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  • mercia
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8920

    so that must be Martin Luther with his Mighty Fortress

    <doh> phew !

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    • Flay
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 5795

      Originally posted by mercia View Post
      Martin Shaw
      A true professional!

      What's this trash on COTW just now? <ducks to hide in case Bryn is reading this>
      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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      • mercia
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8920

        I best pass a law

        Dido & Aeneas - Purcell/Martin Shaw
        Petite Symphonie Concertante - Frank Martin
        A Mighty Fortress is our God - Martin Luther

        I guess we better solve L now

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        • subcontrabass
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 2780

          Originally posted by mercia View Post
          so that must be Martin Luther with his Mighty Fortress

          <doh> phew !

          Over to mercia for the next question.

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          • subcontrabass
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 2780

            Originally posted by mercia View Post

            I guess we better solve L now
            We did produce a solution - awaiting confirmatiion.

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            • mercia
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

              Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
              We did produce a solution - awaiting confirmatiion.
              #23173

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              • amateur51

                Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                We did produce a solution - awaiting confirmatiion.
                I've replied in # 23173, scb

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26540

                  Originally posted by Flay View Post
                  What's this trash on COTW just now? <ducks to hide in case Bryn is reading this>

                  Come out from behind the sofa and join my in my trench: I opined on this in a new thread earlier:



                  Switching off is too good for it. really
                  "...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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                  • Flay
                    Full Member
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 5795

                    So you did!

                    What would classical music novices have thought if they had tuned in early for the Proms?
                    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26540

                      Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                      Great stuff, scb but only Cerys is the right answer ... and for the wrong reason

                      The L in question is an instrumental virtuoso
                      Oh Lor!

                      Cue a quick Amateur About-Turn.... (an interesting variant on a Mercia Excuse-Me )
                      "...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

                        A recap might be useful, I think


                        What L links a successful 1950s British film, a musician who was a conscientious objector, and a singer from an apparently immobile Welsh band

                        from scb's imaginative but sadly incorrect answer we now know that the film is not the The Ladykillers (and I'll add that the film itself is not the answer); Britten is not the only musician who was a conscientious objector; and this L has a link with Catatonia.

                        Additional help - L's contribution to the 1950s British film was nominated for an Oscar

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                        • subcontrabass
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 2780

                          Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                          A recap might be useful, I think


                          What L links a successful 1950s British film, a musician who was a conscientious objector, and a singer from an apparently immobile Welsh band

                          from scb's imaginative but sadly incorrect answer we now know that the film is not the The Ladykillers (and I'll add that the film itself is not the answer); Britten is not the only musician who was a conscientious objector; and this L has a link with Catatonia.

                          Additional help - L's contribution to the 1950s British film was nominated for an Oscar
                          Larry Adler ???

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                          • amateur51

                            Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                            Larry Adler ???
                            Now we're getting somewhere!

                            Why so, scb svp?

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26540

                              Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                              Larry Adler ???
                              Yup. It checks out... apart from the conscientious objector... Tippett doesn't fit...
                              "...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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                              • subcontrabass
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 2780

                                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                                Now we're getting somewhere!

                                Why so, scb svp?
                                Larry Adler:

                                composed and performed the music for Genevieve (1953), nominated for an Oscar for Best Musical Score

                                dedicatee of Malcolm Arnold's Harmonica Concerto

                                recorded with Cerys Matthews at the age of 87 (shortly before his death)

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