Originally posted by Flay
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Not a "pretty" woman, just a woman (maybe on a cycle)
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That'd be Delius' A Mass of Life's Dance
<doh> What a load of old ... Schumann, Frauenliebe und Leben. (Incomparably well sung at the first Edinburgh Festival by the gorgeous Kathleen!
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So much <doh> you could bake a loaf! But you are correct in all of your answers!Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostThat'd be Delius' A Mass of Life's Dance
<doh> What a load of old ... Schumann, Frauenliebe und Leben. (Incomparably well sung at the first Edinburgh Festival by the gorgeous Kathleen!
No need for that Googling, RM. You are reprieved.
EDIT: Not a mass, it's a symphonic poem isn't it?
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But using inverted commas you could have searched terms like "composed life" along with key words like "music" "classical" etcOriginally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
This could give you Giya Kancheli: Life without Christmas
....but you would have been wrong.
(booger, that would have been a good one to use
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A small attempt at humour: Delius also wrote the choral work A Mass of Life.Originally posted by Flay View PostNot a mass, it's a symphonic poem isn't it?
Moving on:
An M to connect Zander; a supersonic Piano Sonata; and Robert Ward's Pulitzer Prize (set in Sheffield?)[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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You're always a step ahead!Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostA small attempt at humour: 
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Originally posted by Flay View Post(booger, that would have been a good one to use )
L'esprit d'escalier exemplified!"...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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M for a well-stocked dentists' store-room?Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
Massachusetts?
Benjamin Zander: musical connections with New England Conservatory & Boston, Mass.
Ives's piano sonata: named 'for' Concord, Mass.
Ward's opera 'The Crucible': based on Miller's play about the witch trials in Salem, Mass.
"...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 Caliban View PostM for a well-stocked dentists' store-room?
Massachusetts?
Benjamin Zander: musical connections with New England Conservatory & Boston, Mass.
Ives's piano sonata: named 'for' Concord, Mass.
Ward's opera 'The Crucible': based on Miller's play about the witch trials in Salem, Mass.
Is this Rumpole on fire so early in the evening?Comment
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Stand well back!Originally posted by antongould View Post
"...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 Caliban View Post
WOW!Massachusetts?
Benjamin Zander: musical connections with New England Conservatory & Boston, Mass.
Ives's piano sonata: named 'for' Concord, Mass.
Ward's opera 'The Crucible': based on Miller's play about the witch trials in Salem, Mass.
Perfect in every detail, with particularly creamy coleslaw (that "named for" the special sprig of fennal that makes all the difference!)
Nothing to add except to hand you the N.
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Cor... such plaudits... my whelm has seldom been further over...Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
WOW!
Perfect in every detail, with particularly creamy coleslaw (that "named for" the special sprig of fennal that makes all the difference!)
Nothing to add except to hand you the N.
OK then... I'm sure we've had this before, but perhaps not in this form
An N to link Igor, Franz and Manning.
I suspect this won't delay you too long...
"...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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Might Florence know the answer?Originally posted by Caliban View PostCor... such plaudits... my whelm has seldom been further over...
OK then... I'm sure we've had this before, but perhaps not in this form
An N to link Igor, Franz and Manning.
I suspect this won't delay you too long...Comment
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Originally posted by antongould View Post
You're smoking this evening yourself, anton....
Care to do the honourable thing?
"...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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I think we have your F Liszt with a setting of the Nightingale by Alyabyev
I Stravinsky with his opera the Nightingale
M Sherwin wrote the music to the wonderful A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square words by the BBC's own Eric Maschwitz / Holt Marvell.Comment
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"...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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