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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26506

    Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
    I have one ready.....
    I think you should unleash it...
    "...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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    • Norfolk Born

      (If nobody objects)
      Which 'S' links a Scottish ballad, a group of troglodytes and a constant Survivor?

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163

        Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
        (If nobody objects)
        Which 'S' links a Scottish ballad, a group of troglodytes and a constant Survivor?
        Scarlet?

        Barbara Allen ("In Scarlet town where I was born")
        ... err ...
        Captain Scarlet (indestructable member of SPECTRUM)
        Last edited by ferneyhoughgeliebte; 13-12-11, 16:05.
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • Norfolk Born

          Afraid not. The answer is a name that is not a colour.

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26506

            Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
            (If nobody objects)
            Which 'S' a group of troglodytes

            Troglodytes = Cavern = Beatles???
            "...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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            • Flay
              Full Member
              • Mar 2007
              • 5795

              Why does "Survivor" have a capital "S" I wonder? Could that be intentional?
              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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              • Norfolk Born

                Flay: Why indeed? It might well be worth your while investigating.
                Caliban: These troglodytes necessarily occur in pairs.

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                • Flay
                  Full Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 5795

                  Hmm. Simon Rattle performed Schoenberg's "A Survivor from Warsaw" by running it straight in to Mahler's 2nd.
                  Rattle wrote a Scottish Ballad Op. 26. Am I getting warm?

                  Can anyone help with the Trogs?
                  Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                  • Norfolk Born

                    I think you'll find that the Op. 26 in question was written by Benjamin Britten.
                    Try Survivor on its own.

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                    • Flay
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 5795

                      I thought it odd, but then again maybe he had tried his hand at composing. Who knows? And if not, why not?
                      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                      • Norfolk Born

                        I have that very fine double CD of Rattle conducting lesser-known works by Britten. To help you a bit while I tuck into my Black Farmer sausages: You're looking for two performers and one composer who share the same surname.

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                        • Flay
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 5795

                          Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                          I have that very fine double CD of Rattle conducting lesser-known works by Britten.
                          Young Apollo? I like that. Simple but effective.
                          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163

                            Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                            To help you a bit while I tuck into my Black Farmer sausages
                            There shall be asolutely NO childish comments about this from the back row!
                            You're looking for two performers and one composer who share the same surname.
                            Eric Burdon, formerly of the Troggs (a '60s beat combo, m'lud) had a solo album called "Survivor", but this doesn't follow the shared surname beginning with S, does it?
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163

                              Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                              Caliban: These troglodytes necessarily occur in pairs.
                              As in "troglodytes troglodytes", the Wren?
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              • Anna

                                Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                                while I tuck into my Black Farmer sausages
                                well, I had to put that into google and he really is farmer who is black! Name of Wilfrid Emmanuel-Jones!! Farms in Devon. I must look out for his produce. Sorry to interrupt musings.

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