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  • vinteuil
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12844

    Originally posted by Anna View Post
    And I claim the prize for Never, Ever, Ever, Having Seen The Sound of Music!! ::
    ... I share that prize with Anna!

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26538

      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
      What F are we talking about?
      Yes, what the F are we talking about??!


      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
      ... I share that prize with Anna!
      Me too, only seen bits, usually when an aunt is watching it at Christmas. Ditto Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz, Dr Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia u.s.w.....
      "...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

        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        Yes, what the F are we talking about??!
        We are trying to find an F to link Violet and her menage a cinq in Sussex with The Sound of Music and some Italians! Simples!

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        • vinteuil
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 12844

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          Yes, what the F are we talking about??!



          mercia's #12089 answers it - does he want to come forward and claim the prize by providing the details?

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          • mercia
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8920

            Originally posted by Anna View Post
            some Italians
            specifically Puccini's horticultural quartet

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            • mercia
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
              does he want to
              no, he doesn't, cos he has other things to do I'm afraid

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26538

                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                specifically Puccini's horticultural quartet
                Is it as "simples" as Flower? Edelweiss, Chrysathemums... and another one? Oh ... Violet *doh*
                "...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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                • vinteuil
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 12844

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  Is it as "simples" as Flower? Edelweiss, Chrysathemums... and another one? Oh ... Violet *doh*
                  and with one bound...

                  yes, calamares, just so.
                  And you get to gi'e us a G

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                  • Anna

                    Before we Go forth with Caliban, what exactly is the Puccini Chrysanthemums? A detailed answer is helpful for everyone I think
                    Last edited by Guest; 12-01-12, 16:11. Reason: typo

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                    • vinteuil
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 12844

                      Originally posted by Anna View Post
                      Before we Go forth with Caliban, what exactly is the Puccinni Chrysanthemums? A detailed answer is helpful for everyone I think
                      a string quartet by Puccini: Crisantemi ( 1890, "Alla memoria di Amadeo di Savoia Duca d'Aosta"). Chrysanthemums are the flower for funerals and mourning in Italy; this piece was composed in memory of the brother of King Umberto (a useful U for AA - but I've used it before (and with crisantemi, I think... ))

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26538

                        Originally posted by Anna View Post
                        Before we Go forth with Caliban, what exactly is the Puccinni Chrysanthemums? A detailed answer is helpful for everyone I think
                        Crisantemi (String Quartet, 1890, "Alla memoria di Amadeo di Savoia Duca d'Aosta") is Puccini's only (or only reasonably well-known) chamber music piece It's a moving or slightly soupy (depending on your taste) elegy

                        A G connects a picaresque Spaniard, a musical Minister and what sounds like a radio-only revolution.
                        "...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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                        • vinteuil
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 12844

                          Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                          Amadeo di Savoia Duca d'Aosta
                          ... who was a nasty piece of work.

                          Anna - if you like Trivia - you might like the Trivia connected with him on the wiki page...


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                          • Anna

                            Oh thanks vints, that trivia is really funny/tragic! And, I didn't know about Chrysanthemums and mourning in Italy, I thought that was in China. Learn something new every day! No time to look at the G at the moment.
                            Last edited by Guest; 12-01-12, 17:39. Reason: tyops

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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163

                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              A G connects a picaresque Spaniard, a musical Minister and what sounds like a radio-only revolution.
                              This is a puzzler:

                              Guzman?
                              Mateo Aleman's Guzman de Aleman is an early Picaresque novel
                              Nicolas Eyzaguirre Guzman was a Chilean Minister of Finance who previously had been part of the folk group "Aquelle"
                              ... but the Radio-only revolution doesn't "fit", apart from a young journalist, Jackie Guzman, who is keen to use as much modern technology for her reporting as she can?


                              Unless it's the G-string on a Violin?
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              • Norfolk Born

                                fhg: I find it comforting that your research led you up exactly the same blind alley as I ended up in. I had no more luck with a picaresque character called Girés (or was it Gimés?). Is The Minister a poitician or a churchman, do you think?

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