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  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
    Gone fishin'
    • Sep 2011
    • 30163
    #32296
    Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
    Dat's Lorin Maazel innit - look Ma, no googling
    That's good: I had to consult my big brother!

    - Lorin Maazel it is, indeed. Now, who's going to supply the remaining answers and the Lutoslaw?
    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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    • amateur51
      #32297
      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      Come on ammy, don't shilly-shally (*hic* with apologies to shallymap)
      Not me, guv - I'm heading off for a much-needed snoozle in a moment - zzzzzzzzz

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26536
        #32298
        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
        Lorin Maazel it is, indeed. Now, who's going to supply the remaining answers and the Lutoslaw?
        Well.... mercia's being coy and ammy's being dozy (literally) I suspect...

        Maestro Maazel (to give him the modest title of his website) wrote:

        2004 - 2005 1984
        Opera in Two Acts. based on the novel by George Orwell

        1999 The Empty Pot, Op. 16
        For Orchestra, Children's Chorus, Boy Soprano & Narrator Text by Lorin Maazel, adapted from a story by Demi

        1994 Irish Vapours and Capers

        The latter rather dismissed by the NY Times... http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/ar...maaz.html?_r=0

        But who is this O'Brien character, other than o'stensibly an Irishman?
        "...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
          #32299
          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          But who is this O'Brien character, other than o'stensibly an Irishman?
          Not been following this but surely it has to be Flann O'Brien? Funniest books I have ever read (surely everyone has read them?), no time to follow it up but could be based on one of the books?

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163
            #32300
            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            Well.... mercia's being coy and ammy's being dozy (literally) I suspect...

            Maestro Maazel (to give him the modest title of his website) wrote:

            2004 - 2005 1984
            Opera in Two Acts. based on the novel by George Orwell

            1999 The Empty Pot, Op. 16
            For Orchestra, Children's Chorus, Boy Soprano & Narrator Text by Lorin Maazel, adapted from a story by Demi

            1994 Irish Vapours and Capers

            The latter rather dismissed by the NY Times... http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/ar...maaz.html?_r=0
            Correct in every particular with the partial exception of ..

            But who is this O'Brien character, other than o'stensibly an Irishman?
            O'Brien was the link to get you to 1984 - he's the chap who "takes care" of Winston Smith.

            I don't know how to pass on the Nsuing: mercs led Angle to 1984, from which ami got the actual M answer, but then Cali supplied all the missing details?! N E offers from N E one?
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26536
              #32301
              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
              I don't know how to pass on the Nsuing: mercs led Angle to 1984, from which ami got the actual M answer, but then Cali supplied all the missing details?! N E offers from N E one?
              Right you are

              Well.... given that
              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              mercia's being coy and ammy's being dozy (literally) I suspect...
              I have a puzzlng N I could seek people's assistance with...
              "...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
                • 26536
                #32302
                Neither of the other candidates has rushed to protest, so....

                This Scandinavian N unites a somewhat Italianate trio comprising the sea, Shakespeare and a Mediterranean north wind....
                "...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
                  • 26536
                  #32303
                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  Neither of the other candidates has rushed to protest, so....

                  This Scandinavian N unites a somewhat Italianate trio comprising the sea, Shakespeare and a Mediterranean north wind....
                  No customers?

                  The three elements are all symphonic...
                  "...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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                  • hedgehog
                    #32304
                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    Neither of the other candidates has rushed to protest, so....

                    a Mediterranean north wind....
                    Would be a mistral in the title of a work by N....?

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26536
                      #32305
                      Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                      Would be a mistral in the title of a work by N....?
                      Not the Mistral... but another wind in the title of a work by N...
                      "...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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                      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                        Gone fishin'
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 30163
                        #32306
                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        This Scandinavian N unites a somewhat Italianate trio comprising the sea, Shakespeare and a Mediterranean north wind....
                        Should I ask my father?
                        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                        • mercia
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8920
                          #32307
                          the Tramontane wind
                          or tramontana

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                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163
                            #32308
                            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                            Should I ask my father?
                            Please ignore this: it's not Per Norgard!
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26536
                              #32309
                              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                              Please ignore this: it's not Per Norgard!
                              Had only just come back online and even with the explanation, I have no idea about the father reference...

                              Oh... you mean Per... Père...??

                              Moving swiftly on....



                              Originally posted by mercia View Post
                              the Tramontane wind
                              or tramontana

                              Absolutely mercia !

                              So to piece together the odd clue... an Italianate symphonic item might be called... Sinfonia Tramontana...

                              (I'm off to lunch in 30 mins... Can anyone get it from that? )
                              "...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
                                #32310
                                Swedish composer Gosta Nystroem's third, fourth and sixth symphonies are respectively the

                                Sinfonia del Mare, Sinfonia Shakespeariana and Sinfonia Tramontana


                                [ I promise to set an O ]
                                Last edited by mercia; 28-03-13, 14:40.

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