Alphabet Associations - II

[Pulcinella]

Immediate thought - Youth.

The European Youth Orchestra whose EU funding looked endangered (I hadn't heard of any reprieve, though)
Britten's War Requiem included a setting of Owen's Anthem for Doomed Youth as sung by Peter Pears at the premiere.
The second element is a little more tricky - I've looked fruitlessly at Tchaikovsky's Album for the Youngth, Rachmaninov's Symphony and Janacek's wind quintet ... but either "Youth" or "Peter" doesn't fit.

Peter Warlock/Philip Heseltine - Youth; the third of his Seven Songs of Summer, words by Robert Wever (of whom I had not previously ... )

Indeed! Well done, ferney. Is this a record short time for solving a puzzle?
I wonder if you've secretly been planning a corker of a Z for us?

I too had not heard of Robert Wever, but other composers seem to have set this poem, giving it a different (fuller) title.

Here is where I heard of the reprieve (I was checking what to say!), so if true it is good news:

http://www.classicfm.com/music-news/european-union-youth-orchestra-closes/

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Indeed! Well done, ferney. Is this a record short time for solving a puzzle?

No - a couple of years ago subby answered a couple of my most fiendishly-contrived puzzles within a minute of my setting them!

Here is where I heard of the reprieve (I was checking what to say!), so if true it is good news:

http://www.classicfm.com/music-news/...hestra-closes/

Thank goodness!

I wonder if you've secretly been planning a corker of a Z for us?

No chance - back to the start for me with this A:

Rekindle AA? It's transparent, I think. Here! Here! here!

[Pulcinella]

Is the AA itself intentional, so we are looking for a double, Adam Adamant, for example, like we had with Soulima Stravinsky, iirc?
Not sure what consitutes each hint: rekindle, transparent, and triple here?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Is the AA itself intentional

Oh, yes.

so we are looking for a double, Adam Adamant, for example, like we had with Soulima Stravinsky, iirc?

Not on this occasion.

Not sure what consitutes each hint: rekindle, transparent, and triple here?

Three titles of five pieces.

[Pulcinella]

Oh, yes.

Not on this occasion.

Three titles of five pieces.

Thanks, I spose!


So now I'm contemplating yellow breakdown vans or support for alcoholics!
Nearly time for a bit of Wagner I haven't heard before, so further thoughts on hold for a while!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

now I'm contemplating yellow breakdown vans

Good - keep that up. But don't end up going round in circles.

[Flay]

don't end up going round in circles.

I've been round the houses via various languages, but spiralling nowhere...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I've been round the houses via various languages, but spiralling nowhere...

And yet you're so close with yellow breakdown vans.

More so than (for example) "breakdown trucks".

[Flay]

And yet you're so close with yellow breakdown vans.

More so than (for example) "breakdown trucks".

I'm having a breakdown and I'll need the temperance AA

[Pulcinella]

I'm having a breakdown and I'll need the temperance AA

Me too!

We need another handy hint!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'm having a breakdown and I'll need the temperance AA

Or the vehicular one; but the RAC or Green Flag would be useless.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

We need another handy hint!

Not after Flay has given the answer in the post you quote

[Flay]

Not after Flay has given the answer in the post you quote

Have I?

[Pulcinella]

Not after Flay has given the answer in the post you quote

So we have Alcoholics, that prolific writer/composer Anonymous, Automobile (but vans not trucks), or Association.

To quote the late great Anna Russell, I'm as befogged as before!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Have I?

Yup. Were you to Google, say, "rekindle, rac" or "rekindle, green flag" you'd get nowhere. But if ...