Only Connect

[subcontrabass]

An earlier clue about "vows" suggests a wedding theme:

Pelléas et Mélisande ?
Marriage of Figaro
An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise
Les Noces

[Flay]

This is where Only Connect gets toooo complicated... (bring back AA somebody please)

Paganini did have TB, but it was apparently a brief illness. On my list for TB I had Weber, Chopin, Stravinsky and Szymanowski. Stravinsky did contact TB from his wife. Wiki says:

Stravinsky later remembered this last European address as his unhappiest, as his wife's tuberculosis infected both himself and his eldest daughter Ludmila, who died in 1938. Katya, to whom he had been married for 33 years, died of tuberculosis three months later, in March 1939. Stravinsky himself spent five months in hospital...

So please swap Paganini for Stravinsky in the last line...

As I hopefully indicated before, it's not about their music. But there was a marriage vow theme: sickness (twice, forgetting health), richer and ......?

[Boilk]

[LMcD]

3 of them ran up big debts, and there's a company called Maxwell Davies that offers solutions to such problems.

[cloughie]

This is where Only Connect gets toooo complicated... (bring back AA somebody please)

Paganini did have TB, but it was apparently a brief illness. On my list for TB I had Weber, Chopin, Stravinsky and Szymanowski. Stravinsky did contact TB from his wife. Wiki says:

So please swap Paganini for Stravinsky in the last line...

As I hopefully indicated before, it's not about their music. But there was a marriage vow theme: sickness (twice, forgetting health), richer and ......?

OK they all died without cash!

[Flay]

3 of them ran up big debts, and there's a company called Maxwell Davies that offers solutions to such problems.

And Max?

[Flay]

OK they all died without cash!

Indeed. Max was defrauded I believe

[LMcD]

Indeed. Max was defrauded I believe

..by his manager, to the tune of some £500,000, but he did receive 'a substantial settlement'. At one stage he had to borrow money from his neighbours to buy vegetables. I think the other 3 were more to blame than he was for their financial misfortunes.
An enjoyably challenging Wall, thank you!

[cloughie]

This is where Only Connect gets toooo complicated... (bring back AA somebody please)

Yes much simpler but it had somehow run its course!

[cloughie]

3 of them ran up big debts, and there's a company called Maxwell Davies that offers solutions to such problems.

don't like their House coffee very much!

[Flay]

An enjoyably challenging Wall, thank you!

Thanks. I learnt a lot in setting it. The greatest benefit of playing AA was the knowledge gained in researching for conundrums, and searching for answers.

May I be so bold as to request that perhaps we could have the option of a 3 x 3 wall?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The stress PMD suffered through that ordeal (on top of the stresses of commissions and conducting) may well have led to his cancer. Many cancers manifest a few years on from big traumas, such as bereavement or acrimonious separations/divorces.

But (and this is primarily addressed to bereaved/traumatised Forumistas who might be thinking that they had enough on their plates without this being dumped on them) there is no causal link between the two, as the NHS makes clear:

https://www.nhs.uk/news/cancer/does-stress-cause-cancer/

... particularly the concluding statement this research has identified a biological mechanism that can lead to the formation of tumours in fruit flies. The findings of this research may in turn lead to studies in human cells, but do nothing to inform us about how emotional stress might be related to the risk of cancer.

[LMcD]

Snowed under at the office. Might get a grid up this evening, if you haven't solved it all by then

I'm happy to devise another Wall if required but I couldn't post it before late tomorrow evening, so please go ahead if you wish and I'll hold on to mine, once it's completed, until it's wanted. I'd prefer to stick with 4x4 but what do others think?

[Boilk]

I'm happy to devise another Wall if required but I couldn't post it before late tomorrow evening, so please go ahead if you wish and I'll hold on to mine, once it's completed, until it's wanted. I'd prefer to stick with 4x4 but what do others think?

The grid I referred to was for Flay's composers' plights wall earlier on, which I did find time for. So please go ahead.

3 x 3 grids might facilitate some more oddball and amusing connections? But 3 or 4 are fine by me.

[Lat-Literal]

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