Alphabet Associations - II

[Pulcinella]

OK: here goes, on a new thread if it can be moved with approval from others.

Far too simple, I'm sure, and more Musical Association than Alphabet Association (as I wondered previously, querying if the threads had morphed into one); may well have been a previous answer too, though I'm not plodding through to find out.

An A to connect a castle, a massacre, and a clown.

Choir then tail end of pub quiz tonight, and volunteer work (and my birthday!) tomorrow, but I'm sure some bright spark will have got the right answer when I next look!

[Flay]

Far too simple, I'm sure, and more Musical Association than Alphabet Association (as I wondered previously, querying if the threads had morphed into one); may well have been a previous answer too, though I'm not plodding through to find out.

An A to connect a castle, a massacre, and a clown.

Wow! A cunning commencement conundrum!

I can get Asturias to associate with two out of the three (so far...). Am I warm?

[mercia]

just at the moment its making me think of operas by Bartok, Verdi and Leoncavallo but I expect I'm in the wrong place

[antongould]

Happy to stay as we are now I have changed to FIFO .....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The Peterloo Massacre and Beckus the d'Indypratt both suggest Malcolm Arnold - but (having discovered - to my ... <ahem> Chagrin - that Arnold didn't write the Music for any of the Colditz films/TV series) the Castle is proving impregnable.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Oh! Unless we shift the perspective a little and think of Tintagel and Arnold Bax? Very neat!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

In which case, we might swap Beckus for Pierrot and Arnie of the three "A"s (together with Anton and Alban).

[Flay]

The Peterloo Massacre and Beckus the d'Indypratt both suggest Malcolm Arnold - but (having discovered - to my ... <ahem> Chagrin - that Arnold didn't write the Music for any of the Colditz films/TV series) the Castle is proving impregnable.

Unless it's simply Arnold. Bax: Tintagel Castle perhaps?

[Flay]

that serves me right for not refreshing and checking before I post.

[Pulcinella]

Unless it's simply Arnold. Bax: Tintagel Castle perhaps?

Well done Flay and Ferney: not sure who gets to be the next!

Indeed it was Arnold: far too easy!
Arnold Bax: Tintagel
Malcolm Arnold: Peterloo
Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire (I nearly went for 'epistle', being Letter from Warsaw, but rather liked the Pierrot/Pulcinella aspect!)

[Nick Armstrong]

A well nigh perfect AA puzzle, if I may say so Pulcinella!

[Flay]

Well done Flay and Ferney: not sure who gets to be the next

You flatter me. Ferney is the Bestest!

[Pulcinella]

A well nigh perfect AA puzzle, if I may say so Pulcinella!

Of course you may!
I'm pleased that my first attempt has met with your approval!



Don't know what the Verdian massacre is that mercia is thinking of, nor what Flay's Asturias refers to, though.
Yes, Ferney got all three Arnolds, so gets to set our next puzzle.

[mercia]

Don't know what the Verdian massacre is that mercia is thinking of

Sicilian Vespers ......... thinking aloud and getting nowhere as usual well done to all concerned

[antongould]

Of course you may!
I'm pleased that my first attempt has met with your approval!



Don't know what the Verdian massacre is that mercia is thinking of, nor what Flay's Asturias refers to, though.
Yes, Ferney got all three Arnolds, so gets to set our next puzzle.

.... and be warned Pulcinella this one usually last 'til Advent .... but he's not up yet ...