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  • mercia
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8920

    Julian Bream?

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    • Dave2002
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 18012

      Yep. You're done.

      Thank goodness we didn't have to go this way http://www.nocturnal-music.co.uk/

      Or this way http://www.myspace.com/nocturnalemissionsofficial or similar!

      Over to you now.

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      • Dave2002
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        • Dec 2010
        • 18012

        Originally posted by mercia
        I think my only quibble with that question would be that all 3 solutions should have had nocturnal in them. Die Fledermaus is nocturnal only by association if you see what I mean. But maybe I'm wrong about that, since it is quite an obvious connection.
        Yes - I accept that. Not quite sure of the rules myself - just finding my way. Do we have fouls with penalties?

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        • Dave2002
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          • Dec 2010
          • 18012

          Also, are there time limits? One per day, one per week, etc?

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          • Anna

            I think the longest it's taken to solve a question is 48 hours, the quickest around 2 minutes, sometimes when a lot of people are joining in there have been around half a dozen solved in a day. I have to agree with mercia about Fledermaus being an obscure clue as (to me at least) was 'dedicated player' Still, super-sleuth mercia got there in the end!

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            • mercia
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

              I'm probably going to break those rules now


              an O to connect

              a GI with the Philadelphia
              dactylic hexameters in 15 books
              a "final" work dedicated to Prokofiev



              3 pieces of music

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              • Dave2002
                Full Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 18012

                Maybe Ovid?

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                • Dave2002
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 18012

                  i feel that Metamorphoses is relevant somehow, but the obvious one, Britten's from 1951, was not dedicated to Prokofiev!

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                  • Dave2002
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 18012

                    Ah ....

                    Oboe!

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                    • Dave2002
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2010
                      • 18012

                      Poulenc's oboe sonata is dedicated to Prokofiev. One of the movements may be the last piece which Poulenc wrote.

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                      • Dave2002
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 18012

                        John de Lancie - Strauss Oboe concerto , or the piece by Francaix "L'Horloge de Flore". Maybe more. de Lancie was the oboist in the Philadelphia Orchestra, and met Strauss during the war when he was a soldier.

                        So the most obvious to me - Ormandy - wasn't in there at all!

                        PS: and if we follow the rules as you've explained them to me it probably has to be the Strauss piece. Not sure now about the Britten - is "oboe" in the title?

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                        • Dave2002
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 18012

                          Mercia

                          No - hang in there. Now I've got a feel for it I might set a much easier one next time. You might want to hold back if it's too easy, to let others have a go, but it'd be a shame to lose you altogether.

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                          • Dave2002
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 18012

                            P

                            Rubinstein

                            Mellifluous rock band

                            A musical instrument

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                            • antongould
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8782

                              Any chance of a clue for the lost and lonely?

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                              • Angle
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 724

                                Lose Mercia? No, no, no.

                                Here I am, home again after an exhausting week and I find that Mercia is retiring?? To bed ? At this time of day ? With the sun shining and everything going his way ?

                                As for a clue, AntonG, I have come in as the curtain descends on the O and I await, as I unpack, the P. The blessed P, again, already?

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