rather good question, I thought, Hercule. Hope you weren't put off by our carping little remarks...

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26527
        #2493
        Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
        ...and Harriet of Greenwich, the ballet which was the basis of Marthe by Flotow, I think, somewhere in the mix...

        EDIT: GEDDIT? Sorry, Flotow was from Mecklenburg.
        Where the hell did you dredge that from????
        "...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
          • 26527
          #2494
          Originally posted by hercule View Post
          well Caliban got 2 out of 3

          Lady Harriet Durham principal character in von Flotow's Martha
          Harriet Cohen gave first all-Bach recital in Queen's Hall in 1925
          Harriet Smithson first wife of Berlioz and mother of Louis

          back to the dog-house for me
          Hercule, I think you have been subjected to harsh treatment - none of us is beyond an erroneous post and an hasty edit! Please rejoin the happy throng.

          Good question, btw - the clue was sorely needed.

          Damn it, I get I do I??
          "...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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          • Don Petter
            #2495
            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            With my talk of cocktails earlier, it seems a number here may have hit the bottle early today!
            Cheers! I've only had one pint of Doom Bar, honest. I am on holiday. (Though life is one long holiday for the retired.)

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            • rubbernecker
              #2496
              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              Where the hell did you dredge that from????
              The nether regions...

              Seriously, though: You and I have a cocktail assignation in less than two hours, and will doubtless be hors de combat for the rest of the evening, so unless you have a quick and easy I up your sleeve, I would suggest passing the baton...?

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26527
                #2497
                Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                I've only had one pint of Doom Bar
                That'll do it!
                "...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
                  • 26527
                  #2498
                  Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                  a quick and easy I
                  What "I" connects musical gentlemen from Middlesex, Saxony and Yorkshire all of whom were born (but only one of whom died) in the 19th century?
                  "...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
                    #2499
                    Hello. I am back and apologies again for leaving you in the lurch re the E but no good setting a puzzle when I am offline for 48 hours. It was only a small crisis which someone had made into a drama.

                    Oh, is it Happy Hour again? You all seem to be getting stuck in. Cheers to all for solving E, F, and G, the answers to which I wouldn't have had a clue.

                    If I can throw in my tuppence worth re edits, far better I think to quote the original in a new post, with amended information and hercule, you have to admit, has nothing on Poirot when it comes to detective work!

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                    • rubbernecker
                      #2500
                      Originally posted by Anna View Post
                      and hercule, you have to admit, has nothing on Poirot when it comes to detective work!
                      I'm afraid I disagree. I think he has proved eminently worthy of the name.

                      Welcome back, Anna. Please solve Caliban's I and thereby let us off the hook tonight!

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26527
                        #2501
                        Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                        I'm afraid I disagree. I think he has proved eminently worthy of the name.
                        I think that's what Anna meant, isn't it? It's certainly my view too! His little grey cells often make me feel I have porridge in my skull.
                        "...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
                          • 26527
                          #2502
                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          What "I" connects musical gentlemen from Middlesex, Saxony and Yorkshire all of whom were born (but only one of whom died) in the 19th century?
                          I could add a fourth gentleman, this one from Catalonia, who was also born in the 19th century but died in the 20th. Indeed it was this instance of the I which inspired me as it figures on the sleeve of a CD which I had just been given unexpectedly
                          "...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
                            #2503
                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            I think that's what Anna meant, isn't it? It's certainly my view too! His little grey cells often make me feel I have porridge in my skull.
                            Oh Gosh! That's exactly what I meant. Hercule has an Enormous Brain and is Very Clever.

                            I am just going to collapse with a pizza, a glass of Rioja and a soap or two. Waterloo Road and Masterchef, if you must ask. Anything else is quite beyond me at the moment.

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26527
                              #2504
                              Originally posted by Anna View Post
                              I am just going to collapse with a pizza, a glass of Rioja and a soap or two. Waterloo Road and Masterchef, if you must ask. Anything else is quite beyond me at the moment.
                              It's a winning mental image you conjure up! Enjoy! Dare I say: chuf chuf....
                              "...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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                              • vinteuil
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 12801
                                #2505
                                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                                I could add a fourth gentleman, this one from Catalonia, who was also born in the 19th century but died in the 20th. Indeed it was this instance of the I which inspired me as it figures on the sleeve of a CD which I had just been given unexpectedly
                                Isaac Albeniz springs to mind - but I'm stumped for Yorkshire, Middlesex, or Saxon Isaacs...

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