Alphabet Associations - II

[cloughie]

Time for a bit of scattergunning - any link to Ottos Respighi and Nicolai and Vilja?

[Pulcinella]

Time for a bit of scattergunning - any link to Ottos Respighi and Nicolai and Vilja?

Respighi is one of the Ottos, yes.
Nothing to do with Nicolai or Vilja, though.

[cloughie]

Respighi is one of the Ottos, yes.
Nothing to do with Nicolai or Vilja, though.

Vetrate di Chiesa is the only work that comes to mind.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I wonder if Pulcie might have included Nigel Kennedy as one of the clues?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

One Otto was on holiday, and another Otto was roaming around the trees and some water, while Franz was also travelling around nearby but looking at different trees and water.
What V do they have in common?

I believe we're looking at Villas.

Franz Liszt enjoying the Jeaux d'Eau a la Villa d'Este

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DoGOGS3lC8

Otto Respighi admiring the Pini di Villa Borghese:

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

The fictional holiday Otto has me stumped, but Nigel Kennedy has been disappointed his whole life by Aston Villa:

[Pulcinella]

I wonder if Pulcie might have included Nigel Kennedy as one of the clues?

He might indeed.
I think you've got it.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ooh! Is the opera by Handel?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Hmmm ... no reference I can see to holidays, but the mother of King Otto in Handel's Ottone is called Willa, which in German would be pronounced "Villa"????

[Pulcinella]

I believe we're looking at Villas.

Franz Liszt enjoying the Jeaux d'Eau a la Villa d'Este

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DoGOGS3lC8

Otto Respighi admiring the Pini di Villa Borghese:

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

The fictional holiday Otto has me stumped, but Nigel Kennedy has been disappointed his whole life by Aston Villa:

The Otto on holiday (or in the country, according to a different translation) was a first for Antonio.
Respighi also depicted the fountain at Villa Medici, and Liszt wrote threnodies to the cypresses at Villa d'Este too.

[Pulcinella]

Hmmm ... no reference I can see to holidays, but the mother of King Otto in Handel's Ottone is called Willa, which in German would be pronounced "Villa"????

Right name, wrong opera, wrong composer.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The Otto on holiday (or in the country, according to a different translation) was a first for Antonio.

Aah! This:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZr00s3edWQ

Respighi also depicted the fountain at Villa Medici, and Liszt wrote threnodies to the cypresses at Villa d'Este too.

Anyone ever written a Dandelions of the Bungalow?

[Pulcinella]

Aah! This:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZr00s3edWQ

Anyone ever written a Dandelions of the Bungalow?

That's the one (but how on earth did you get hold of the working title of my forthcoming magnum opus?).

So we have
Antonio Vivaldi: Ottone in villa (away from the day job in Rome, so on holiday). Vivaldi's first opera.
Ottorino Respighi: Pines and Fountains of Rome (roaming, gedddit?) each contain a villa reference.
Franz Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage (which somehow I always think of as peregrinations not pilgrimage), Third Year, contains pieces related to the cypresses and fountains at the Villa d'Este.
(Temporary geographical brainstorm made me think that Tivoli was further from Rome than 'nearby'.)

So, wot's up for us next, ferney?

[cloughie]

Aah! This:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZr00s3edWQ

Anyone ever written a Dandelions of the Bungalow?

Plenty at ours - maybe I'll clock one up!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Plenty at ours - maybe I'll clock one up!

Oh, blow!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Shhh! A Stranger with Melody in Landscapes of Absence leading to Certain Spaces of Eternity. WT ... H?