Great minds, rubbernecker, great minds.
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Looks like Simon and Rubbers may have similar hobbies...Originally posted by Simon View PostGreat minds, rubbernecker, great minds.
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IIMSS"...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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Adam, I think.Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
No 3 came immediately to mind as a lead on from Z: Adam Zero, the ballet by Arthur Bliss.
No 2 is Adam de la Halle, "dit Le Bossu", a thirteeth century composer and troubadour - cf http://adam-the-hunchback.blogspot.com/
As for No 1, I am presently stumped..... I am assuming Adolphe Adam but don't know why the regal pretensions.
Update: I do know why: his opera Si j'étais roi (1852) - "If I were the King"...
"...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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Oh, bravo, Caliban. Zero led me to Adam, too. Great minds, indeed... And the Adolphe Adam and Adam de la Halle answers are also spot-on.Originally posted by Caliban View Post
B, my guest...Comment
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excellent indeed Caliban I was, as often, lost in cyberspace!Comment
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Although I'm not playing at the moment can I express appreciation to rubbernecker our Archiver for updating the answers so far, which I have copied and pasted into a Word document. Most useful.Comment
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Apologies for the delay. Shortly after solving A, the day erupted with meetings etc. I shall endeavour to reassemble a few brain cells and come up with a B during the evening."...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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Just before going home, an easy (I think) B which links (among a host of others) the master of the bandoneon with those responsible for musical Voltaire and some unbelievable woodwind playing.
Will check back in an hour or so from now."...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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Astor Piazolla, Leonard Bernstein (Candide) and Walter Piston (The Incredible Flutist) were all pupils of Nadia Boulanger. She seems to have taught everybody, in fact.Comment
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What a prodigious display of quicksilver mental acuity, rubbers. I haven't even got on the bike yet.Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
Can you think of a C-word?
Update: I can"...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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What C connects a pianist who had a composer uncle, an imp who was ostracised, and the oldest picture palace in the world?Comment
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Curzon:Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
Clifford Curzon: nephew of Albert Ketelbey
Frederic Curzon: composer of "Dance of an Ostracised Imp"
Curzon Cinema, Clevedon (oldest cinema in continuous use in the world)Comment
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Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
I didn't think that would detain anyone very long.
Looking forward to a D from scb...
EDIT: and of course Clifford Curzon was another pupil of Nadia'sComment
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Blimey, it's lightning fast on AA tonight!Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
I didn't think that would detain anyone very long.
Looking forward to a D from scb...
EDIT: and of course Clifford Curzon was another pupil of Nadia's"...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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