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  • antongould
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8782

    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
    Careful, anton; you might prove to be the man who knew too much!
    Yes I'm the fool who seldom differs......

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    • Flay
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 5795

      Originally posted by antongould View Post
      Yes I'm the fool who seldom differs......
      Well your foolishness may well bear fruit. Arthur who?
      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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      • Flay
        Full Member
        • Mar 2007
        • 5795

        Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
        Cimarosa didn't finish his last opera Artemisia.
        We learn so much (useless) imformation on AA
        Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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        • antongould
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8782

          Originally posted by Flay View Post
          Well your foolishness may well bear fruit. Arthur who?
          Benjamin

          Wrote an opera A Tale of Two Cities
          +
          Storm Clouds Cantata
          +
          Oboe Concerto on Themes of Cimarosa ........

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          • Flay
            Full Member
            • Mar 2007
            • 5795

            Originally posted by antongould View Post
            Benjamin

            Wrote an opera A Tale of Two Cities
            +
            Storm Clouds Cantata
            +
            Oboe Concerto on Themes of Cimarosa ........
            Absolutely, Anton. I thought rhe oboe concerto was actually by Cimarosa until today!

            Be my guest...
            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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            • antongould
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8782

              B to link

              Life in a Cupboard
              Ivanhoe and hopefully not too many
              Red Herrings

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26536

                Originally posted by antongould View Post
                B to link

                Life in a Cupboard
                Ivanhoe and hopefully not too many
                Red Herrings
                Excellent! A Goulden B....

                Last thought before retiring is that if there were only five of the above, we might be in the territory of Dorothy L. Sayers's mystery featuring the excellent Lord Peter Wimsey and his man Bunter...

                ... but I shall get no further this ay night...
                "...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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                • antongould
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8782

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  Excellent! A Goulden B....

                  Last thought before retiring is that if there were only five of the above, we might be in the territory of Dorothy L. Sayers's mystery featuring the excellent Lord Peter Wimsey and his man Bunter...

                  ... but I shall get no further this ay night...
                  Five is the number Rumpole but Wimsey rather than Bunter is your man

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                  • mercia
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    Originally posted by antongould View Post
                    Wimsey rather than Bunter is your man
                    Wimsey went to Eton and Balliol. I wonder if that is relevant.

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                    • antongould
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8782

                      Originally posted by mercia View Post
                      Wimsey went to Eton and Balliol. I wonder if that is relevant.
                      Oxford, unlike Cambridge, is always relevant......

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26536

                        Originally posted by antongould View Post
                        Oxford, unlike Cambridge, is always relevant......
                        What an extraordinary remark.

                        Not sure I want to play any more



                        Annoyingly I stared at the Wiki page over breakfast, and reflected on the Eton and Balliol thing without registering that it might be useful.... And now work has taken over...
                        "...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

                          [apparently people can get quite hot under the collar if one starts a sentence with so]


                          so the librettist of Sullivan's Ivanhoe was Balliol-educated Julian Sturgis, an American-born barrister and FA-cup medal winner

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                          • antongould
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8782

                            Originally posted by mercia View Post
                            [apparently people can get quite hot under the collar if one starts a sentence with so]


                            so the librettist of Sullivan's Ivanhoe was Balliol-educated Julian Sturgis, an American-born barrister and FA-cup medal winner
                            Excellent as ever mercs so who went to the cupboard then?.......leads us to a gent we have had in our midst before!

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                            • vinteuil
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12824

                              Originally posted by antongould View Post
                              Oxford, unlike Cambridge, is always relevant......
                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              What an extraordinary remark.
                              Not sure I want to play any more

                              ... take heart, brother Caliban - there are many on these Boards who take offence equally at "Oxford" or "Cambridge"!

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26536

                                Originally posted by antongould View Post
                                a gent
                                I suppose he went to Oxford then....
                                "...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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