Alphabet Associations - II

[Nick Armstrong]

Rock Bottom in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream

.... Can't help thinking there's a walnut in your coleslaw there.

However it has enabled me to learn that Owen Wingrave takes place partly in my manor - Bayswater and Hyde Park!

No rocks though...

[mercia]

in the first recording of Noye's Fludde, Sheila REX was Mrs Noye, Owen Brannigan's "wife"

[Flay]

in the first recording of Noye's Fludde, Sheila REX was Mrs Noye, Owen Brannigan's "wife"

Wow, that's tangential in the extreme.

How about Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs - Cherry Ring?

[Flay]

And David Owen Norris has composed The Jolly Roger

Surely we must be getting warm???

[cloughie]

We wouldn't be talking Rocks, would we?

Yes 'tis indeed talking Rock(s) and One Inch Rock is correct.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Yes 'tis indeed talking Rock(s) and One Inch Rock is correct.

So was I right to hit rock Bottom?

[Nick Armstrong]

So was I right to hit rock Bottom?

Yes, do tell, cloughie!

[cloughie]

So was I right to hit rock Bottom?

No
You need to Serge... Forward
Careful though might be damage when you hit it!

...and for the other you may need to translate the hymn-sheet!

[Flay]

Dawfydd y Garreg Wen

(David of the White Rock by David Owen)

[Flay]

I mean David Owen was David of the White Rock

[Flay]

Or both



I think I'll slink out and walk the mutt.

[Nick Armstrong]

Hollander...

... who cycled past me an hour or so ago, straight through a red light at which I was waiting patiently

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... who cycled past me an hour or so ago, straight through a red light at which I was waiting patiently

Die Fliegende Hollander?

I'm lost - it's Rock(s) but not Rachmaninoff???

[Flay]

I'm lost - it's Rock(s) but not Rachmaninoff???

I think it was Rach's Rock.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I think it was Rach's Rock.

But cloughie said

You need to Serge... Forward
Careful though might be damage when you hit it!

Suggesting a different Sergei - and as he'd earlier said yes to "Rachmaninoff or Prokofiev", I presume either a different "Rock" from later in Rachmaninoff's career, or a "Rock" from Prokofiev?

His

...and for the other you may need to translate the hymn-sheet!

Suggests you've got the Owen sorted.