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I was all proud thinking it was Mozart's 'Turkish' violin concerto (not that it got me to a U) but then I found out that was No 5...
"...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..."
I was all proud thinking it was Mozart's 'Turkish' violin concerto (not that it got me to a U) but then I found out that was No 5...
Same cul-de-sac here at Ferney Towers; Saint-Saens useless, too.
39 years ago was 1974.
Just thought I'd mention it.
(Incidentally, a rude child once intimated that "cul-de-sac" was actually snigger-worthy in French. Was he correct? If so, what polite term do the French use for their dead-end streets? And don't say "Marseilles"!)
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Same cul-de-sac here at Ferney Towers; Saint-Saens useless, too.
39 years ago was 1974.
Just thought I'd mention it.
(Incidentally, a rude child once intimated that "cul-de-sac" was actually snigger-worthy in French. Was he correct? If so, what polite term do the French use for their dead-end streets? And don't say "Marseilles"!)
Again maybe slightly misleading - 39 years or so between the start and the event that,as with most Unfinished, left it unfinished.......
(Incidentally, a rude child once intimated that "cul-de-sac" was actually snigger-worthy in French. Was he correct? If so, what polite term do the French use for their dead-end streets? And don't say "Marseilles"!)
A rude but learnèd child: yes, it just means 'bag arse' in French - no relevance to streets whatever. A dead-end in French is une impasse or une voie sans issue...
"...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..."
not quite sure what that sentence means but if it means Mozart is involved there is that Turkish third movement of that piano sonata - alla turca
only Hoddinott-related Us I can find are University College, Cardiff and a piece called Lady and Unicorn
so, 39 years between a work remaining unfinished and the death of the composer ??
EDIT - just been reading about Schubert's unfinished. apparently 37 years elapsed between his death and Mr Huttenbrenner revealing the symphony's existence.
"...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..."
I keep coming back to Viola but not sure why. Viola a character in the Tempest? Lots of organ stops called viola xxxx. Trevor's velocipede...Trevor Pinnock....a cycle of some music or other ?
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