Alphabet Associations - II

[vinteuil]

Not far off ... what do they have in common?

Lordy I'm slow today -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFkZQ84YDlk

[antongould]

Or one or the other.

Anton, are the Hangers trying to build up enough games in hand and Ronnie is using the extra training time to hone the side to storm the playoffs?

Remember my prediction - don't let me down!

Sorry to interrupt this joyous flow with the mildly mundane - but if we make the playoffs I will set every AA2 X in 2016 ....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Lordy I'm slow today -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFkZQ84YDlk

So a trio of Knights:

Arthur BLISS - Dance of the Four Knights from the Ballet "Checkmate";
Sergei Prokofiev's Dance of the Knights - sometimes known as The Montegus and Capulets) from the Ballet "Romeo & Juliet" (as used for the theme tune of Lord Sugar's series The Apprentice);
Schubert's Overture The Looking-Glass Knight

A full house for vinty, who will now give us L

[vinteuil]

... we're looking for an L which from early roots later bore fruit for Handel and Strauss, and also for Ravel (tho' his would require a Metamorphosis... )

[Flay]

... we're looking for an L. )

Still looking. Even been in the underworld.

[vinteuil]

Still looking. Even been in the underworld.

... don't think the underworld helps. But you might like to think of a metamorphosis leading to an L

[Nick Armstrong]

... we're looking for an L which from early roots later bore fruit for Handel and Strauss, and also for Ravel (tho' his would require a Metamorphosis... )

Laurel - Daphne, metamorphosis into, for the use of? (tree... "roots"... &c...)

- Handel: Cantata Apollo e Dafne

- Strauss: Opera Daphne

- Ravel: Ballet Daphnis et Chloë



(Though Daphnis was the bloke... hence the 'metamorphosis'? ... but (afaik) there was no laurel.... and it was Strauss rather than Ravel who used the - capital M - Metamorphoses, of Ovid.... )

[Flay]

Though Daphnis was the bloke... hence the 'metamorphosis'? ... but (afaik) there was no laurel.... and it was Strauss rather than Ravel who used the - capital M - Metamorphoses, of Ovid....

Oh but Daphnis is also Laurel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphnis

[Flay]

and it was Strauss rather than Ravel who used the - capital M - Metamorphoses, of Ovid....

As did Britten: Six Metamorphoses after Ovid for solo oboe

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh but Daphnis is also Laurel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphnis

Cheers Dr F.

Another daphneësque exposure - minus the laurel - here:

[vinteuil]

Laurel - Daphne, metamorphosis into, for the use of? (tree... "roots"... &c...)

- Handel: Cantata Apollo e Dafne

- Strauss: Opera Daphne

- Ravel: Ballet Daphnis et Chloë



(Though Daphnis was the bloke... hence the 'metamorphosis'? ... but (afaik) there was no laurel.... and it was Strauss rather than Ravel who used the - capital M - Metamorphoses, of Ovid.... )

Caliban reaches the top of the tree ....

The 'early roots' - 'cos probably the earliest ever opera we know of is Peri's Dafne.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dafne

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_laureola

(tho' I think it more likely she turned into the classier :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurus_nobilis

I must find out what the poor young Daphnis ever did to find himself turned into a laurel...

... so for a magnificent mind-bending Calibanaceous M

[Nick Armstrong]

Some nourishing extra coleslaw there, Monsieur v !

Ummmm...

A menacing, windy night can be idyllic.

[Nick Armstrong]

A menacing, windy night can be idyllic.

Are folk busy or stuMped? Do shout for clues if the latter

[antongould]

Are folk busy or stuMped? Do shout for clues if the latter

Currently busy but no doubt about to move to the Godfrey Evans state of mind .....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"Idylls" made me think of George Butterworth, who also wrote a song called "Love Blows where The Wind Blows". Thereafter things get tenuous.

(No help from Arthur, either.)