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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26506

    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
    perhaps time for a big clue.

    Stendhal was famous for his love of spinach - as he says in his autobiographical "Vie d' Henry Brulard" - 'Les épinards et Saint-Simon ont été mes seuls goûts durables, après celui toutefois de vivre à Paris avec cent louis de rente, faisant des livres.' [ 'Spinach and Saint-Simon have been my only lasting pleasures, that is however, after that of living in Paris with a private income of a hundred louis and writing books.'
    Ah that would explain why I was up a blind alley - there seem to be loads of vegetables of which he was fond.

    I recall being told that Stendhal was a fan of artichokes too.

    And peas..

    "Stendhal et les petits pois

    On connaït le goût de Stendhal pour les épinards auxquels il resta aussi fidèle qu'à Saint-Simon, mais les spécialistes n'ont pas souligné l'importance, dans son oeuvre, des petits pois.

    Dans son Journal, le 25 mars 1808 apparaît une notation importante : 'Remède souverain contre l'amour : manger des pois.' "

    (Stendhal and peas

    We know about Stendhal's love for spinach to which he remained as faithful as he did to Saint-Simon, but specialists have overlooked the importance in his work of peas.

    In his diary, an important note appears on 25 March 1808: "A sovereign remedy against love: eat peas" )



    However I am still up a different alley - what's the 'F' link with Ms Foster Jenkins?
    "...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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    • rubbernecker

      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      [COLOR="blue"]Ah that would explain why I was up a blind alley - there seem to be loads of vegetables of which he was fond.

      I recall being told that Stendhal was a fan of artichokes too.
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      I too thought it was artichokes which is why I found myself stuffed up a cul-de-sac and gave up trying to solve this.
      Viz: A Stendhal letter home in which he extolled the virtues of the Roman artichokes. "Everything here falls like manna. Twelve hundred artichokes cost 21 sous...."

      The identity of Stendhal's favourite vegetable is not as certain as Proust's favourite cake, I submit.

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      • rubbernecker

        I'm now going off to make egg florentine

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        • vinteuil
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          • Nov 2010
          • 12761

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          Ah that would explain why I was up a blind alley - there seem to be loads of vegetables of which he was fond.

          I recall being told that Stendhal was a fan of artichokes too.

          And peas..

          "Stendhal et les petits pois

          On connaït le goût de Stendhal pour les épinards auxquels il resta aussi fidèle qu'à Saint-Simon, mais les spécialistes n'ont pas souligné l'importance, dans son oeuvre, des petits pois.

          Dans son Journal, le 25 mars 1808 apparaît une notation importante : 'Remède souverain contre l'amour : manger des pois.' "

          (Stendhal and peas

          We know about Stendhal's love for spinach to which he remained as faithful as he did to Saint-Simon, but specialists have overlooked the importance in his work of peas.

          In his diary, an important note appears on 25 March 1808: "A sovereign remedy against love: eat peas" )



          However I am still up a different alley - what's the 'F' link with Ms Foster Jenkins?
          I first encountered Stendhal's love of spinach in Perec's "53 Jours" where it is a key plot device in providing the clue to the role of Stendhal in the story : cf note to chap 18 ("allusions qui conduisaient à Stendhal") - 'une côte de veau aux épinards, et l' on sait que c'etait le mets favori de Stendhal'.

          so - you've got spinach, Miss Foster-Jenkins, a spring festival...

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          • vinteuil
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            • Nov 2010
            • 12761

            Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
            I'm now going off to make egg florentine
            ... seems to me that rubbernecker gets the G !

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            • rubbernecker

              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
              ... seems to me that rubbernecker gets the G !
              Oh no, you don't... I haven't said anything!

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              • rubbernecker

                Oh gawd... all right then, this is dead straightforward: what G connects a prominent organist/composer, succeeded in the post by his nephew, and an ensemble associated with Essex? (... and I don't mean a trouser suit)

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                • rubbernecker

                  Originally posted by hercule
                  Gabrieli?
                  I assume that took you considerably less time than the 79 minutes that elapsed between the posting of the question and your answer

                  On to H you go

                  EDIT: The order, strictly speaking is: Andrea, Giovanni, Quartet. I tell you this only because scb would be bound to pull you up on it!
                  Last edited by Guest; 12-01-11, 14:39.

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                  • subcontrabass
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 2780

                    Originally posted by hercule
                    Unfortunately not! I started off down the cul-de-sac of Gibbons till I found out they were father and son.

                    What H connects George the poet, Janet the oboist and Hugh the Drover?

                    (hopefully the same H as I'm thinking of!)
                    Harold?

                    "Childe Harold" by Lord George Byron; Janet Craxton, daughter of Harold Craxton; "Hugh the Drover" - libretto by Harold Child.

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                    • subcontrabass
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                      • Nov 2010
                      • 2780

                      Originally posted by hercule
                      Do you people need any more convincing that my questions are hopeless?

                      That was a nice question with several twists.

                      This is probably even easier:

                      What I links three tenors?

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                      • rubbernecker

                        I'm thinking Harold, so let me see if my reasoning is really as convoluted as I think:

                        The librettist for Hugh The Drover was Harold Childe. George Byron wrote Childe Harold (to the Dark Tower Came). Janet Craxton is the child of Harold Craxton.

                        EDIT: Beaten to the punch!

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                        • rubbernecker

                          Originally posted by hercule
                          Should really have been a C question !!
                          No, it was just fine as it was! Nice one

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                          • subcontrabass
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                            • Nov 2010
                            • 2780

                            Originally posted by hercule
                            Well I've found two Russian operatic tenors called Ivan and some more tenor Ivans in the Alexandrov Ensemble but I'm sure I'm barking up the wrong tree.
                            Try some closer to home.

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                            • rubbernecker

                              Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                              Try some closer to home.
                              Bostridge, Partridge... and er, there was one called Ian Caley many years ago?

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                              • subcontrabass
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                                • Nov 2010
                                • 2780

                                Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                                Bostridge, Partridge... and er, there was one called Ian Caley many years ago?
                                There is another living one called Ian Campbell, an Australian who no longer sings but became an administrator of opera companies. (I only said some were closer to home)

                                Over to you for J.

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