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  • antongould
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8786

    Originally posted by mercia View Post
    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"
    Need I say more the L that was an M sorted by the Master.....

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    • mercia
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8920

      I was just about to start tackling hedgehog's question, but it has disappeared

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      • hedgehog

        Originally posted by mercia View Post
        I was just about to start tackling hedgehog's question, but it has disappeared
        Had a déjà vu moment with that N mercia, I think a variant of it has been done quite recently! I'll think of another anon.

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        • hedgehog

          It is N for a perilous ride to the Chinese Opera!

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          • Flay
            Full Member
            • Mar 2007
            • 5795

            Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
            It is N for a perilous ride to the Chinese Opera!
            Oh dear, this one has been left in peril.

            Are we looking for two, or three clues here? Maybe it's Nixon?
            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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            • hedgehog

              Originally posted by Flay View Post
              Oh dear, this one has been left in peril.

              Are we looking for two, or three clues here? Maybe it's Nixon?

              Plenty of time. Not Nixon but it's not too hard.......3 compositions with an N in common.

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                It is N for a perilous ride to the Chinese Opera!
                Is this a Weir d clue?
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • hedgehog

                  Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                  Is this a Weir d clue?
                  Indeed it is (Holo)fernes

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26540

                    Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                    It is N for a perilous ride to the Chinese Opera!
                    Night?

                    Judith Weir's 1987 opera A Night at the Chinese Opera
                    Sibelius's Night Ride and Sunrise
                    and....

                    Quiet alphabetical summer, ain't it....?
                    "...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

                      Perilous night by John Cage. Over to you I guess Caliban as Ferney seems to have declined on the coleslaw. My co
                      computer has died so won't be around. iphone I find tiresome.

                      Quiet alphabetical summer, ain't it....?[/COLOR][/QUOTE]

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                      • antongould
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8786

                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        Night?

                        Judith Weir's 1987 opera A Night at the Chinese Opera
                        Sibelius's Night Ride and Sunrise
                        and....

                        Quiet alphabetical summer, ain't it....?
                        It is but your Os are things of wonder......

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26540

                          Originally posted by antongould View Post
                          It is but your Os are things of wonder......
                          Philatelist!

                          This O unites John, Victor, Humphrey and Igor
                          "...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
                            Philatelist!

                            This O unites John, Victor, Humphrey and Igor
                            Igor = Stravinsky; Humphrey = Searle? Victor = Herbert?

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26540

                              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                              Igor = Stravinsky; Humphrey = Searle? Victor = Herbert?
                              Yes-Yes-No


                              "...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
                                Yes-Yes-No


                                Stravinsky & Searle both wrote pieces titled The Owl and the Pussy Cat

                                So did Victor Hely-Hutchinson yay
                                Last edited by Guest; 12-08-13, 13:36. Reason: tidy up and VH-H

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