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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26520
    #34171
    Originally posted by antongould View Post
    Is there much music in this question?

    Only asking!

    Quite right to ask. Yes there is. You're after a composer. There are four elements to the puzzle in fact, each involving a piece of music.
    "...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
      • 26520
      #34172
      Originally posted by Caliban View Post

      An A to link Ben Jonson and Delacroix with Pride, Passion and Dementia




      The references are to an opera, a symphony and two films scores respectively, by the composer in question...
      "...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
        • 8776
        #34173
        Originally posted by Caliban View Post




        The references are to an opera, a symphony and two films scores respectively, by the composer in question...
        Sorry Rumpole if we still have no business by tomorrow it will have my undivided attention of we may get an early morning mercs......

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        • hedgehog
          #34174
          George Antheil wrote the music to the film Dementia. He be the one?

          One of those composers who suffers from "one famous work" syndrome I guess.

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26520
            #34175
            Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
            George Antheil wrote the music to the film Dementia. He be the one?
            He be, he be ! And so it's your B !

            Yes Antheil is the A.

            V glad to see you here again! Feel like setting out the various bits and pieces or shall I?
            "...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
              #34176
              He wrote an opera Volpone 1953 to mixed reviews,[46] and music for a film called The Pride and the Passion.

              Symphony nr 6 After Delacroix.

              Thanks for this Caliban, I really should listen to some more of his music!

              I'll have a little snooze on the B (bees do you know sometimes, on flowers ), but I'll come up with something tomorrow.

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26520
                #34177
                Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                He wrote an opera Volpone 1953 to mixed reviews,

                and music for a film called The Pride and the Passion.

                Symphony nr 6 After Delacroix.
                Plus the film Dementia which you mentioned before, makes up the full house



                Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                I'll have a little snooze on the B (bees do you know sometimes, on flowers ), but I'll come up with something tomorrow.
                Excellent. Trust you are well and enjoying lots of other music?
                "...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
                  • 8776
                  #34178
                  Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                  He wrote an opera Volpone 1953 to mixed reviews,[46] and music for a film called The Pride and the Passion.

                  Symphony nr 6 After Delacroix.

                  Thanks for this Caliban, I really should listen to some more of his music!

                  I'll have a little snooze on the B (bees do you know sometimes, on flowers ), but I'll come up with something tomorrow.

                  Well done hedgers....

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                  • hedgehog
                    #34179
                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
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                    Excellent. Trust you are well and enjoying lots of other music?
                    I am well thank you Caliban. My parents at the moment are taking up a lot of my time, no live concerts alas, but I have been able to catch up on listening to most of the Proms.


                    A B! A Beautiful night, perhaps it's midnight in Paris or time for a stroll through Venetian passageways?

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26520
                      #34180
                      We've not done awfully well at this, have we...?!

                      The whirl of controversy that was 'the Proms' now subsiding, time for the thinking cap again.

                      Swift first thought: Barcarolle? Venetian passages of music... is there a Barcarolle setting words about a Bella Notte or similar? And Offenbach provides a Parisien connection...

                      But I've a feeling it's not that easy...
                      "...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
                        • 8776
                        #34181
                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        We've not done awfully well at this, have we...?!

                        The whirl of controversy that was 'the Proms' now subsiding, time for the thinking cap again.

                        Swift first thought: Barcarolle? Venetian passages of music... is there a Barcarolle setting words about a Bella Notte or similar? And Offenbach provides a Parisien connection...

                        But I've a feeling it's not that easy...
                        I was flirting with Bizet, if you get my meaning, but I would guess scarily wrong......

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                        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                          Gone fishin'
                          • Sep 2011
                          • 30163
                          #34182
                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          Swift first thought: Barcarolle? Venetian passages of music... is there a Barcarolle setting words about a Bella Notte or similar? And Offenbach provides a Parisien connection...
                          Oh, good call, Cali - the Offenbach itself has a "beautiful night" association ("Ah, belle nuit, belle nuit d'Amore")

                          And, as it's edjog, is Henze involved, meponders ... ?
                          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26520
                            #34183
                            Originally posted by antongould View Post
                            I was flirting with Bizet, if you get my meaning
                            You strumpet, you.
                            "...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
                              #34184
                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              You strumpet, you.
                              Getting Bizet with the fizet, perhaps?
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              • hedgehog
                                #34185
                                Gosh AA lives! I was a few days without internet as well.

                                Caliban, Barcarolle is correct!

                                The beautiful night refers to the the Barcarolle in Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman "Belle nuit, รด nuit d'amour" as opposed to the original Elves' song in Die Rheinnixen.

                                The Barcarolle pops up at midnight in Paris and in another Venetian Passage.........

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