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  • mercia
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8920

    Originally posted by antongould View Post
    because Wiki suggests so
    as good a reason as any

    please karry on

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    • antongould
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8780

      What K links

      but all shall be well
      Knave of hearts
      The multiplier effect

      K could be said to be musical 2 of links definitely musical

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      • mercia
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8920

        so far I have Maynard Keynes, Richard Kahn, Lewis Carroll and Julian of Norwich but nothing connecting yet

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        • antongould
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8780

          Only Chancellor George's favourite economist is correct the other 2 are composers

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          • mercia
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8920

            perhaps we're after educational establishments

            MK and Arthur Somervell (Knave of Hearts) were both at King's Cambridge
            Somervell's getting a lot of mileage on this thread

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            • antongould
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8780

              He is indeed and you have ace'd it yet again .............................but all shall be well? You don't have to go very far through the alphabetical list of alumni

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              • subcontrabass
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 2780

                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                perhaps we're after educational establishments

                MK and Arthur Somervell (Knave of Hearts) were both at King's Cambridge
                Somervell's getting a lot of mileage on this thread
                And so was Thomas Adès, composer of "...but all shall be well".

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                • mercia
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8920

                  Originally posted by antongould View Post
                  but all shall be well?
                  a-ha!! Mr T Ades (also of KCC) opus 10 (for orchestra?)

                  he must have been quoting Julian of Norwich (I think)

                  EDIT - but SCB is there before me

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26524

                    Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                    And so was Thomas Adès, composer of "...but all shall be well".

                    ... I was just about to say that!!! Pipped me to it, scb!

                    EDIT - and mercia!!
                    "...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
                      • 8780

                      well done all 3 and mercia - who will grumble- should set an L of a question.............................

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                      • mercia
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8920

                        Originally posted by antongould View Post
                        mercia - who will grumble
                        indeed he will

                        I wonder if someone else would care to set a question. I am heavily otherwise occupied at the moment.

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                        • subcontrabass
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 2780

                          Originally posted by mercia View Post
                          a-ha!! Mr T Ades (also of KCC) opus 10 (for orchestra?)

                          he must have been quoting Julian of Norwich (I think)
                          According to the programme notes he was quoting T S Eliot (Four Quartets). I presume that Eliot was quoting Julian of Norwich.

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                          • antongould
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8780

                            I, possibly wrongly, associate it with Eliot but as neither TS or J of N are with us perhaps scb or Caliban could do an L of a job?

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26524

                              Originally posted by antongould View Post
                              perhaps scb or Caliban could do an L of a job?
                              I'm happy to step up to the plate (though have to be out for a while in half and hour or so).

                              What is the L connecting an archaic Swiss suite, a French bacchanal and a Polish nocturne?

                              "...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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                              • Il Grande Inquisitor
                                Full Member
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 961

                                Originally posted by Caliban View Post


                                What is the L connecting an archaic Swiss suite, a French bacchanal and a Polish nocturne?

                                Stumbling in blindly, is it something to do with John Lanchbery? Famous for his arrangements - A Month in the Country featured a Chopin nocturne, the Swiss suite could be La boutique fantasque which featured (I think) some of Rossini's music from William Tell. Unsure about the French bacchanal though...
                                Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency....

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