Unter Donner und Blitz.........almost seasonal!
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Originally posted by antongould View Post
So what's the last element, the Austrian bird, o eagle-eyed anton?
"...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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Originally posted by Caliban View Post
So what's the last element, the Austrian bird, o eagle-eyed anton?
Surely not one of the Wagner boys?Comment
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Do tell us more....Originally posted by antongould View Post
"...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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Josef - Under the Double Eagle????Comment
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V-v-v-v-v-very goodOriginally posted by antongould View Post
Spot of coleslaw, and then your v anton: Unter was the U
- Unter den Linden
- Zu Potsdam unter den Eichen - Weill
- Unter Donner und Blitz - the Thunder and Lightning Polka by Johann Strauss
- The march (used e.g. in '633 Squadron') Under the Double Eagle (Unter dem Doppeladler) by Josef Wagner
Well done anton
Over to you!
"...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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A V for the night owls and/or Early Morning mercs
The Fall of the 10 Men
One of Pergolesi's teachers
Departed with the help of a rival in loveComment
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Leonardo Vinci was a teacher of Pergolesi's. As for the rest I haven't a clue.Originally posted by antongould View PostComment
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Originally posted by cloughie View Post
Vinci is the boy ........anyone else do the Anna's L?Comment
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This might aply to Vinci's Artaserse. Artabano exiled rather than executed...?Originally posted by antongould View PostPacta sunt servanda !!!Comment
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not as on the card - my Companion to Classical Music says the man himself he was poisoned by a rival in love.Originally posted by Flay View Post
and clue - if it can be so called - 3 was Google Translator's stab at La caduta dei Decemviri one of his 3 a year operas - in this case 1727!
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I should have stuck to Vinci instead of trying to do the da da da!Originally posted by antongould View Post
A W maliciously links Liverpool and ViennaComment
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As in "with malice"? (Joking apart?)Originally posted by cloughie View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Oh; so not the Scherzo con malizia from Walton's First Symphony, then?Originally posted by cloughie View Post
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