Missing consonants

[kernelbogey]

Guardian readers may remember this witty feature. Proofreading my post just now I noticed that I had typed 'Beethoven boos' instead of 'Beethoven books'.

So I thought, given the extraordinary ability of members here to make witty musical remarks, we could have a thread for missing consonant remarks about musical works, composers and performers.

[LMcD]

Guardian readers may remember this witty feature. Proofreading my post just now I noticed that I had typed 'Beethoven boos' instead of 'Beethoven books'.

So I thought, given the extraordinary ability of members here to make witty musical remarks, we could have a thread for missing consonant remarks about musical works, composers and performers.

I can offer a couple of Haydn symphonies - 'The He' and 'Fie'. Then there's Mozart's 'Hun' quartet and Holst's 'The Planes'.

[kernelbogey]

I can offer a couple of Haydn symphonies - 'The He' and 'Fie'. Then there's Mozart's 'Hun' quartet and Holst's 'The Planes'.

Böhm Böhm!

[kernelbogey]

There is Bizet's abandoned project for an opera, the sad tale of fishermen forced, by loss of a boat, to work in an orchard: The Pear Fishers.

[LMcD]

Böhm Böhm!

Vaughan Williams: The Wasp (or, if you prefer, He Wasps).
Butterworth: Bans of Green Willow
Britten: Plymouth Tow
Debussy: La Plus Que Len
Grieg: Pee Gynt Suite
Britten: The Ape of Lucretia

[DracoM]

Pritti Patel misses the full, final 'ing' and turns it into 'in' in almost every word she says needin' an 'ing' soundin endin'

[kernelbogey]

Johann Strauss's unfortunate restaurant experience on holiday in Provence led to the composition of The Blue Daube.

[oddoneout]

Missing consonants are an occupational hazard of communication with the natives of this neck of the woods.

[LMcD]

Missing consonants are an occupational hazard of communication with the natives of this neck of the woods.

'As roight, bor!'

[Pulcinella]

Britten's sequel to Billy Budd: The turn of the crew.

[LMcD]

Britten's sequel to Billy Budd: The turn of the crew.

Excellent!
Don't forget where the prison officer brews his tea: 'The Urn Of the Screw'
And, especially for you, Stravinsky's 'Ire Bid' and 'Symphony in Tree Movements'.

[Dave2002]

Popular opera Rimsky's "The NOW maiden" or Abrahamsen's "The NOW Queen".

For sailors - or maybe tree lovers - "The Arber of Seville".

For politicians "The Lying Dutchman".

[teamsaint]

I was wondering about something by 'erbert Vowells.

[Pulcinella]

Papageno has to learn a new instrument for his role in The Magic Lute, given that wind instruments might be off the agenda for a while.

[LMcD]

Q: Where did Bottom write down his lines in case he forgot them?
A: On a Midsummer Nit's Ream
Q: Where did Sibelius - a noted alcoholic - spend most of his time?
A: The Bar
Q: Which famous piece by Samuel Barber was commissioned as background music for a jeweller's shop?
A: Adagio for Rings