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[mercia]

Struggling with La Venexiana (other than wondering if it has something to do with the York Early Music Festival of 1985?) - but

John Godfrey studied Composition at the University of York, and wrote Call of the Carolina Parakeet for the Crash Ensemble in 2005.

Martin Wesley-Smith, likewhere educated, wrote Weapons of Mass Distortion in 2003.

Venexiana is apparently the second part of a trilogy (beginning with a concerto)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ah! Taxing my Powers, mercs! Anthony Powers (also studied composition at York University, wrote Venexiana in 1985!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Venexiana is apparently the second part of a trilogy (beginning with a concerto)

... and concluding with a piece that might well prove useful in "Classical Connections" - Stone - Water - Stars (sounds like a superhuman version of "Scissors, Paper, Stone"!)

[mercia]

bingo or even housey-housey. Well done - whether you wanted it or not the game is now yours

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

bingo or even housey-housey. Well done - whether you wanted it or not the game is now yours

- I shall attempt a Z that doesn't make the the Thread for another ten months!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Let's try Branching out with this Z:

Scooby Doo's Laurel? She isn't saying - so look look to Jolles's last poem.

[mercia]

Scooby Doo Laurel has taken me to a very strange place. Please tell me this has nothing to do with one Larry Harmon

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Please tell me this has nothing to do with one Larry Harmon

Glad to do so. (A bit of horticulture is involved with Scooby Doo.)

[mercia]

haven't found any poets named Jolles - is this the wordplay you mentioned yesterday ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

haven't found any poets named Jolles

Nor have I.

is this the wordplay you mentioned yesterday ?

No - that is the most literal of the puzzle clues.

Stick with Scooby Doo: he doesn't have that many associates - and even fewer that could be referred to as "she".

[mercia]

Daphne is a plant (horticulturally speaking), voiced by several ladies apparently including a heather

[antongould]

Daphne is a plant (horticulturally speaking), voiced by several ladies apparently including a heather

Then there is Velma and far too many people called Jolles .....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Daphne is a plant (horticulturally speaking)

... from the Greek for "laurel".

Now, if Daphne isn't saying anything, she could be described as a ....

[mercia]

... from the Greek for "laurel".

didn't know that, but I do now

a mute Daphne - (sorry this must be like pulling teeth)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... and far too many people called Jolles .....

Any of them composers that you've discovered, anton?