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  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
    Gone fishin'
    • Sep 2011
    • 30163

    Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
    Nun?


    ... and for those habituees who are nun the wiser ... ?
    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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    • subcontrabass
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 2780

      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post


      ... and for those habituees who are nun the wiser ... ?
      Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 09: the False Nun by Giacomo Casanova (or for a musical link The Nun's Chorus from Casanova by Johann Strauss)

      NUN for flute, trombone, male choir and orchestra (1999), composed by Helmut Lachenmann

      Mozart's "cat" duet, "Nun liebes Weibchen" (K. 625/592a).

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163

        Four-out-of-Three! (it was the Strauss that gave me the idea; I haven't read the Memoirs. Honest.)

        The next Oeuvre is yours.
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • subcontrabass
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 2780

          An O to link:

          A lawyer turned librettist

          First and last waltzes

          A Canadian pianist

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26342

            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
            Yes: your use of "sort of" put me on the right road.

            Oh yes... "for example" you mean. I hesitated about that, and whether just to put "rocket" - but decided oblique plus bijou clue-ette might keep things moving!
            "...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
              • 26342

              Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
              An O to link:

              A lawyer turned librettist

              First and last waltzes

              A Canadian pianist
              Oscar?

              Hammerstein studied law

              Peterson was Canadian

              As so often I can't get all three.....
              "...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
                Oscar?

                Hammerstein studied law

                Peterson was Canadian

                As so often I can't get all three.....
                Two down. Keep going. Who wrote waltzes?

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26342

                  Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                  Two down. Keep going. Who wrote waltzes?

                  Ah! I was already on the right track: Oscar Straus wrote two relevant operettas, Der letzte Walzer and Ihr erster Walzer. Thanks, wiki !
                  "...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

                    Ah! I was already on the right track: Oscar Straus wrote two relevant operettas, Der letzte Walzer and Ihr erster Walzer. Thanks, wiki !
                    An Oscar for our resident legal eagle. Time for a P.

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26342

                      Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                      An Oscar for our resident legal eagle. Time for a P.
                      I'm obliged to my learnèd friend.

                      Right. A P to link:

                      - the end of summer
                      - a malicious joke
                      - almost four Hungarian dances
                      .
                      "...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
                        I'm obliged to my learnèd friend.

                        Right. A P to link:

                        - the end of summer
                        - a malicious joke
                        - almost four Hungarian dances
                        .
                        Hey Presto:

                        Last movement of "Summer" from Vivaldi's Four Seasons is "Presto"

                        Scherzo from Walton Symphony No. 1 ("Presto con malizia")

                        Brahms Hungarian Dances: Nos 8, 10, 12, and part of 16 are marked "Presto".

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26342

                          Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                          Hey Presto:

                          Last movement of "Summer" from Vivaldi's Four Seasons is "Presto"

                          Scherzo from Walton Symphony No. 1 ("Presto con malizia")

                          Brahms Hungarian Dances: Nos 8, 10, 12, and part of 16 are marked "Presto".

                          That deserves a with a chaser: got it in one, nice work...


                          "...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
                            • 26342

                            Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                            Hey Presto:
                            Magicking up an infernal Q for us, scb?
                            "...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
                              Magicking up an infernal Q for us, scb?
                              Not too infernal, I hope:

                              A second key to Dresden and Berlin.

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                              • Norfolk Born

                                My (only) New Year resolution was going to be to not even attempt to answer questions set by certain people until somebody else has done most of the hard work and/or sufficient clues have been extracted from the setter to bring it within my scope of competence. However, I've decided to put it into practice a day early
                                Happy New Year to all AA-coholics

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