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 Encyclopedia: Fritz Spiegl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Fritz Spiegl, who has died aged 77, was a professional flautist, an archivist of obscure music and an enthusiastic agent provocateur and tease.
Spiegl was not, in fact, its composer, but did not seek to justify himself by appealing to its folk roots; the way he brought it to prominence represented a characteristic mixture of research and enterprise.
Spiegl was born in Austria, and was a distant relative of Gustav Mahler.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fritz-Spiegl   (1676 words)

  
 EXILED - Recollections of Jews from Burgenland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Fritz Spiegl was born in Zurndorf on January 27th 1926.
Fritz was only to see his parents again after many years in 1951, as they then managed to flee to Bolivia.
Fritz' career as a musician and author began at a London advertising firm, where he began to develop an interest in music, and was then accepted by the Royal Academy of Music.
www.forschungsgesellschaft.at /emigration/fspiegl/fspiegl_bio_e.htm   (337 words)

  
 Guardian | Fritz Spiegl
Spiegl was also a frequent BBC broadcaster, especially for earlier incarnations of Radio 4's Start The Week, and shows like Up To The Hour, Words, A To Z Of Musical Curios, Fritz On Friday and Mainly For Pleasure.
From 1948 to 1963, Spiegl was principal flute with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; he also played for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra and the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra.
Spiegl is survived by his second wife, Ingrid, whom he married in 1976, and by the daughters of his first marriage.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4632592-111261,00.html   (694 words)

  
 Reminiscent retrospectives - Fritzin' the Looking-Glass. On the second anniversary of Fritz Spiegl's death, Jennifer ...
Fritz Spiegl undoubtedly became one of Liverpool's leading humorists, a title not easy to merit from a city that has given so many comedians to the world.
Gerard Hoffnung and Fritz Spiegl were born in Germany just one year apart from each other and both made Britain their adopted home.
Fritz died on the 23rd March, the day after Hoffnung's birthday, which is the 22nd.
www.mvdaily.com /articles/2005/03/fritzin5.htm   (633 words)

  
 Lives, Wives, and Loves of the Great Composers:Spiegl, Fritz:0714529176:eCampus.com
In an intentionally light-hearted style, Fritz Spiegl has researched the lives and loves of the great composers through the ages.
In an alphabetically arranged panorama of biographical portraits, he humorously uncovers hitherto unknown aspects of the composers' personalities that are, at best, discreetly ignored by serious musical analysts or, at worst, have never made the history books at all.
Fritz Spiegl's treatment and disclosures, however, are not just idle gossip.
www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0714529176   (165 words)

  
 LIVERPOOL LOOPHONIUM, Gallery acquires Fritz Spiegl's musical creation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The surreal musical instrument was devised by Fritz about 1960 by replacing the horn of a silver-plated euphonium with a toilet painted with flowers and a wooden seat in the form of a lyre.
A talented professional flautist, Fritz designed the bizarre contraption for use in April Fools' concerts staged by members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
Fritz, who died earlier this year, fled the Nazis as a boy and was widely-known for his humorous books including the Lern Yerself Scouse series.
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /about/news/newsarticle.asp?id=376   (240 words)

  
 Fritz Spiegl's Sick Notes: An Alphabetical Browsing-Book of Derivatives, Abbreviations, Mnemonics and Slang for Amusemen
Fritz Spiegl's Sick Notes: An Alphabetical Browsing-Book of Derivatives, Abbreviations, Mnemonics and Slang for Amusemen
This dictionary is, in the very best sense, "a good read." It explains the meanings and derivations of the medical terms, abbreviations, mnemonics, and slang used by doctors, nurses, and health-care professionals publicly and privately.
About the Author: Fritz Spiegl has written many books, including Dead Funny, The Joy of Words, and The Guinness Book of Musical Blunders (in prep.), and is a popular BBC radio commentator, especially revered for his mastery of the English language.
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 Ballet.co Postings Pages - Fritz Spiegel 1926-2003
Fritz Spiegel is dead and there is an obituary notice in today's Guardian.
Fritz Spiegl was one of the most interesting people I have ever met - he was immensely witty and also immensely charming.
I've been trying to track down something that Fritz Spiegel once mentioned in one of his radio broadcasts: he'd put new words to "Where'ere you walk" which went "Where'ere you walk, some dog has been before".
www.ballet.co.uk /dcforum/DCForumID5/76.html   (595 words)

