Alphabet associations - I

[Norfolk Born]

Don't tell him, caliban!

[mercia]

London: Fritz .....(born in Siegen, Westphalia)

Flay got Busch but not Kreisler I think

(just to add to the general confusion)

[Norfolk Born]

Well, mercia and Flay sorted it out between them. Perhaps they'd like to toss a methaporical coin or enter into meaningful negotiations.
Just to recap: Four musical 'Fritzes', 2 of whom (Kreisler and Reiner) died in New York, and one each in London (Busch) and Heidelberg (Wunderlich).

[mercia]

please Flay will you do the honours - I have no ideas for a question

I did set one recently I think (the B )

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Fritz Stiedry gave the first performance of Schoenberg's Second Chamber Symphony*. His wife, Erica, is the sprechstimme on the composer's own recording of Pierrot Lunaire.

EDIT: Not on his own, you understand.

[mercia]

Fritz Stiedry gave the first performance of Schoenberg's Second Chamber Symphony*. His wife, Erica, is the sprechstimme on the composer's own recording of Pierrot Lunaire.

thanks

that's all very well, but where did he die ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

thanks

that's all very well, but where did he die ?

I had to Wiki this: Zurich, 1968. He was also in charge of the Leningrad Phil before Mravinsky and prepared the aborted premiere of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

[Flay]

please Flay will you do the honours

OK, give me a while....

[Anna]

Having been away plus distracted by other matters for a while, reading back on this thread is, somehow, like being in a parallel dimension whereby I am the only sane one and the lunatics are running the asylum I'm just surprised there are not more references to Corrie!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'm just surprised there are not more references to Corrie!

Splendid newsreader - and very good on The News Quiz - but I'm not sure what Ms Caulfield has to do with AA?

[Anna]

Splendid newsreader - and very good on The News Quiz - but I'm not sure what Ms Caulfield has to do with AA?

This is what I mean, you all lead a parallel existence, there is no-one called Corrie Caulfield - there is a Corrie Corfield who, according to wiki "Corfield has persuaded broadcasters connected with Radio 4 to don the 'slanket of con', a garment purportedly worn by continuity announcers in the air-conditioned chill of studio 40B as they read the late night shipping bulletin, and has photographed the wearers in various comic poses"

Oh Dear, is Corrie on tonight, can I get some light relief and relax in the real world?

[mercia]

'slanket of con'

what's a slanket ?
and what's con ?

[Anna]

what's a slanket ?
and what's con ?

No idea mercia. That's just what wiki says, it may mean something to someone in another parallel universe or on another planet orbting in outer space. I am just confused, but happily so, whilst we wait for Flay and his Gorgeous, Gigantic G However, I may not be around for the Grand Unveiling of it ....

[mercia]

what's a slanket ?

one of these apparently

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8943577/Even-the-stars-of-Radio-4-have-succumbed-to-the-Slanket.html

I guess "con" is continuity

[Anna]

one of these apparently

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8943577/Even-the-stars-of-Radio-4-have-succumbed-to-the-Slanket.html

I guess "con" is continuity

mercia, what a sleuth you are! I now know something new and quite honestly, the sudden knowledge of that fact, has not enriched my life