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janexxx
Jul 27 2005, 01:23 PM
QUOTE(sarah-flute @ Jul 27 2005, 01:21 PM)
QUOTE(maggiemay @ Jul 26 2005, 06:44 PM)
If it makes you feel any better I can't think of any U's either!
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Aww thanks! smile.gif

Jane, you just know so many musicians! I confess I'm deeply impressed!
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I just listen to a lot of Radio 3 and go to a lot of concerts. I don't know much about anything else though unsure.gif Please don't do A-Z of footballers wink.gif
sarah-flute
Jul 27 2005, 01:36 PM
You think *I'd* know the A-Z of footballers, m'dear?! lol... doubtful!
mrbouffant
Jul 27 2005, 01:40 PM
W: Barry Wordsworth
janexxx
Jul 27 2005, 01:41 PM
I don't know an X though....anyone???
mrbouffant
Jul 27 2005, 01:44 PM
QUOTE(janexxx @ Jul 27 2005, 01:41 PM)
I don't know an X though....anyone???
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How about the well known Chinese conductor: Chen Xieyang

(see: http://www.sh-symphony.com/english/aboutus/majordomo.cfm)
maggiemay
Jul 27 2005, 01:49 PM
Takuo Yuasa
mrbouffant
Jul 27 2005, 01:49 PM
QUOTE(maggiemay @ Jul 27 2005, 01:49 PM)
Takuo Yuasa
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That leaves David Zinman...

What next? British & Irish Composers.... ???

(Sir Malcolm) Arnold
woodwind
Jul 27 2005, 01:52 PM
QUOTE(janexxx @ Jul 27 2005, 02:23 PM)
[Please don't do A-Z of footballers wink.gif
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That's a great suggestion! biggrin.gif

Back to conductors - Simone Young
thouston
Jul 27 2005, 01:52 PM
Britten... (back to British/Irish composers - I'm useless at conductors...)
woodwind
Jul 27 2005, 01:53 PM
Aaghh! Beaten to it!!!
sarah-flute
Jul 27 2005, 01:56 PM
QUOTE(woodwind @ Jul 27 2005, 01:52 PM)
QUOTE(janexxx @ Jul 27 2005, 02:23 PM)
[Please don't do A-Z of footballers wink.gif
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That's a great suggestion! biggrin.gif
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nooooooooooooo!
ohmy.gif
mrbouffant
Jul 27 2005, 01:56 PM
C = samuel coleridge-taylor
AnotherPianist
Jul 27 2005, 02:00 PM
QUOTE(mrbouffant @ Jul 27 2005, 02:56 PM)
C = samuel coleridge-taylor
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Or Eric Coates
sarah-flute
Jul 27 2005, 02:02 PM
Delius!
AnotherPianist
Jul 27 2005, 02:03 PM
Elgar
YetAnotherPianist
Jul 27 2005, 02:06 PM
Giles Farnaby
sarah-flute
Jul 27 2005, 02:06 PM
Finzi
sarah-flute
Jul 27 2005, 02:08 PM
Ooooh that was close!
YetAnotherPianist
Jul 27 2005, 02:09 PM
Staying with my Fitzwilliam theme....

Orlando Gibbons


sarah-flute
Jul 27 2005, 02:11 PM
Gibbons! Good name!

Holst - just to stay with my totally predicatable theme!
woodwind
Jul 27 2005, 02:11 PM
Hamilton Harty
woodwind
Jul 27 2005, 02:12 PM
Help! I'm not quick enough!
janexxx
Jul 27 2005, 02:12 PM
Finzi
YetAnotherPianist
Jul 27 2005, 02:16 PM
QUOTE(sarah-flute @ Jul 27 2005, 03:11 PM)
Holst - just to stay with my totally predicatable theme!
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Actually I'd forgotten all about Finzi....

