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  • Tapiola
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    • Jan 2011
    • 1688

    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    Fish, presumably Taps?

    Large quantities of such brain food are the only explanation of your feat in the matterberg of Atterberg. I'd never heard of the beggar, let alone knowing how many symphonies he wrote.

    I have a feeling that, fuelled by the omega-3 from a few cod fillets, we are going to get a monumental "B"
    Too kind, Caliban. However: a) I am not a great fish lover, unless the blighter comes in a shell; and b) apologies for a potentially very unmonumental "B".

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    • mercia
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8920

      Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
      What B connects Stravinsky's Petrushka, Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin and Ives' Variations on 'America' ?
      a wild guess that I can't really flesh out, is it Boston?

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      • Tapiola
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        • Jan 2011
        • 1688

        Sorry mercia, not Boston. The B is a musical thing, as opposed to a person, place or musical work.

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26506

          Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
          I am not a great fish lover, unless the blighter comes in a shell
          I very much agree!
          "...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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          • amateur51

            Originally posted by mercia View Post
            okey, dokey
            I'm not clever enough for X Y Z so

            A

            a composer, the nephew of a creator of soil classification, one of his nine symphonies was as the result of a competition (hence it's monetary subtitle?), his violin concerto was premiered by a "temperamental" Australian violinist
            The violinist is Alma Moodie who sounds to have been quite a player but I don't get any sense from wiki about why she might be described as 'a "temperamental" Australian violinist' - can either mercia or Taps help please??

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            • mercia
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
              "temperamental"
              sorry, my pathetic play on words Moodie/Moody/Temperamental ................. sort of

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              • Tapiola
                Full Member
                • Jan 2011
                • 1688

                G'day, ams, me old cobber! By "temperamental" I assumed it was mercia's pun on the fiddler's surname. Bonzah!

                [schooner of ]

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                • amateur51

                  Originally posted by mercia View Post
                  sorry, my pathetic play on words Moodie/Moody/Temperamental ................. sort of
                  Brilliant, mercia! ;ok:

                  What a chump am I!

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                  • mercia
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                    The B is a musical thing
                    not Boston but perhaps bitonality, which occurs in those three works

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                    • Tapiola
                      Full Member
                      • Jan 2011
                      • 1688



                      B for Bingo, mercia. Great stuff. Interestingly, Hindemith denied (in the mid 1930s) the existence of the concept despite having written explicitly bitonal works years previously.

                      Let's C what you can come up with for the next letter.

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                      • mercia
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8920

                        I think I'm in danger of monopolising things here, so I shall buzz off after this C


                        C

                        a composer who resurrected Vivaldi (with an American poet), came from a family of several (male) cellists, wrote tributes to Paganini and Scarlatti and was a one-time conductor of an American orchestra

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                        • vinteuil
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 12761

                          Originally posted by mercia View Post
                          I think I'm in danger of monopolising things here, so I shall buzz off after this C


                          C

                          a composer who resurrected Vivaldi (with an American poet), came from a family of several (male) cellists, wrote tributes to Paganini and Scarlatti and was a one-time conductor of an American orchestra
                          ... might this be Alfredo Casella?

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                          • Tapiola
                            Full Member
                            • Jan 2011
                            • 1688

                            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                            ... might this be Alfredo Casella?
                            Perhaps a case of "close, but no cigar".

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                            • mercia
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8920

                              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                              Alfredo Casella
                              that's the chap, well done
                              Paganiniana, Scarlattiana, Boston Pops Orchestra etc. etc. (Pound was the poet involved in Vivaldi Week)

                              over to you

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26506

                                Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                                Perhaps a case of "close, but no cigar".

                                Smokin'...!

                                http://www.acousticsrecords.co.uk/acatalog/SlimCD.html
                                "...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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