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  • subcontrabass
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    • Nov 2010
    • 2780

    Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
    a) Dom Gregory Murray

    b) Murray Dickie

    c) Murray Perahia

    2/3

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    • subcontrabass
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      • Nov 2010
      • 2780

      Originally posted by mercia View Post
      Ann & Philip ?
      I assume this is a correct reference to Ann Murray and the late Philip Langridge (whom I first heard sing c.1956)

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      • mercia
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        • Nov 2010
        • 8920

        Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
        I assume this is a correct reference to Ann Murray and the late Philip Langridge
        sorry, that's who I meant
        wikipedia says Mr Langridge started out as an orchestral violinist, I hadn't realised that

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        • subcontrabass
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          • Nov 2010
          • 2780

          Originally posted by mercia View Post
          sorry, that's who I meant
          wikipedia says Mr Langridge started out as an orchestral violinist, I hadn't realised that
          I met up with him in 1964, when we had a chat over dinner in the refectory at University College, Durham, during the Durham Twentieth-Century Music Festival and Summer School. I was there as a student on the Summer School. He was there as a member of the John Aldiss Choir, who were giving that evening's concert. I introduced myself to him as a current pupil at the school which he had attended. He also knew my brother, as they had shared the tenor solo part in a performance of Haydn's Creation at our school a couple of years previously. He told me that he had worked as a freelance violinist while his voice developed and the singing engagements increased to provide a living.

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          • subcontrabass
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            • Nov 2010
            • 2780

            Recap:

            cloughie got "Murray" and Murray Perahia

            amateur51 got Dom Gregory Murray

            mercia got Ann Murray.

            I think the N(ext) question goes to cloughie.

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            • amateur51

              Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
              Recap:

              cloughie got "Murray" and Murray Perahia

              amateur51 got Dom Gregory Murray

              mercia got Ann Murray.

              I think the N(ext) question goes to cloughie.
              Bravo cloughie!

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26539

                Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                I met up with him in 1964, when we had a chat over dinner in the refectory at University College, Durham, during the Durham Twentieth-Century Music Festival and Summer School. I was there as a student on the Summer School. He was there as a member of the John Aldiss Choir, who were giving that evening's concert. I introduced myself to him as a current pupil at the school which he had attended. He also knew my brother, as they had shared the tenor solo part in a performance of Haydn's Creation at our school a couple of years previously. He told me that he had worked as a freelance violinist while his voice developed and the singing engagements increased to provide a living.
                Interesting, scb. He and his wife lived near Godalming where I also lived for 8 years, and I would from time to time see him on the train to London reading a score and learning a part, like others read the paper or a novel. You could see his lips and an arm moving slightly as he rehearsed it inwardly.

                My first ever notes heard in an opera house were sung by PL - the Prologue to Turn of the Screw at the Coliseum

                Looking forward to cloughie's ?début puzzle ...
                "...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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                • cloughie
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                  • Dec 2011
                  • 22127

                  Sorry for the delay, only just twigged I need to set one!

                  Hope the style is OK.

                  This N links
                  1 A conductor/composer.
                  2 A singer/songwriter
                  3 A singer/actor.

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                  • amateur51

                    Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                    Sorry for the delay, only just twigged I need to set one!

                    Hope the style is OK.

                    This N links
                    1 A conductor/composer.
                    2 A singer/songwriter
                    3 A singer/actor.
                    Is the N a name that links them? And if so is it a first or a family name?

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                    • cloughie
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                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22127

                      Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                      Is the N a name that links them? And if so is it a first or a family name?
                      Both in the ratio 2:1

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                      • amateur51

                        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                        Both in the ratio 2:1
                        So that's two first names and one family name? And if so, is that in the order in which they appear in your puzzle?

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                        • cloughie
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                          • Dec 2011
                          • 22127

                          Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                          So that's two first names and one family name? And if so, is that in the order in which they appear in your puzzle?
                          Two family, then one first.

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                          • antongould
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8785

                            Norman?

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                            • cloughie
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2011
                              • 22127

                              Originally posted by antongould View Post
                              Norman?
                              No

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                              • amateur51

                                Originally posted by antongould View Post
                                Norman?
                                I was thinking along those lines too, anton - nice to see you back

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