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  • antongould
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8664

    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
    So ignore Fay Wray?

    Indeed no - she'll do for me....................

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26327

      Hmmmm.... Accrington... Fay Wray... accordions....

      I'm lost.
      "...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
        Hmmmm.... Accrington... Fay Wray... accordions....

        I'm lost.
        Well, I might be misleading you, but there's only one widely-known composer from Accrington, and only one film for which Fay Wray is widely known ...
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • Anna

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          Hmmmm.... Accrington... Fay Wray... accordions....
          I'm lost.
          Is it not Accrington and the bricks used in Empire State, as detailed by Jeannette Winterson?

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26327

            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
            Well, I might be misleading you, but there's only one widely-known composer from Accrington, and only one film for which Fay Wray is widely known ...
            Good heavens... Sir Harrison! I'd never heard of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Mrs_Kong

            There's an accordion part in the score....
            "...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
              • 8664

              Originally posted by Anna View Post
              Is it not Accrington and the bricks used in Empire State, as detailed by Jeannette Winterson?
              Much better answer Anna - but no - and as Ferney is playing hard to get and we want Cali to B the man ASAP - to fulfil your Law

              There was seemingly a fair bit of accordion in The Second Mrs Kong by H. Birtwistle

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              • antongould
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8664

                Sorry Rumpole our postings crossed as so often in the euphoria.........................

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26327

                  Keeping it legal:

                  ACCORDION

                  Shostakovich's 'Jazz Suite No. 2' exists in a version for accordion
                  Luciano Berio's Sequenza XIII for accordion "Chanson"
                  The Second Mrs Kong, an opera in two acts, with music by Sir Harrison Birtwistle
                  "...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 antongould View Post
                    as Ferney is playing hard to get
                    Not intentionally: the "Accrington" was a bit of a give-away for a Birtwistle fan, so I didn't want to steal the goal from Cali. I was at one of the performances in the premiere run of Mrs Kong at Glyndebourne c.1994. Weird libretto* (by the late Russel Hoban), great score: heartbreakingly sad Music at the end.

                    * = So weird that the second Mrs Kong (the first being Ms Wray) is the girl with the pearl earring from the Vermeer painting - called Pearl in the opera. And there's a part for Orpheus' head. Just his head, because that's the only bit left singing at the end of the myth.
                    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                    • antongould
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8664

                      A, probably stupid, question one of the great fears I have on popping back amongst this happy band is setting a word that has just been set. In fact a while back I did exactly that i.e. set the same L as last cycle with more or less the same clues!!!
                      I have tried using the search facility but it did tell me, not surprisingly, that accordion had appeared in the AA thread at some point, but I couldn't find from the display the actual post(s) - can one do this??

                      It came as a pleasant surprise that dickhead has never been used hereabouts - whoops!

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                      • Anna

                        Originally posted by antongould View Post
                        It came as a pleasant surprise that dickhead has never been used hereabouts - whoops!
                        It will, it will.

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26327

                          Originally posted by antongould View Post
                          It came as a pleasant surprise that dickhead has never been used hereabouts - whoops!


                          A word much on your mind after navigating the crowds at Fenwicks?
                          "...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
                            • 26327

                            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                            Not intentionally: the "Accrington" was a bit of a give-away for a Birtwistle fan, so I didn't want to steal the goal from Cali. I was at one of the performances in the premiere run of Mrs Kong at Glyndebourne c.1994. Weird libretto* (by the late Russel Hoban), great score: heartbreakingly sad Music at the end.

                            * = So weird that the second Mrs Kong (the first being Ms Wray) is the girl with the pearl earring from the Vermeer painting - called Pearl in the opera. And there's a part for Orpheus' head. Just his head, because that's the only bit left singing at the end of the myth.

                            Good stuff Ferns. Doubly ashamed about the fact that I'd never even heard of it. (I went to the première of "Gawain"....! - he said to try and prove he's not a complete idiot )
                            "...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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                            • vinteuil
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12395

                              Originally posted by antongould View Post
                              I have tried using the search facility but it did tell me, not surprisingly, that accordion had appeared in the AA thread at some point, but I couldn't find from the display the actual post(s) - can one do this??

                              !
                              ... if you avoid the "search" facility in the top red line - and instead go to the AA thread and there use the "search thread" box - you will find there have been eleven (and after this entry probably twelve... ) entries showing which have "accordion" in them - and then it's quite easy to go to the one you want.

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                              • antongould
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8664

                                Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                                Good stuff Ferns. Doubly ashamed about the fact that I'd never even heard of it. (I went to the première of "Gawain"....! - he said to try and prove he's not a complete idiot )
                                Me neither Cali - until it popped out as an example of accordion music in my Penguin Companion to Classical Music (sad) and yes Fenwicks was full of bleeding d******ds!!!!

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