Leroy Anderson and Muthuswami Dikshitar both made arrangements of "The Rakes of Mallow".
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There is a song called Marshmallow Man by Pops WalkerComment
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They did indeed.Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
Well done - and that is the link between Anderson and Dikshitar I wanted.
Frank Sinatra's song is about a Leroy - Mad, Bad Leroy Brown - and Picture 1 is of footballer Leroy Sane who is currently playing for the Unmentionables. Both were clues to the name Anderson. "The Rakes of Mallow", which is a traditional Irish song and polka, is a part of composer Leroy Anderson's "Irish Suite". Picture 2 is of Thomas Osborne Davis of the Young Ireland movement who published "The Rakes of Mallow" in "The Songs of Ireland". I had mentioned garden implements as a clue to rakes in an earlier post. The song was one of the European songs adapted by the Indian Carnatic music composer Muthuswami Dikshitar in the 18th/19th century, as Vande Meenakshi, a prayer to the goddess Meenakshi in Sanskrit.
A good try - but the Bray is musical and the Walker is not.Originally posted by cloughie View Post
Pictures 3 to 5 all refer to this part.Last edited by Lat-Literal; 19-10-17, 20:35.Comment
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So far we have:
1. Scruton and Douglas-Home - Violet, the opera
2. Bray (a music connection) and Walker (not music)
Plus Pictures 3-5.
3. Anderson and Dikshitar - The Rakes of Mallow
I can see that I am going to have to give this away.
Your final clue:
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Is the M Mallow, Muguet, Mavra...Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post
Is the Bray linked to the Fat Duck and Mock Turtle Soup?Comment
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So when I said final clue obviously I didn't mean final clue.
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Alice Walker the colur purple, not far from Mauve.Comment
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Right - well, now we are here.Originally posted by cloughie View Post
Could you say something about Bray - and also how all the three bits could suggest mauves?
1. Scruton and Douglas-Home - Violet, the opera
2. Bray (a music connection) and Walker - The Color Purple
3. Anderson and Dikshitar - The Rakes of Mallow
The picture clues depicted Sheb Wooley who recorded "The Purple People Eater", a scene from "Alice in Wonderland" and C# which musically often denotes purple (clavier à lumières) although it can also denote cyan. The most recent music clips featured the "purple" Prince, a song that is sometimes known as "Purple Heather" and two songs with Alice in the title.Last edited by Lat-Literal; 20-10-17, 09:16.Comment
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No nearer to getting Bray but malva is italian for mallow and mauve, bringing in the plant genus for mallow and violets. My final words on this.Originally posted by Lat-Literal View PostComment
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You have effectively got it, cloughie, so well done and the N question is for you to set.Originally posted by cloughie View Post
Stephen Bray, together with Brenda Russell and Allee Willis, composed the music/lyrics for "The Color Purple".
Mallow (1611) is an alternative, earlier English word for mauve (1859) which in turn is:
"a pale purple colour named after the mallow flower (French: mauve). Mauve is also sometimes described as pale violet."
In a sense each part of the question contained a composer and a writer - 1. Scruton a composer here although he mainly writes; Douglas-Home the writer; 2. Bray the composer; Walker the writer; 3. Anderson was effectively composer vis a vis "Irish Suite" and Dikshitar while ostensibly also musical was making reference to and rearranging Sanskrit prayer.Comment
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One presumes cloughers the Wise Young Owl is too despondent to Ntertain us ..... ????Comment
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No just a strange combination of being busy and being lazy but I'll be there dreckly!Originally posted by antongould View PostComment
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