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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26540

    Originally posted by antongould View Post
    Reading back have we not got it?
    Well Anna has got Naples as the N common to all.

    Riccardo Muti is the Neapolitan conductor with the broken jaw
    Scarlatti (Domenico) wrote 555 sonatas - no one's said it, but he was from Naples too.
    Element No 2 no one's got yet. Another Neapolitan, with a radiophonic first among his many notable musical achievements....

    If no one's got it in the morning, I can oblige.

    But Anna: you cracked it. Do favour us with a Thursday O

    "O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag....."
    "...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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    • Anna

      Well, the puzzle is still not finished and I'm not sure that I deserve an O as hercule got the Scarlatti and I only got the Muti, and I'm still floundering with the last part so perhaps hercule can now finish it off?

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      • Nick Armstrong
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        • Nov 2010
        • 26540

        Originally posted by Anna View Post
        Well, the puzzle is still not finished and I'm not sure that I deserve an O as hercule got the Scarlatti and I only got the Muti, and I'm still floundering with the last part so perhaps hercule can now finish it off?
        But Anna, you got the connecting "Naples" as well.

        It's Thursday so rubbergusset should be with us shortly, and may be able to help... I'm just intrigued to see if someone can get the radio-related clue
        "...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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        • Anna

          I am having to go offline now for a while. Is it permissible to set a mainly non-musical question?

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          • antongould
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8786

            So not Rendine then?

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            • mercia
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

              Caruso (from Naples) and the Victor Talking Machine Company?

              (I don't want to set the O question by-the-way)
              Last edited by mercia; 24-03-11, 11:07.

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              • Nick Armstrong
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                • Nov 2010
                • 26540

                Originally posted by hercule View Post
                Caruso (from Naples) and the Victor Talking Machine Company?

                (I don't want to set the O question by-the-way)
                Indeed hercule. Naples-born Caruso sang from the Met in New York in 1910 in the first public radio broadcast to be transmitted in the US.

                Anna already has O, fear not mon cher.

                Do we allow her her largely non-musical 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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                • mercia
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8920

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  Do we allow her her largely non-musical one???
                  I'm sure we allow Anna anything she likes
                  especially if it's large

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                  • Anna

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    Anna already has O, fear not mon cher.
                    Do we allow her her largely non-musical one???
                    Actually, anton's last (King) was completely non-musical wasn't it? But I shall endeavour to compose a music related puzzle.

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                    • rubbernecker

                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                      Anna already has O, fear not mon cher.

                      Do we allow her her largely non-musical one???
                      As long as it's to do with literature, cinema, food and drink, or anything on wheels, that's fine by me

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                      • Nick Armstrong
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26540

                        Originally posted by hercule View Post
                        I'm sure we allow Anna anything she likes
                        especially if it's large
                        Innee bold !!!!
                        "...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
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26540

                          Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                          As long as it's to do with literature, cinema, food and drink, or anything on wheels, that's fine by me
                          I concur with my learned friend.
                          "...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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                          • Anna

                            Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                            As long as it's to do with literature, cinema, food and drink, or anything on wheels, that's fine by me
                            Sorry, no off-road biking in this one, nor food or drink but certainly cinema, literature and a dash of very famous music. To widen the chances there are several clues, I am sure as it is so easy solving all the connections won't be necessary!

                            O That’s magnificent, but it’s a tragedy or two, shouldn’t someone else be here, she chimed in, a little late. Don’t panic if I acquire a green hue.

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                            • Tapiola
                              Full Member
                              • Jan 2011
                              • 1688

                              Oh.. I think I might have an inkling of this one.

                              I cannot solve all the clue elements, but is the connection Orson [Welles]?

                              EDIT

                              The Magnificent Ambersons
                              Macbeth, Othello (a tragedy or two)
                              War of the Worlds - Don't panic...
                              Chimes at Midnight (she chimed in)

                              EDIT EDIT

                              The Third Man (shouldn't someone else be here?)

                              EDIT EDIT EDIT

                              The famous music being "Una voce poco fa" from Rossini's Barber (in Citizen Kane)
                              The Magnificent Ambersons is also a novel.
                              Last edited by Tapiola; 24-03-11, 13:08.

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                              • Nick Armstrong
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                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26540

                                Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                                Oh.. I think I might have an inkling of this one.

                                I cannot solve all the clue elements, but is the connection Orson [Welles]?

                                EDIT

                                The Magnificent Ambersons
                                Macbeth, Othello (a tragedy or two)
                                War of the Worlds - Don't panic...
                                Chimes at Midnight (she chimed in)

                                EDIT EDIT

                                The Third Man (shouldn't someone else be here?)

                                EDIT EDIT EDIT

                                The famous music being "Una voce poco fa" from Rossini's Barber (in Citizen Kane)
                                The Magnificent Ambersons is also a novel.
                                Great work, Taps.

                                The 'late' and 'green hue' elements remain.

                                I thought of "Touch of Evil" for the green hue (= the villain coming on stage in a green spotlight)?
                                "...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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