  
 Independent, The (London): Books: PAPERBACKS - Contradictionary By Fritz Spiegl KYLE CATHIE
Although he spoke no English when he arrived in this country as a child, Austrian-born Fritz Spiegl became the self-appointed guardian of his adopted language.
An assiduous spotter of bloomers, Spiegl offers examples of such malapropisms, amusing to all but the perpetrator.
Spiegl does not provide a newspaper example for the inappropriate use of incubus and succubus.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20031003/ai_n12719526   (344 words)

  
 American Music Teacher: Instruction: To compose without the least knowl... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
American Music Teacher; 10/1/2002; Shadinger, Richard C. by W. Mozart and Edited by Fritz Spiegl.
The piece is printed in facsimile with instructions in four languages.
The editor, Fritz Spiegl, has provided a full page of history of the composition and details about its performance.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:92725493&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (403 words)

  
 MCO / Roy Goodman, Joey Salvalaggio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The late Fritz Spiegl was something of a musical magpie.
Spiegl was a man “who combined serious music and sophisticated humour.” He performed the deft trick of providing high class entertainment with an eccentric twist that was peculiar to Liverpool.
It was only to be expected that Spiegl, a spirited musician, author, broadcaster and journalist, would pay tribute to Liverpool’s world-famous native sons, The Beatles, with an arrangement of their remarkable series of hit songs — Eine kleine Beatlemusik.
www.manitobachamberorchestra.org /0304/p03dec03.html   (1561 words)

  
 The Walker In Liverpool Splashes Out £2,640 On Musical Toilet - Bristol City Guide news
Created by composer, humourist and former Liverpool resident, Fritz Spiegl (1926-2003) in 1960 the instrument is a bizarre marriage of a silver-plated euphonium and a toilet painted with flowers, its wooden seat adjusted to form a harp.
Fritz Spiegl was born in Austria in January 1926, but fled his native country as the Nazis came to power and arrived in England in 1939.
A frequent broadcaster and contributor to a number of national newspapers and magazines, Spiegl died in Liverpool on March 23 this year.
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /bristol/news/ART18870.html?ixsid=   (604 words)

  
 Paul Frishkoff * Financial Reporting and...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Fritz Blackwell, Lucien Ellington (Editor) - India A Global Studies...
Fritz J. Erickson, John A. Vonk - Netscape Communicator The World...
Fritz Leiber, Stefan Rudnicki (Reader) - Conjure Wife UNABRIDGED...
www.uranusmoons.de /uranvvvbidhec.html   (106 words)

  
 Books by Fritz Spiegl, compare prices
Fritz Spiegl's Book of Musical Blunders and Other Musical Curiosities
Fritz Spiegl's Sick Notes : An Alphabetical Browsing-Book of Medical Derivations, Abbreviations, Mnemonics, and Slang for the Amusement and Edification of Medics, Nurses, patient
Fritz Spiegls In-Words & Out-Words : A Browsers Guide to Archaisms, Euphemisms, Colloquialisms, Genteelism, Neologisms, Americanisms, Loony Leftisms, Solecisms, Idiotisms with a Colour Supplement
www.allbookstores.com /author/Fritz_Spiegl.html   (163 words)

  
 Fritz Spiegl's Sick Notes: An Alphabetical Browsing-Book of Medical Derivations, Abbreviations, Mnemonics, and Slang ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Fritz Spiegl's Sick Notes: An Alphabetical Browsing-Book of Medical Derivations, Abbreviations, Mnemonics, and Slang for the Amusement and Edification of Medics, Nurses, patient
You may also be able to place a request for this book via these links: BN.com, Half.com, Overstock.com, and Powell's Books
Book Description: This dictionary is, in the very best sense, "a good read." It explains the meanings and derivations of the medical terms, abbreviations, mnemonics, and slang used by doctors, nurses, and health-care professionals publicly and privately.
isbn.nu /1850706271   (429 words)

  
 Fritz Spiegl's Musick Notes: A Medical Songbook
Following his immensely popular Sick Notes (also from Parthenon), Fritz Spiegl takes us on a fascinating musical tour through medicine, from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
As early as 1928 The Thinnest Girl I Know warns against anorexia and, to balance it, Mr.
The pertinent commentaries in Spiegl's witty style, well known from his numerous BBC broadcasts, book and newspaper columns, fill in the background - just as his Sick Notes entertainments, in which he and his singing colleagues have long delighted medical audiences.
www.zooscape.com /cgi-bin/maitred/WhitePulp/isbn1842140868   (204 words)

