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  • Simon

    Well I'm off to bed now - I'm on my own atm so I can listen to the cricket for a little while. :)

    I imagine you've got the first, so maybe best to give Don et al half an hour in the morning to have a brief wander around Ohio and Holland! I'll try to log on and provide the answer I had in mind by 1000 GMT.

    Sleep well, all!

    S-S!

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    • Don Petter

      Not much progress here. Ramblings include:

      Xanthippe? Oh! 'Ell(i Ameling)!

      Without googling for Xs, the only others I couild think of were Xenophon (real, not mythological) and Xerxes (a Handel work, and you said it wasn't a work). Ameling did sing Dido, but I doubt the above is anywhere near the truth. Apart from OH being the abbreviation for Ohio (Could there be an aria "Oh....something" in the answer) there is an Athens in Ohio, which is Greek if not necessarily mythological.

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      • sigolene euphemia

        eks

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        • Don Petter

          Originally posted by sigolene euphemia View Post
          eks
          Was that a hiccup?

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          • sigolene euphemia

            Xeres the Great 465bc ? ? ?

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            • sigolene euphemia

              Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
              Was that a hiccup?
              naw, practicing my phonetics for X

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              • sigolene euphemia

                Is this Xenia as in Xenia Holland Steam ships and Xenia, Ohio.
                Cellist Xenia Janovic

                ?

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                • Don Petter

                  Looks like Simon is running late. I'm out for a bit now - will look back later.

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                  • Simon

                    Sorry for delay - yes, have had to go out and do something that I didn't expect!

                    Anyway, it's Xenia. Xenia is a town in Ohio - " the hospitality town" - and Xenia is also Miss Xenia Meijer, who is famous as Dido in the Dutch TV production. She was mentioned on the old boards a few times. Here she is - only matched by Janet Baker, in my opinion! Xenia is also the Greek concept of hospitality. I wouldn't have expected many to get this one without a quick google.

                    Dido's lament from Purcell's Dido&Aeneas, by the mezzo Xenia Meijer. She teaches Singing in the conservatory of Tilburg, The Netherlands. More info about thi...


                    And the first X was, of course, a Xylophone: Patrick Moore and Saint-Saens the first composer to use one in an orchestra.

                    So whoever wants Y is welcome to go for it!

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                    • rubbernecker

                      Originally posted by Simon View Post
                      Miss Xenia Meijer, who is famous as Dido in the Dutch TV production
                      Doh! Of course!
                      Originally posted by Simon View Post
                      So whoever wants Y is welcome to go for it!
                      Sigolene, you had Xenia, at least...

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                      • subcontrabass
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 2780

                        Originally posted by Simon View Post

                        Anyway, it's Xenia. Xenia is a town in Ohio - " the hospitality town" - and Xenia is also Miss Xenia Meijer, who is famous as Dido in the Dutch TV production.
                        Another question with more than one logical answer. Xerxes is a large company operating in Ohio. Carla Maria Meijer (any relation to Xenia?) has sung both the roles of Dido and Xerxes (the only Dutch singer I could find for both roles).

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                        • Don Petter

                          Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                          Sigolene, you had Xenia, at least...
                          I too think it's Sig's Y - over to you when you're ready?

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                          • sigolene euphemia

                            Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                            I too think it's Sig's Y - over to you when you're ready?
                            REALLY moi, ? I worked my brain search engines got on the tele, hooked to the wall, remember those, asked friends, and WOW !

                            so Y, I have to well ponder and think for this is not something I am speedo about.

                            And, I really want to do this by brain power, not google power, so if someone gets the itch to do Y, please be my guest.

                            so, i'm thinkin'

                            sigolene

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                            • Nick Armstrong
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26527

                              Originally posted by sigolene euphemia View Post
                              REALLY moi, ? I worked my brain search engines got on the tele, hooked to the wall, remember those, asked friends, and WOW !

                              so Y, I have to well ponder and think for this is not something I am speedo about.

                              And, I really want to do this by brain power, not google power, so if someone gets the itch to do Y, please be my guest.

                              so, i'm thinkin'

                              sigolene
                              Go, Sigo!!!! :cool2:
                              "...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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                              • Don Petter

                                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                                Go, Sigo!!!! :cool2:
                                Don't rush - It always feels as if everyone is watching and waiting to pounce, but most of us only look back in now and again, I suspect. (I will be going out for the evening, for instance.)

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