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  • antongould
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8786

    Originally posted by cloughie View Post
    Sure you got the right letter Led Zep did Moby Dick!

    No let's stick with the Y

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    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
      Gone fishin'
      • Sep 2011
      • 30163

      Originally posted by antongould View Post
      Little One
      Anything to do with Dallapiccola?
      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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      • antongould
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8786

        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
        Anything to do with Dallapiccola?
        No .... not a name I am familiar with ....

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        • cloughie
          Full Member
          • Dec 2011
          • 22127

          Originally posted by antongould View Post
          No .... not a name I am familiar with ....
          Surprised, anton, a man of your intellect and insight....

          Anything to do with York or New York or even Yale?

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          • antongould
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8786

            Originally posted by cloughie View Post
            Surprised, anton, a man of your intellect and insight....

            Anything to do with York or New York or even Yale?

            Could well be one of those 3 ......

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            • cloughie
              Full Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 22127

              Originally posted by antongould View Post
              Could well be one of those 3 ......
              You're so (un)helpful. I pay you a compliment and that's my reward. I mentioned Yale as you tend to have a penchant for academic institutions, but I can't find links to all three.

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              • antongould
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8786

                Follow my penchant ....

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                • subcontrabass
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 2780

                  Originally posted by antongould View Post
                  Follow my penchant ....
                  Compositions by Yale graduates:

                  George Lewis (Homage to Charles Parker for improvisors and electronics) (or were you just looking for Charles Ives?)
                  Cole Porter ("Little One" - a song in High Society)
                  Douglas Moore (Moby Dick - a symphonic poem)

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                  • antongould
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8786

                    Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                    Compositions by Yale graduates:

                    George Lewis (Homage to Charles Parker for improvisors and electronics) (or were you just looking for Charles Ives?)
                    Cole Porter ("Little One" - a song in High Society)
                    Douglas Moore (Moby Dick - a symphonic poem)
                    Indeed scb. it was Ives ..... Choose your letter

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                    • subcontrabass
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 2780

                      Originally posted by antongould View Post
                      Indeed scb. it was Ives ..... Choose your letter
                      Let's try a Z to link Joan of Arc, Tancredi, and an Ariettina.
                      Last edited by subcontrabass; 09-01-16, 14:29.

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26540

                        Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                        Let's try a Z to link Joan of Arc, Tancredi, and an Ariettina.
                        "Not gonna lie to you" (to quote Nessa from Gavin & Stacey): entirely based on a spot of googling, I think I have it.

                        Princess Zinaida Volkonskaia (b. 1749), mezzo-soprano, composer and mate of Alexander I, emperor of Russia, Gogol, Pushkin, Victor Hugo, Stendhal, Donizetti, Glinka and Rossini, had a large collection of manuscripts now at Harvard.

                        Zinaida's collection includes

                        - her own opera Giovanna d'Arco (Joan of Arc)
                        - Rossini's Tancredi
                        - Sor's Ariettina

                        It's all here: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00143

                        "...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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                        • subcontrabass
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 2780

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          "Not gonna lie to you" (to quote Nessa from Gavin & Stacey): entirely based on a spot of googling, I think I have it.

                          Princess Zinaida Volkonskaia (b. 1749), mezzo-soprano, composer and mate of Alexander I, emperor of Russia, Gogol, Pushkin, Victor Hugo, Stendhal, Donizetti, Glinka and Rossini, had a large collection of manuscripts now at Harvard.

                          Zinaida's collection includes

                          - her own opera Giovanna d'Arco (Joan of Arc)
                          - Rossini's Tancredi
                          - Sor's Ariettina

                          It's all here: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00143

                          And more specifically she sang the title role in a performance of Tancredi (and had her portrait painted as that character), and was the dedicatee of Sor's Arrietina.

                          Caliban to lead us in the Advance.

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26540

                            Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                            And more specifically she sang the title role in a performance of Tancredi (and had her portrait painted as that character), and was the dedicatee of Sor's Arrietina.

                            Caliban to lead us in the Advance.
                            ... and here, indeed, she is as Tancredi:



                            Quite a gal.

                            .

                            So here we go again:

                            An A to link Verdi, Bernstein and Tchaikovsky
                            "...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
                              • 26540

                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              So here we go again:

                              An A to link Verdi, Bernstein and Tchaikovsky
                              This seems to have brought proceedings to a halt. People may be out for Saturday evening fun, so I'll leave till tomorrow before giving any clues... save that the first line above is an ever so slight clue in context.
                              "...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
                                • 8786

                                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                                This seems to have brought proceedings to a halt. People may be out for Saturday evening fun, so I'll leave till tomorrow before giving any clues... save that the first line above is an ever so slight clue in context.
                                Of course the arrival of the, bigger, clue will have to wait until Rumpole has had his Sunday kippers ....

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