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Gosh, I'm going to Paris on Friday for the weekend. I'll keep my eyes open for you. Are you staying at the George V too?
No... Back to London this evening...
But for now, am standing by Chopin's tomb in Pere Lachaise cemetary, place beloved of AAers. All Saints Day very atmospheric here! Greetings!
"...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..."
If the above is an answer to Flay's An operatic T to link two children of Tuscany and a child of Holstein I'm afraid I've got lost in the gay, lesbian, transgendered, clues the last postings have thrown up!
Obviously others are more worldy-wise than I and I leave it to them to solve.
Offline now. Confused and no further forward I shall relax and check in later.
Currently back in London and chortling at your captions to the b&w photo
Haven't caught up yet to see which letter is current...
"...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..."
An operatic T to link two children of Tuscany and a child of Holstein.
Stating the blinking obvious perhaps, Tuscany's operatic offspring were Puccini (Lucca) and Mascagni (Livorno)... Only T that comes to mind is Torre (del Lago) where Puccini lived and Mascagni conducted. But the Holstein connection is eluding me and I think Torre is unlikely to be right...
"...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..."
Oh... we're talking about Busoni as well aren't we? I see he was a Tuscan too.
So is it Turandot - they both wrote operas entitled that - with the lad from Holstein being Carl Maria von Weber who wrote incidental music for Turandot, being a play based on the same story (themes used by Hindemith in his Symphonic Metamorphosis...)
"...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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