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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26524

    Originally posted by Il Grande Inquisitor View Post
    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...
    Hey good to see you in these obscure precincts, IGI! But not Lanchbery...! Wrong Pole and wrong Swiss I'm afraid!
    "...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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    • subcontrabass
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      • Nov 2010
      • 2780

      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      Wrong Pole and wrong Swiss I'm afraid!
      Panufnik and Honegger?

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      • Nick Armstrong
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        • Nov 2010
        • 26524

        Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
        Panufnik and Honegger?

        Correct!

        Apologies for absence.

        So....
        "...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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        • subcontrabass
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 2780

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post

          Correct!

          Apologies for absence.

          So....
          The link I have is to a Flemish bacchanal, not to a French one.

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          • Nick Armstrong
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            • Nov 2010
            • 26524

            Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
            The link I have is to a Flemish bacchanal, not to a French one.
            No, the one involved has definitely Parisian origins.

            "...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
              No, the one involved has definitely Parisian origins.

              You tell 'im, Calibration!

              Why are you on here when you are also in Paris, Caliban?

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              • Nick Armstrong
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                • Nov 2010
                • 26524

                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                You tell 'im, Calibration!

                Why are you on here when you are also in Paris, Caliban?
                Je suis de retour
                "...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
                  Je suis de retour
                  You and your fancy furrin ways, I'm sure!

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                  • Anna

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    No, the one involved has definitely Parisian origins.
                    Has the 'L' word been mentioned so far, so as to give us Lesser Mortals at clue? There was a Tannhauser which had to be rewritten in a Saucy Way for Paris, wasn't there? Oh, I dunno, somehow this MB has a real End of Term feeling about it today!

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                    • Nick Armstrong
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                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26524

                      Originally posted by Anna View Post
                      Has the 'L' word been mentioned so far, so as to give us Lesser Mortals at clue? There was a Tannhauser which had to be rewritten in a Saucy Way for Paris, wasn't there? Oh, I dunno, somehow this MB has a real End of Term feeling about it today!
                      No it hasn't yet. (Nothing Wagnerian about it, by the way)

                      The L word is the name of a place
                      "...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
                        No it hasn't yet. (Nothing Wagnerian about it, by the way)

                        The L word is the name of a place
                        A-ha!

                        Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch?




                        [Note: in Welsh it starts with a 'Ll']

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                        • Nick Armstrong
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26524

                          Originally posted by amateur51 View Post

                          Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch?
                          I wish I could say you were right!!!
                          "...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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                          • subcontrabass
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 2780

                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            No, the one involved has definitely Parisian origins.

                            Did you leave an 'e' off 'bacchanale' ?

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                            • Nick Armstrong
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26524

                              Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                              Did you leave an 'e' off 'bacchanale' ?
                              Well, yes, deliberately - as I was seeking to write the question in English... hence also not writing "archaique" (and maybe avoiding the Polish word for "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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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26524

                                Anyone want more clues? Or are you there, scb, with your probing questions?
                                "...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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