Alphabet Associations - II

[Flay]

Not a problem Ed. Do your regal duty. AA can wait.

[cloughie]

9.144 metres sounds like 30 foot of water where the perceived pressure would be approximately 2 atmospheres. Will could be Shakspeare who wrote Full Fathom Five. A fathom was / is six feet. I know Charles Wood's setting for Choir but there's a much earlier song by Robert Johnson.

So, I conjecture that J was Johnson.

Wasn't that the intro words of Dave Dee etc Wreck of the Antoinette.

[Flay]

Wasn't that the intro words of Dave Dee etc Wreck of the Antoinette.

It was, but I believe Will Shakey got there first...

It's worth comparing the lyrics of Dave Dee's song to those of Kanye West to see how the quality of musical prose has progressed...

[edashtav]

Author's apology: I may be Flay-ed alive for failing to heed / read the rules of AA#2.
I hope my effort is close enough to the rules to be admissible and capable of facile solution.

You've all heard of The Three Tenors

This concerns The Three Ks (composers)

In each case I shall give two associations connected with their name or their works.

A) Dr Who / Herod
B) A novel by James Joyce / An opera by Willy Walton
C) A book by Muriel Spark / the City of Sunderland
Having cracked A,B, and C you will easily identify what connects the 3 Ks most closely.

Please "bear with" me. Over the coming 4 days, I must travel a great deal, rehearse, perform, and visit my home and attack its garden which shows all the qualities associated with total neglect over 7 months.
I shall get on-line as often as possible.

[Flay]

An interesting conundrum, Ed.

Meantime I shall dollop the remaining coleslaw for my J:

Songs by Robert Johnson (c. 1583 – 1633): -
Full Fathom Five,
Hark Hark! the Lark, and
Nothing on Earth

[edashtav]

An interesting conundrum, Ed.

Meantime I shall dollop the remaining coleslaw for my J:

Songs by Robert Johnson (c. 1583 – 1633): -
Full Fathom Five,
Hark Hark! the Lark, and
Nothing on Earth

are they written for voice and lute, Flay?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

B) A novel by James Joyce / An opera by Willy Walton

To get things started - would this pair involve Ulysses (/Odysseus) and Troilus & Cressida?

[edashtav]

To get things started - would this pair involve Ulysses (/Odysseus) and Troilus & Cressida?

Yes and No, Ferney.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Yes and No, Ferney.

Do you mean "Yes to Ulysses, and No to T&C" (in which case, should I be looking at the Chekov-originating Bear?)

or

"Elements of both works are to be found in the correct answer, but it's not as simple as that"

?

And I notice that Sunderland has a Stadium of Light, and Ms Spark wrote a biography of Mary Shelley called Child of Light - but I bet that has nothing to do with anything!


(Actually, I do know of a single K who can connect A and B, but I'd be seriously freaked out if that turned out to be the answer!)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And I'm presuming that the composer of the very first Dr Who story (An Unearthly Child/The Tribe of Gum) and the Cantata King Herod leads us to Norman Kay?

[edashtav]

Do you mean "Yes to Ulysses, and No to T&C" (in which case, should I be looking at the Chekov-originating Bear?)

or

"Elements of both works are to be found in the correct answer, but it's not as simple as that"

?

And I notice that Sunderland has a Stadium of Light, and Ms Spark wrote a biography of Mary Shelley called Child of Light - but I bet that has nothing to do with anything!


(Actually, I do know of a single K who can connect A and B, but I'd be seriously freaked out if that turned out to be the answer!)

full marks for fast thinking allied to wide knowledge.
Ulysses was correct as is The Bear .
Your thoughts re Sunderland and MS are knowledgeable but unhelpful. I used book in connection with MS purely for variety, best to keep to her mainstream works, IMHO.

[edashtav]

And I'm presuming that the composer of the very first Dr Who story (An Unearthly Child/The Tribe of Gum) and the Cantata King Herod leads us to Norman Kay?

Yes, he attended Bolton School as did my wife's brothers, although rather later. Excellent start, Ferney, some details may elude you but you'll soon have the structure in place.

[Flay]

are they written for voice and lute, Flay?

Yes - no doubt written this way. I have added some Naxos links to enrich my coleslaw

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Eee!! Well, I never did!

Finding out that Walton's The Bear resulted partly from funding from the Koussevitsky Foundation, I Googled "Ulysses, Koussevitsky Foundation" to discover that

Ulysses Kay (the nephew of King Oliver) wrote an opera called The Boor (based on the same Chekhov one-acter) funded by said Foundation.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

So, I'm presuming that for K, we have to find three composers called Kay?

Spark in Sunderland are proving recalcitrant