Episode 139 - Music in the Canon, Part 1: Composers and Their Works

“a composer of no ordinary merit.” [REDH] 

From the very beginning of the Sherlock Holmes stories, we know that Sherlock Holmes plays the violin. It's one of the personality traits he admits to Watson and that Watson later chronicles.

In addition to Holmes's own performances, we come across a number of other composers and their works in the Canon. Who and what were they? It's just a Trifle.

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Links / Notes

• This episode: ihose.co/trifles139
• Les Huguenots by Meyerbeer (Wikipedia)
• "That little thing of Chopin" (Camden House)
• Offenbach - "Barcarolle" from The Tales of Hoffmann (YouTube)
• Other episodes mentioned in this episode:
• Episode 78: Where Are They Now? Inspector Gregson
• Episode 89: Stradivarius
• Episode 98: The Gramophone
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Music credits

Performers: Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra
Publisher Info.: Washington, DC: United States Marine Band
Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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Episode 138 - Russians and Sherlock Holmes

“a man might as well live in Russia” [VALL] 

The connections between Sherlock Holmes an Russia—in the Sherlock Holmes stories themselves, as least—would seem to be limited. Yet it provides much information for a robust discussion.

From exported goods to crimes from two decades previous, we encounter a smattering of mentions of the Land of Rus. What do they tell us about Sherlock Holmes? And what was happening in the world at the time? It's just a Trifle.

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• This episode: ihose.co/trifles138
• Russia leather
• Little Russia
• The eBSJ
• A Russian Sherlock Holmes cartoon and another animated Russian Sherlock Holmes in translation
• The Wrong Passage
• Other episodes mentioned in this episode:
• I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere Episode 50: Golden Passage
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Music credits

Performers: Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra
Publisher Info.: Washington, DC: United States Marine Band
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Episode 137 - Ahoy! Rowing, Boating and Yachting

“He started in his little yacht” [BLAC] 

There are plenty of instances of maritime transportation in the Sherlock Holmes stories. But when it comes to pleasure crafts, we're left with a scant few.

The use various boats for leisure and sporting activities is present sporadically throughout the Canon, so you have to pay attention. We investigate these few instances, plus a supposition. It is of course a trifle.

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• The Boat Race
• Interview with Robert Stephens in Michael Pointer's Playing Sherlock Holmes: Interviews with John Wood, Robert Stephens, and Christopher Lee. (Amazon)
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Music credits

Performers: Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra
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Episode 136 - John Watson's Youth Part 2

“you were on the battlefield” [BLAN] 

In the last episode, Robert Katz, BSI began to take us through his theory of where Dr. Watson spent his early years. He used the facts given to us by Watson himself, combined with the reasoning of Sherlock Holmes to arrive at some conclusions.

This week, he brings us the other half of the story: after Watson moved from Australia to America, he tells us about the connection with Henry Ward Beecher and Watson's heroics on U.S. soil.

It's just a trifle.

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Performers: Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra
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