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  • Lat-Literal
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    • Aug 2015
    • 6983

    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
    ... the plump self-confidence with which so many towns saw themselves as a northern Venice -



    Venice I am sure regularly calls itself the Birmingham - or the Wrocław - of the south...


    As for The Big Smoke -

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26540

      Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post
      Birmingham - perhaps Stockholm - London(BBC).

      Is this Sakari Oramo?

      YES! Well done. Maybe vindepays gave you the hint with his shrewd pointer... But you have iced the cake by adumbrating Sakari Oramo's progress from the CBSO (City of the Thousand Trades) to the Royal Stockholm PO (the true Venice of the North) and then back again to the BBCSO based in London.

      Lat, time to have a P
      "...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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      • Lat-Literal
        Guest
        • Aug 2015
        • 6983

        Originally posted by Caliban View Post

        YES! Well done. Maybe vindepays gave you the hint with his shrewd pointer... But you have iced the cake by adumbrating Sakari Oramo's progress from the CBSO (City of the Thousand Trades) to the Royal Stockholm PO (the true Venice of the North) and then back again to the BBCSO based in London.

        Lat, time to have a P
        Amazed it's right - thanks Caliban.

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        • Lat-Literal
          Guest
          • Aug 2015
          • 6983

          This will be answered in less than five minutes.

          Which P links Bax, Bowen, Bridge, Coates and RVW?

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          • cloughie
            Full Member
            • Dec 2011
            • 22127

            Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post
            This will be answered in less than five minutes.

            Which P links Bax, Bowen, Bridge, Coates and RVW?
            Is this the real world or is it Phantasy?

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            • Lat-Literal
              Guest
              • Aug 2015
              • 6983

              Originally posted by cloughie View Post
              Is this the real world or is it Phantasy?


              Your turn cloughie.

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              • cloughie
                Full Member
                • Dec 2011
                • 22127

                Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                Is this the real world or is it Phantasy?
                You mean I have to join a Q

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                • Lat-Literal
                  Guest
                  • Aug 2015
                  • 6983

                  Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                  You mean I have to join a Q

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                  • Flay
                    Full Member
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 5795

                    Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post
                    Bruges (Venice of the North)?
                    I thought it was Carlisle

                    Let's have the coleslaw please, cloughie!
                    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                    • cloughie
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22127

                      Originally posted by Flay View Post
                      I thought it was Carlisle

                      Let's have the coleslaw please, cloughie!
                      Bax:Phantasy Quartet
                      Bowen:Phantasy Quintet
                      Bridge:Phantasy Trio or Quartet
                      Coates:Phantasy-Three Bears
                      RVW:Phantasy Quintet

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                      • Lat-Literal
                        Guest
                        • Aug 2015
                        • 6983

                        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                        Bax:Phantasy Quartet
                        Bowen:Phantasy Quintet
                        Bridge:Phantasy Trio or Quartet
                        Coates:Phantasy-Three Bears
                        RVW:Phantasy Quintet


                        Yours.....but no Bohemian Rhapsody!

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                        • cloughie
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2011
                          • 22127

                          Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post


                          Yours.....but no Bohemian Rhapsody!
                          A Q to connect Sax, Celine and Louis also the military that sounds like SA.

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                          • Flay
                            Full Member
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 5795

                            Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                            A Q to connect Sax, Celine and Louis also the military that sounds like SA.
                            SA old chap, are there three or four parts to this association? Are Celine and Louis linked together?
                            Last edited by Flay; 09-12-15, 08:20. Reason: Trypo
                            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                            • Flay
                              Full Member
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 5795

                              Well so far all I've found is a dating site for classic music lovers

                              Must bookmark it
                              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26540

                                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                                Well so far all I've found is a dating site for classic music lovers

                                Must bookmark it
                                "...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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