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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26628

    Originally posted by mercia View Post
    Albert Ketelbey

    Cockney Suite, including 'appy 'ampstead
    In a Chinese Temple Garden
    In the Mystic Land of Egypt
    Bravo... thank you, mercs!

    Though I fear I have lumbered you... O 'ell
    "...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
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      • Nov 2010
      • 8873

      Originally posted by mercia View Post
      Albert Ketelbey

      Cockney Suite, including 'appy 'ampstead
      In a Chinese Temple Garden
      In the Mystic Land of Egypt
      Never 'eard of 'im the fings you learn at AA......

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      • mercia
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        • Nov 2010
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        Originally posted by antongould View Post
        Never 'eard of 'im the fings you learn at AA......
        In a monastery garden ?
        "In a Monastery Garden" e attimi salienti di "In a Persian Market" composizioni di Albert William Ketèlbey (1875-1959) eseguite da Slovak Radio Symphony Orch...

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        • Nick Armstrong
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          • Nov 2010
          • 26628

          Originally posted by antongould View Post
          Never 'eard of 'im the fings you learn at AA......
          You must have heard the ultimate piece of post-Edwardian schmaltz, surely:



          Not a dry seat in the house...

          The concert band master at school often forced us to play this. News of the NSPCC hadn't filtered up to Nottingham yet...


          EDIT: mercs, we clearly suffered similarly....
          "...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
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            • Nov 2010
            • 8873

            Originally posted by mercia View Post

            Indeed a true classic but never knew who composed it.......well I do now....

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            • mercia
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              • Nov 2010
              • 8920



              L

              a 6th in C major, a 25th in G minor, a 2nd in C minor

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              • antongould
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                • Nov 2010
                • 8873

                Originally posted by mercia View Post


                L

                a 6th in C major, a 25th in G minor, a 2nd in C minor
                Is this not a very BIG question?

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                • mercia
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                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8920

                  it's not big and it's not clever

                  as they say

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                  • antongould
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8873

                    Originally posted by mercia View Post
                    it's not big and it's not clever

                    as they say
                    We are in these parts like the A of C having problems with Wonga....Sorry mercs

                    I think the L is little

                    The L Russian Tchaikovsky
                    The L G Minor Mozart
                    The L C Major Schubert

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                    • mercia
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                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8920

                      Originally posted by antongould View Post
                      I think the L is little

                      The L Russian Tchaikovsky
                      The L G Minor Mozart
                      The L C Major Schubert
                      you thought right

                      that's me done - bye-bye

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                      • antongould
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8873

                        Originally posted by mercia View Post
                        you thought right

                        that's me done - bye-bye
                        Hope mercs hasn't gone for good.....what with Rumpole having his 43rd holiday of the term and all......

                        An L to bring one to

                        A Parsi
                        43 and
                        Vilarroig......

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                        • amateur51

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          You must have heard the ultimate piece of post-Edwardian schmaltz, surely:

                          In a Monastery Garden is a famous piece of light classical music by Albert Ketèlbey who composed it in 1915 after a visit to a real monastery garden. It was ...


                          Not a dry seat in the house...

                          The concert band master at school often forced us to play this. News of the NSPCC hadn't filtered up to Nottingham yet...


                          EDIT: mercs, we clearly suffered similarly....
                          NSPCC?

                          This version might have concerned the RSPB

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                          • mercia
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                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8920

                            Originally posted by antongould View Post
                            An L to bring one to

                            A Parsi
                            43 and
                            Vilarroig......
                            I assume it starts with M

                            Haydn 43 has planetary associations

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                            • antongould
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8873

                              Originally posted by mercia View Post
                              I assume it starts with M

                              Haydn 43 has planetary associations
                              .....an M indeed and Uncle Joe indeed .........

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                              • mercia
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                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8920

                                Mercury

                                Haydn symphony 43
                                Freddie, born a Parsi (therefore a Parsi for life ???)
                                Spanish composer Pedro Vilarroig, who seems to be well into cosmology, Symphony-Poem "Mercury"

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