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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26574

    Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
    Here's two more clues.

    Citrus fruit.

    West Side Story.

    That's three clues in total since 18.30

    Off to the land of nod now....
    Oh... so Cinderella isn't a clue...

    Hot Gabriel

    Citrus fruit

    West Side Story.....


    .... a Doctor is what we're looking for (just had to look that up... )

    I can't link any of those clues with the only Doctors I'd though of...

    Doctor Coppelius from Tales of Hoffmann

    Dr Marianus from Goethe / Mahler 8...

    Another way of putting is that I am totally and utterly stumped

    "...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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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26574

      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
      No; as you were. "Citrus Fruit" = orange groves; "West Side Story" based on R & J; "opera with long name" - it all seemed to be holding together ...

      ... but there's no Ryddu "Doctor" in A Village Romeo and Juliet!




      He's a byggur old RM ain't he?!

      I like it.

      This is a question about Doctors! Where the hell's Flay when you need him?

      Never a medic around when you need one

      "...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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      • Flay
        Full Member
        • Mar 2007
        • 5795

        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        ! Where the hell's Flay when you need him?

        Never a medic around when you need one



        Here I am, on a self-imposed exile, just lurking. I haven't a clue about the D!

        And I have a busy schedule for the rest of the week, so you're on your own, mates!
        Last edited by Flay; 31-01-13, 07:12.
        Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26574

          Originally posted by Flay View Post
          http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ryrLyMU3yl...0-h/doctor.gif

          Here I am, on a self-imposed exile, just lurking. I haven't a clue about the D!

          And I have a busy schedule for the rest of the week, so you're on your own, mates!
          Bon courage, Doctor F. And the rest of us!
          "...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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          • cloughie
            Full Member
            • Dec 2011
            • 22189

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            Bon courage, Doctor F. And the rest of us!
            Has Delius been discounted - Florida Suite, Village R&J, Mass of Life.

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            • Resurrection Man

              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
              No; as you were. "Citrus Fruit" = orange groves; "West Side Story" based on R & J; "opera with long name" - it all seemed to be holding together ...

              ... but there's no Ryddu "Doctor" in A Village Romeo and Juliet!
              Close...so very very close.

              Doctor Faustus appears in the very long title of an opera. Now this is in the alternative name for the opera....the more usual name of which I have already given one of the words to you. The composer who wrote this opera also wrote other operas and some ballet music...................

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              • mercia
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8920

                Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
                The composer who wrote this opera also wrote other operas and some ballet music...................
                that doesn't narrow down the field enormously

                which century did this composer live ? which country ?

                is the word in the title you say you have already mentioned Gabriel ? or hot ? or fruit ?

                I know - tell us the message number in which that elusive word appears

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                • mercia
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8920

                  would it give away the answer if you told us which version of the Faust legend this long-titled opera is based on ?

                  Mann? Marlowe? Goethe?

                  wikipedia says Havergal Brian composed a Faust opera, but I've no idea of the title

                  EDIT - it's just called Faust

                  is the West Side Story clue telling us that this composer also tackled R & J ? or that the long-titled opera is set in New York ? or something else ?

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                  • Resurrection Man

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    Oh... so Cinderella isn't a clue...

                    ......

                    Are you sure?

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                    • mercia
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8920

                      <doh>

                      hot gabriel - Prokofiev Fiery Angel

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                      • Resurrection Man

                        Originally posted by mercia View Post
                        would it give away the answer if you told us which version of the Faust legend this long-titled opera is based on ?

                        Mann? Marlowe? Goethe?

                        wikipedia says Havergal Brian composed a Faust opera, but I've no idea of the title

                        EDIT - it's just called Faust

                        is the West Side Story clue telling us that this composer also tackled R & J ? or that the long-titled opera is set in New York ? or something else ?
                        Yes!! Perhaps reading one kind of fable is expecting variety initially?

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                        • Resurrection Man

                          Originally posted by mercia View Post
                          <doh>

                          hot gabriel - Prokofiev Fiery Angel

                          Yes! Well done...our posts crossed.

                          It is indeed the Fiery Angel or to give it the name that most people know it by...

                          ‘The Fiery Angel; or, a True Story in which is related of the Devil, not once but often appearing in the Image of a Spirit of Light to a Maiden and seducing her to Various and Many Sinful Deeds, of Ungodly Practices of Magic, Alchymy, Astrology, the Cabalistical Sciences and Necromancy, of the Trial of the Said Maiden under the Presidency of His Eminence the Archbishop of Trier, as well as of Encounters and Discourses with the Knight and thrice Doctor Agrippa of Nettesheim, and with Doctor Faustus, composed by an Eyewitness’

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                          • Flay
                            Full Member
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 5795

                            Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
                            ...Various and Many Sinful Deeds, of Ungodly Practices of Magic, Alchymy, Astrology, the Cabalistical Sciences and Necromancy...
                            I thought you had written Calibanistical!

                            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                            • mercia
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8920

                              so that was Doctor Faustus as depicted in

                              Thomas Mann's novel with the syphilitic composer Adrian Leverkuhn
                              Drury Lane pantomimes called Harlequin Doctor Faustus
                              and Prokofiev's Fiery Angel based on a Faustian novel by Valery Bryusov


                              probably not my turn, but an eeeasy E to connect

                              a grandson of Rugby's Arnold, a successor to Langdon Colborne and "A Tenderfoot in Colorado
                              "



                              caliban probably won't need to google any of that

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26574

                                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                                <doh>

                                hot gabriel - Prokofiev Fiery Angel
                                <DOH> indeed!!!



                                Veritably one of those that when you know the answer, you want to repeatedly!

                                RM, you must have been wondering 'how are these people not getting it?!'....

                                Good one, Rezza
                                "...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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