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  • vinteuil
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12797

    Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
    Can you recommend 'a life' of said person, vints?

    :
    "Life and Loves of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse"by Jessica Douglas-Home sounds as if it might be a good start...

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    • amateur51

      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
      "Life and Loves of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse"by Jessica Douglas-Home sounds as if it might be a good start...

      https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/12/...21goreaut.html
      Thanking you!

      Any rello of the late lamented Baillie Vass, lately of the Hirsel, I wonder

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      • antongould
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8780

        Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
        ... ah, but was her life as interesting as that of Violet Gordon Woodhouse???

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Gordon-Woodhouse

        Oh my goodness "......The household finances improved after Gordon's sisters were murdered by their butler...." what a remarkable life indeed!

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26524

          Originally posted by Northender View Post
          Malcolm Sargent 'heir to a fortune derived from Beecham's Pills' (Wiki);


          Am I missing something....?
          "...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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          • antongould
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8780

            Is it Moritz or is Moritz part thereof?

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            • amateur51

              Originally posted by antongould View Post
              Is it Moritz or is Moritz part thereof?
              I've seen some fishing expeditions in my time, anton

              I've give you Mo

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              • amateur51

                Originally posted by Caliban View Post


                Am I missing something....?
                I doubt it Caliban, but Norths most certainly is - care to join the dots for us?
                Last edited by Guest; 27-04-13, 17:19. Reason: trypo

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                • Northender

                  Davitt Moroney - no, he's not of a pre-GM generation.

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                  • amateur51

                    Originally posted by Northender View Post
                    Davit Moroney?
                    'Fraid it's not on the card, Norths

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                    • amateur51

                      Originally posted by Northender View Post
                      Davitt Moroney - no, he's not of a pre-GM generation.
                      You're looking for a woman harpsichordist, Polish/French

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                      • Northender

                        Manda Mandowksa?

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                        • amateur51

                          Originally posted by Northender View Post
                          Manda Mandowksa?
                          YAY Norths!

                          Our M taught her!

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26524

                            Originally posted by Northender View Post
                            Manda Mandowksa?
                            I increasingly feel like I'm entering a parallel universe when I come here...
                            "...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
                              I increasingly feel like I'm entering a parallel universe when I come here...
                              I'm humouring Norths past his Malcolm Sargent fetish, Caliban

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26524

                                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                                Cheers anton - hard luck, Norths! - a matter of timing only

                                What M links a career kept moving by a patent medicine, a harpsichord pioneer, and pianistic sparks
                                Tommy Beecham and Wanda Landowska were pupils of Moritz Moszkowski who wrote Étincelles, Op. 36, No. 6 (Sparks) for solo piano


                                "...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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