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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Just 'avin a larf, Mr RM, just 'avin a larf.Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
(But you must admit it is astonishing all the same!)Pacta sunt servanda !!!Comment
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OKOriginally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
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 SaxonyComment
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Dontcha just hate those cryptic clues!!Originally posted by mercia 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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Totally BezirkOriginally posted by Caliban View PostDontcha just hate those cryptic clues!!Pacta sunt servanda !!!Comment
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Just have to keep chipping away until they're cracked.Originally posted by Caliban View PostDontcha just hate those cryptic clues!!Comment
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Dresden Opera House ...the Semperoper.
Good clue!
I did think about conductors but didn't get very far.Comment
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Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
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 yesComment
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An E to link wood, woody and oak.Comment
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Ebony Concerto written for Woody Herman orchestra for Clarinet (Played by Benny Goodman) which is woodwind.Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
Oak - not felled yet!Comment
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One of the Dumbarton ones perchance? But why E....Originally posted by cloughie View Post
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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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).
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Flay - glad you liked LNOP - seems like there's me and you and 'appen a couple of others on these boards that did.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).Comment
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The Ebony Concerto was written by Stravinsky! So that's the Oaks connection.Originally posted by cloughie View Post
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