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  • mercia
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8920

    Originally posted by Flay View Post
    Of rats and people: Peters first bite, and Bernard who helped a Budding Benjamin
    well I believe that is James Bernard, but he is obviously not an N


    [I think this thread really irks at least one person on another thread ]
    Last edited by mercia; 01-03-13, 06:47.

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    • Flay
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 5795

      Originally posted by mercia View Post
      well I believe that is James Bernard, but he obviously 'aint an N

      [I think this thread really irks at least one person on another thread ]
      Yes indeed! Care to explain why, or must I? Or shall we await the eventual and inevitable coleslaw?

      And who could possibly be irked by this educational, entertaining and informative thread?
      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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      • mercia
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8920

        Originally posted by Flay View Post
        Yes indeed! Care to explain why, or must I?
        well according to wiki, film composer James Bernard copied out the vocal score of Billy Budd for BB

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        • Flay
          Full Member
          • Mar 2007
          • 5795

          Originally posted by mercia View Post
          well according to wiki, film composer James Bernard copied out the vocal score of Billy Budd for BB
          Hmm...
          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            Originally posted by mercia View Post
            [I think this thread really irks at least one person on another thread ]
            I think "irk" is his default setting.
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • mercia
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

              so James Bernard's music to the 1922 film Nosferatu, whose full title is Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror

              a couple more Nosferatus to get probably - I must abandon my computer for an hour

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              • Flay
                Full Member
                • Mar 2007
                • 5795

                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                so James Bernard's music to the 1922 film Nosferatu, whose full title is Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror

                a couple more Nosferatus to get probably - I must abandon my computer for an hour


                Indeed, James Bernard is one of the three.

                During his last year [at Wellington College], Bernard met Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, who were visiting the college to discuss the staging of the new opera Peter Grimes with the designer and schoolmaster Kenneth Green. Bernard was delighted when Britten took an interest in his work for piano and trombone, even adding an improvised percussion part for "stone on drainpipe". They remained in touch during Bernard's national service in the RAF from 1943-46. "Ben encouraged me to learn the rules of composing, so I could break them," he said later.
                Composer whose scores added chill notes to Quatermass, Frankenstein and Dracula.
                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                • Flay
                  Full Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 5795

                  Originally posted by Flay View Post
                  Of rats and people: Peters first bite, and Bernard who helped a Budding Benjamin
                  By the way, I got a grade C for O-Level English Language. I don't do apostrophe abuse.
                  Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                  • mercia
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    The Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra is an ensemble of composers and musicians based in St. Louis, Missouri. The ensemble composes and performs original scores to accompany films of the Silent Era including F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (Premiered 2009, commissioned by Vanderbilt University) for Wurlitzer electric piano, two violins, viola, electric guitar, theremin, vibraphone, trumpet, trombone and tape loop operator/percussionist

                    not sure who Peter is yet

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                    • Flay
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 5795

                      Originally posted by mercia View Post
                      The Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra is an ensemble of composers and musicians based in St. Louis, Missouri. The ensemble composes and performs original scores to accompany films of the Silent Era including F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (Premiered 2009, commissioned by Vanderbilt University) for Wurlitzer electric piano, two violins, viola, electric guitar, theremin, vibraphone, trumpet, trombone and tape loop operator/percussionist
                      That's them http://www.theratsandpeople.com/mpo.html


                      Originally posted by mercia View Post
                      not sure who Peter is yet
                      See #31523 and think again....
                      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                      • mercia
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8920

                        Originally posted by Flay View Post
                        See #31523 and think again....
                        <doh> I was tricked - I thought that meant there should be an apostrophe <doh>
                        Randolph Peters, born 1959, Canadian composer, 1993 opera Nosferatu [first bite ? - his first opera ? ]

                        so that was Nosferatu in the hands of Randolph Peters, James Bernard and The Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra

                        a spooky question

                        I actually have an O question ready - would you Adam & Eve it ??
                        Last edited by mercia; 01-03-13, 15:32.

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                        • Flay
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 5795

                          Originally posted by mercia View Post
                          <doh> I was tricked - I thought that meant there should be an apostrophe <doh>
                          Randolph Peters, born 1959, Canadian composer, 1993 opera Nosferatu [first bite ? - his first opera ? ]
                          I thought I was trying to help! Yes, his first opera.

                          Originally posted by mercia View Post
                          so that was Nosferatu in the hands of Randolph Peters, James Bernard and The Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra

                          a spooky question

                          I actually have an O question ready - would you Adam & Eve it ??
                          Coleslawed to perfection!

                          Onwards and upwards!
                          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                          • mercia
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8920

                            an O please to link

                            a Norwegian witch, 'The devil takes a wife', and the first of the McCunn books

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                            • Anna

                              Before mercia launches his outrageously outstanding O can I please proffer my abject apologies? I had no idea Ivor was the answer, I did know he was a bit of a No Good Boyo but then I was called away on a mission of mercy as a crisis seemed to be developing into a drama (I won't go into details except to say that certain members of my family put Maria Callas to shame in the Diva and Drama Queen stakes when confronted by HMRC) Also, I had no idea about Alf and the other element so it was just a lucky strike. This is my first visit, and posting, to the MB since then but, circumstances permitting and the fact that this weekend there is no rugby, no gigot d’agneau to be cooked and no flu to be combatted I hope to give my full and undivided attention from Saturday morning onwards.
                              Edit: Curses, posted too late and mercia has launched his puzzle! The apology still stands.

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26540

                                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                                circumstances permitting and the fact that this weekend there is no rugby, no gigot d’agneau to be cooked and no flu to be combatted I hope to give my full and undivided attention from Saturday morning onwards.


                                Good to know! And Happy St David's day Anna (Yes I know it should be a daff but they ain't got none look you!)

                                I am working till 10pm today and over the weekend but hope to have access to t'Forum from time to time (like now)...
                                "...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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