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  • rubbernecker

    It's wonderful stuff, but I'm still not sure how it relates to the three composers above...

    By the way, I see Caliban has achieved his 5,000th post on these boards. Congratulations are in order for by turns amusing, confusing, infuriating and enlightening us in seemingly equal measure

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    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
      Gone fishin'
      • Sep 2011
      • 30163

      Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
      By the way, I see Caliban has achieved his 5,000th post on these boards. Congratulations are in order for by turns amusing, confusing, infuriating and enlightening us in seemingly equal measure
      Congratulations Seconded!
      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26539

        Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post

        By the way, I see Caliban has achieved his 5,000th post on these boards. Congratulations are in order for by turns amusing, confusing, infuriating and enlightening us in seemingly equal measure

        Good lord, no... What a sign of a mis-spent adulthood

        But thanks!

        It's been...

        ...emotional

        Now this W. Not Waits (he has crossed my radar - mainly his acting, and his version of part of "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet"

        Tell me if you need a clue...
        "...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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        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
          Gone fishin'
          • Sep 2011
          • 30163

          Carrying on from your Prix de Rome puzzler, are these three works all prize-Winners?
          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26539

            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
            Carrying on from your Prix de Rome puzzler, are these three works all prize-Winners?
            Not to my knowledge and that's not what's on the card.
            "...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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            • Don Petter

              Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
              VH was affectionately known as 'Tod' viz. Dead. It was a shorthand conflation, and I didn't mean it in bad taste, given that he is sadly deceased.
              Ah! Didn't know that. Thanks for the explanation - I thought there was more to it than sloppy definition, and, being a crossword buff, needed to know.

              (I was still floundering with Vilem Tausky and how he might have expired!)

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              • cloughie
                Full Member
                • Dec 2011
                • 22127

                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                Not to my knowledge and that's not what's on the card.
                Good Evening Cal, congrats on your 5000+, in my absence from the board you seem, between you, to have progressed swiftly down the alphabet! Been on the road but now safely back in Cornwall! Does W stand for William?

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26539

                  Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                  I was still floundering with Vilem Tausky

                  Everyone's entitled to a hobby!

                  (When did Vilem Tausky make an appearance?)



                  "...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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                  • Don Petter

                    Not Where or Wild?

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26539

                      Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                      Good Evening Cal, congrats on your 5000+, in my absence from the board you seem, between you, to have progressed swiftly down the alphabet! Been on the road but now safely back in Cornwall! Does W stand for William?

                      Thanks Cloughie, glad you're back safe....

                      Not William (why might it have been?)

                      "...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
                        • 26539

                        Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                        Not Where or Wild?
                        No....
                        "...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
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2011
                          • 22127

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                          Thanks Cloughie, glad you're back safe....

                          Not William (why might it have been?)

                          William Sharp (baritone) recorded Bernstein's Arias and Barcarolles so I thought that might give me a lead!

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                          • Don Petter

                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                            Everyone's entitled to a hobby!

                            (When did Vilem Tausky make an appearance?)
                            1910. Or, more recently, in my mind, as a possible conductor starting with 'V'. (Remember - Friday Night is Music Night! And Saturday Night is Bath Night!)

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                            • cloughie
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2011
                              • 22127

                              White!

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26539

                                Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                                White!
                                No... It's not abstract, this W, nor a name. It's... a thing.

                                A rather small thing.
                                Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 12-04-12, 20:35. Reason: Trying to be helpful without spoiling the fun :D
                                "...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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