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  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
    Gone fishin'
    • Sep 2011
    • 30163
    #37006
    Originally posted by mercia View Post
    didn't know that, but I do now
    The link is from one of those Greek myths that occasionally get turned into operas.

    a mute Daphne - (sorry this must be like pulling teeth)
    "mute" being another word for ...

    (Don't worry - I'm not looking down in the mouth!)
    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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    • mercia
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8920
      #37007
      Ultimo poema de Stefan Zweig !!! - sorry I've probably just pipped anton there

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163
        #37008
        Originally posted by mercia View Post
        Ultimo poema de Stefan Zweig !!! - sorry I've probably just pipped anton there
        Now we're cooking with gas!
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • antongould
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8774
          #37009
          Originally posted by mercia View Post
          Ultimo poema de Stefan Zweig !!! - sorry I've probably just pipped anton there

          Don't be daft mercs I wasn't at the races ..... A Very Zweig effort such as that deserves A reward ....

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          • mercia
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8920
            #37010
            Originally posted by mercia View Post
            Ultimo poema de Stefan Zweig
            by Henry Jolles
            Henry Jolles - Wikipedia
            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jolles

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            • mercia
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8920
              #37011
              Strauss
              Die schweigsame Frau - Wikipedia
              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_schweigsame_Frau


              "Zweig later collaborated with Joseph Gregor, to provide Strauss with the libretto for one other opera, Daphne"

              Stefan Zweig - Wikipedia
              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Zweig


              I think the answer might be Zweig - what a lot I've learnt today

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163
                #37012
                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                Strauss
                Die schweigsame Frau - Wikipedia
                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_schweigsame_Frau

                "Zweig later collaborated with Joseph Gregor, to provide Strauss with the libretto for one other opera, Daphne"
                Stefan Zweig - Wikipedia
                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Zweig

                I think the answer might be Zweig - what a lot I've learnt today


                Correct in all details, mercs (and no charge for the home-learning facilitation )

                Stefan Zweig, provided libretti (in whole or part) for Richard Strauss' operas Daphne and The Silent Woman (to the disapproval of Goebbels as Zweig was a Jew) and whose "last poem" was a composition by Henry Jolles.

                Ironically (as Zweig had had to leave his homeland after the rise of the Nazis) his works were first published in English under the name "Stephen Branch", to avoid anti-Germanic feelings!

                So All the way back to the beginning Again with mercs!
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • mercia
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8920
                  #37013
                  cannot begin to match the intricacy of Zweig

                  an A to connect works that feature

                  Sellem, Dr Reischmann, Moppet and Poppet

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26514
                    #37014
                    Originally posted by mercia View Post
                    cannot begin to match the intricacy of Zweig
                    Blimey, I know - Scooby Doo and Die schweigsame Frau I never thought I'd see united...


                    Originally posted by mercia View Post
                    cannot begin to match the intricacy of Zweig

                    an A to connect works that feature

                    Sellem, Dr Reischmann, Moppet and Poppet
                    I'm just back from a Christmas Party and slightly the worse for Champagne Cocktails so if this is right, the B may have to await the conclusion of my imminent siesta...

                    The first two are Auden (Rake's Progress and Elegy for Young Lovers respectively) so I suspect old Wystan Hugh is the A in question....


                    .


                    Ah - thanks Wikipedia: Moppet and Poppet are the cats in Paul Bunyan. Words by W H A for Auden...

                    "...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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                    • mercia
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8920
                      #37015
                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                      Ah - thanks Wikipedia: Moppet and Poppet are the cats in Paul Bunyan. Words by W H A for Auden...

                      .... so you didn't need wiki for the first two - most impressive - you're a better man than I, Gunga Din. Indeed, old craggy-face Wystan himself



                      we look forward to the post-siesta B for burp

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26514
                        #37016
                        Originally posted by mercia View Post
                        - most impressive -

                        - most lucky - (I did an essay about Auden and music as part of my A level Auden studies ... The interesting thing is how much I've retained, esp. a huge love of Auden's work).

                        Anyhoo...

                        Which B, without being French, could in a Gallic manner be both serious and capricious, as well as singular and naive…?
                        "...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
                          • 8774
                          #37017
                          With my poor F for O level French - I feel I may be struggling ......

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26514
                            #37018
                            Originally posted by antongould View Post
                            With my poor F for O level French - I feel I may be struggling ......

                            Well Anton we are in the realms of the Northern Lights so beloved of our Radio 3 masters... so you'd be better advised to look to Sweden, than shedding tears about your mis-spent youth!
                            "...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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                            • vinteuil
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12765
                              #37019
                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              -
                              Which B, without being French, could in a Gallic manner be both serious and capricious, as well as singular and naive…?
                              hmmm - the Sage of Nottingham seems to be nudging us to-wards someone associated with -

                              sérieuse, capricieuse, singulière, naïve

                              Can't bear to think who he might mean....

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                              • antongould
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8774
                                #37020
                                Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                                hmmm - the Sage of Nottingham seems to be nudging us to-wards someone associated with -

                                sérieuse, capricieuse, singulière, naïve

                                Can't bear to think who he might mean....
                                Well Berwald is

                                COTW
                                Swedish
                                Compose Sinfonie Naive

                                And Rumpole is
                                Always Topical and
                                Radio 3 'til he d....... ...

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