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  • antongould
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8785

    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    Stumped by that !!
    To keep the sporting analogies going he could be called the Jimmy Greaves of composers......

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    • mercia
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8920

      Originally posted by antongould View Post
      the Jimmy Greaves of composers......
      must be Delius, who famously said, "zis composing, it is ze funny old game, nicht wahr? "

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      • mercia
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8920

        did caliban choose the correct Claude, Franz and Dmitri ?

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        • mercia
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8920

          Originally posted by antongould View Post
          many hours of research shows you and Ams should know this answer........
          meaning what I wonder
          ......that the composer was a North Londoner ?

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          • antongould
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8785

            Originally posted by mercia View Post
            meaning what I wonder
            ......that the composer was a North Londoner ?

            It's more what Mr. Greaves was famous for, purely in a football sense, than his domicile .....

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            • amateur51

              Originally posted by antongould View Post
              It's more what Mr. Greaves was famous for, purely in a football sense, than his domicile .....
              "A lovely little thinker/But a b*gga when he's p*ssed"?

              Mr Greaves was renowned for his 'finishing' and for being a 'nipper' I recall

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              • antongould
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8785

                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                "A lovely little thinker/But a b*gga when he's p*ssed"?

                Mr Greaves was renowned for his 'finishing' and for being a 'nipper' I recall
                Spot on as ever Ams.....

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                • Flay
                  Full Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 5795

                  Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                  Flay - are you doing the 'Rocky Mountaineer'?
                  Yes, we took the Rocky Mountaineer train from Vancouver to Jasper. It is simply amazing following the immense Fraser River upstream, going from temperate rain forest to virtual desert in the course of one day. We spent last night in Kamloops. We dined in a steakhouse while the band played Duelling Banjos...

                  Later on somebody asked Mrs Flay for a dance. Allegedly on nodding over to me he asked her why she was with "that idiot" (actually he used a stronger word )

                  This amused her greatly because just over 30 years ago in a similar situation she was dancing with somebody who asked her exactly the same question.

                  She still cannot answer it!

                  We are now in the mountains of Jasper and have collected our hire car.

                  Now to feed the grizzlies...
                  Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                  • antongould
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8785

                    Originally posted by Flay View Post
                    Yes, we took the Rocky Mountaineer train from Vancouver to Jasper. It is simply amazing following the immense Fraser River upstream, going from temperate rain forest to virtual desert in the course of one day. We spent last night in Kamloops. We dined in a steakhouse while the band played Duelling Banjos...

                    Later on somebody asked Mrs Flay for a dance. Allegedly on nodding over to me he asked her why she was with "that idiot" (actually he used a stronger word )

                    This amused her greatly because just over 30 years ago in a similar situation she was dancing with somebody who asked her exactly the same question.

                    She still cannot answer it!

                    We are now in the mountains of Jasper and have collected our hire car.

                    Now to feed the grizzlies...

                    Wonderful stuff Flay.......back to our composer a finisher of the works of 2 of the 3 who used the other as a title. And in the subject of the week born on 24 November. He has passed this way before!

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                    • amateur51

                      Originally posted by antongould View Post
                      Wonderful stuff Flay.......back to our composer a finisher of the works of 2 of the 3 who used the other as a title. And in the subject of the week born on 24 November. He has passed this way before!
                      Schnittke was born on 24 November ... but there's no D there

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                      • antongould
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8785

                        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                        Schnittke was born on 24 November ... but there's no D there

                        You have provided this answer before.......

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                        • amateur51

                          Originally posted by antongould View Post
                          You have provided this answer before.......
                          Are we going all the way back now?

                          Let's see .. my first answer was probably "left breast please Mummy"

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26539

                            Having a bit of a go at this knotty one, not far off going into its fourth day

                            Pondering this in particular:

                            Originally posted by antongould View Post
                            our composer a finisher of the works of 2 of the 3 who used the other as a title.

                            And in the subject of the week born on 24 November. He has passed this way before!
                            and noticing that I don't think anton gave us an answer to this query....

                            Originally posted by mercia View Post
                            did caliban choose the correct Claude, Franz and Dmitri ?
                            "...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
                              • 8785

                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              Having a bit of a go at this knotty one, not far off going into its fourth day

                              Pondering this in particular:



                              and noticing that I don't think anton gave us an answer to this query....




                              this is true ......apologies ...Dmitri wasn't part of the question on the answer's previous appearance...........Dmitri wasn't JimmyGreavesed.....

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                              • mercia
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8920



                                so D is a composer who completed/finished works by a Claude and a Franz
                                and Dmitri's surname {?} appears in the title of an original work by D

                                but we still don't know if Claude is Debussy, or Franz is Liszt or Dmitri is Shostakovich

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