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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26574

    Okidoki folks, a Good Friday G

    What G unites

    1. Love and Death
    2. 3rd May 1808
    3. Luscinia megarhynchos

    ?

    PS: 8 posts to go to the 5000 mark
    "...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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    • Anna

      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      Okidoki folks, a Good Friday G

      What G unites

      1. Love and Death
      2. 3rd May 1808
      3. Luscinia megarhynchos
      Goya?
      Granados was inspired by Goya and composed The Maiden and the Nightingale (so Composer of the Week informed us!)
      Goya painted about the 3rd May 1808 which was Spanish resistance to Napleon and also painted Love & Death

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26574

        Originally posted by Anna View Post
        Goya?
        Granados was inspired by Goya and composed The Maiden and the Nightingale (so Composer of the Week informed us!)
        Goya painted about the 3rd May 1808 which was Spanish resistance to Napleon and also painted Love & Death
        Happy Easter, Anna! You got it... But which G are you going to plump for?

        Clue: I was thinking more specifically about "Love and Death" as a title...

        Either way, start working on your Haitch!!
        "...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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        • Anna

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          Happy Easter, Anna! You got it... But which G are you going to plump for?

          Clue: I was thinking more specifically about "Love and Death" as a title...

          Either way, start working on your Haitch!!
          Oh, maybe you mean Granados' opera Goyescas in which case I've messed up me answer!! I don't mind handing it over to someone else to tidy it up.
          Last edited by Guest; 22-04-11, 11:32.

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          • amateur51

            Originally posted by Ofcachap View Post
            As the great Bernard Cribbins said:
            'You know the trouble with Fred? E's too 'asty...you never get nowhere if you're too 'asty'.

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            • Anna

              I'm not really sure I deserve the G, getting Goya and Granados so mixed up, so does someone want to set the H?

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26574

                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                Oh, maybe you mean Granados' opera Goyescas in which case I've messed up me answer!! I don't mind handing it over to someone else to tidy it up.

                No no... it was Granados I was thinking about... The answers were:

                1. Love and death (El amor y la muerte) - one of the movements of Granados's piano set Goyescas
                2. Yes - the painting by Goya
                3. Yes - the Nightingale from another of the Goyescas pieces: The Maiden and the Nightingale (La maja y el ruiseñor)

                Where are you Anna? It's certainly your H!!!
                "...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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                • Anna

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                  No no... it was Granados I was thinking about... The answers were:

                  1. Love and death (El amor y la muerte) - one of the movements of Granados's piano set Goyescas
                  2. Yes - the painting by Goya
                  3. Yes - the Nightingale from another of the Goyescas pieces: The Maiden and the Nightingale (La maja y el ruiseñor)

                  Where are you Anna? It's certainly your H!!!
                  I was waiting for you Caliban! OK, this is a quick and very easy H

                  An comic opera based on a French novel, conducted by the composer at the premiere
                  A father and son with whom you might be in with a winning chance
                  Something which can be smokey or salty or, entirely inedible or designed to confuse

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                  • rubbernecker

                    5000!

                    Yay, I just couldn't resist popping up to bag that one!

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26574

                      Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                      5000!

                      Yay, I just couldn't resist popping up to bag that one!
                      "...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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                      • Anna

                        for rubbers!

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                        • rubbernecker

                          Originally posted by Anna View Post
                          I was waiting for you Caliban! OK, this is a quick and very easy H

                          An comic opera based on a French novel, conducted by the composer at the premiere
                          A father and son with whom you might be in with a winning chance
                          Something which can be smokey or salty or, entirely inedible or designed to confuse
                          Herring

                          Britten: Albert Herring based on Maupassant
                          John Frederick Herring Sr and Jr, painters of nags n' steeds
                          and er, herrings, rollmop or red...

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                          • Anna

                            Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                            Herring

                            Britten: Albert Herring based on Maupassant
                            John Frederick Herring Sr and Jr, painters of nags n' steeds
                            and er, herrings, rollmop or red...

                            Honestly rubbers, you are so quick off the mark! Absolutely correct and the inedible was Herring Gull. Mind you, it was ridiculously easy

                            I was, as a clue to Albert H. going to post "Wake me early Mother Dear ...." but that was too obvious. Speaking of waking early, I had promised myself a lie-in but was woken at 7am by a hot air balloon taking off!

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                            • Norfolk Born

                              It wasn't Nick Clegg, was it?

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                              • rubbernecker

                                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                                Honestly rubbers, you are so quick off the mark!


                                It's not always a good thing, it's got me into some sticky situations, I fear

                                I will be less hasty with producing an I

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