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Finally, this is another one like the Litolf Scherzo, in that it doesn't get played very often nowadays. It's Christian Sindings' Rustle of Spring and at least the pianist looks happy. Maurice :cool:

So we're swanning about tonight, Pete! Cheers. Maurice :cool:

Just a short four minutes tonight of The Swan from Saint-Saens' Carnival of Animals. Maurice :cool:

Couldn't resist plonking this one in here:- A young boy had just attended his first lesson to learn the tuba. His dad asked, "What did you learn?" The boy replied "I learned how to play a C." The next week his dad asked again, "What did you learn this week?" "I learned \how to play a G."...

I've just been through all the Drinkwaters in Worcestershire on the 1911 Census and none of them really fit. But to be missing off a census is nothing new and being most probably a farm labourer, they don't always get added by the farm owner. Nor can I find James in the military records on FMP...

The Harry & Clara seems to be the right one, Lyn, but either she is jiggling her forename or else Henry married again. Maurice :cool:

But odd that that one is not on the 1939 Register either, or at least in Worcestershire, and probably too old for the services. Maurice :cool:

Hi Lynn, Yes, anyone suffering from travel sickness would do well to avoid the rider's shots! More later. Maurice :cool:

Yes, John, Bertini sounds of like the worse of the Serbian brass bands, and some are quite listenable & entertaining, and the vocalist sounds as though someone is strangling a certain part of his anatomy. Whereas Ambrose is, as always, smooth and polished. Maurice :cool:

Nice arrangement Lynn. Maurice :cool:

THIS IS YOUR LIFE - I knew that because it is almost as old as me! :) Maurice :cool:

Earlier I posted On the Trail by Ferde Grofé on the classical music thread. This is probably one for John from Staffs if he sees this thread because it is Ferde Grofé and his Orchestra playing Temptation recorded in 1933, two years after he wrote the more serious Grand Canyon Suite. The...

Here's a piece that rarely gets played these days along with some beautiful scenary. Its American composer, Ferde Grofé, got tempted away by the film studios for much of his life, and this is the one piece that seems to get recognised today - On the Trail from the Grand Canyon Suite, written in...

A whole work tonight and probably one of the most popular. Here's Georgian-French pianist Khatia Buniatishvili playing Grieg's Piano Concerto, and the second movement just oozes fjords! She's the better known of two sisters, both concert pianists. Maurice :cool:

Let's see if this registers with anyone. He's probably the greatest Hammond organ jazz player alive today. With Dan Wilson on guitar (no mean slouch, as they say) and Jason Brown on drums, here's the Joey De Francesco Trio with the tune One Hundred Ways. Joey D is also a very competent trumpet...

HOLLYOAKS - never watched it and never seen Holly, but they plaster her all over the newpaper sites, so that was another easy one. Maurice :cool:

I'll stick my oar in with RAINBOW. Maurice :cool:

Pedro, Penny has finally dropped, but I'm not much good at this sort of stuff and hate crosswords with crptic clues. Maurice :cool:

Just to finally exclude the James Drinkwater mentioned by Lyn in post #24, all the James Drinkwaters travelling to North America from 1890 onwards travelled AFTER the date of this guy's death. In fact the only James Drinkwater travelling before that date was going to Freemantle, Australia in...

Lyn, I mentioned that in Post #14 - James Peter - but unless he emigrated it seems most unlikely due to a year residence in Canada. I'll search the passenger records later, but up to my eyes in other stuff at the moment. Maurice :cool: