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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26516

    Originally posted by Flay View Post
    Snakes alive! Are you going on a night flight?
    Bit of late night clubbing for Am51, sounds like...
    "...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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    • Flay
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 5795

      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      Bit of late night clubbing for Am51, sounds like...
      I was thinking about Night Flight from Moscow (or Le Serpent). Never mind
      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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      • Flay
        Full Member
        • Mar 2007
        • 5795

        Originally posted by Flay View Post
        I was thinking about Night Flight from Moscow (or Le Serpent). Never mind
        Oh booger, I misread! Not George Cukor
        Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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        • Flay
          Full Member
          • Mar 2007
          • 5795

          Song Without End is next on the Liszt
          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26516

            Originally posted by Flay View Post
            Not George Cukor
            Why not?

            I have no brain cells left for this question. I'm just looking on and sending in a few encouraging remarks
            "...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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            • Flay
              Full Member
              • Mar 2007
              • 5795

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              Why not?

              I have no brain cells left for this question. I'm just looking on and sending in a few encouraging remarks
              Serpents wasn't, but Song without End was (following the death of Charles Vidor, whose batteries ran out - he should have used Duracell)
              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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              • Lateralthinking1

                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                I got the impression the lateral was bursting to set a question
                but I guess rules is rules



                R connecting

                Berlin Philharmonic 1945-52
                Bournemouth Symphony 1962-69
                Yniold debut 1964
                I had composed an easy (ish) Q question. Don't we do those? It looks like it went on to R.

                (What Q connects Cliff Richard, Harrison Birtwistle and the San Francisco Opera?)

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26516

                  Originally posted by Lateralthinking1 View Post
                  I had composed an easy (ish) Q question. Don't we do those? It looks like it went on to R.

                  (What Q connects Cliff Richard, Harrison Birtwistle and the San Francisco Opera?)
                  Yes we do! Don't know what happened to Q... Perhaps we can jump back to your Q once S is solved - call it the Lateral Double-Flip...
                  "...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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                  • Lateralthinking1

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    Yes we do! Don't know what happened to Q... Perhaps we can jump back to your Q once S is solved - call it the Lateral Double-Flip...
                    That is generous. Thanks Caliban.

                    A lucky moment for me as I didn't get the "P" question right although my answer made a certain kind of sense.

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26516

                      Originally posted by Lateralthinking1 View Post
                      That is generous. Thanks Caliban.

                      A lucky moment for me as I didn't get the "P" question right although my answer made a certain kind of sense.
                      Just a suggestion! Others may disagree!

                      But if mercia gets this S in the early hours, as is his wont, he'll be only too glad to hand over, of that I'm reasonably sure!

                      Caliban out! Night all.
                      "...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

                        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                        The Englishman is a composer/conductor of his own compositions and the dedicatee was known affectionately as Billy
                        well that makes me think of W H Billy Reed to whom Elgar dedicated Sospiri - then we have a study by Liszt called Sospiri

                        EDIT - the thrd of Liszt's concert etudes is called Un Sospiro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_Sospiro
                        apparently the fifth of the 5 Klavierstucke S.192 is called Sospiri

                        then I'm a bit confused

                        Dr Sparrow aka Dirk Bogarde starred in Death in Venice, that city having the Ponte dei Sospiri, but unless Visconti was known as George to his pals, that must be the wrong film

                        where have I gone wrong ?
                        Last edited by mercia; 05-09-12, 05:57.

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                        • Flay
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 5795

                          Originally posted by mercia View Post

                          then I'm a bit confused

                          where have I gone wrong ?
                          That's what happens when you Q jump!
                          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                          • amateur51

                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            Bit of late night clubbing for Am51, sounds like...
                            not even a light tapping on a soft-boiled egg alas, just inexplicably tired so Noddington Junction for me - it's ok for you youngsters

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                            • amateur51

                              Originally posted by mercia View Post
                              well that makes me think of W H Billy Reed to whom Elgar dedicated Sospiri - then we have a study by Liszt called Sospiri

                              EDIT - the thrd of Liszt's concert etudes is called Un Sospiro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_Sospiro
                              apparently the fifth of the 5 Klavierstucke S.192 is called Sospiri

                              then I'm a bit confused

                              Dr Sparrow aka Dirk Bogarde starred in Death in Venice, that city having the Ponte dei Sospiri, but unless Visconti was known as George to his pals, that must be the wrong film

                              where have I gone wrong ?
                              Sospiri/o it is, mecs - well done!

                              Elgar wrote Sospiri & dedicated it to WH 'Billy' Reed - a very haunting piece, very short, worth investigating if you don't know it

                              Liszt wrote Un Sospiro, a study

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                              • amateur51

                                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                                well that makes me think of W H Billy Reed to whom Elgar dedicated Sospiri - then we have a study by Liszt called Sospiri

                                EDIT - the thrd of Liszt's concert etudes is called Un Sospiro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_Sospiro
                                apparently the fifth of the 5 Klavierstucke S.192 is called Sospiri

                                then I'm a bit confused

                                Dr Sparrow aka Dirk Bogarde starred in Death in Venice, that city having the Ponte dei Sospiri, but unless Visconti was known as George to his pals, that must be the wrong film

                                where have I gone wrong ?
                                Just the wrong fillum, young mercs ... nice idea ...

                                Dirk Bogarde starred in a filmed life of Liszt Song Without End directed by George Cukor, which used Un Sospiro as part of the soundtrack - as suggested by Messrs (and they don't come much messier ) Flay and RM

                                So well done, I think whichever letter is next, after Caliban's negotiations with Lats on behalf of the alphabet, should apply.

                                I'm out for most of today, hence my wish to get this tidied up promptly

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