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  • amateur51

    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    Zerbinetta.

    Four minutes!

    240 seconds!

    Have a heart, Caliban

    The list is of her 'chaps' in Ariadne auf Naxos :Bravo!

    Would you care to X, Y or A us another one svp?

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26539

      Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
      Four minutes!

      240 seconds!

      Have a heart, Caliban
      Please sir, please sir, please sir, I knew that one without looking it up!

      (I was heavily into 'Ariadne' during the heady days of the Jessye Norman / Kathleen Battle production in the '80s... Virtually knew if off by heart. That list of lovers is part of Zerbinetta's big showpiece, coloratura number - sort of operatic version of the Fire Station roll-call at the start of Trumpton - "Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub"... Come to think of it, maybe they were Captain Flack's conquests....? )
      "...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

        Something straighforward for a Sunday evening

        An A to connect Albéniz, Chausson and Purcell.

        "...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
          Something straighforward for a Sunday evening

          An A to connect Albéniz, Chausson and Purcell.

          Arfur
          Albeníz's 'Merlin', Chausson's 'Le roi Artus' and Purcell's King Arthur

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26539

            Originally posted by cloughie View Post
            Arfur
            Yes Terrence?

            Oh I see!

            Correct in every p'tickler

            B so good as to continue....



            PS: Free Arfur quote:

            ARTHUR DALEY
            It was a perfectly innocent enquiry. You can't apprehend a man for that.

            SERGEANT CHISHOLM
            Arthur, the last time you made an innocent enquiry, you were still waiting for your teeth to come through - so that you could start lying through them!.

            "...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
              Yes Terrence?

              Oh I see!

              Correct in every p'tickler

              B so good as to continue....



              PS: Free Arfur quote:

              ARTHUR DALEY
              It was a perfectly innocent enquiry. You can't apprehend a man for that.

              SERGEANT CHISHOLM
              Arthur, the last time you made an innocent enquiry, you were still waiting for your teeth to come through - so that you could start lying through them!.

              Got a Busy day - please can somebody Be the next setter!

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              • amateur51

                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                Please sir, please sir, please sir, I knew that one without looking it up!

                (I was heavily into 'Ariadne' during the heady days of the Jessye Norman / Kathleen Battle production in the '80s... Virtually knew if off by heart. That list of lovers is part of Zerbinetta's big showpiece, coloratura number - sort of operatic version of the Fire Station roll-call at the start of Trumpton - "Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub"... Come to think of it, maybe they were Captain Flack's conquests....? )

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                • amateur51

                  Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                  Got a Busy day - please can somebody Be the next setter!
                  Gladly, (my cross-eyed bear)

                  What B links the musical family of Jean, Constantin and Lola?

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                  • Resurrection Man

                    Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                    Arfur
                    Albeníz's 'Merlin', Chausson's 'Le roi Artus' and Purcell's King Arthur
                    Arfur..always makes me smile. My christian name is Roger. I was on the phone to a call centre giving my details and when asked my initial, replied 'R for Roger'. The policy documents duly arrived addressed to, yes, you guessed it, "Arthur Roger".

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                    • amateur51

                      Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
                      Arfur..always makes me smile. My christian name is Roger. I was on the phone to a call centre giving my details and when asked my initial, replied 'R for Roger'. The policy documents duly arrived addressed to, yes, you guessed it, "Arthur Roger".

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                      • amateur51

                        I can see why there have been no bites - mea maxima culpa.

                        Let's try instead ... What B links infamous Truman’s recent release, a very early coronation and James Joyce?

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26539

                          Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                          I can see why there have been no bites - mea maxima culpa.

                          Let's try instead ... What B links infamous Truman’s recent release, a very early coronation and James Joyce?
                          Is that the same puzzle autrement dit, or a completely fresh one...?
                          "...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
                            Is that the same puzzle autrement dit, or a completely fresh one...?
                            Completely fresh, Caliban

                            I blundered bigtime with the first go

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26539

                              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                              I blundered bigtime with the first go
                              Go on - tell all. What did you have in mind, and what was the -up ?
                              "...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
                                Go on - tell all. What did you have in mind, and what was the -up ?
                                All I'm saying is that I don't think that even Cloughie would pass an answer that varied from Bobolescu to Barbulescu

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