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  • Panjandrum

    Correct. However, I am torn: I received a PM from Don Petter half an hour ago asking whether this was the solution. I suggested that he should put his head above the parapet and make a formal declaration but no response as yet. Not sure whether we have a precedent for how to proceed in this event?

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    • Norfolk Born

      I have a 'U' question ready.....

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      • vinteuil
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 12761

        Originally posted by OFCACHAP View Post
        I have a 'U' question ready.....
        Ofca -

        Go on, give us your U...

        Don's "same here" was in response to my message saying I knew the answer but didn't want to provide a U question...

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        • Norfolk Born

          OK!
          In 2002, which 'U' linked a popular work by Vivaldi and works for similar forces by Howells and Palestrina?
          (The link is musical, but the answer is not a piece of music or a person).

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          • Norfolk Born

            A clue: Location, location, location (for the record ).

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            • Don Petter

              Hello! I'm here, though wasn't sure that I would able to, as I'm in the middle of a trip.

              That's why I didn't want to get involved just as I was leaving the house. Ofca's U is fine by me. I'll take the kudos for getting T first, but don't want to slow up the thread when I can't guarantee being on hand.

              Keep 'em rolling!

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              • Tapiola
                Full Member
                • Jan 2011
                • 1688

                Originally posted by OFCACHAP View Post
                OK!
                In 2002, which 'U' linked a popular work by Vivaldi and works for similar forces by Howells and Palestrina?
                (The link is musical, but the answer is not a piece of music or a person).
                Have not a clue.

                A wild stab in the dark would be "Urtext" - as in, Urtext of each of these works (whatever they are) was published.
                Last edited by Tapiola; 04-02-11, 21:33. Reason: dodgy grammar - probably still a bit dodgy

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                • Norfolk Born

                  Here's a hefty triple clue: Regis; EMI; GMN.
                  I guess we're all guilty, at least sometimes, of believing that a question which we have set is perfectly 'gettable' from the details provided!
                  Last edited by Guest; 04-02-11, 22:56.

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                  • vinteuil
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 12761

                    Originally posted by OFCACHAP View Post
                    A clue: Location, location, location (for the record ).
                    Utah - the 2002 winter olympics...

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26506

                      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                      Utah - the 2002 winter olympics...
                      Is that a real stab at the answer? (in which case how on earth do Howells and Palestrina fit in?! ). Or are you just being ironic?

                      This thread has reached such a point that I can no longer tell the difference!

                      I think a little more sleep is called for... I love Saturdays
                      "...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

                        In an attempt to help us move on, I'm prepared to all but reveal the answer:
                        In 2002, works by Howells, Vivaldi and Palestrina were all committed to CD (hence the hint 'for the record'....) by ensembles all based (hence the hint 'location'...) at a certain type of educational establishment. The inclusion of the Palestrina should, perhaps, have indicated the nature of the forces involved, likewise the invitation to contributors to 'The Choir' forum to help out. I've also provided the names of the record labels concerned.

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                        • Don Petter

                          Wild guess - Undercroft?

                          Silly - that's not eductational. Perhaps in the University bar.
                          Last edited by Guest; 05-02-11, 09:46. Reason: Add flippant afterthought

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                          • Norfolk Born

                            Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                            Wild guess - Undercroft?

                            Silly - that's not eductational. Perhaps in the University bar.
                            The three recordings were by choirs based at, respectively, Christ's College, King's College Cambridge and Trinity College, Cambridge. The works concerned were the Howells Requiem, the Vivaldi Gloria and Palestrina's Offertoria.

                            On (thankfully, I suspect!) to 'V'.

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                            • Don Petter

                              Originally posted by OFCACHAP View Post
                              On (thankfully, I suspect!) to 'V'.
                              As usual, I come into play when the clues get really easy!

                              Here’s a V, though I will be out again a bit later until this afternoon, so you’ll have to put up with some delayed responses now and again:


                              What V has, as given, an ex-ballet composer, an ex-ballet concocter …….. expound.

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                              • ardcarp
                                Late member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 11102

                                Gordon Bennett [does he have 2 Ts?]! Following a cry for help on The Choir board, Mrs Ardcarp and I have been up all night (wet towels, coffee, etc) trying to puzzle out the 'U'. Have just emerged to find 'U' soved. Not sure we've the will for 'V'

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