Originally posted by Resurrection Man
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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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Or could RM stop acting coy and spit the answer out!Originally posted by Caliban View PostCould you boys get a room, please!
(Isn't it infuriating when people clearly know the answer, drop a hint, and then disappear completely ..)
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Like, not playing but musing...Originally posted by Anna View PostOr could RM stop acting coy and spit the answer out!
(Isn't it infuriating when people clearly know the answer, drop a hint, and then disappear completely ..)
"...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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we're obviously a pair of winkersComment
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Exactly like that!Originally posted by Caliban View PostLike, not playing but musing... In fact, I haven't this time dropped any hints this time of being accused of "waving, not drowning" !!!
BUT, I would just say ..... No, I would say to mercia it's a beautifully constructed puzzle and I'm sorry so many of the regulars have gone walkabout (which I am about to around 6-ish as a friend is cooking a curry and we intend to watch the new MasterChef)
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They're just jealous of us.Originally posted by mercia View Post
OK...I can do two of them.
The symbolist novelist George Rodenbach even made Bruges, Flanders into a character in his novel Bruges-la-Morte, meaning "Bruges-the-dead", which was adapted into Erich Wolfgang Korngold's opera, Die tote Stadt (The Dead City)
In 1946 Korngold wrote his Cello Concerto for Eleanor Aller Slatkin (Leonard's Mum) to play in the film Deception, and she also gave the work's first concert performance with the Los Angeles PO This performance can be found here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUKDuC40hHw
I was also amused by this anecdote
This is one of the pieces (Military March 1917) Korngold wrote during his military service in WW1 when he was confined to barracks outside Vienna, as music director of his regiment. After hearing Prvt Korngold play this on the piano, his commanding officer said "That's all very well Korngold but isn't it a bit fast? The men can't march to that!" to which Korngold replied:"Ah yes sir...but this is for the retreat!"
I'm stuck on 13th MarchComment
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I also am stuck on March 13th. I got the Bruges-la-Morte and Leonard's mother playing when she was pregnant with his brother Fred for the premiere and can only assume tomorrow there is a significant Korngold concert somewhere in the world? Or is it his birthday/death day?Comment
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Well his violin concerto is being performed tomorrow in Ghent.Comment
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........ which, in relation to today, is ....... ?Originally posted by Resurrection Man View PostComment
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Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
Tomorrow, Op. 33, tone poem for mezzo-soprano, women's choir and orchestra, for the movie The Constant Nymph. (First performed in concert 1944)
well done RM
three out of three - brilliant - and as you rightly say, the Cello Concerto and Die Tote Stadt
now for a lyrical LLast edited by mercia; 12-03-13, 17:46.Comment
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Oh that was a nice Tomorrow clue...brilliant lateral thinking.
OK....an L to link Antonio, Francesco-Maria and Francois-JosephComment
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They also share a common composer.Comment
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Ah, so none of these are composers?
Perhaps Librettists? Francois Maria Piave & Antonio Piazza wrote librettos for Verdi.Comment
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