Alphabet associations - I

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

[Sorry, I had to work for a few hours

Ah! You were watching Wall-E, too!

I am turning my attention back to important matters, viz: your puzzle.

1/4 of an hour and I'm off to watch Inspector Montalbano!

[Nick Armstrong]

Ah! You were watching Wall-E, too!
1/4 of an hour and I'm off to watch Inspector Montalbano!

I wish I had been! (Wall-E I mean... I can't get on with Montalbano at all)

If the Orcadian Sisth is Maxwell Davies's 6th Symphony, it's dedicated to George (Mackay Brown).

Is that at all relevant? I can't make it fit the other clues...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I wish I had been! (Wall-E I mean... I can't get on with Montalbano at all)

If the Orcadian Sisth is Maxwell Davies's 6th Symphony, it's dedicated to George (Mackay Brown).

Is that at all relevant? I can't make it fit the other clues...

By George he's got it!
And the famous horticultural feature of Babylon has a George-an connection, too.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I've enjoyed the Montalbano stories: a mixture of detective, travellogue and Carry On! (But I'm looking forward to the return to Nordic Noir next week.)

Bedtime chez Ferney. I'll let the night shift ponder George and see how things have progressed in the morning.

'Night, all.

[Nick Armstrong]

(But I'm looking forward to the return to Nordic Noir next week.)

AH!? What's on next week?

Hmmm.... George George George...

[cloughie]

Sorry I didn't do the Anna thing and give a full resume before I went off singing, but Ammy's second answer crossed with my response to his first and I assumed that my G'ing up message would be read as a tie between Ferney and Ammy.

Far;
Frank Bridge song Far, far from each other
Carl Davis TV score for The Far Pavillions
Richard Rodney Bennett's film score for Far from the Madding Crowd.

is the definitive answer to F.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sorry I didn't do the Anna thing and give a full resume before I went off singing, but Ammy's second answer crossed with my response to his first and I assumed that my G'ing up message would be read as a tie between Ferney and Ammy.

Far;
Frank Bridge song Far, far from each other
Carl Davis TV score for The Far Pavillions
Richard Rodney Bennett's film score for Far from the Madding Crowd.

is the definitive answer to F.

My apologies, cloughie; I thought you were telling Ammie that it wasn't Far from t'madding crowd, but it was an overlap!

The night shift seems to have slept! No takers for horticultural babylonian Georges associated with a cycle?
The other one is a spotty character ...

[mercia]

No takers for horticultural babylonian Georges associated with a cycle?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Hanging_Gardens

words by Stefan George

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boo...anging_Gardens

words by Stefan George

... just Berkeley's spotty associate to go!

[mercia]

... just Berkeley's spotty associate to go!

dunno - google is vaguely giving me something by Lennox Berkeley with words by George Herbert but no spotty festival flowers involved

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

dunno - google is vaguely giving me something by Lennox Berkeley with words by George Herbert but no spotty festival flowers involved

Good old Google!
Does she mention the particular work in which "Festival" and "Flower" coincide, the Hussey?

EDIT: Oh, and "spotty" was the pointer towards "Herbert", so it can be put to one side now.

[mercia]

"spotty" was the pointer towards "Herbert"

<doh> of course

google won't tell me which has Herbert words EDIT: poem "The Flower" ?
Festival Anthem? Crux Fidelis?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

google won't tell me which has Herbert words
Festival Anthem? Crux Fidelis?

The former - contains a setting of Herbert's The Flower and was commissioned by the magnificent Rev Hussey of Chichester.

So:
George 1 is Stefan George, who provided the poems for Schonberg's Book of the Hanging Gardens;
George 2 is George Herbert (see above);
George 3 is George Mackay Brown, the Orkney poet - pupil of the great Edwin Muir - who provided texts for many of Peter Maxwell Davies' works, and whose death is commemorated in the dedication of PMD's 6th Symphony.


So: joint honours to Cali (who got to George and PMD) and mercia (who got the rest): shall we draw lots (or just a few?)

[amateur51]

shall we draw lots (or just a few?)

What's Arnie's Book of the Hangings Gardens like then?Anyone know it?

[Nick Armstrong]

The night shift seems to have slept!

No! I was kept awake all night by your puzzle !!!

Well not quite... But I was chipping away at your problem in the early hours and thinking again this morning and getting nowhere!

I still don't get the Berkeley connection...

Oh hang on... this Festival whatsit was by Berkeley to a thing called The Flower by G Herbert, was it?