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  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
    Gone fishin'
    • Sep 2011
    • 30163

    Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
    I am all at sea with this one.
    As in the Fantasia on British Sea Songs
    Sea Pictures
    Calm Sea and Prosperous Journey
    ?
    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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    • Flay
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 5795

      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
      As in the Fantasia on British Sea Songs
      Sea Pictures
      Calm Sea and Prosperous Journey
      ?
      YeS, exactly like that! I wasn't enigmatic enough!
      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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      • mercia
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8920

        crikey well done

        I think I need that explained to me

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        • Don Petter

          Originally posted by mercia View Post
          crikey well done

          I think I need that explained to me
          And to me!

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          • subcontrabass
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 2780

            Originally posted by mercia View Post
            crikey well done

            I think I need that explained to me
            In order:

            Sea Pictures - a song cycle by Elgar

            Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage - quoted by Elgar in Enigma Variation XIII, played by solo clarinet

            Sea Songs - dropped from the "Last Night of the Proms"

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            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
              Gone fishin'
              • Sep 2011
              • 30163

              "Something dropped off the end of a promenade" = The Fantasia which ends every Prom season.
              The clarinet solo in the Sinclair variation of the Enigmas is a quotation from Mendelssohn's overture Calm Sea and Prosperous Journey
              Elgar was a baronet and he called his bicycle "Mr Phoebus" (after whom, in turn, respected forumite and avant-garde enthusiast Mr Pee named himself ) ... and Elgar wrote Sea Pictures to poems written by his wife. (Okay, I guessed Sea Pictures from the other pieces!)
              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                Sea Songs - dropped from the "Last Night of the Proms"
                Of course: far more pertinent (and entertaining) so described!
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • Flay
                  Full Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 5795

                  Originally posted by mercia View Post
                  crikey well done

                  I think I need that explained to me
                  Sea Pictures is a song cycle by Sir Edward Elgar (who is a baronet)
                  Elgar included in variation 13 a quotation from Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage played by a solo clarinet
                  And the Sea Shanties were dropped from the Last Night of course

                  Well done fhg and scb
                  Last edited by Flay; 23-12-11, 17:18. Reason: I wrote 8, should have been 13. Need new glasses (XIII not VIII doh)
                  Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                  • Flay
                    Full Member
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 5795

                    Should have "refreshed" - you beat me to it

                    You two are going to have to fight over the next one. It's T Time
                    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                      Gone fishin'
                      • Sep 2011
                      • 30163

                      Originally posted by Flay View Post
                      Should have "refreshed" - you beat me to it
                      Well, I could've been wrong (cf "Nielsen Saga Trom etc etc)!

                      I did T last time and I've done a recent puzzle, so may I request T at Subby's?
                      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                      • Don Petter

                        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                        "Something dropped off the end of a promenade" = The Fantasia which ends every Prom season.
                        The clarinet solo in the Sinclair variation of the Enigmas is a quotation from Mendelssohn's overture Calm Sea and Prosperous Journey
                        Elgar was a baronet and he called his bicycle "Mr Phoebus" (after whom, in turn, respected forumite and avant-garde enthusiast Mr Pee named himself ) ... and Elgar wrote Sea Pictures to poems written by his wife. (Okay, I guessed Sea Pictures from the other pieces!)
                        I think the Sinclair variation is XI, which I quoted, thinking it was the dog which dropped off the end of its promenade. The Calm Sea one is XIII, Lady Mary Lygon, is it not?

                        Thanks for all the other info.

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26536

                          Originally posted by Don Petter View Post


                          Good one!

                          The R was totally impentrable to me. Ditto the large Tescos from which I have latterly escaped. Ditto the A4 leaving London, which I have to take for 200yds to get to Tescos. Chaos.

                          Doors shut, listening to my new Naxos acquisition (see Christmas Favourites thread) which anton and I both love, waiting for family in about 2 hours...
                          "...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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                          • Don Petter

                            That's a very short gestation?

                            Merry Christmas!

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26536

                              Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                              That's a very short gestation?

                              Merry Christmas!
                              They are far from newborn!

                              Merry Christmas to you too, and all who loiter and ponder here! Though I think I will be popping back here quite a lot over the festive beanfeast...
                              "...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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                              • Anna

                                I got to Waitrose at 3pm. It was so quiet - no queues!! Amazing.

                                As we may all be busy from now on in preparing for the festivities I'd also like to wish everyone a Very Happy Christmas, and may you all be Merry and Bright!

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