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  • amateur51

    Originally posted by Anna View Post
    I'm not playing, but, oh what the hell, us Welsh - tip a bloke on their head soon as look at them - Oh, it's surname! <banned doh emoticon) cos I was going to say Kit Brendel It cannot be Kempff
    No, it's not Kempff.

    If I said that the parent is North American ....?

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26539

      Ha! Got it! Canadian Anton K-K-K-K-Kuerti recorded all the LvB piano sonatas, and his son Julian is a conductor !

      "...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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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26539

        Gosh, just got back - was expecting the go-ahead from Ams... But no sign of anyone.

        I'll assume that the Kuerti père & fils were the correct answer and set an L, shall I? I warn you that I have to leave around 10am tomorrow to beetle off down to Winchester to perform godfatherly duties and take the young shaver to lunch, not back till late afternoon...

        Hope someone gets this before I leave otherwise things will languish till the evening.

        There is one way I could make this VERY easy... Maybe I should to encourage some early solutions...

        Very well: Thanks to which L were Lorenzo di Medici, Oedipus and Thomas Chatterton connected with some clowns?
        "...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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        • antongould
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8786

          Leoncavallo?

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26539

            Originally posted by antongould View Post
            Leoncavallo?
            Bang. Got it!

            If I were going to be around more, I would have omitted the last 3 words of the question. I guess that was the big clue, Anton? Would you have got it without them?
            "...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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            • antongould
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8786

              Probably not! Don't spoil the shaver!

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26539

                Originally posted by antongould View Post
                Probably not! Don't spoil the shaver!
                Would have been a more amusing puzzle with just the three historical figures but anyway...

                I shall attempt to balance indulgence with exemplary moderation tomorrow. Should be rather pleasant down in Hampshire for a roast lunch on a sunny, slightly chilly autumn Sunday

                Bedtime for Bonzo. Have a good "M" anton, thanks for solving "L" so deftly
                "...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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                • antongould
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8786

                  As I shalL be staggering from pillar to post tomorrow or rather today a one for mercia to solve by 05.17!

                  Which M connects

                  Schumann
                  Shakespeare and
                  Nietzsche

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                  • mercia
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    with nothing better to do than nitpick at this time of day, though I can't find a better answer to the K question, I thought the pianist had to be American, not Canadian?

                    no idea as to M. is it a biographical connection, e.g. they all liked Marmite, or a connection in what they wrote?

                    so, on the whole, did AG enjoy Barthelona?
                    Last edited by mercia; 16-10-11, 07:22.

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                    • mercia
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8920

                      Originally posted by antongould View Post
                      Nietzsche
                      look at this weird photo

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                      • antongould
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8786

                        morning to you. Barcelona was wonderful, the weather superb and yet already it seems a distant memory! This M is a place and yes they all wrote something(s) connected to this place. Further clue not Middlesbrough!

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26539

                          Originally posted by mercia View Post
                          I thought the pianist had to be American, not Canadian?
                          AH, that was a cunning part of the clue - Ammy said "North American" - which means anything north of Mexico I think, i.e. the USA and Canada.
                          "...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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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26539

                            Originally posted by mercia View Post

                            That is disturbing. One gets the feeling they didn't just go for a drink after the photo shoot...
                            "...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 Caliban View Post
                              Ha! Got it! Canadian Anton K-K-K-K-Kuerti recorded all the LvB piano sonatas, and his son Julian is a conductor !

                              Sorry for dealy - well done Cailban that's the family!!

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                              • amateur51

                                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                                Fab pic, mercia - weird or what??!!

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