Originally posted by subcontrabass
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Sea Pictures
Calm Sea and Prosperous Journey
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As in the Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Sea Pictures
Calm Sea and Prosperous Journey
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YeS, exactly like that!Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
I wasn't enigmatic enough! 
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crikey well done
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And to me!Originally posted by mercia View Postcrikey well done
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In order:Originally posted by mercia View Postcrikey well done
I think I need that explained to me
Sea Pictures - a song cycle by Elgar
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage - quoted by Elgar in Enigma Variation XIII, played by solo clarinet
Sea Songs - dropped from the "Last Night of the Proms"Comment
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"Something dropped off the end of a promenade" = The Fantasia which ends every Prom season.
The clarinet solo in the Sinclair variation of the Enigmas is a quotation from Mendelssohn's overture Calm Sea and Prosperous Journey
Elgar was a baronet and he called his bicycle "Mr Phoebus" (after whom, in turn, respected forumite and avant-garde enthusiast Mr Pee named himself
) ... and Elgar wrote Sea Pictures to poems written by his wife. (Okay, I guessed Sea Pictures from the other pieces!)
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Of course: far more pertinent (and entertaining) so described!Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
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Sea Pictures is a song cycle by Sir Edward Elgar (who is a baronet)Originally posted by mercia View Postcrikey well done
I think I need that explained to me
Elgar included in variation 13 a quotation from Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage played by a solo clarinet
And the Sea Shanties were dropped from the Last Night of course
Well done fhg and scbLast edited by Flay; 23-12-11, 18:18. Reason: I wrote 8, should have been 13. Need new glasses (XIII not VIII doh)Pacta sunt servanda !!!Comment
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Should have "refreshed" - you beat me to it
You two are going to have to fight over the next one. It's T Time
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Well, I could've been wrong (cf "Nielsen Saga Trom etc etc)!Originally posted by Flay View PostShould have "refreshed" - you beat me to it
I did T last time and I've done a recent puzzle, so may I request T at Subby's?[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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I think the Sinclair variation is XI, which I quoted, thinking it was the dog which dropped off the end of its promenade. The Calm Sea one is XIII, Lady Mary Lygon, is it not?Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post"Something dropped off the end of a promenade" = The Fantasia which ends every Prom season.
The clarinet solo in the Sinclair variation of the Enigmas is a quotation from Mendelssohn's overture Calm Sea and Prosperous Journey
Elgar was a baronet and he called his bicycle "Mr Phoebus" (after whom, in turn, respected forumite and avant-garde enthusiast Mr Pee named himself) ... and Elgar wrote Sea Pictures to poems written by his wife. (Okay, I guessed Sea Pictures from the other pieces!)
Thanks for all the other info.
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Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
Good one!
The R was totally impentrable to me. Ditto the large Tescos from which I have latterly escaped. Ditto the A4 leaving London, which I have to take for 200yds to get to Tescos. Chaos.
Doors shut, listening to my new Naxos acquisition (see Christmas Favourites thread) which anton and I both love, waiting for family in about 2 hours..."...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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That's a very short gestation?
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They are far from newborn!Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
Merry Christmas to you too, and all who loiter and ponder here!
Though I think I will be popping back here quite a lot over the festive beanfeast...
"...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 got to Waitrose at 3pm. It was so quiet - no queues!! Amazing.
As we may all be busy from now on in preparing for the festivities I'd also like to wish everyone a Very Happy Christmas, and may you all be Merry and Bright! 
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