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  1. As Gustav Holst was a 20th Century composer, I'll guess that he re-arranged the earlier Rosetti work?

    No ding there I'm afraid, the chap you're thinking of was Rossetti with only one 's', unlike the two 's' Rossetti in question, who was not a musician.

     

    If no one gets close by the end of today I'll add a hint.

     

    No idea as to the Goblin reference above but I do know that Rossetti wrote 'in the bleak midwinter'. Someone must have set it to music so I'll hazard a guess it was our friend Gustav

     

    And the musical ding goes Sharpeset :D

    Christina Rossetti (not her more famous artist father, Ihope, sorry, suspect that could have misdirected some ) was a poet, her most famous work is 'Goblin Market'. She wrote the words, Holst the music, to 'In the Bleak Midwinter'

     

    I noticed Holsts name at the top of the page in my school hymn book way back in the last century, and it took me to other works by him, and on to Elgar. Vaughan Williams,Sibelius, then diverted off to find out about English folk music, Rusby, various Carthys and the blessed June Tabor and eventually I arrived at the Levellers and Oysterband. A strange musical journey, all started off by a carol I rather enjoyed!

     

    Thanks - it's great how music can surprise and inspire. I'm going to stick with music for the next question, but slightly less classical:

     

    Peter Tork, Davy Jones, Mike Nesmith..... who is missing?

  2. As Gustav Holst was a 20th Century composer, I'll guess that he re-arranged the earlier Rosetti work?

    No ding there I'm afraid, the chap you're thinking of was Rossetti with only one 's', unlike the two 's' Rossetti in question, who was not a musician.

     

    If no one gets close by the end of today I'll add a hint.

     

    No idea as to the Goblin reference above but I do know that Rossetti wrote 'in the bleak midwinter'. Someone must have set it to music so I'll hazard a guess it was our friend Gustav

  3. Ding to Sharpeset

     

    Thank you: Sticking with Music, here's a vaguely topical two part question, both parts required for the DING:

     

    Who wrote the music for the Royal Fireworks, and for which Royal?

     

    Handel was the composer, and the monarch was George . Um, not sure about which George tho' !

    I'll go for George the 2nd

     

    You went for the right one - a right royal DING to you Sire

  4. Ok - moving away from Olympics, but staying with a Greek theme: Today is Pi Day (in American mm.dd.yy format) - i.e. 3.14

     

    In the Greek Alphabet pi is the 16th letter. Which letters fall either side of it?

     

    Forty years ago, a geography teacher at school tried to teach us the Greek alphabet (can't remember why...).

    Scratching at the memory banks I'll go for Omicron and Psi

  5. Yes, it is high time to move on.

     

    From Wikipedia:

     

    "The Order of the ********* ** ****** is an order of the Commonwealth realms. It was founded in June 1917 by King George V as a reward for outstanding achievements in the arts, literature, music, science, politics, industry, and religion. It is sometimes regarded as the junior order to the Order of Merit."

     

    If no one gets it in 12 hours or so I will give the ding to civilised as being closish!!

     

    Just googled so won't enter - but if it helps other quizzers, the first word needs an extra *....and it is a well known Order

  6. Ding!

     

    Thanks :)

     

    On a similar vein, but only using selected references rather than a complete list...

     

    Silver Fox

    Golden Eagle

    Kingfisher

    Falcon

    Osprey

    Golden Plover

    Bittern......and many others

     

    ...all linked by which famous engineer / designer ?

     

    Bittern is a bird and a steam train, so is Mallard (perhaps too much of a give away!) , so I'm going with Sir Nigel Gresley.

     

    Ding to Marty - Mallard was my clue in reserve should it be required. These were some of the 35 A4 steam locomotives desgined by Gresley

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