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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26540

    Originally posted by Northender View Post
    Ah...Mahler's 4th.
    Yup S. Ursula appears in the poem set in the last movement of Mahler 4
    Joan Ursula Lock became Mrs VW
    Ursula Andress emerged from the sea in "Dr No" (note my 50th anniversary tribute on 1st Oct: the film appeared in Oct 1962 )

    Certainly your V, Northo
    "...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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    • Northender

      Which 'V' links three British composer/conductors?

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      • Nick Armstrong
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        • Nov 2010
        • 26540

        Originally posted by Northender View Post
        Which 'V' links three British composer/conductors?
        A tantalising puzzle, this. We are presumably in the 20th century?
        "...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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        • Northender

          We are!

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          • amateur51

            Originally posted by Northender View Post
            Which 'V' links three British composer/conductors?
            Britten, Boult and Vaughan Williams - all three had their bread delivered in a van?

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            • vinteuil
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              • Nov 2010
              • 12846

              ... the answer in cases like this usually turns out to be Violet Gordon-Woodhouse. But not, I suspect, this time.



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              • amateur51

                Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                ... the answer in cases like this usually turns out to be Violet Gordon-Woodhouse. But not, I suspect, this time.



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                • Northender

                  Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                  Britten, Boult and Vaughan Williams - all three had their bread delivered in a van?
                  I wasn't aware that Boult was a composer....but Britten is certainly one of the three you need.

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                  • mercia
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    I can make the word variations fit for at least four British composer/conductors

                    so that's probably incorrect

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                    • Nick Armstrong
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                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26540

                      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                      ... the answer in cases like this usually turns out to be Violet Gordon-Woodhouse.
                      Nicely-put, vinmousseux !
                      "...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
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26540

                        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                        Britten, Boult and Vaughan Williams - all three had their bread delivered in a van?
                        Whereas Sir Malcolm Arnold made his own?
                        "...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
                          Whereas Sir Malcolm Arnold made his own?
                          Don't be silly - Sir Malcolm was devoted to Energen rolls which he used to buy in the High Street while getting his bottle of Buckfast each morning

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                          • amateur51

                            Originally posted by Northender View Post
                            I wasn't aware that Boult was a composer....but Britten is certainly one of the three you need.
                            Ah ... the distinction between composer/conductor and composer-conductor had me fooled there, y'see

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                            • Nick Armstrong
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26540

                              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                              Energen rolls
                              Blimey... haven't heard of those for decades... What were they? Used to see packets of them round my grand-parents (or was it parents?)...
                              "...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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                              • Northender

                                The link is not Variations. By composer/conductor I mean a composer who also conducted (or a conductor who also composed).

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