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  • Flay
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 5795

    Originally posted by Northender View Post
    ...and the Revue de Cuisine, to go with the Frescoes of PdF and the scherzo for orchestra called Thunderbolt P-47.
    And also wrote Špalíček - "a ballet of national games, customs and fairy tales."

    I had thought of an N but am now at work so it is just as well Northo saved me

    What a clever question!
    I suppose it was grudge grudge......
    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26516

      Originally posted by Northender View Post
      ...and the Revue de Cuisine, to go with the Frescoes of PdF and the scherzo for orchestra called Thunderbolt P-47.
      What a clever question!
      Why thank you. The eclectic work and titles of Mr Martinu are well-adapted to the composition of AA questions

      N for Northo
      "...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
        • 26516

        Originally posted by Flay View Post
        I suppose it was grudge grudge......
        "...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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        • Northender

          Here's my 'N':
          From the top: George Grossmith, Peter Pears, Giovani Zenatello and Mary Martin.

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          • mercia
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8920

            Originally posted by Northender View Post
            Here's my 'N':
            From the top: George Grossmith, Peter Pears, Giovani Zenatello and Mary Martin.

            Nellie ?

            ... Farren or Bromley appearing with George Grossmith [in what I'm not sure]
            ... Carson, a colleague of Pears in the English Singers
            ... Melba appearing with Zenatello [in what I'm not sure]
            the first Nellie Forbush in South Pacific was Mary Martin


            EDIT - second thoughts, that can't be right if they're supposed to be in chronological order
            unless it's a bit of wordplay - 'top' meaning circus - Nellie the elephant etc.
            Last edited by mercia; 09-10-12, 09:02.

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            • Northender

              As far as the overall link goes, I'm afraid it's a case of 'Not on your Nellie', but Mary Martin's role in South Pacific is relevant.

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              • mercia
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8920

                <doh>

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                • mercia
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8920

                  Originally posted by Northender View Post
                  Mary Martin's role in South Pacific is relevant.
                  Forbush is [apparently] a place in North Carolina - sorry, I'm guessing wildly

                  anything to do with Zenatello being the first Pinkerton ?

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                  • Northender

                    Originally posted by mercia View Post
                    Forbush is [apparently] a place in North Carolina - sorry, I'm guessing wildly

                    anything to do with Zenatello being the first Pinkerton ?

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                    • mercia
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8920

                      a-ha!! very clever !! Naval ranks

                      Captain Vere - Pears in Billy Budd
                      Lieutenant Pinkerton - Zenatello
                      First Lord of the Admiralty - Pinafore - Grossmith

                      just working on Forbush .................
                      EDIT - a nurse of unknown rank ?

                      sorry all in the wrong order
                      Last edited by mercia; 09-10-12, 10:38.

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                      • Northender

                        Ensign Nellie Forbush...and you've already given us a
                        - Lord High Admiral (Grossmith, HMS Pinafore)
                        - Captain (Pears, Billy Budd)
                        - Lieutenant (Zenatallo, Madam Butterfly)
                        Over to you!

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                        • mercia
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8920

                          Originally posted by Northender View Post
                          Ensign Nellie Forbush
                          ah, an ensign, I missed that. very neat question.
                          sorry, will have to sidestep O ..... this is rather obscure


                          a P to connect

                          the wintry location of Reed's Trapeze
                          the Girl from Arles suites
                          a double-barreled Apache

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                          • Anna

                            Ooh, I've seen that film! But I'm not sure the answer is that simple, as applied to the two other clues?

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                            • mercia
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8920

                              Originally posted by Anna View Post
                              I'm not sure the answer is that simple
                              I can gently lead you by the hand

                              where was it apparently mainly filmed ? [a building]

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                              • Anna

                                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                                I can gently lead you by the handwhere was it apparently mainly filmed ? [a building]
                                Well, at Cirque d'Hiver (Winter Circus) I think Trapeze is the sort of film to watch late Sunday on a Winter afternoon after a satisfying roast dinner and a good bottle of Burgandy and never mind the washing up, don't you? With possibly some good chocolate. But, that is not the answer! Double-barreled Apache, etc., I have no idea.

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