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Reminds me of the retort in "Kind Hears and Coronets"
Sibylla: He is trying to broaden his mind
Louis: Well he has ample room to do so...
"...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..."
"...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..."
Reminds me of the retort in "Kind Hears and Coronets"
Sibylla: He is trying to broaden his mind
Louis: Well he has ample room to do so...
Cheek!
Education is never wasted. Apart from its entertainment value, this MB (and AA in particular) has been incredibly educational to me: frantically surfing for clues and answers, reading and discovering about music, its creators, patrons and performers. Long may it continue!
Where else would I have heard about Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant Chuckerbutty?
Education is never wasted. Apart from its entertainment value, this MB (and AA in particular) has been incredibly educational to me: frantically surfing for clues and answers, reading and discovering about music, its creators, patrons and performers. Long may it continue!
Where else would I have heard about Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant Chuckerbutty?
"...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..."
"...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..."
Symphonie Fantastique - penultimate movement - "Marche au supplice" (March to the Scaffold)
Three Fantastic Dances - Shostakovich
And thirdly Suk's Fantastic Scherzo*, but that's no laughing matter, is it?
Fantastic, Flay - perfect answer A G please.
In the hands of someone like Charles Mackerras, the Suk can be exhilarating, I think. In ohters' hands, it can be repetitive and certainly no laughing matter...
From Italian scherzo "joke, play", from scherzare "to joke, jest" from Old Italian scherzare, of Germanic origin, from Lombardic *skerzan "to jump merrily, enjoy oneself, jest" from Proto-Germanic *skirtanan (“to hop, jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerǝd- (“to dance, jump”). Akin to Middle High German scherzen "to frolic, jump merrily, hop up and down" (German scherzen "to joke"; Scherz "joke, sport"), Norwegian skjerta "to joke"
"...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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