Originally posted by scacchipazzo NO foul! Since you did not like the answer here's a riddle: Variegated dullness speaks of he who oft stumbles upon his own feet. Previously known as "a mighty hunter before the Lord".
You're good! indeed Nimrod. There is a nearby street, Nimrod Ln. Neighborhood wanted it changed because of its more recent implication. Overwhelmingly more votes to keep such a unique sounding name. The "hunter" explanation put it over the top with votes in favor!
Originally posted by scacchipazzo Elgar wrote the first piece of music alluding to drugs some 60+ years before the Beatles.
Are were forgetting the love potion in Tristan und Isolde? Of course, L'Elisir d'Amore is also about a love potion, though it turns out only to be cheap red wine. Still, wine is the oldest and the best drug of all!
Hier im ird'schen Jammertal
Wär' doch nichts als Plack und Qual,
Trüg' der Stock nicht Trauben;
Darum bis zum letzten Hauch
Setz' ich auf Gott Bacchus Bauch
Meinen festen Glauben!
Originally posted by Teinosuke Are were forgetting the love potion in Tristan und Isolde? Of course, L'Elisir d'Amore is also about a love potion, though it turns out only to be cheap red wine. Still, wine is the oldest and the best drug of all!
Hier im ird'schen Jammertal
Wär' doch nichts als Plack und Qual,
Trüg' der Stock nicht Trauben;
Darum bis zum letzten Hauch
Setz' ich auf Gott Bacchus Bauch
Meinen festen Glauben!
Street corner pharmacist drugs, not those made in the still although I don't disagree that alcohol is as addictive. Great examples of love potions, but the one in Tristan is supposed to be the real thing. Also, neither Donizetti or Wagner is Elgar! LOL Doesn't Medea drug her children before killing them, an even earlier allusion to drugs?
Originally posted by Rank outsider The answer is that they are the first names of three composers who were related to three more famous composers of the same name.
CPE Bach
Alessandro Scarlatti
Fanny Mendelssohn
At least I got one right. Trivia can be tricky and tough! I saw Carl and though of Carl Maria von Weber and guessed that perhaps Fanny was Maria and Domenico also. Far off, eh?
Originally posted by scacchipazzo Street corner pharmacist drugs, not those made in the still although I don't disagree that alcohol is as addictive. Great examples of love potions, but the one in Tristan is supposed to be the real thing. Also, neither Donizetti or Wagner is Elgar! LOL Doesn't Medea drug her children before killing them, an even earlier allusion to drugs?
Originally posted by sonhouse What about the potions in Midsummer Nights Dream?
Potions are within the realm of regular pharmacopaea and still Midsummer Night's Dream is not Elgar's, but Mendelssohn's and in the end just a dream. I love the incidental music and the ballet music to Shakespeare's play. I am sure he would have approved of Mendelssohn wholeheartedly.
You can't leave. Why? Because the next one is for you. Who is the third of the three great Sch's? Hint: His body lays at Pere Lachaise, his heart far away to the north.
Originally posted by FMF I have some trivia on Magazine's "Magic, Murder and the Weather (1981)" which was classic new wave. Does it count?
No. Only answers or actual music trivia.
Here's one for you: Two old world gents meet in new world. One's last name is same as Mo's. He goes on to marry Wanda and live happily ever after in NYC. Mo's last name namesake is a world class pianist when he meets Wanda.
Here's another: Of the three great Sch's one is buried almost entirely at Pere Lachaise.
Classical trivia thread
15 Apr '13 13:24
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