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7 B for 7 B
Seven brides for seven brothers
3 L on 1 M D in a W H
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15M on a DMC = Treasure Island ditty?
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13 = B D : the so-called Nadia (with a British accent) of Boulanger (with a French accent)
Por favor, io can nyet verstehen. Explanação, s'il vous plait?
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Anna, you deserve a dunkin'... 
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3 = B D : the so-called Nadia (with a British accent) of Boulanger (with a French accent)
Por favor, io can nyet verstehen. Explanação, s'il vous plait?
Your polyglot may be even more appropriate than you intended!
13 = B D ---> 13 = Baker's Dozen
One band on a very old humor record (The Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival) has a couple of ersatz German Professors talking about music.
Twelve-tone music.
By a fictitious composer named Bruno Heinz Jaja, who wrote only in pure twelve-tone. (That's pronounced "Ya-ya," in ersatz German.)
Never tempted, like some of the Franzoesiche Komponisten French composers, to write with thirteen tones.
No, said Jaja, that was the Baker's Dozen, the Nadia of Boulanger. (Nadir=lowest point, sounds like "nadia" in British-accented-fake-German); boulanger is French for baker; Nadia Boulanger was a French music teacher and conductor of some repute*. Triple pun; three languages, no less. Ha-ha. Or maybe that's Jaja, only in Spanish. Quadruple pun.
*"So far as musical pedagogy is concerned — and by extension of musical creation — Nadia Boulanger is the most influential person who ever lived". (from www.nadiaboulanger.org)
I guess you had to be there. The sketch is really quite funny, as is the whole record. It's Peter Shickele/PDQ Bach, British style. There were three such annual festivals, each recorded, and then Hoffnung (the Hirschfeld of his time and nation) died suddenly. R.I.P both of them.
Edit: The specific reference is to
"Bruno Heinz JAJA - Punkt Contrapunkt [9’04"]
Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra conducted by Norman Del Mar
The performance of this work is preceded by a discussion and analysis of it by Dr Klaus Domgraf-Fassbaender and Prof. von der Vogelweide."
See dxb's URL below !
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43 P of A
43 presidents of America (Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th, so he gets two hits)-- suppose I should have shown it as:
43 P of US, but that would given it away immediately
1776 M of D
1776 miles of Danube
Here are some easy ones:
9 P of SS
12 P of CS
32 O in Q
1 M of E
7 S in BD
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Nadia Boulanger
I know a couple of modern American composers who didn't study under Nadia Boulanger.
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Oh, I didn't say I agreed with the sentiment. That's the reason it's in yellow. Did you catch the source? Might the author perhaps be just a litt-ul bit biased?
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agreed with the sentiment.
Sometimes it seems like everybody who has composed the least ad jingle has studied under the Nadia.
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Hoffnung (the Hirschfeld of his time and nation) – WofaA truly funny and gifted man. His concerto for three vacuum cleaners and a floor polisher and the manner in which he read the ‘Barrel of Bricks’ piece at the Oxford Union in 1958 are great examples of the comic genius he brought to music and the spoken word. He was also a talented cartoonist. If you would like to know more, at least of his musical work, try this url: http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2002/Nov02/HoffnungConcerts.htm
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