Alphabet Associations - II

[subcontrabass]

Getting back to the W, are we looking for WIDows and ORphans?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Getting back to the W, are we looking for WIDows and ORphans?

Oooooh! Well done, subby - I believe we are. Good puzzle, Cali - seemed tough at the time, then crystal clear once the answer was suggested.

I'm sure my researches into works with Wind machine will prove useful one day - I have the same attitude to all those bits of string in my garage.

[Nick Armstrong]

Getting back to the W, are we looking for WIDows and ORphans?

Yes phew...

Care to set out your working?

[subcontrabass]

Yes phew...

Care to set out your working?

Charles-Marie Widor: works include 10 symphonies for organ, of which No. 9 is Symphonie Gothique and No. 10 is Symphonie Romane, as well as Carnaval, douze pièces pour piano op. 61 and Suite Écossaise op.78 (also for piano solo).

[Nick Armstrong]

Charles-Marie Widor: works include 10 symphonies for organ, of which No. 9 is Symphonie Gothique and No. 10 is Symphonie Romane, as well as Carnaval, douze pièces pour piano op. 61 and Suite Écossaise op.78 (also for piano solo).

[subcontrabass]

Now, for a change, shall we try for an X to link St Cecilia, a non-platonic symposium, and C P E Bach?

[Pulcinella]

We seem to be talking about Xenophon here.

The splendidly named Xenophon Kelsey is conductor of the St Cecilia orchestra:

http://www.st-cecilia.org.uk/conductor.html

Xenophon wrote a Symposium (a Socratic dialogue):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium_(Xenophon)

C P E Bach wrote a keyboard piece La Xenophon (La Sybilla):

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/w/84676/Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-La-Xenophon-La-Sybille-Wq-117-29-H123

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Not to be confused with "Xenophone" - the sound Nigel Farrage makes when you hit him with a drum stick.

[cloughie]

Not to be confused with "Xenophone" - the sound Nigel Farrage makes when you hit him with a drum stick.

But Xen again perhaps not.....

[subcontrabass]

We seem to be talking about Xenophon here.

The splendidly named Xenophon Kelsey is conductor of the St Cecilia orchestra:

http://www.st-cecilia.org.uk/conductor.html

Xenophon wrote a Symposium (a Socratic dialogue):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium_(Xenophon)

C P E Bach wrote a keyboard piece La Xenophon (La Sybilla):
http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/w/8...Wq-117-29-H123

Full house. Why do you not lead us onwards?

[Pulcinella]

Apologies in advance for a very verbose question, more like a Brain of Britain one than the succint one-liners we often get.
It's not the most inspired one, either!


Regardless of the outcome of the forthcoming referendum, the future of my ability to have involvement in an EU enterprise seemed recently in doubt, though I think I have had a reprieve. The outlook was potentially sunnier when one Peter placed me third out of seven, but not so hopeful for me in part of a work that another Peter premiered.

What Y am I?

PS: Don't be shy. We're allowed to skip the Z, I think!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Apologies in advance for a very verbose question, more like a Brain of Britain one than the succint one-liners we often get.
It's not the most inspired one, either!


Regardless of the outcome of the forthcoming referendum, the future of my ability to have involvement in an EU enterprise seemed recently in doubt, though I think I have had a reprieve. The outlook was potentially sunnier when one Peter placed me third out of seven, but not so hopeful for me in part of a work that another Peter premiered.

What Y am I?

PS: Don't be shy. We're allowed to skip the Z, I think!

Immediate thought - Youth.

The European Youth Orchestra whose EU funding looked endangered (I hadn't heard of any reprieve, though)
Britten's War Requiem included a setting of Owen's Anthem for Doomed Youth as sung by Peter Pears at the premiere.
The second element is a little more tricky - I've looked fruitlessly at Tchaikovsky's Album for the Youngth, Rachmaninov's Symphony and Janacek's wind quintet ... but either "Youth" or "Peter" doesn't fit.

[Flay]

Not to be confused with "Xenophone" - the sound Nigel Farrage makes when you hit him with a drum stick.

Or with the Theorboris which is a hubristic Brexiteer.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Oh! You mean Phil!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Peter Warlock/Philip Heseltine - Youth; the third of his Seven Songs of Summer, words by Robert Wever (of whom I had not previously ... )