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  • cloughie
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    • Dec 2011
    • 22113

    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    I know a rather vulgar limerick which starts
    "There was a young lady from Bruges...:
    and ends
    "Mon Dieu! Après moi, le déluge!"
    I'll leave you to fill in the gaps...



    Meantime - yes, mercia - Belgian! Definitely
    Ysyae Ysyae Ysyae - I bet the second line is not 'Who was partial to Berlioz' Francs Juges'

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    • Nick Armstrong
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      • Nov 2010
      • 26523

      Originally posted by cloughie View Post
      Ysyae Ysyae Ysyae - I bet the second line is not 'Who was partial to Berlioz' Francs Juges'


      How right you are!

      Also about Ysaÿe (apart from the spelling)! Easy coleslaw - I just listed 4 of his compositions.

      Z or A?
      "...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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      • cloughie
        Full Member
        • Dec 2011
        • 22113

        An A to link William, George and Demis

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        • Nick Armstrong
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          • Nov 2010
          • 26523

          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
          Demis






          Are we talking the hairy tent-wearer?
          "...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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          • cloughie
            Full Member
            • Dec 2011
            • 22113

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post




            Are we talking the hairy tent-wearer?
            I have to own up - yes!

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26523

              Originally posted by cloughie View Post
              I have to own up - yes!
              Oh you old softie

              It's Aphrodite, isn't it? Goddess of Lurrrrve....

              William Alwyn wrote 'Aphrodite in Aulis - an eclogue after George Moore' for small orchestra in 1932
              George Chadwick wrote 'Aphrodite - A Symphonic Fantasy' in 1910
              Demis Roussos emerged from a prog rock group called Aphrodite's Child (as did Vangelis)...
              "...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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              • cloughie
                Full Member
                • Dec 2011
                • 22113

                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                Oh you old softie

                It's Aphrodite, isn't it? Goddess of Lurrrrve....

                William Alwyn wrote 'Aphrodite in Aulis - an eclogue after George Moore' for small orchestra in 1932
                George Chadwich wrote 'Aphrodite - A Symphonic Fantasy' in 1910
                Demis Roussos emerged from a prog rock group called Aphrodite's Child (as did Vangelis)...
                Complete with finest coleslaw - sting us with a B

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26523

                  Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                  Complete with finest coleslaw - sting us with a B
                  A B please to unite Tennessee's third city with Turangalîla and Bax 2.
                  "...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

                    I can get the first, that is easy-peasey, but I think you are a wee bit smoke and mirrors with the rest? Anyway. It's way past midnight so Goodnight until the morrow.

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                    • Flay
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 5795

                      Originally posted by Anna View Post
                      I can get the first, that is easy-peasey.
                      Such a teasy-weasy! I think I have the other two, but not the first... Time for a cuppa!
                      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26523

                        Originally posted by Flay View Post
                        a cuppa!
                        You're such a party animal.

                        Come on then, Anna or Flay, share your ideas!!
                        "...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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                        • Northender

                          Tennessee's third city is Knoxville, which to me suggests Samuel Barber, but I don't suppose that's relevant?

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26523

                            Originally posted by Northender View Post
                            Tennessee's third city is Knoxville, which to me suggests Samuel Barber, but I don't suppose that's relevant?
                            It is although Barber is not the B... keep going...
                            "...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

                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              It is although Barber is not the B... keep going...
                              Well, that's me knocked out of the running. I got Knoxville = Barber but my further Barber links have now proved to be wrong!

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                              • mercia
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8920

                                all premiered by Boussevitsky ?

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