If an outsider may make a small contribution... there's Jarvis Lorry from 'A Tale of Two Cities'and someone Jarvis wrote [I think] 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic'. I'll get my coat too, sure it's not right.
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salympap, please feel free to contribute! Everyone is welcome
And then of course there is The Hogwart's Hymn by Jarvis Cocker! But we must not forget the Robert ,,,, it's the word 'incidentally' that confuses me.
Edit: Will await rubbra's return and his comments before posting any more thoughts on this rather baffling one.Last edited by Guest; 22-03-11, 17:08.Comment
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salymap,Originally posted by salymap View Post
You may be on to something...
And there are no outsiders here! Or, if you like, we are all outsiders, a smallish band of misfit regulars and irregulars alike, languishing on the fringes of Platform 3...
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Salymap!Originally posted by salymap View Post
Welcome aboard! That sounds a very convincing pair of thoughts based on my 'Jarvis' chunterings.
We await the question-setter's observations with keen anticipation..."...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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Some industrial-strength thinking going on here - that's what I like to see! (That's not a clue, btw)
Not Jarvis, I'm afraid, nor anything Dickensian. We're in the 20th century as far as our businessman goes.
The hymn is American, however, although it is the tune rather than the words that are important, and Caliban is on the right lines with the father and son...Comment
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Well done Caliban! Now all you have to do is find the linking JOriginally posted by rubbernecker View Post But you are not saying it's Kleiber but a musical father/son connection involved in music? Seriously, this has all kept us puzzled, so we must all try again to fit the pieces together.
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Originally posted by Anna View Post
and Caliban has, as it happens, identified the involvement
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Forgive me, I must have been having a bit of a blonde moment there rubbra! My tentative answer involved Elton John and The Bible and John Brown's BodyOriginally posted by rubbernecker View Post and Caliban has, as it happens, identified the involvement But as Tapiola describes us as a band of misfits and irregulars ....
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Policemen used to be called 'Robert' after Robert Peel and they go to incidents. I am already out of my
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salymap, then join us all thrown into the deep end and not knowing where we are going!!Originally posted by salymap View PostComment
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Mariss Jansons's father was a conductorComment
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........and Keith Jarrett has a son who is a pianist amazing the things you learn thanks to rubbers!Originally posted by hercule View PostComment
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I'm glad to see someone here hasn't completely lost the plot...Originally posted by hercule View Post
Yes, Hercule (nice to see you again, btw) I'm afraid it's not Jansons, but you're getting very warm now.
Let's think about our businessman: fictitious doesn't necessarily mean from a novel, and the 'incidental' element should give you both a musical and literary clue.Comment
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Zubin Mehta's father was a conductor
as was Leonard Slatkin'sComment
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...and Keith himself was no mean sax player as well, as can be heard on El Juicio (The Judgment).Originally posted by antongould View Post
(That's not another clue, just a fancy-that)Comment
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