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  • Flay
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 5795

    Originally posted by Anna View Post
    Ages ago I did an AA on the Goossens dynasty and the scandal and was surprised no-one had heard of it. Was it something Goossens pere had conducted?
    No, he (Sir Eugene) composed it. Come on now, got to hurry you, Hurdy...
    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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    • Flay
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 5795

      Originally posted by Anna View Post
      Ages ago I did an AA on the Goossens dynasty and the scandal and was surprised no-one had heard of it. Was it something Goossens pere had conducted?
      Edit: I give up, this is confusing. So, mercia has got the Joseph Schmitt but what does a Hurdy Gurdy have to do with a bicycle and chickens? Or is Artemis Fowl involved? All will become clear hopefully when I log in tomorrow???
      In #25622 Mercia pointed out that <<the "back-end" of Winterreise is an H>>.

      Winterreise is a cycle. The last song of which (no 24) is Der Leiermann (The Hurdy-Gurdy Man).
      Nobody had actually yet said Joseph Schmitt's Symphony in E flat major ("The Hurdy Gurdy"), so well done, Anna
      I may as well put myself out of agony by telling you that Eugene Goossens composed The Hurdy-Gurdy Man:

      Enjoy!

      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26540

        Oh dear - answering your own questions... One might almost say you were playing with yourself.

        I feel we have been a disappointment.

        I have disappointed myself, at any rate. Just didn't have enough brain-cells left this end of the week to have the nous to put "Schmitt Hurdy-Gurdy" into google, which would have been a sensible thing to do.

        Mercia and Anna are probably off-line. Ammy's in France...



        I have a swift and very basic I to keep things going, though I have far from deserved it...
        "...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

          An I for an I, Calibs

          Did you get my "incisive" bit? Léon Goossens lost his front teeth in a car crash. While I'm going solo here, I'll post this biographical video too:

          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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          • cloughie
            Full Member
            • Dec 2011
            • 22129

            Originally posted by Flay View Post
            No, he (Sir Eugene) composed it. Come on now, got to hurry you, Hurdy...
            If you'd mentioned Donovan I'd have got it earlier.

            Hurdy gurdy he sang - and I think Jeff Beck was in there somewhere.

            ...and the only Schmitt I could think of was Florent.

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            • cloughie
              Full Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 22129

              Originally posted by Flay View Post
              An I for an I, Calibs

              Did you get my "incisive" bit? Léon Goossens lost his front teeth in a car crash. While I'm going solo here, I'll post this biographical video too:

              So we know what he wanted for Christmas!

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26540

                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                An I for an I, Calibs

                Did you get my "incisive" bit? Léon Goossens lost his front teeth in a car crash.
                No! Good knowledge

                This I connects Helsinki, Wellington and Tokyo.


                "...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
                  • 22129

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  No! Good knowledge

                  This I connects Helsinki, Wellington and Tokyo.


                  Think it might be Inbal

                  Conductor Eliahu
                  Cellists Inbal Segev and Inbal Megiddo

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26540

                    Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                    Think it might be Inbal

                    Conductor Eliahu
                    Cellists Inbal Segev and Inbal Megiddo
                    Not what's on the card.

                    But maybe an alternative solution - how do those folk match the elements of the 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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                    • mercia
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8920

                      I wonder if the NZSO is based in Wellington

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26540

                        Originally posted by mercia View Post
                        I wonder if the NZSO is based in Wellington
                        I'm sure you could find out

                        Might be worth following 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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                        • mercia
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8920

                          Pietari Inkinen, Finnish violinist, conductor, studied at Sibelius Academy, Helsinki
                          currently MD NZSO based in Wellington and guest conductor Japan Philharmonic based in Tokyo
                          also plays in his own trio
                          what a busy man
                          must have a big carbon footprint
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                          Last edited by mercia; 14-09-12, 07:27.

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26540

                            Originally posted by mercia View Post
                            Pietari Inkinen, Finnish violinist, conductor, studied at Sibelius Academy, Helsinki
                            currently MD NZSO based in Wellington and guest conductor Japan Philharmonic based in Tokyo
                            also plays in his own trio
                            what a busy man
                            must have a big carbon footprint
                            http://www.nzherald.co.nz/employment...ectid=10648999
                            The perfect answer

                            And you know what they say: big carbon footprint, big...

                            ... travel bill.

                            I hope they fly him first class.

                            Over to you mercs
                            "...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
                              • 22129

                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              Not what's on the card.

                              But maybe an alternative solution - how do those folk match the elements of the puzzle?
                              Fairly well but not perfectly.

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                              • cloughie
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2011
                                • 22129

                                Eliahu Inbal became the principal conductor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in 2008
                                Inbal Segev won prizes at the w:de:International Pablo Casals Cello Competition in Kronberg (2000),[2] The Juilliard Concerto competition (1998), the International Paulo Cello Competition in Helsinki (1996),[
                                Inbal Megiddo,Cello Professor at New Zealand School of Music

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