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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26540

    Originally posted by mercia View Post
    Albert Ketelbey

    Cockney Suite, including 'appy 'ampstead
    In a Chinese Temple Garden
    In the Mystic Land of Egypt
    Bravo... thank you, mercs!

    Though I fear I have lumbered you... O 'ell
    "...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
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      • Nov 2010
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      Originally posted by mercia View Post
      Albert Ketelbey

      Cockney Suite, including 'appy 'ampstead
      In a Chinese Temple Garden
      In the Mystic Land of Egypt
      Never 'eard of 'im the fings you learn at AA......

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      • mercia
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        • Nov 2010
        • 8920

        Originally posted by antongould View Post
        Never 'eard of 'im the fings you learn at AA......
        In a monastery garden ?
        "In a Monastery Garden" e attimi salienti di "In a Persian Market" composizioni di Albert William Ketèlbey (1875-1959) eseguite da Slovak Radio Symphony Orch...

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        • Nick Armstrong
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          • Nov 2010
          • 26540

          Originally posted by antongould View Post
          Never 'eard of 'im the fings you learn at AA......
          You must have heard the ultimate piece of post-Edwardian schmaltz, surely:

          In a Monastery Garden is a famous piece of light classical music by Albert Ketèlbey who composed it in 1915 after a visit to a real monastery garden. It was ...


          Not a dry seat in the house...

          The concert band master at school often forced us to play this. News of the NSPCC hadn't filtered up to Nottingham yet...


          EDIT: mercs, we clearly suffered similarly....
          "...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
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            • Nov 2010
            • 8792

            Originally posted by mercia View Post

            Indeed a true classic but never knew who composed it.......well I do now....

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            • mercia
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              • Nov 2010
              • 8920



              L

              a 6th in C major, a 25th in G minor, a 2nd in C minor

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              • antongould
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                • Nov 2010
                • 8792

                Originally posted by mercia View Post


                L

                a 6th in C major, a 25th in G minor, a 2nd in C minor
                Is this not a very BIG question?

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                • mercia
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                  • Nov 2010
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                  it's not big and it's not clever

                  as they say

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                  • antongould
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8792

                    Originally posted by mercia View Post
                    it's not big and it's not clever

                    as they say
                    We are in these parts like the A of C having problems with Wonga....Sorry mercs

                    I think the L is little

                    The L Russian Tchaikovsky
                    The L G Minor Mozart
                    The L C Major Schubert

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                    • mercia
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                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8920

                      Originally posted by antongould View Post
                      I think the L is little

                      The L Russian Tchaikovsky
                      The L G Minor Mozart
                      The L C Major Schubert
                      you thought right

                      that's me done - bye-bye

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                      • antongould
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8792

                        Originally posted by mercia View Post
                        you thought right

                        that's me done - bye-bye
                        Hope mercs hasn't gone for good.....what with Rumpole having his 43rd holiday of the term and all......

                        An L to bring one to

                        A Parsi
                        43 and
                        Vilarroig......

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                        • amateur51

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          You must have heard the ultimate piece of post-Edwardian schmaltz, surely:

                          In a Monastery Garden is a famous piece of light classical music by Albert Ketèlbey who composed it in 1915 after a visit to a real monastery garden. It was ...


                          Not a dry seat in the house...

                          The concert band master at school often forced us to play this. News of the NSPCC hadn't filtered up to Nottingham yet...


                          EDIT: mercs, we clearly suffered similarly....
                          NSPCC?

                          This version might have concerned the RSPB

                          Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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                          • mercia
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                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8920

                            Originally posted by antongould View Post
                            An L to bring one to

                            A Parsi
                            43 and
                            Vilarroig......
                            I assume it starts with M

                            Haydn 43 has planetary associations

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                            • antongould
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8792

                              Originally posted by mercia View Post
                              I assume it starts with M

                              Haydn 43 has planetary associations
                              .....an M indeed and Uncle Joe indeed .........

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                              • mercia
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                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8920

                                Mercury

                                Haydn symphony 43
                                Freddie, born a Parsi (therefore a Parsi for life ???)
                                Spanish composer Pedro Vilarroig, who seems to be well into cosmology, Symphony-Poem "Mercury"

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