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Lateralthinking1
Hello to both of you. I hope you are having a good day.
Yes, it is the Enigma Variations, first performed at St James's Hall, London in 1899, and, of course, confounding the critics.
In the twentieth century, some critics, most notably Ian Parrott in his book on Elgar, argued that the Enigma could be linked to 1 Corinthians 13:12 : "For now we see through a glass, darkly but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."
Tristan O'Donnell is the young man from Brooklyn who calls himself "Guilty Ghosts" and recorded his own Enigma Variations this year in his home. He says that his music "fuses somber washes of drone guitar with minimalist drum programming, creating a unique style of lo-fi instrumental bedroom pop. Guilty Ghosts’ songs are the kind fit for rainy days, everlasting evenings, and melancholy moments in solitude.”
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Simon
Well, for an organist the third is easy - it's Bach's Little Fugue! But I've had to look up the others and apart from BVW 401 being in F, they don't seem to fit.
Then I thought of Mozart - and K401 is also a fugue, though I wouldn't have recognised the K number without checking.
But 133 has got me stumped: D numbers don't help, so it isn't Schubert. Scarlatti?
But my answer has to be Fugue, unless the Bach/Mozart connection is coincidental.
Ah - Beethoven - Op 133 - that blasted Gross Fugue that I dislike so much!!! Got it!
Nice one, subcontra!
NB I posted all the above over 15 minutes or so, whilst I thought. So you all have an example of how my mind works, if you'll pardon the overstatement.
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Simon
Nice touch, subcontra.
Here it is, then.
One word.
What G links the words "et", "in" and "you're"?
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rubbernecker
Well, I guess we are talking Latin for the first two, something like: "Quo fas et Gloria duc*nt" and "In Gloria dei patri" and the first two words of this for the third: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=355Fk8drgZE
Aaah, that takes me back. Laura's legs were something else.
Herewith my poser:
One word answer; which H connects a work by a Danish Flautist, an excerpt from Bradford's most famous musical son and a gipsy song by Brahms?
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Simon
Yep - Laura Branningan was a dream of my teen years, too!
For the sake of accuracy, the simple(r) answer was that they are all words that follow "Gloria" - Gloria et Filii (and Glory to the Son), Gloria in Excelsis and the first words of Brannigan's biggest hit - "Gloria, you're always on the run now..."
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rubbernecker
Blimey! I thought that would keep the thread quiet for at least 24 hrs by which time I would have to post another clue...
Well done, Ofcachap. Hirondelle is indeed correct. L'Hirondelle is a piece by Dane Joachim Andersen, which is of course the French for a swallow, Late Swallows was a movement arrd. by Eric Fenby from Delius's 2nd string quartet, and then we had a German swallow in the form of Brahms's Liebe Schwalbe, kleine Schwalbe from his Op.112. But you knew all that, you clever chap, Ofcachap.
So, now hit us between the I's...
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Norfolk Born
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