Alphabet Associations - II

[vinteuil]

We are not taking La Belle Smithson as "....something...." I suppose .... ????

... she certainly took a part.






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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

and with the travels of an organist and a lutenist.

Knowing your preference for the Oxford comma, I take it that the "organist and lutenist" are one and the same?

[vinteuil]

Knowing your preference for the Oxford comma, I take it that the "organist and lutenist" are one and the same?

... no, they are not. Their travels were about a century apart.

The Oxford comma only applies when the list exceeds two items: bread and cheese - but: bread, butter, and cheese.

If I had said "the travels of an organist, and a lutenist" it wd have meant the last item referred to was "a lutenist" - here I wanted to refer to "the travels of ... a lutenist"

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The Oxford comma only applies when the list exceeds two items: bread and cheese - but: bread, butter, and cheese.

If I had said "the travels of an organist, and a lutenist" it wd have meant the last item referred to was "a lutenist" - here I wanted to refer to "the travels of ... a lutenist"

Darn! You are, of course, correct in all partiklers! (And I have just wasting much of a morning looking for Musicians equally skilled as organists and lutenists. Serve me right for being hastily sloppy!)

[vinteuil]

... if the organist and lutenist had been the same person I think I wd have said "the travels of an organist and lutenist".

Apologies for any ambiguities.

Their travels are fairly well known - but it's not Mozart's Journey to Prague.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Apologies for any ambiguities.

No ambiguities in your lucid text, vinty - just my over-eagerness.

Which may account for my leaping at:

Harriet Smithson played Ophelia in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by the Upstart Crow; Lutenist John Dowland worked in Denmark about a hundred years before Bach walked 250 miles from Arnstadt to Lubeck in order to hear Buxtehude, who was born in Denmark.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

This is usually the point where somebody gently mentions that the puzzle is based on the letter "C".

[vinteuil]

No ambiguities in your lucid text, vinty - just my over-eagerness.

Which may account for my leaping at:

Harriet Smithson played Ophelia in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by the Upstart Crow; Lutenist John Dowland worked in Denmark about a hundred years before Bach walked 250 miles from Arnstadt to Lubeck in order to hear Buxtehude, who was born in Denmark.

... definitely the deal in all pertick'lers.

The 'happy' in the Berlioz reference is indeed to Harriet, the future Mme Berlioz, who played o'Phelia
The 'sad' in the Berlioz reference is of course 'Tristia', based on the Prince of Denmark play

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristia_(Berlioz)

Pluckers will be (over) familiar with Dowland's King of Denmark's Galliard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqWXwE2K_0E

... and any Dane will tell you that Buxtehude spelled his name Diderich or Dyderyk or somesuch.

Over to Ewe for some Excellent Entanglements





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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

An E to connect Stravinsky & Rossini; Saint-Saens & Belioz; Poulenc and the sound of his hairdresser.

[cloughie]

An E to connect Stravinsky & Rossini; Saint-Saens & Belioz; Poulenc and the sound of his hairdresser.

Elephant

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Elephant

Too easy?

[antongould]

Too easy?

Not at all Cloughers is the Singing Detective .......

[Pulcinella]

I'd still like to see the workings: I've got Circus Polka (but the quote is Schubert's Marche Militaire, so I don't see the Rossini link) and Barbar, but that's it!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'd still like to see the workings: I've got Circus Polka (but the quote is Schubert's Marche Militaire, so I don't see the Rossini link) and Barbar, but that's it!

- should've checked at that time on a Friday night! (The second tune in the Saint-Saens is a quotation from the Danse des Sylphes from Berlioz' Faustation of Damn.)

[cloughie]

I'd still like to see the workings: I've got Circus Polka (but the quote is Schubert's Marche Militaire, so I don't see the Rossini link) and Barbar, but that's it!

I think Thieving Magpie Ov was used in the film about Hannibal.

I suppose I'd better Find some suitable Christmas Cryptic Clues to tax your crowded brains!

Be back dreckly!