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  • cloughie
    Full Member
    • Dec 2011
    • 22115

    Tidying the Coleslaw

    German(y) (Anna)

    Ralph and Gustav - VW and Holst (Cali) High Germany from Folk Song Suite and Somerset Rhapsody (mercia)
    Edward German Anna Henry VIII (mercia)
    Brahms German Requiem (mercia)

    H belongs to mercia on points!

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    • Anna

      well, there you are now. I got it completely wrong:
      I thought RVW was banned from Germany, Edward German (surname), Holst's family changing their German name, Brahms with German Requium and Henry Purcell employed Germans!

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      • cloughie
        Full Member
        • Dec 2011
        • 22115

        Originally posted by Anna View Post
        well, there you are now. I got it completely wrong:
        I thought RVW was banned from Germany, Edward German (surname), Holst's family changing their German name, Brahms with German Requium and Henry Purcell employed Germans!
        But you were the Germanic catalyst Anna - you set the hare running from Gloucestershire through to Somerset.

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        • Anna

          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
          But you were the Germanic catalyst Anna - you set the hare running from Gloucestershire through to Somerset.
          Oh, Bless cloughie! Ahem, embarrassment .....

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          • Flay
            Full Member
            • Mar 2007
            • 5795

            Ahem an H, Anna?
            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26524

              Originally posted by Flay View Post
              Ahem an H, Anna?


              Fat chance!

              Allow me...

              An H to link monochrome crows, ravens and swans
              "...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

                would it help to be able to speak Norwegian to answer this question ??

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26524

                  Originally posted by mercia View Post
                  would it help to be able to speak Norwegian to answer this question ??
                  I don't think it's essential - I didn't need any to set it... But on the other hand, you are geographically not a million miles off the mark
                  "...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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                  • Anna

                    I do apologise, I didn't see that I had been asked to do the Honours, I had a very early start this morning and have been out all day, first time I've had internet connection since yesterday is just now, sorry.
                    EDIT: OMG, OMG, I must get me to iplayer instantly!
                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    On a personal note, it gave a little 'frisson' to hear Caliban quoted a couple of times by AMcG on CD Review of a Saturday morning (but that was presumably specifically because it was from the 'official' R3 message board)
                    Last edited by Guest; 09-01-13, 17:22.

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26524

                      Originally posted by Anna View Post
                      EDIT: OMG, OMG, I must get me to iplayer instantly!
                      No... that was in the days of the old 'official' boards, was my point! Long vanished into the aether
                      Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 09-01-13, 18:27.
                      "...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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                      • Anna

                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        No... that was in the days of the old 'official' boards, was my point! Long vanished into the aether :sadly:
                        Oh, Cali, you are all smoke and mirrors I fear ...
                        I've had an awfully long day, must get something to eat and recharge. So, we are looking for Scandi composers, as mercia says, rather than film music or Edgar Allen Poe?

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26524

                          Originally posted by Anna View Post
                          Oh, Cali, you are all smoke and mirrors I fear ...
                          I've had an awfully long day, must get something to eat and recharge. So, we are looking for Scandi composers, as mercia says, rather than film music or Edgar Allen Poe?
                          Just one Scandiman. No fillums or Poe (not directly anyway).
                          "...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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                          • antongould
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8780

                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            Just one Scandiman. No fillums or Poe (not directly anyway).

                            Swans keeps leading one to J Sibelius - hardly awash with Hs........

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26524

                              Originally posted by antongould View Post
                              Swans keeps leading one to J Sibelius - hardly awash with Hs........
                              True. Mercia got the right country, though, which could help banish thoughts of Sibelius...

                              Bear in mind that the word monochrome indicated as similarity between swans and the other birds in a material respect.

                              "...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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                              • vinteuil
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 12797

                                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                                similarity between swans and the other birds in a material respect.

                                .... as might be



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