Alphabet Associations - II

[Lat-Literal]

Well, with Alex, you could just take a Wilde guess.

Tangentially, yes.

Wilde immediately suggests to me "Ideal" as in "An Ideal Husband".

Erm, or "Importance".

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You'd be better sticking with VERY famous pieces ("ClassicFM" stuff) by Ravel - that'll help you connect Alex to Wilde.

[Lat-Literal]

You'd be better sticking with VERY famous pieces ("ClassicFM" stuff) by Ravel - that'll help you connect Alex to Wilde.

Or "Impression Du Matin". I am genuinely really sorry - I am not getting this am I.

I doubt it is impressionism.

Let's try "Infante" or "Image".

Pavane pour une infante défunte (Ravel)

L'Anniversaire de l'Infante (Wilde)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Pavane pour une infante défunte (Ravel)

Not only are you "getting it" - you've got it!

L'Anniversaire de l'Infante (Wilde)

OK - now look for settings of this story by an Alex ...

[Lat-Literal]

Not only are you "getting it" - you've got it!


OK - now look for settings of this story by an Alex ...

That could be one of the composers whose nationality I never remember accurately - Zemlinsky?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

That could be one of the composers whose nationality I never remember accurately - Zemlinsky?

(Austrian - Schoenberg's brother-in-law.)

[Lat-Literal]

(Austrian - Schoenberg's brother-in-law.)

Oh right, the penny has only just dropped on the use of the word "childish".

As for John, Stingray and Gray (tangentially).........I would have thought Stingray was closer to the word "infinite".

(This hasn't been easy - I was sure at one point it was Isao as in Tomita)

[Lat-Literal]

.....I think the John is John Williams.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

.....I think the John is John Williams.

He isn't.

[Lat-Literal]

He isn't.

John Livesey Eccles is the real name of Barry Gray.

Not a lot of people know that.

That his real name is John.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

John Livesey Eccles is the real name of Barry Gray.
Not a lot of people know that.
That his real name is John.

I certainly didn't!

The John in question has never (AFAIK) written anything for television/film.

[Lat-Literal]

I certainly didn't!

The John in question has never (AFAIK) written anything for television/film.

Maybe it would be easier if I said who I don't think it is.

I don't think it is Field, Rutter, Adams or Elton, Tiny Dancer notwithstanding.

Nor do I think that this person has anything to do with Mother Goose.

That would be seasonal (sort of).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Maybe it would be easier if I said who I don't think it is.

I don't think it is Field, Rutter, Adams or Elton, Tiny Dancer notwithstanding.
Nor do I think that this person has anything to do with Mother Goose.
That would be seasonal (sort of).

Well, the good news is that you're correct to think it isn't any of them. You've done all the hard work - if you now just Google "John, composer, Infanta" ... see what happens

[Lat-Literal]

Well, the good news is that you're correct to think it isn't any of them. You've done all the hard work - if you now just Google "John, composer, Infanta" ... see what happens

Oh it has to be John Alden Carpenter.

I didn't get where I am today by not working at, erm, Xmas.

"The Birthday of the Infanta".

My cousin's first child was born at 8pm yesterday, eight days overdue.

That is the power of money for you.

It can ensure that your child doesn't have a Christmas Day birthday.

But why "Stingray" ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Oh it has to be John Alden Carpenter.
I didn't get where I am today by not working at, erm, Xmas.
"The Birthday of the Infanta".

Well ... yes; I've got "Accept John Alden Carpenter" on the card, but I was intending John Casken's Infanta Marina from 1997 (hence "Stingray" and Barry Gray's clossing song). Churlish to offer anything less than a

Infanta (arrived at after an unsuccessful search for seasonal "Infant" pieces)

Maurice Ravel's Pavane
Alexander Zemlinsky's Der Zwerg based on Oscar Wilde's The Birthday of the Infanta
and either John Alden Carpenter's opera on the same Wilde story
or John Casken's Infanta Marina

Brilliant tenacity, Lats - you've earnt the next Jollies!