Alphabet Associations - II

[subcontrabass]

Strauss September

Try the exact words.

[Flay]

Strauss September

Drat! I was looking at August. Bloomin' Met Office declaring that Autumn started on the 1st Sept

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

If anyone is having problems hammering away at this you might find it easiest to start at the end.

<doh> - with a Sten gun, perhaps?!

Wilhelm Stenhammar:

Suite Late Summer Op33 for piano
Midwinter; Rhapsody for Chorus & Orchestra Op24
Two Sentimental Romances for Violin & Orchestra Op28.

If correct, it shall be Excelsior for me. Out later this morning, but should be back for afternoon T - unless the breakfast-time coleslaw is completely wrong!

[subcontrabass]

<doh> - with a Sten gun, perhaps?!

Wilhelm Stenhammar:

Suite Late Summer Op33 for piano
Midwinter; Rhapsody for Chorus & Orchestra Op24
Two Sentimental Romances for Violin & Orchestra Op28.

If correct, it shall be Excelsior for me. Out later this morning, but should be back for afternoon T - unless the breakfast-time coleslaw is completely wrong!

Full house. We await your tea-time extravaganza.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Having failed to find a composer called McTavish with whom to plague Flay, I'll settle for this:

Ralph didn't, but he did; Willie did, but he didn't; Arnold did and he did it with him in the studio. "He"? Do Tell.

[subcontrabass]

Having failed to find a composer called McTavish with whom to plague Flay, I'll settle for this:

Ralph didn't, but he did; Willie did, but he didn't; Arnold did and he did it with him in the studio. "He"? Do Tell.

Logic seems to lead me to Lionel Tertis.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Logic seems to lead me to Lionel Tertis.

- care to untwine the tangled skein?

[subcontrabass]

- care to untwine the tangled skein?

Ralph Vaughan Williams did not play the viola. Lionel Tertis gave the first performances of both Flos Campi and the Suite for Viola and small orchestra.

Willam Walton wrote his Viola Concerto for Lionel Tertis, who declined to give the first performance (which was given instead by Paul Hindemith).

Armold Bax made a studio recording with Lionel Tertis of his Viola Sonata.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ralph Vaughan Williams did not play the viola. Lionel Tertis gave the first performances of both Flos Campi and the Suite for Viola and small orchestra.
Willam Walton wrote his Viola Concerto for Lionel Tertis, who declined to give the first performance (which was given instead by Paul Hindemith).
Armold Bax made a studio recording with Lionel Tertis of his Viola Sonata.

Churlish to say that the RVW connection I actually had in mind was that Tertis gave the first performance of Floss Campi although the work was not specifically written for nor commissioned by him - the precise opposite of the performance history of the Walton Concerto.

But everything you say is absolutely correct, and I'm not so churlish as to begrudge a full house of emoticons - and hand the baton to U (or V/W as you wish).

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U:

Cecilia brilliant in Winter.

[Nick Armstrong]

U:

Cecilia brilliant in Winter.

Saint Cecilia? or the popular Italian mezzo-soprano?

[subcontrabass]

Saint Cecilia? or the popular Italian mezzo-soprano?

Saint Cecilia.

[Nick Armstrong]

U:

Cecilia brilliant in Winter.

So.... I think, Ursula Vaughan Williams, who wrote words for

Herbert Howells' A Hymn to Saint Cecilia
Malcolm Williamson's opera Brilliant and the Dark

and...

um...

RVW's Hodie? - a winter's day, being about Christmas, for which UVW provided some words...

[subcontrabass]

So.... I think, Ursula Vaughan Williams, who wrote words for

Herbert Howells' A Hymn to Saint Cecilia
Malcolm Williamson's opera Brilliant and the Dark

and...

um...

RVW's Hodie? - a winter's day, being about Christmas, for which UVW provided some words...

Yes. Yes. No, not Hodie - something by a different composer with "Winter" in the title.

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes. Yes. No, not Hodie - something by a different composer with "Winter" in the title.

There's a song by Elisabeth Lutyens: Winter Series - Spring Sowing Op.115 with words by UVW

Also various references to something called A Winter Birth which seems to be to music by Ralph Nicholson