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  • cloughie
    Full Member
    • Dec 2011
    • 22127

    Originally posted by mercia View Post
    sorry, I haven't been feeling very well today, just returned

    a not very interesting U connecting

    Liebestraume, a Black Knight, a (French) enchanted forest
    sorry to hear you're Uncle Dick!

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26539

      Originally posted by mercia View Post
      sorry, I haven't been feeling very well today, just returned

      a not very interesting U connecting

      Liebestraume, a Black Knight, a (French) enchanted forest
      Hope you are feeling better now...

      It's been an odd week, not permitting any Associative thought really. TGIF...

      I actually found this a rather interesting puzzle as it led me to someone who'd never really registered before: we are talking Ludwig Uhland are we not?

      His poems inspired musical works of the same titles:

      - Frank List's 'Liebesträume'
      - Eddie Elgar's 'The Black Knight' Op 25
      - Vinny d'Indy's 'La Forêt Enchantée' Op 8
      "...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



        indeed, Frank, Eddie & Vinny, Melchester Rovers's famous back three
        and Ludwig in goal

        very very good

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26539

          Thanks!

          A V to link Berlioz, Purcell and the 15 year old Mozart
          "...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

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            A V to link Berlioz, Purcell and the 15 year old Mozart
            Perhaps it's Venus:

            Mozart Ascanio in Alba where Venus sings "Al chiaror di que bei rai"

            Henry Purcell: King Arthur where Venus sings: "Fairest isle, all isles excelling, Seat of pleasure and of love; Venus here will choose her dwelling, And forsake her Cyprian grove."

            Berlioz: Les pèlerins étant venus
            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26539

              Originally posted by Flay View Post
              Berlioz: Les pèlerins étant venus



              Actually, as well as your multilingual wordplay, saying "Venus" is very clever.... if wrong.

              But not wholly irrelevant. Venus's offspring might lead you to the right V...
              "...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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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                A V to link Berlioz, Purcell and the 15 year old Mozart
                Nearly five hours on, and this puzzle is still causing trouble. I've 'phoned International Rescue to help, and Thunderbird 2 is just landing - I can see the pilot, wotsisname.
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26539

                  Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                  Nearly five hours on, and this puzzle is still causing trouble. I've 'phoned International Rescue to help, and Thunderbird 2 is just landing - I can see the pilot, wotsisname.
                  Oblique, ferneyhiccups, very oblique. But bang on the money

                  Care to give it to us straight?
                  "...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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                  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                    Gone fishin'
                    • Sep 2011
                    • 30163

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    Care to give it to us straight?
                    Ooh! You are awful (etc )

                    Virgil;
                    Source of Berlioz Les Troyens and Dido & Aeneas;
                    St Virgil, the confessor saint for whose feast day the 15-year-old Mozza wrote his Solemn Vespers for the Confessor K339.
                    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26539

                      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                      Ooh! You are awful (etc )

                      Virgil;
                      Source of Berlioz Les Troyens and Dido & Aeneas;
                      St Virgil, the confessor saint for whose feast day the 15-year-old Mozza wrote his Solemn Vespers for the Confessor K339.

                      Not bad, honkytonks.

                      HB Les Troyens - ✔
                      HP Dido & Aeneas - ✔
                      But the Mozart answer isn't what's on the card, though tremendously learnéd
                      The answer on the card is something more direct, like the first two. Can you think of something more ... operatic?
                      "...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
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26539

                        Clue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_kings_of_Alba_Longa

                        But I hope you are Working hard on a Wicked Wiki W, Mr Liebte
                        "...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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                        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                          Gone fishin'
                          • Sep 2011
                          • 30163

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          Not bad, honkytonks.
                          Miss!

                          The answer on the card is something more direct, like the first two. Can you think of something more ... operatic?

                          WAM was 15 in 1771 (and the first few weeks of 1772) - so, Ascanio in Alba? Can't find a Virgil connection there. Mitridate the Top Bridge Player?
                          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163

                            <doh> Cross-post: didn't notice anywhere that Ascanius was the son of Aeneas!
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163

                              Moving on:

                              This W was a legendary composer of the modern school who performed with Rubinstein.
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              • Flay
                                Full Member
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 5795

                                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                                <doh> Cross-post: didn't notice anywhere that Ascanius was the son of Aeneas!


                                But I've been there ...
                                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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