The Capetonian WOE Thread

[Ex-Ascot]

Come on guys how many clues can I give. For extra points, why can concert pianists play without a music score but the rest of the orchestra including the conductor need one?

[DBx]

Ok, you've given it away, statue of Edvard Grieg by Frinn Folich in Grieg Garden on the University of Washington campus in Seattle I think.

If correct I have to say OH as I'm battling with my annual tax return.

Do please tell us why concert pianists usually memorise their contributions rather than read a musical score?

[Ex-Ascot]

Absolutely DBx. Don't like these things dragging on and gave me an opportunity of posting this famous concert of his magnificent Piano Concerto in A Minor.

Arthur Rubinstein once said:

It is said of me that when I was young I divided my time impartially among wine, women and song. I deny this categorically. Ninety percent of my interests were women.

In answer to my question about no score I do not know. I had a girl friend, who became a concert pianist, who could do the same. I could sing without a score but not play any instrument or key board without one. It is said that Rubinstein committed a piece to memory from a score on a train without a piano. Don't get many on trains.

O/H says DBx.

[om15]

The RAF had a presence here for several years, it was the stuff of legends.

[Ex-Ascot]

Jesuit?

[om15]

French. I think it was built in 1929.

[om15]

[ian16th]

Madagascar?

[om15]

Yes we are in Madagascar, which church is it?

[ian16th]

Yes we are in Madagascar, which church is it?

Dunno, I've been there twice, for a total of about 2 hours. But never set foot outside the transit lounge at Antananarivo International Airport.

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When were they fitted with what look like counter-rotating props?

[G-CPTN]

MR3s were fitted with Griffons and contra-rotating propellers.

[Ex-Ascot]

Looked at all Jesuit Churches in Madagascar and all churches in Majunga and can't find it.

Took HRH PP there as Patron of the World Wildlife Fund to look at the disastrous effects of deforestation. On the recce a month earlier we tried to get into a strip somewhere but it wasn't wide enough due to trees either side. They offered to chop them all down for us

[om15]

Ecar Sainte Therese De L'Enfant Jesus in Amborovy (Majunga).

It was said that if you remembered a Majunga detachment you weren't really there.

OH.

[Ex-Ascot]

Ecar Sainte Therese De L'Enfant Jesus in Amborovy (Majunga).

It was said that if you remembered a Majunga detachment you weren't really there.

OH.

My searches didn't come up with it. Putting the name in I see a photo on farce book. perhaps Google search doesn't usually search that. Dunno.

Only been there for day visits we were based in Antanaana the Capital.

[ian16th]

Ecar Sainte Therese De L'Enfant Jesus in Amborovy (Majunga).

It was said that if you remembered a Majunga detachment you weren't really there.

OH.

My searches didn't come up with it. Putting the name in I see a photo on farce book. perhaps Google search doesn't usually search that. Dunno.

Only been there for day visits we were based in Antanaana the Capital.

Its easy, you spell it as its pronounced! Antananarivo

[Ex-Ascot]

We have stalled for too long. Try this topical one.

[Smeagol]

Looks like a government/council type building. Somewhere in the UK?

[Opsboi]

Is it in Twickenham/Richmond?

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Did a double take because it looked so much like my High School, which has been gone for decades.