  
 Fritz Spiegl's Book of Musical Blunders; Author: Spiegl, Fritz; Hardback; Book
Fritz Spiegl's Book of Musical Blunders; Author: Spiegl, Fritz; Hardback; Book
In this witty and highly irreverent book, the author recounts a sparkling array of the most foolish, ridiculous and hilarious gaffes and blunders that have graced concert halls and musical gatherings the world over, along with a variety of the most peculiar and curious happenings that make the world of musi
Prices subject to change to be advised on confirmation of order.
www.netstoreusa.com /hubooks/186/1861050755.shtml   (181 words)

  
 MerseytalkSources
The second volume of a Three-Part Cacology on How to Talk Proper on Merseyside, edited and annotated by Fritz Spiegl.
LSIV: Lern Yerself Scouse, the language of Laura Norder, cartoons by Ken Allen with an Historical Postscript.
LSI: Lern Yerself Scouse, a teach-yourself phrase book by Frank Shaw, ed with notes and translations by Fritz Spiegl and a scouse pome by Stan Kelly.
www.louisville.edu /~tavan001/MerseytalkSources.html   (872 words)

  
 Welcome to Scouse Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Scouse Press was established by Fritz Spiegl in 1965.
Also some of Fritz Spiegl's own books on music and language published by national publishers: HarperCollins, Marion Boyars, Elm Tree, RKP, Kyle Cathie, Pan, Parthenon etc.
There is no shop, so alas personal visits for browsing are not possible.
www.scousepress.co.uk /home_content.htm   (107 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Fritz Spiegl's Musick Notes: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
"Fritz Spiegl has provided an admirable collection of medical curios…the words and commentary offer plenty of opportunity for enjoyable browsing, and there is some good material to add to the performer's repertoire." - Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, October 2002 Promo Copy
This book represents a unique social history of medicine, in the form of turn-of-the-century music hall tunes poking fun at the medical practices of the day.
Look for books like Fritz Spiegl's Musick Notes by subject:
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1842140868   (312 words)

  
 FRETPLAY : Review : Edwin Astley, Eric Coates, Trevor Duncan, Bridget Spiegl, Fritz Fry, Ron Grainer, Barry Gray, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Fretplay : Edwin Astley, Eric Coates, Trevor Duncan, Bridget Spiegl, Fritz Fry, Ron Grainer, Barry Gray, Philip Green, Tony Hatch, Laurie Johnson, Wilfred Josephs tabs : CD reviews : The Avengers & other 60's TV Themes
Edwin Astley, Eric Coates, Trevor Duncan, Bridget Spiegl, Fritz Fry, Ron Grainer, Barry Gray, Philip Green, Tony Hatch, Laurie Johnson, Wilfred Josephs - The Avengers & other 60's TV Themes
Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only.
www.fretplay.com /review/j/johnson_eric/discography-CD-B00005Y1MW-The-Avengers-Other-60-S-TV-Themes.shtml   (670 words)

  
 Best Book Buys - Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Fritz Spiegls In-Words & Out-Words: A Browsers Guide to Archaisms, Euphemisms, Colloquialisms, Genteelism, Neologisms, Americanisms, Loony Leftisms, Solecisms, Idiotisms with a Colour Supplement
by Fritz Spiegl, Fritz Spiegl (Editor), F. Spiegl
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Do you know the difference between burgers and burghers.
If not, Fritz Spiegl's Contraindictionary is the book for you.
With entries varying from pithy brevity to mini essays, this quirky but well-informed book is essential reading for anyone who has ever been flummoxed by words that don't mean what they look as if they ought to mean.
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 Abebooks Search Results - Fritz
Asimov, Isaac (ed) ((authors include Poul Anderson, Suzy McKee Charnas, H Rider Haggard, John Jakes and Fritz Leiber)
Book Description: A reprint PB in VG or VG+ condition.
Frank Shaw / Fritz Spiegl / Stan Kelly
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 Fritz Spiegl's MuSick Notes: A Medical Songbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A fascinating compendium of musical numbers, MuSick Notes: A Medical Songbook demonstrates how the public can get its own back on the doctors.
Order Fritz Spiegl's MuSick Notes: A Medical Songbook online from
Want to play your favorite TV shows on your Walkman?
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