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  • Resurrection Man

    Where's the musical link? Or have I missed it and being a bit senile this afternoon...it has been known.

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    • Flay
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 5795

      Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
      Where's the musical link? Or have I missed it and being a bit senile this afternoon...it has been known.
      Just 'avin a larf, Mr RM, just 'avin a larf.

      (But you must admit it is astonishing all the same!)
      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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      • mercia
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8920

        Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
        Where's the musical link?
        OK

        we're after five consecutive conductors of a European orchestra, based in a city with porcelain/china connections, also World War II bombing connections

        Fritz Reiner 1914-21
        Fritz Busch 1922-33
        Karl Bohm 1934-43
        Karl Elmendorff 1943-44
        Joseph Keilberth 1945-50

        the city's name begins with D and is in Saxony
        Last edited by mercia; 12-09-12, 03:15. Reason: five, not four conductors :doh:

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26540

          Originally posted by mercia View Post
          OK

          we're after four consecutive conductors of a European orchestra, based in a city with porcelain/china connections, also World War II bombing connections

          Fritz Reiner 1914-21
          Fritz Busch 1922-33
          Karl Bohm 1934-43
          Karl Elmendorff 1943-44
          Joseph Keilberth 1945-50

          the city's name begins with D and is in Saxony
          Dontcha just hate those cryptic 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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          • Flay
            Full Member
            • Mar 2007
            • 5795

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            Dontcha just hate those cryptic clues!!
            Totally Bezirk
            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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            • cloughie
              Full Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 22127

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              Dontcha just hate those cryptic clues!!
              Just have to keep chipping away until they're cracked.

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              • Resurrection Man

                Dresden Opera House ...the Semperoper.

                Good clue!

                I did think about conductors but didn't get very far.

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                • mercia
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8920

                  Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
                  Dresden Opera House ...the Semperoper.
                  you know more than me

                  is being conductor at the opera house the same as being conductor of the Dresden Staatskapelle ?

                  ah, now I read the wikipedia article, the answer is yes

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                  • Resurrection Man

                    An E to link wood, woody and oak.

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                    • cloughie
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22127

                      Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
                      An E to link wood, woody and oak.
                      Ebony Concerto written for Woody Herman orchestra for Clarinet (Played by Benny Goodman) which is woodwind.

                      Oak - not felled yet!

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26540

                        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                        Ebony Concerto written for Woody Herman orchestra for Clarinet (Played by Benny Goodman) which is woodwind.

                        Oak - not felled yet!
                        One of the Dumbarton ones perchance? But why E....

                        Eeeeegor Stravinsky?

                        "...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


                          Eeeeegor Stravinsky?



                          Thank goodness it isn't Eeeeeno yet again!

                          Just in from the neighbour's 70th birthday celebration (that's why I didn't answer te Dresden clue which I had worked out like everybody else). They put the proms Last Night on the TV after a while . I enjoyed it! (Having not yet seen it).
                          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                          • cloughie
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2011
                            • 22127

                            Originally posted by Flay View Post


                            Thank goodness it isn't Eeeeeno yet again!

                            Just in from the neighbour's 70th birthday celebration (that's why I didn't answer te Dresden clue which I had worked out like everybody else). They put the proms Last Night on the TV after a while . I enjoyed it! (Having not yet seen it).
                            Flay - glad you liked LNOP - seems like there's me and you and 'appen a couple of others on these boards that did.

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                            • Flay
                              Full Member
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 5795

                              Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                              Ebony Concerto written for Woody Herman orchestra for Clarinet (Played by Benny Goodman) which is woodwind.

                              Oak - not felled yet!
                              The Ebony Concerto was written by Stravinsky! So that's the Oaks connection.
                              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                              • Resurrection Man

                                Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                                Ebony Concerto written for Woody Herman orchestra for Clarinet (Played by Benny Goodman) which is woodwind.

                                Oak - not felled yet!
                                Ooh, missus, he's good!

                                Right on all accounts. Cloughie has the F
                                Last edited by Guest; 12-09-12, 06:56.

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