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  • Resurrection Man

    Where's the music input?

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    • mercia
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8920

      Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
      Where's the music input?
      well I suppose this twice-set libretto will lead to two pieces of music

      I've only found one (irrelevant) opera which actually begins with Y

      I'm still not quite sure if hedgehog intends 'author' to mean 'composer' - not that I know any Cornish composers

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      • Flay
        Full Member
        • Mar 2007
        • 5795

        I had a quick look at Wiki's List of Cornish musicians:



        It says Malcolm Arnold is Cornish "by adoption." From his list of compositions I get this:



        Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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        • hedgehog

          Nice to see some people puzzling out loud!

          I did say that Mercia was correct to assume that the Cornish "author" was a composer. Most definitely born there, but doesn't wear their Cornishness prominently.

          The artist in question died last century. That an artist (of the painterly kind) wrote the libretto/text is quite pertinent to the Y to be found.

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          • Flay
            Full Member
            • Mar 2007
            • 5795

            Ah, but which Cornwall?

            Cornwall County, Tasmania
            Cornwall Island (Nunavut)
            Cornwall Island (Ontario)
            Cornwall, Prince Edward Island
            Cornouaille, Brittany
            Cornwall, Jamaica
            Cornwall, California
            Cornwall, Connecticut
            Cornwall, New York
            Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York
            Cornwall, Pennsylvania
            North Cornwall Township, Pennsylvania
            West Cornwall Township, Pennsylvania
            Cornwall, Vermont

            Just asking...
            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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            • vinteuil
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 12938

              Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
              doesn't wear their Cornishness prominently.

              .
              ... an elegant avoidance of specifying gender - possibly a hint - or a red herring

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              • hedgehog

                Definitely not a red herring, just annoying avoidance!
                Last edited by Guest; 07-03-13, 15:42.

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                • hedgehog

                  Originally posted by Flay View Post
                  Ah, but which Cornwall?

                  Cornwall County, Tasmania
                  Cornwall Island (Nunavut)
                  Cornwall Island (Ontario)
                  Cornwall, Prince Edward Island
                  Cornouaille, Brittany
                  Cornwall, Jamaica
                  Cornwall, California
                  Cornwall, Connecticut
                  Cornwall, New York
                  Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York
                  Cornwall, Pennsylvania
                  North Cornwall Township, Pennsylvania
                  West Cornwall Township, Pennsylvania
                  Cornwall, Vermont

                  Just asking...
                  Cornwall in the UK. The composer actually lives there too! (well who wouldn't). P.S. Technicolor is a good a place as any to find the solution.

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                  • Flay
                    Full Member
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 5795

                    I have been trying to see if I can fit Alexandre Benois into all this.

                    But failed...
                    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                    • mercia
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8920

                      Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                      the Cornish "author" was a composer
                      was

                      so she has died

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                      • hedgehog

                        Originally posted by mercia View Post
                        was

                        so she has died
                        NO No No! The composer is still very much alive! (the past tense was referring to the earlier post, sorry!)

                        P.S. Try the other way, get the word first.....painter...Technicolor, not red .......

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                        • mercia
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8920

                          has our Cornish-born living composer written for multiple pianos ?

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                          • hedgehog

                            Yes indeedy, c'mon mercia make the leap!

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                            • mercia
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8920

                              I plump for Graham Fitkin and From Yellow to Yellow

                              but no idea about the artist/librettist

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                              • hedgehog

                                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                                I plump for Graham Fitkin and From Yellow to Yellow

                                but no idea about the artist/librettist
                                You are correct!

                                Now to the artist: synaesthesia and, well you know pictures....exhibitions and all that!

                                Edit`; I have to depart - dinner & then a concert, I'm sure someone will oblige with the rest, will call in this evening late.

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