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  • amateur51

    Welcome back, Caliban.

    How did your pep talk to the troops go?

    Was the paternal catering up to speed or did you repair to Ye Olde Wevverspoons in the Armstrong Siddley?

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26540

      Originally posted by Anna View Post
      My favourite city break is Florence although I agree with Dave about Lille and also, Rouen.
      Yes can't argue with the Dave city list - and in fact Anna, I have a bit of a problem with Florence: fine for a day or so but all that art and nothing but is somehow to overt, the centre is just like a big open air museum crowded with tourists. In Italy I much prefer Rome (as Dave says) or possibly my favourite town anywhere, Lucca (They tend to put the right opera composer on the walls there too, and it's the only one who consistently does anything for me too )
      "...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
        Yes can't argue with the Dave city list - and in fact Anna, I have a bit of a problem with Florence: fine for a day or so but all that art and nothing but is somehow to overt, the centre is just like a big open air museum crowded with tourists. In Italy I much prefer Rome (as Dave says) or possibly my favourite town anywhere, Lucca (They tend to put the right opera composer on the walls there too, and it's the only one who consistently does anything for me too )
        Lucca eh?

        I see that it's twinned with ... Abingdon, Berks

        Tell alluring tales of its scents, its sights, its gustatory delights, its promise, Caliban. Sell it to me!!

        That's Lucca, I mean - not Abingdon
        Last edited by Guest; 11-10-11, 11:03. Reason: clarification

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        • Tapiola
          Full Member
          • Jan 2011
          • 1688

          Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
          Crikey Taps!!

          A new Persional Best AND Commionwealth & All-Comers record! Magnifique

          We await your T with bated howzyerfather
          Ams, you are too kind

          Hopefully a straightforward T:

          Which T:

          Was the odd one out

          Altered surname to spite Daddy

          Wrote a homage to Rameau
          ?

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          • amateur51

            Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
            Ams, you are too kind

            Hopefully a straightforward T:

            Which T:

            Was the odd one out

            Altered surname to spite Daddy

            Wrote a homage to Rameau
            ?
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpOuSc9WApk

            NB: Not an answer - just to show you I am thinking

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            • Tapiola
              Full Member
              • Jan 2011
              • 1688

              Oooh, nice...

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              • mercia
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8920

                Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                Which T:

                Was the odd one out

                Altered surname to spite Daddy

                Wrote a homage to Rameau
                ?
                Germaine Tailleferre 1892 - 1983
                only female member of Les Six
                born Marcelle Taillefesse, daddy wouldn't support her musical studies
                1964 - Hommage à Rameau for Two pianos and four percussion

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26540

                  Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                  Lucca eh?

                  I see that it's twinned with ... Abingdon, Berks

                  Tell alluring tales of its scents, its sights, its gustatory delights, its promise, Caliban. Sell it to me!!

                  That's Lucca, I mean - not Abingdon
                  ABINGDON??????
                  "...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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                  • Tapiola
                    Full Member
                    • Jan 2011
                    • 1688

                    Originally posted by mercia View Post
                    Germaine Tailleferre 1892 - 1983
                    only female member of Les Six
                    born Marcelle Taillefesse, daddy wouldn't support her musical studies
                    1964 - Hommage à Rameau for Two pianos and four percussion
                    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Tailleferre
                    Great work, mercia. A full house!

                    Over to U...

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                    • mercia
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8920

                      too, too kind

                      U

                      neither facsimile nor interpretive and available from a Kassel publisher

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                      • Tapiola
                        Full Member
                        • Jan 2011
                        • 1688

                        6 letters?

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26540

                          Originally posted by mercia View Post
                          too, too kind

                          too, too good mercia !
                          "...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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                          • mercia
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8920

                            Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                            6 letters?
                            quite so

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                            • Tapiola
                              Full Member
                              • Jan 2011
                              • 1688

                              Could be Urtext?

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                              • mercia
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8920

                                Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                                Could be Urtext?
                                could be and indeed .................................................. ... is


                                V-V-V-Voom

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