Help! Music to accompany dinner - tonight!

[ahinton]

Abba, anyone?

Perhaps their huge hit ChckenTikka, or whatever it was called?

Ah, I'm glad that you responded to my invitation above!

There's also the setting of Robert Frost's The Oven Bird that's the first of six songs for soprano and piano by a certain member of this forum.

And let's not forget Messager's Les Deux Pigeons.

[Madame Suggia]

Wagner's Lohengrill

[ahinton]

Wagner's Lohengrill

Or the Mastercheffers, perhaps.

Yes, we Haffner bananas...

[Nick Armstrong]

Less punningly....

[EdgeleyRob]

After dinner,while washing up.

[jean]

But wasn't it only the king who got anything to eat, and everyone else just had to watch (and listen)?

[ahinton]

Less punningly....

Oh, how did I manage to overlook that one?!...

[Flosshilde]

Or "There's no Plaice Like Home" for after the guests have departed?

Surely that should be played before the guests have gone off, in the hope that they don't stay on until t'marrow?

[ahinton]

Surely that should be played before the guests have gone off, in the hope that they don't stay on until t'marrow?

Provided that Renato Rascel's Halibut-erci Roma was played as a greeting when they first arrived, perhaps (or do I mean Fishin' the Untruffled Hakes?)...

[visualnickmos]

Crikey - there was me thinking that this is so banal, as I posted as a total throwaway "what the heck" basis, which would have me ridiculed or passed over as "what is he on about?" and it has turned into a right old fun-fest! And that is one aspect of these hallowed boards, and the marvellous talent and wit who inhabit therin. Sorry about the finer points of English grammar going off-correctness.

The aspect that I should have foreseen (but didn't) was the magnificent range of puns on food/cuisine-related suggestions, of which I am certain many more are lurking, untapped. Quatro fromaggi!

In the event it was Mozart, Mozart, Mozart. Serenades, Divertimenti, nearly all the wind and horn concertos. When in doubt, go for Wolfie. Did the job; lots of good conversation, wine, and cheese, plus dinner! In the autumnal warmth of southern France. Cup of tea to finish.

[Beef Oven!]

Crikey - there was me thinking that this is so banal, as I posted as a total throwaway "what the heck" basis, which would have me ridiculed or passed over as "what is he on about?" and it has turned into a right old fun-fest! And that is one aspect of these hallowed boards, and the marvellous talent and wit who inhabit therin. Sorry about the finer points of English grammar going off-correctness.

The aspect that I should have foreseen (but didn't) was the magnificent range of puns on food/cuisine-related suggestions, of which I am certain many more are lurking, untapped. Quatro fromaggi!

In the event it was Mozart, Mozart, Mozart. Serenades, Divertimenti, nearly all the wind and horn concertos. When in doubt, go for Wolfie. Did the job; lots of good conversation, wine, and cheese, plus dinner! In the autumnal warmth of southern France. Cup of tea to finish.

We are so lucky to be well-off. Count our blessings and think of the less fortunate.

Glad you had a great evening!

[Petrushka]

In the event it was Mozart, Mozart, Mozart. Serenades, Divertimenti, nearly all the wind and horn concertos. When in doubt, go for Wolfie. Did the job; lots of good conversation, wine, and cheese, plus dinner! In the autumnal warmth of southern France. Cup of tea to finish.

That's excellent! Mozart wrote his serenades and divertimenti for just such occasions and would have expected them to be background to conversation. I wouldn't be surprised, though, if occasionally the conversation ceased as the guests stopped to listen.

[ahinton]

Glad you had a great evening!

Echoed!

[visualnickmos]

That's excellent! Mozart wrote his serenades and divertimenti for just such occasions and would have expected them to be background to conversation. I wouldn't be surprised, though, if occasionally the conversation ceased as the guests stopped to listen.

Yes! There were certainly pauses to listen and comment on the music.

And Beefy - thank you, was good of you to mention - we had a really nice cosy evening - friends I haven't seen for a while. A major subject of the evening's conversation was about the topic you allude to. But I myself, am NOT well off! So inviting few friends is very much an intimate and planned evening, based on the quality and sincerity of one's friends and certainly NOT having to "show" - if that was the case, I wouldn't even make the starting line!

Hope you had equally a nice evening. at home, with music; or with good people.....

[Nick Armstrong]

Excellent !

No one ever mentions Richard Strauss's delightful late masterpiece 'Carpaccio'... ironically, a lovely starter, whether you make it with meat or... well, carp.

I'll get my goat.