Jazz musicians. Three saxophonists and a trumpeter.
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Thanks RR.
Think it might possibly be Xylophone, and Billy might be Billy Holiday. But then Jazzers started playing the vibrophone and put down the xylophone, so we are looking at the '30s era I guess.
Anyway, will have another "think", when my brain cells are up to it.Comment
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Cheers RMOriginally posted by Resurrection Man View PostOk then but you might regret it
An X please to link Ronnie, Billy, Al and Sam
We are I think in the land of Kubla Khan, are we not... in Xanadu...
Sax players Ronnie Cuber, Billy Mitchell and Al Cohn, and trumpeter Sam Noto, were among the Xanadu All-Stars at the Montreux Jazz Festival in the late 70s...
"...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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Smoooooth Caliban ... very smoooooth!Originally posted by Caliban View PostCheers RM
We are I think in the land of Kubla Khan, are we not... in Xanadu...
Sax players Ronnie Cuber, Billy Mitchell and Al Cohn, and trumpeter Sam Noto, were among the Xanadu All-Stars at the Montreux Jazz Festival in the late 70s...
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Oh well done, Caliban...brilliant, sir.Comment
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Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
Oh well done, Caliban...brilliant, sir.
That's very kind, but I think the real achievement is Mr Google's...
So: a Y I think...
The Master and Margarita coming out of Africa with a lamenting Tasso?"...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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The Master & Margarita is by York Höller;Originally posted by Caliban View Post
The superb score for Out of Africa was by York - born composer, John Barry (who deserves a CotW slot far more than ... [contd pg 78])
Janet Baker sang a wonderfully lamentatious Tasso several years after leaving York College for Girls.
... byggered if I can see any connection![FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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But how did you Google without any surnames?Originally posted by Caliban View Post
That's very kind, but I think the real achievement is Mr Google's...
So: a Y I think...
The Master and Margarita coming out of Africa with a lamenting Tasso?Comment
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Oh ferns, a tour de force, a veritable tour de forceOriginally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post 
Yes to York
Yes to Höller's opera
Yes to John Barry, glorious son of York
Yes he deserved a CotW slot more than... [q.v.]
The Janet Baker connection isn't what's on the card.
Any other composers you can think of called York?
"...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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Wiki can't be right??!! Jim Bowen wrote an orchestral piece Tasso Laments? Bully for him!Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
If you put the four first names into google and then add "x".... the google robots supply the answer by way of their often annoying suggestions...
You see: I have no merit at all bar low internet cunning..."...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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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post Time for a trip to Specsavers methinks!
Come on, get your clean sweep!
"...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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York Bowen, symphonic poem Tasso Laments.Originally posted by Caliban View Post Time for a trip to Specsavers methinks!
Come on, get your clean sweep!
... typed to the gentle snores of my far better half - a glorious sound much missed from Ferney Towers this past fortnight, and sweeter-sounding to my ears even than a Dunstable motet!
I suppose this means the Z is mine? I shall sleep on it and post in the morning. Zzzzzzz .....[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Do you mean ronnie billy al sam x or ronniex billyx etc? I tried both and made little headway. A very cunning search tool, though.Originally posted by Caliban View Post
If you put the four first names into google and then add "x".... the google robots supply the answer by way of their often annoying suggestions...
You see: I have no merit at all bar low internet cunning...
Presumably Ronald, William, Albert and Samuel would have Google stumped ?!Comment
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Very pleased to end that day on that touching note, following your Yorkist triumphOriginally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post 
Bonne nuit."...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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