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What is your top 5?
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Names of prisons you've escaped from.
Things that life is too short to bother reading, even though some people obviously did, although exactly why (except to try impressing other people who also read them) eludes me, and to which one might add several other books that seem to run on for ever and ever and ever, and never reach a satisfying (or even faintly interesting) conclusion, not unlike this rather rambling and disheveled sentence that would be better off tied to a concrete block and dropped off a pier, which at least is a picturesque ending (unlike this).1. The Blah Story by Nigel Tomm
2. Marienbad My Love by Mark Leach
3. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
4. Sironia, Texas by Madison Cooper
5. Contributions, by
I'm intrigued but stumped after skipping past Angel at first, then seizing hope from Lilith and Mordecai and doubling back to Angel figuring I could hook those three together somehow if only satirically... but then I lost the thread entirely with Brick... and began to wonder about synths when I hit Roland, dispensing with efforts to connect Roland the historical military figure with the other buddies I was tying to corral up there...
SYNTHS I finally thought.... yeah, I haven't listened to any good electronic stuff in awhile... yep that's the sound of the ripcord as I bailed out of your list.
These are just the names of your all time favorite cats, right? Or gerbils? A great collection of names either way.
Judaic symbolism.
1. Angel - Exists in the religion.
2. Brick - Symbolic of the wall, specifically the excavated underground walls of King Soloman's temple.
3. Lilith - Evil demon in Judaism.
4. Mordecai - Big story revolving him and his refusal to acknowledge someone important.
5. Roland - This has me stumped. There's a poem called Song of Roland with strong Christian ties, but the event the poem is based on and the parties involved has no ties to the ancient Jews. Roland also isn't an anglicized variant of an ancient name either. There is a HUGE time gap between that song and Solomon.
This latter part I had to look up, but Charlemagne's throne was apparently modeled after biblical descriptors of Solomon's throne and method for expanding his control without being somewhere physically.
Or I've gone 'round the twist. Finally.
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I hadn't realized how many composers have written formal works for piano left hand alone... or that so many of those works have been recorded and still get recorded more than a few times, often enough by pianists with the use of both hands, generally playing the work as written but occasionally working from revisions that rescore the work or parts of it for two hands.
Austrian-American pianist Paul Wittgenstein commissioned a number of "left hand alone" works for piano after he lost an arm during military service in WWI, and most of us at best have only heard about the fairly famous Ravel Piano Concerto for Left Hand in D Major, or perhaps a couple more.
When I thought to make some music-related list for this "top 5" thread and that left-hand-alone idea popped into my head, I was wondering in the next instant if I even knew of five of these things. Silly me, there are dozens on dozens.... but the ones I listed are among my favorites. I left the Ravel off because I thought it would be too much of a clue if anyone had also heard of one of the others.
I do mean to prowl around recordings of some of the rest of these "left hand alone" this winter.
Wittgenstein was a rather bristly guy and insisted on lifetime exclusive performing rights to works he commissioned; I've now bumped into some tales of rocky relationships he had with some of the composers, due to arguments about revisions, refusals to make them, and unauthorized performances of his own adaptations or re-orchestrations. As a result some friendships went up in flames and also a few of the works he commissioned were never performed (as written, anyway) during his lifetime.
Past that, some the composers of these "left hand alone" works and Ravel in particular got into some nasty wrangles with other conductors and with pianists without hand injuries when they wanted to adapt the scores for two-handed performances. Who knew that hell hath no fury like that of a composer scorned for insisting on author's rights over music for a one-handed pianist? I want to look into some bios of Ravel and see what turns up about that.
Wittgenstein was a rather bristly guy and insisted on lifetime exclusive performing rights to works he commissioned; I've now bumped into some tales of rocky relationships he had with some of the composers, due to arguments about revisions, refusals to make them, and unauthorized performances of his own adaptations or re-orchestrations. As a result some friendships went up in flames and also a few of the works he commissioned were never performed (as written, anyway) during his lifetime.
Past that, some the composers of these "left hand alone" works and Ravel in particular got into some nasty wrangles with other conductors and with pianists without hand injuries when they wanted to adapt the scores for two-handed performances. Who knew that hell hath no fury like that of a composer scorned for insisting on author's rights over music for a one-handed pianist? I want to look into some bios of Ravel and see what turns up about that.
Guessed, got it wrong, figured I had a one in three shot... coffees, cheeses, and
what's probably really a nice wine list there...
Guessed, got it wrong, figured I had a one in three shot... coffees, cheeses, and
what's probably really a nice wine list there...
That is why I excluded the better known examples. Two of my personal favourites would have given the game away, but - in truth - I could easily have come up with a second list on the same topic.
Gewürztraminer gives me a clue.
But I am in a conference paying very close attention to the discussion.
But I am in a conference paying very close attention to the discussion.
Guessed, got it wrong, figured I had a one in three shot... coffees, cheeses, and
what's probably really a nice wine list there...
As with left handed composers (wow, that did stump me), there is a slight refinement to this list.
Gewürztraminer gives me a clue.
But I am in a conference paying very close attention to the discussion.
It is a good clue.
But, then, so are the others.
With the exception of Gewürztraminer, I have excluded my other two favourites (although I am also partial to Viognier).
Classical composers are one thing (and I consider myself reasonably knowledgeable on that subject matter), but, if @LizKat had only mentioned Paul McCartney, why then, the significance of the left handed artist might have struck me.
Well anyway probably not Chianti drinkers. More on the pale side of things?
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I might be afraid even to sling that list into a search engine, it might seize up!
How about... favorite names for a girl
Exactly.
Which is why I decided (with reluctance) to exclude Chardonnay (which makes the white wines from Burgundy that I love) and Riesling (not to mention Pinot Gris and Pinot Blanc) from Alsace; and - also excluded with reluctance - was Grenache, which I love, irrespective of what fetching hue or shade it decides to drape itself in.
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You're right that Chardonnay might have given it away for a lot of us who aren't particularly knowledgeable about wines. We may have learned basics about what to serve with meat or fish etc. and not much more!
Here's my latest puzzle.... not sure if I left too many clues in considering the crowd that hangs out in the community threads here.
Here's my latest puzzle.... not sure if I left too many clues in considering the crowd that hangs out in the community threads here.
- blue lake
- calima
- borlotto
- dragon tongue
- nickel bush
I’m guessing you forgot Mercedes, Monique, and Sunny.
Sorry, let’s keep this PG-13.
He/she definitely forgot Prudence.
But, Chastity?
That strikes me as a perfect name for a tomcat with amorous inclinations. Like Nanny Ogg's Greebo.
