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  • Don Petter
    #2506
    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    That'll do it!
    You're right!

    It was quite enough for me to confuse Hermione Gingold with Yvonne Arnaud.

    (Damn! There's another 'Y' I can't use now ...)

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    • Norfolk Born
      #2507
      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      Feeling in particularly mischievous mood, Ofca???
      Mischievous - moi? Not particularly.
      EDIT: Well, maybe just a bit.
      RE-EDIT: Well, fairly.
      DE-EDIT: No, maybe 'just a bit' is right after all.

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26350
        #2508
        Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
        Isaac Albeniz springs to mind - but I'm stumped for Yorkshire, Middlesex, or Saxon Isaacs...
        He does not spring to your mind in vain. Very much the Catalonian connection... But Isaac is not the "I" concerned. Probably a little late now. More in the morning folks, sorry to have left the shop unattended this 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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        • mercia
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8920
          #2509
          just read something funny about Albeniz

          "In 1880 he went to Budapest to study with Liszt only to discover that Liszt was in Weimar"

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26350
            #2510
            Originally posted by hercule View Post
            just read something funny about Albeniz

            "In 1880 he went to Budapest to study with Liszt only to discover that Liszt was in Weimar"


            that is very funny.

            Pity the "I" in question isn't "idiot"....


            PS Talking of idiots, did you know that French Président Nicolas Sarkozy's ex-wife Cécilia was Albéniz's great grand-daughter?
            Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 10-03-11, 10:01.
            "...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
              • 26350
              #2511
              Tumbleweed time again. Anyone want clues???
              "...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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              • Norfolk Born
                #2512
                Is it something to do with the International Brigade? Albeniz wrote something, Walton contributed to an exhibition, and Berlin-, i.e. Saxony-born Alexander Goehr's in there somewhere...
                (EDIT) Moeran's name has just cropped up in connection with his symphony and the IB. He was born in Heston (Middlesex).
                I once met a former International Brigade commander, by the way.
                (EDIT) Having re-read your question, I guess it's unlikely that anybody who died in the 19th century would have had any connection with the International Brigade.
                Last edited by Guest; 10-03-11, 13:43.

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26350
                  #2513
                  Originally posted by OFCACHAP View Post
                  Is it something to do with the International Brigade? Albeniz wrote something, Walton contributed to an exhibition, and Berlin-, i.e. Saxony-born Alexander Goehr's in there somewhere...
                  (EDIT) Moeran's name has just cropped up in connection with his symphony and the IB. He was born in Heston (Middlesex).
                  I once met a former International Brigade commander, by the way.
                  (EDIT) Having re-read your question, I guess it's unlikely that anybody who died in the 19th century would have had any connection with the International Brigade.
                  No that's a dead end I'm afraid.

                  Would it help if I narrowed it down from regions to towns? So in order, the gentlemen concerned are from London, Leipzig and Bradford. The "I" in question is musical (but can also be poetic).
                  "...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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                  • subcontrabass
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 2780
                    #2514
                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    No that's a dead end I'm afraid.

                    Would it help if I narrowed it down from regions to towns? So in order, the gentlemen concerned are from London, Leipzig and Bradford. The "I" in question is musical (but can also be poetic).
                    I can get an Idyll for Wagner (born Leipzig, "Siegfried Idyll") and Delius (born Bradford, "Idyll de Printemps").

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26350
                      #2515
                      Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                      I can get an Idyll for Wagner (born Leipzig, "Siegfried Idyll") and Delius (born Bradford, "Idyll de Printemps").
                      And you get two s. Idyll indeed. Any more for any more?
                      "...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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                      • subcontrabass
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 2780
                        #2516
                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        And you get two s. Idyll indeed. Any more for any more?
                        Digging around in Grove suggests Henry Balfour Gardiner (born London, "A Berkshire Idyll").

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                        • rubbernecker
                          #2517
                          Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                          Digging around in Grove suggests Henry Balfour Gardiner (born London, "A Berkshire Idyll").
                          ...and George Butterworth, also born in London, is another possibility. As has been pointed out, Moeran was Middlesex-born, but I don't think he wrote any Idylls. Surprising really, as every other b*gger seems to have done

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26350
                            #2518
                            Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                            ...and George Butterworth, also born in London, is another possibility. As has been pointed out, Moeran was Middlesex-born, but I don't think he wrote any Idylls. Surprising really, as every other b*gger seems to have done
                            Balfour Gardiner and Butterworth would both do, indeed. It was Butterworth I was thinking of. Are there really many other Middlesex-born b*ggers who wrote Idylls??? I challenge you to name two others.

                            And Albeniz was the Catalan: the second of his Catalan Scenes for Orchestra was "Idylle - Andante quasi allegro"

                            That's enough Idylls (Ed.)

                            Anyway I hope subcontrabass is planning his/her "J" question.
                            "...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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                            • subcontrabass
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 2780
                              #2519
                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post


                              Anyway I hope subcontrabass is planning his "J" question.

                              What Jwas uniquely linked to a German composer, and was also linked to a Scottish department store, and (according to his father) also linked to a Gloucestershire doctor?

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                              • mercia
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8920
                                #2520
                                anything to do with Brahms?

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