John Ireland, who despite all suggestions to the contrary is English smile.gif
sarah-flute
Jul 27 2005, 02:18 PM
....I know no Js...
sarah-flute
Jul 27 2005, 02:18 PM
(I could just say Jones, I'm sure there must be at least one... wink.gif)
woodwind
Jul 27 2005, 02:26 PM
QUOTE(sarah-flute @ Jul 27 2005, 03:18 PM)
(I could just say Jones, I'm sure there must be at least one... wink.gif)
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Daniel Jenkyn Jones (1912-93). Welsh composer of 12 symphonies, 8 string quartets, violin concerto, operas, etc. Apparently, anyway! biggrin.gif
violin-ann
Jul 27 2005, 02:28 PM
QUOTE(sarah-flute @ Jul 27 2005, 02:18 PM)
(I could just say Jones, I'm sure there must be at least one... wink.gif)
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Yes, Richard Jones, who edits the Sonatas, and Bryan Kelly for K
sarah-flute
Jul 27 2005, 02:29 PM
Hey, you nicked my composer...


laugh.gif

j/k.

I am (almost) certain I know no Ks, we need jane to come back...

(and I need to MOVE AWAY from the computer...)
sarah-flute
Jul 27 2005, 02:31 PM
oooh, we have a K....

George Lloyd
mrbouffant
Jul 27 2005, 02:32 PM
I love George Lloyd's stuff, especially the Symphonic Mass.

M = James MacMillan
maggiemay
Jul 27 2005, 02:55 PM
E W Naylor
YetAnotherPianist
Jul 27 2005, 03:04 PM
Buxton Orr
sarah-flute
Jul 27 2005, 03:04 PM
O..........dear. I have no idea! smile.gif
sarah-flute
Jul 27 2005, 03:08 PM
Parry!
mrbouffant
Jul 27 2005, 03:09 PM
Oh Q...

ummm

Roger Quilter (or was he Canadian?)
YetAnotherPianist
Jul 27 2005, 03:13 PM
QUOTE(mrbouffant @ Jul 27 2005, 04:09 PM)
Roger Quilter (or was he Canadian?)
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No, he was English (phew, Q composers are rare laugh.gif)

Alec Rowley
violin-ann
Jul 27 2005, 03:13 PM
QUOTE(mrbouffant @ Jul 27 2005, 03:09 PM)
Oh Q...

ummm

Roger Quilter (or was he Canadian?)
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Oh he was English alright wink.gif
Alexander Reignagle
sarah-flute
Jul 27 2005, 03:14 PM
Sullivan! (I forget his first name... always think of Guilbert and... but that's not helpful!)
violin-ann
Jul 27 2005, 03:14 PM
Robert Saxton
janexxx
Jul 27 2005, 03:15 PM
Arthur Sullivan!
mrbouffant
Jul 27 2005, 03:16 PM
Michael Tippett

just love the Concerto for Double String Orchestra and the Corelli Fantasia Concertante smile.gif
janexxx
Jul 27 2005, 03:17 PM
Well Iknow how we struggled with U before so I'm going straight to V

Vaughan-Williams
sarah-flute
Jul 27 2005, 03:18 PM
Walton? He was a brit, right?
mrbouffant
Jul 27 2005, 03:21 PM
right!

any brave souls with an X, Y or Z??
sarah-flute
Jul 27 2005, 03:22 PM
not here!
janexxx
Jul 27 2005, 03:24 PM
Not brits for X or Z, though there might be a Y if we think hard enough.... was there a Young?
YetAnotherPianist
Jul 27 2005, 03:30 PM
Patrick Zuk - Irish composer of Irish/Polish descent.

Young - there was an American...
violin-ann
Jul 27 2005, 09:40 PM
The X is impossible! Ok let's have the A-Z of German composers then! There are a lot.
maggiemay
Jul 28 2005, 01:39 PM
Well - hours have gone by!
Is everyone as stuck as I was on this - or are you all busy?

So far all I've come up with is -

Andreas Armsdorff (it's a double - if obscure!)

pupil of Pachelbel, 1670 -1699 seems likely to have been German.
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