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Sidney Torch - Blackpool ? 
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A Sidney you may have thought of in the heat of the night. You guys need to get organised. -
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The only V is the subject on the card, the others are pointers to it.Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View PostComment
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Is that a "yes" or a "no"?Originally posted by cloughie View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Originally posted by cloughie View Post
Come on, Virgil was a cracking shout after your "Heat of the Night" => Sidney Poitier clue. Credit where it's due, eh Throppers?
"...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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Keep your hats on guys - Virgil was a very good wrong guess. Where's Poitier(s) and as I say get organised!Originally posted by Caliban View Post
Come on, Virgil was a cracking shout after your "Heat of the Night" => Sidney Poitier clue. Credit where it's due, eh Throppers?Comment
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Originally posted by cloughie View Post
It's in Vienne....
Have to take to the road now, good luck people!"...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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Safe driving Caliban!Originally posted by Caliban View Post
It's in Vienne....
Have to take to the road now, good luck people!
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...and where's Vienne?Originally posted by Caliban View Post
It's in Vienne....
Have to take to the road now, good luck people!
Who's from Poitiers, what do you know about him and what did he write - I repeat get ORGANised. I'm off-line shortly for a while - Western Power are working in our patch so no juice!Comment
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Ha Ha, Calibs left his Rs out! Good thing our V was practically blind....Originally posted by Caliban View Post
It's in Vienne....
...and he died on the job, expiring on a low E. But I'm working so daren't say who....
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Louis Vierne, is prime candidate, organist at Notre Dame cathedral - it's not more complicated than that is it (what an understatement)?. He died while playing the organ.Originally posted by cloughie View PostComment
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Originally posted by Flay View Post
I'm confused but I'm working too so never mind. (Is there a Vierne/Vienne clue going on?). The 'get ORGANised' clue was a good one though, annoyed I didn't twig that...
"...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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I am reliably informed that Louis Vierne originated form Poitiers (along with the Visigoths and various other V people).
count me out for W by the way.Comment
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Oi!!!Originally posted by Caliban View Post
I didn't know that Poitiers was in Vienne - I live and learn.Originally posted by Caliban View PostI'm confused but I'm working too so never mind. (Is there a Vierne/Vienne clue going on?). The 'get ORGANised' clue was a good one though, annoyed I didn't twig that...
Wiki:Was that the "darkness," cloughie?Louis Vierne was born in Poitiers, Vienne, nearly blind due to congenital cataracts
He sounds like a jolly nice, committed man:
Notre Dame - The Bells?He was deeply affected by a separation and subsequent divorce from his wife, and he lost both his brother René and his son Jacques to the battlefields of World War I. Though he held one of the most prestigious organ posts in France, the Notre-Dame organ was in a state of disrepair throughout much of his tenure at the instrument. He eventually undertook a concert tour of North America to raise money for its restoration. The tour, which included major recitals on the famous Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia and its smaller sister instrument, the Wanamaker Auditorium Organ in New York City, was very successful, although the trip physically drained him.
Then tragedy:A street accident in Paris caused him to badly fracture his leg, and it was briefly thought his leg would need to be amputated. The leg was saved, but his recovery, and the task of completely re-learning his pedal technique, took a full year during one of the busiest times of his life. Despite his difficulties, however, his students uniformly described him as a kind, patient and encouraging teacher.
Vierne suffered either a stroke or a heart attack (eyewitness reports differ) while giving his 1750th organ recital at Notre-Dame de Paris on the evening of 2 June 1937. He had completed the main concert, which members of the audience said showed him at his full powers - "as well as he has ever played." Directly after he had finished playing his "Stele pour un enfant defunt" from his 'Triptyque' Op 58, the closing section was to be two improvisations on submitted themes. He read the first theme in Braille, then selected the stops he would use for the improvisation. He suddenly pitched forward, and fell off the bench as his foot hit the low "E" pedal of the organ. He lost consciousness as the single note echoed throughout the church. He had thus fulfilled his oft-stated lifelong dream - to die at the console of the great organ of Notre-Dame.
Was that the implied "death" in the clue?Pacta sunt servanda !!!Comment
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"Memorial for a dead child" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8d5F5GY4hw
From Youtube:Thank you cloughie, I have learned something todayHere is Vierne's description of the circumstances under which he wrote it:
"Stèle pour un enfant défunt was written in the memory of a poor urchin, who died at the age of ten, under dreadful circumstances. He was a precocious little being, sensitive far beyond his years, named Jean de Brancion. As an old friend of the family, I was grief-stricken at his tragic passing. In a kind of votive offering dedicated to his memory, I refrained from conventional obsequiousness; there was nothing appropriate to express my sorrow, merely a suggestion of sadness through an illusory poetry; that was what I tried to achieve."
Vierne died at the organ console of Notre-Dame de Paris, moments after finishing playing this piece, on June 2nd, 1937.
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