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  • antongould
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8772

    Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
    Think so. You know the words? How does it relate to our C?

    Now what about Trust?
    The cavatina "Se vuol ballare" which Wiki says means "if you want to dance". At this time of night I cannot trust myself to get any further!
    Last edited by antongould; 19-06-11, 22:34. Reason: Tired

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    • antongould
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8772

      Are we talking the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust?

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      • Dave2002
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 18005

        Well done. You've covered everything now.

        Bambi is the story of a young deer whose mother was killed by a deer hunter.
        The Deer Hunter is a 1978 Oscar winning film with a theme tune called Cavatina played by John Willams
        The Cavatina Chamber Music Trust is an organisation aiming to help young people to get to know and like chamber music.
        Beethoven's Op 130 string quartet has a cavatina movement. Before it is a German dance, while the Grosse Fuge follows.
        Mozart's "Se vuol ballare" from the Marriage of Figaro is a cavatina.

        Now we can start the D.

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        • antongould
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8772

          As I have, once again, to join the ranks of the downtrodden workers a quick D

          What connects

          Oberon
          Stumbled across by Tippett
          A revelation to Banville?

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          • doversoul1
            Ex Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 7132

            The first two could be pointing to the great countertenor but I cannot find any link to the third.

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            • antongould
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8772

              You are there the 3rd is rather oblique but I have come across it twice once on Private Passions and in yesterday's Observer but show your workings and I will let you E - if I am allowed!

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              • mercia
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8920

                And the voice of Alfred Deller. I had never heard a counter-tenor before I discovered a record of Deller's among my girlfriend's collection. I see myself sitting alone on the floor of her living room one sunstruck morning listening to that unearthly voice singing Campion's "Never Weather Beaten Sail" and feeling my scalp tingle and my palms go damp from the effect of such ease, such purity, such transcendent beauty

                yesterday's Observer (will I get into trouble copying a chunk out of a newspaper?)
                John Banville on a '68 trip to California, courtesy google
                Last edited by mercia; 20-06-11, 14:02.

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                • antongould
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8772

                  Cheers

                  So doversoul has E if he repeats Deller and explains 1 and 2?
                  Last edited by antongould; 20-06-11, 14:07.

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26506

                    Originally posted by Angle View Post
                    If you arrived in Liverpool on Saturday afternoon, Caliban, you will have found the city bathed in golden sunshine and witnessed an excellent sunset over the sea. I hope you enjoy your visit.


                    Indeed Angle - we arrived around 6pm Saturday, glorious weather.... After a late night, emerging late morning Sunday saw the end of the cloud and Sunday afternoon was quite glorious, late lunch al fresco around the Albert Dock, Liverpool really showing herself to tremendous advantage.
                    "...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
                      • 8772

                      Originally posted by mercia
                      definitely (if you're asking me, which you're probably not)
                      Definitely on the big questions of life it's always First Lady Gould Second Mercia!

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                      • doversoul1
                        Ex Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 7132

                        mercia has completed the answer and I am sure s/he has got the links to the first and the second. I wouldn’t have been able to answer the third even after a dozen clues. So I think E should go to mercia.

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                        • Angle
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 724

                          WE must have crossed paths on Sunday, Caliban. I, too, was at the Albert Dock, strolling and visiting the Tate. What a lovely afternoon it was. I didn't see a pp hat anywhere, though. Glad you enjoyed your visit.

                          Is anyone going to pose an E ?

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                          • antongould
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8772

                            Britten wrote Oberon for Deller and he was discovered by Tippett singing in Canterbury Cathedral - I think E belongs to Dover!

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                            • Dave2002
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 18005

                              Seems fair. I didn't figure out the Irish novelist thing till Mercia gave us a clue - http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandsty...-john-banville

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                              • doversoul1
                                Ex Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 7132

                                Oh bother… I keep telling myself to leave this thread alone. If you wouldn’t mind waiting for awhile, I’ll try think up an E question.

                                Talking about Deller, I would love to know what Tippett thought about the voice when he first heard it.

                                As we are on the subject, here is a reminder for anyone who will be in the area:

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