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I'm afraid Going for a song still only makes me think of that ancient TV antiques programme [with Max Robertson ?]
Oh yes, a favourite at home in my childhood - with Arthur Negus, and the theme music from Respighi's 'The Birds' (I checked - no Xs... ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJf2LyhsqpU
"...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..."
... the Respighi quotes from Rameau. Now if he had quoted from Couperin we might have had a chance for our old friend "Les Fastes de la grande et anciénne Mxnxstrxndxsx"
I'm afraid Going for a song still only makes me think of that ancient TV antiques programme [with Max Robertson ?]
what does going for a song mean ? inexpensive, a bargain ?
EDIT - apparently East is East is a Kipling quotation. I think there's only one Gunga Din film (?)
I'm stabbing wildly in the dark - I shall desist
OK - I have clearly made the clues too oblique - apologies (fools rush in...)
Going for a song - the composer is fond of writing for the human voice, and gives a clue to the name
Kipling quotation is confounded - East is East and West is West, and ne'er the twain shall meet
Unnatural but popular Classical subject for composition - English baroque composition but several compositions in twentieth century by continental composers.
"...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..."
Yes I think that is close enough Flay!
"Qu Xiao-song’s music has a crystal clarity and a love which embraces the magic cantilena handed down by Feldman, Takemitsu, Messiaen, Debussy, Chopin, Schubert and Mozart. Qu’s voice speaks softly in a world which has little time to revere silence and beauty. His music is as necessary for our sense of well being as it is for the continuation of the most elevated traditions themselves which he clearly respects."
- Roger Woodward
Please proceed with "A"!
I think I would be wise not to set any more clues for the foreseeable future - I'm a little too far off the beaten track!
I think I would be wise not to set any more clues for the foreseeable future - I'm a little too far off the beaten track!
Au contraire... Please keep your hand in, the line and length will come
"...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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