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  • vinteuil
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12844

    Originally posted by Flay View Post
    Well yes, he certainly was naughty, .
    There was a naughty boy,
    A naughty boy was he,
    He would not stop at home,
    He could not quiet be-
    He took
    In his knapsack
    A book
    Full of vowels
    And a shirt
    With some towels,
    A slight cap
    For night cap,
    A hair brush,
    Comb ditto,
    New stockings-
    For old ones
    Would split O!
    This knapsack
    Tight at 'is back
    He rivetted close
    And followed his nose
    To the North,
    To the North,
    And followed his nose
    To the North.

    There was a naughty boy,
    And a naughty boy was he,
    He ran away to Scotland
    The people for to see-
    There he found
    That the ground
    Was as hard,
    That a yard
    Was as long,
    That a song
    Was as merry,
    That a cherry
    Was as red-
    That lead
    Was as weighty
    That fourscore
    Was as eighty,
    That a door
    Was as wooden
    As in England-
    So he stood in his shoes
    And he wondered,
    He wondered,
    He stood in his shoes
    And he wondered.

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    • vinteuil
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 12844

      Originally posted by Flay View Post

      a lush début
      ... might that be a Lush début, he earnestly enquires

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      • Flay
        Full Member
        • Mar 2007
        • 5795

        Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
        ... might that be a Lush début, he earnestly enquires
        Yes, vinny, it might just be.

        I enjoyed the Keats thanks. I stood in my shoes and wondered too.
        Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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        • Flay
          Full Member
          • Mar 2007
          • 5795

          Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
          ... might that be a Lush début, he earnestly enquires
          Pray tell me what you were thinking about, vignoble.
          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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          • Flay
            Full Member
            • Mar 2007
            • 5795

            Originally posted by Flay View Post
            A very naughty boy, a C that was high and true, and a lush début
            A little push is needed. The C in question was unusually sung usually, for a tenner.

            And who was a very naughty boy? I know you know this
            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26538

              Originally posted by Flay View Post
              Sorry, Mrs Flay is on the scent, suspecting that I am distracted here and not houseworking....

              Let's have 3 Ds that sound the same:

              A very naughty boy, a C that was high and true, and a lush début

              I love the mental picture you conjure of the diligent and no doubt absolutely enchanting Mrs F

              Drawing together the odd thread strewn about today...

              Ernest Lush the pianist is presumably involved. Can't find a D associated with his début save that the conductor was Dan Godfrey...

              Is the very naughty boy Miles from 'Turn of the Screw'? As per the "Malo, malo" aria...? But I can't find any Ds linked...

              Pathetic effort for a Sunday evening, I apologise!
              "...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

                I love the mental picture you conjure of the diligent and no doubt absolutely enchanting Mrs F

                Drawing together the odd thread strewn about today...

                Ernest Lush the pianist is presumably involved. Can't find a D associated with his début save that the conductor was Dan Godfrey...

                Is the very naughty boy Miles from 'Turn of the Screw'? As per the "Malo, malo" aria...? But I can't find any Ds linked...

                Pathetic effort for a Sunday evening, I apologise!
                Perhaps it wasn't his début...
                The naughty boy is a quote from a film I'm sure you enjoyed...
                The tenor impressed his colleagues by hitting a high C truly, not falsely...
                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                • Flay
                  Full Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 5795

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                  I love the mental picture you conjure of the diligent and no doubt absolutely enchanting Mrs F
                  ]
                  Enchanting as in the occult?

                  Pathetic effort for a Sunday evening, I apologise! ]
                  Your own lips have said it. What more can I say?
                  Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26538

                    Originally posted by Flay View Post
                    Perhaps it wasn't his début...
                    The naughty boy is a quote from a film I'm sure you enjoyed...
                    The tenor impressed his colleagues by hitting a high C truly, not falsely...
                    Ah! "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"

                    Brian... Life of... Graham. Chapman. Terry. Jones. Monty. Python. Crucifixion. Bright. Side.

                    Can't presently find a D...

                    Tenors are a little outside my comfort-zone, by and large...

                    So Ernest Lush played at some one else's début...or premièred a piece....

                    Tricky, this!!!!
                    "...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
                      • 26538

                      Originally posted by Flay View Post
                      Your own lips have said it. What more can I say?




                      "...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 Flay View Post
                        Perhaps it wasn't his début...
                        apparently Ernest Lush accompanied Jacqueline du Pre at her Wigmore Hall debut
                        in La fille du regiment, Tonio impresses his mates (in the army) with a succession of high Cs ["Ah, mes amis"]
                        This aria was one that first brought Pavarotti to attention at Covent Garden. Flores is more than capable as he hits the notes with ease.I was there the nig...



                        John du Prez I guess
                        Last edited by mercia; 15-10-12, 04:57.

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                        • Flay
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 5795

                          Very good, mercs! 2 out of 3. But not La Fille. I am after another surname, sounding the same but spelt differently.
                          Last edited by Flay; 15-10-12, 05:17.
                          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                          • mercia
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8920

                            Originally posted by Flay View Post
                            another surname, sounding the same but spelt differently.
                            Gilbert Duprez - "who famously pioneered the delivery of the operatic high C from the chest."


                            In 1831, in Lucca, Duprez took part in the premiere Italian performance of Guglielmo Tell, singing for the first time (in an opera theatre) a high C sung not in the so-called falsettone register, as other tenors of that time were accustomed to do, but with a full voice, often described as coming "from the chest".

                            ?

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                            • Flay
                              Full Member
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 5795

                              No ? about it, mercs. He's the one!

                              I envy the abilities and career of John Du Prez (born Trevor Jones!):



                              Last week I was revisiting a video of nursery rhymes he was involved in, still available as a CD



                              You can see it in bits here *:

                              Floella Benjamin, Mike Berry, Martin Carthy, Shirley Collins, Valentine Dyall, Percy Edwards, Bev Sager, Isla St Clair and the children of Britannia Row


                              Pictorially it is simple and basic but my kids loved it. The musical production is excellent. It's available as a CD too. A must for every child.

                              * These views were made by some kind person from an old video recording - this is not as it would appear in the DVD.
                              Last edited by Flay; 15-10-12, 06:51. Reason: Caveat (*) added & youtube reference improved
                              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                              • Flay
                                Full Member
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 5795

                                Kindly Elucidate an E please, mercs.
                                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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