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  • Anna

    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    Exactly! Hence really good to have new minds like Hoggers and Odders around.
    Are you feeling better, Anna?
    Fighting fit again Cali, haven't coughed or ached (except for you, of course!) all day!
    Adventures in a Perambulator? I thought the pram might be Satie (or was I getting babies confused with lobsters? A common mistake, both are pink and squggly) So, that's by someone completely different, John Alden Carpenter

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    • hedgehog

      Originally posted by Anna View Post
      So, that's by someone completely different, John Alden Carpenter
      Yes Anna, glad to see you are up and about!

      " Adventures in a perambulator " is on a Naxos recording. Disney was going to use it as a sequel to Fantasia, but it didn't happen. This fellow was well known in his day - the only American to be commissioned by Diaghalev (sp?). The music itself is more "light Classics", but that was a type of thing then, like the piece with the typewriter and Rio Grande et al?

      Please excuse me on the coleslaw summary, i've cut my hand badly and it needs some attention (professional I think) I think Caliban takes the Line Honours?

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163

        Surely "Adventures of a Dentist" should be "'ave dentures"?
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • mercia
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8920

          Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
          i've cut my hand badly and it needs some attention (professional I think)
          oh dear, and you've been dealing with us

          you should have said hurry and be attended to

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
            i've cut my hand badly and it needs some attention (professional I think)
            Ouch! Good luck with that, joggers - and good puzzle!
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26506

              Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
              I've cut my hand badly and it needs some attention (professional I think)
              Oh crikey!! A glancing blow from ferney's razor-sharp wit?

              Hope you weren't slicing cabbage for the coleslaw! Hurry, get it seen to !!




              Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
              I think Caliban takes the Line Honours?
              Oh crikey!! I'll mix the coleslaw but I think ferney cleared the way, and first uttered the A-word... and Anna, how about celebrating your return to health with an Ibuprofen-powered puzzle?
              Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 22-02-13, 18:57.
              "...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
                • 26506

                Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                What A links music at the dentist’s, a Hungarian’s double attempt at this and life as seen from a pram?
                So we have:

                Alfred Schnittke (November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) - soundtrack for Adventures of a Dentist directed by Elem Klimov (1965, material reused in Suite in the Old Style)

                György Ligeti (May 28, 1923 – June 12, 2006) - Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures for three singers and instrumental septet (to a text semantically without meaning by Ligeti)

                John Alden Carpenter (February 28, 1876 - April 26, 1951) - 1914 orchestral suite Adventures in a Perambulator.
                "...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

                  Jolly good summary Cali!
                  Now, are you going to launch us into An Awfully Big Adventure?
                  I nearly said Julian and George!

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26506

                    Originally posted by Anna View Post
                    Jolly good summary Cali!
                    Now, are you going to launch us into An Awfully Big Adventure?
                    Don't you want to give us a B in our bonnets (windmills or no windmills, throwing over, for the use of)?

                    UPDATE: going offline for an hour or so. I have a modest B up my sleeve in the event that neither Anna (go on - please! ) nor ferney whips up something intriguing in the meantime...
                    Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 22-02-13, 19:02.
                    "...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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                    • amateur51

                      What news of hodge's paw?

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26506

                        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                        What news of hodge's paw?


                        ...





                        Meantime, silence too from the hills of the West and North, so here's a little B which I hope won't be a total B to solve...

                        ... linking Johann, Alexander and Sergei

                        (Yup it's one of those annoying Christian name puzzles )
                        "...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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                        • amateur51

                          Sweet pic of Hedgely Hog's paw, Caliban

                          Sergei Rachmaninov and Alexander Siloti were both notable transcribers of works by Johann S Bach

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26506

                            Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                            Sergei Rachmaninov and Alexander Siloti were both notable transcribers of works by J S Bach



                            All three off target, I'm afraid!


                            (Sorry, I'm in a pictorial mood this evening!)
                            "...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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                            • amateur51

                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post



                              All three off target, I'm afraid!


                              (Sorry, I'm in a pictorial mood this evening!)
                              If I may use the Cloughie-response, (where is the dear boy?) you mean 'not the words on the card'

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26506

                                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                                If I may use the Cloughie-response, (where is the dear boy?) you mean 'not the words on the card'
                                Yes what is Cloughie up to?!

                                Well... yes, at the very least, not what's on the card...

                                You're looking for two composers and an author to lead you to a B who is neither
                                "...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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