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  • cloughie
    Full Member
    • Dec 2011
    • 22107

    Originally posted by antongould View Post
    Of course the arrival of the, bigger, clue will have to wait until Rumpole has had his Sunday kippers ....
    I think we could be back to Arc as in Joan not Noah, despite recent heavy rainfall!

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26506

      Originally posted by cloughie View Post
      I think we could be back to Arc as in Joan
      Oh Bravo, cloughie!

      Would you care to tie that in three places to the stake of your fierily perceptive intellect?
      "...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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      • cloughie
        Full Member
        • Dec 2011
        • 22107

        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        Oh Bravo, cloughie!

        Would you care to tie that in three places to the stake of your fierily perceptive intellect?
        Verdi opera Giovanna d'Arco
        Leonard Bernstein Missa Brevis was composed for an adaption of the play by Jean Anouilh called The Lark, which covers the events surrounding Joan of Arc and her trial.
        Tchaikovsky Opera Maid of Orleans is as would be expected about the above mentioned Joan.

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        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
          Gone fishin'
          • Sep 2011
          • 30163

          Two Quite Interesting facts:

          The Italian for "again" is "ancora".
          Neither Verdi, nor Tchaikovsky, nor Bernstein wrote pieces in which the word "ancora" features prominently.



          Just thought I'd share.
          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26506

            Originally posted by cloughie View Post
            Verdi opera Giovanna d'Arco
            Leonard Bernstein Missa Brevis was composed for an adaption of the play by Jean Anouilh called The Lark, which covers the events surrounding Joan of Arc and her trial.
            Tchaikovsky Opera Maid of Orleans is as would be expected about the above mentioned Joan.
            Perfect.

            Let's B 'avin' you, Mr c....


            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
            Two Quite Interesting facts:

            The Italian for "again" is "ancora".
            Neither Verdi, nor Tchaikovsky, nor Bernstein wrote pieces in which the word "ancora" features prominently.



            Just thought I'd share.
            ... as the EC presenters would say in response to desperately wrong answers to the morning 'puzzle' - "interesting suggestions" ...

            The 'here we go again' reference was designed to send you back to the previous puzzle where poor young Joan featured...

            Thanks for playing, ferney!
            "...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
              Perfect.

              Let's B 'avin' you, Mr c....

              Why do you want to lead us to Sheffield? ( http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/f...rtinwainwright )

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              • cloughie
                Full Member
                • Dec 2011
                • 22107

                Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                Why do you want to lead us to Sheffield? ( http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/f...rtinwainwright )
                Did you know that in Sheffield, particularly from Meadowhall you can always look on the life of Brightside.

                A B linked by an Emmett, Dvorak and Marmalade

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26506

                  Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                  Why do you want to lead us to Sheffield? ( http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/f...rtinwainwright )
                  I didn't know there was a real one!

                  Could be worse. At least we're avoiding Sluts Hole Lane in Norfolk (from the Dutch for 'sluice' it seems)...
                  "...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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                  • Flay
                    Full Member
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 5795

                    Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                    A B linked by an Emmett, Dvorak and Marmalade
                    I take it that's Tomáš Dvořák?
                    Last edited by Flay; 11-01-16, 22:07. Reason: accents corrected
                    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                    • cloughie
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22107

                      Originally posted by Flay View Post
                      I take it that's Tomáš Dvořák?
                      No it's t'hovis one!

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26506

                        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                        No it's t'hovis one!
                        Marmalade on Hovis, mmmmm!

                        Been toying with this problem, without success.

                        Are you talking the popular '60s beat combo, The Marmalade?





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                        That was the Norfolk Born Tribute post.

                        Come back NB, if you're lurking!
                        "...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

                          Originally posted by Flay View Post
                          I take it that's Tomáš Dvořák?
                          Hmm - you were looking at things lepidopteraic too, Flay?


                          Dan Emmett formed (one of) the first Blackface "minstrel" troupes ....
                          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                          • vinteuil
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 12761

                            ... I was thinking of the Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Branch Railway in Battersea - but he was an Emett not an Emmett

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                            • subcontrabass
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 2780

                              I have found a few Ballads that look interesting.

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26506

                                Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                                ... I was thinking of the Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Branch Railway in Battersea - but he was an Emett not an Emmett
                                Tschhhhhh!
                                "...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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