Alphabet associations - I

[rubbernecker]

a rubbery I ??

Oh, well, if you Insist.

Give me a mo...

[amateur51]

I think it was the capital B on Black that was misleading, no doubt deliberately. I kept thinking of Poulenc's Black Birgin...

Flay, how do you feel about Haitch? I've got one germinating, but if you h-h-h-have one in full flower, do go for it, unless Mrs F is hovering ominously about the breakfast table...

I was once upbraided in committee for using the term 'Black' when referring to people. "Why the capital letter?" I was asked - "we don't use a capital in other instances."

It was one occasion when I was in advance of l'esprit d'escalier and managed to respond "well only with God and the Queen'. As the Comittee had close connections with both institutions I got away with that one

[rubbernecker]

Bartok, Medtner, Poulenc... they must have written it down? What's the I?

[Flay]

Flay... ...do go for it, unless Mrs F is hovering ominously about the breakfast table...

You don't know the half of it...

Yesterday she looked at the computer and quizzed me: "who's Anna? She seems to be on a lot when you're on your Radio 3."

My wife doesn't understand me...

[amateur51]

You don't know the half of it...

Yesterday she looked at the computer and quizzed me: "who's Anna? She seems to be on a lot when you're on your Radio 3."

My wife doesn't understand me...

Your wife is not alone, Flay

[mercia]

What's the I?

Improvisation

[rubbernecker]

I was once upbraided in committee for using the term 'Black' when referring to people. "Why the capital letter?" I was asked - "we don't use a capital in other instances."

It was one occasion when I was in advance of l'esprit d'escalier and managed to respond "well only with God and the Queen'. As the Comittee had close connections with both institutions I got away with that one

Funnily enough Ammy, I was very recently castigated for allowing the term 'coloured' through in a sympathetic report about racial prejudice, mostly towards blacks and asians. During my carpetting I was told that 'black' was the correct word to use to describe all these racial groups, and that 'coloured' was no longer acceptable. Twenty years ago, it was exactly the opposite. O tempora, o mores....

[rubbernecker]

Improvisation

8 minutes. You need to be quicker than that, Mercs! Yes, they all 'wrote' Improvisations for piano.

Now for that jokey J of yours...

[mercia]

Improvisation

Medtner - 3 Fantastic (opus 2 ?)
Poulenc - Quinze pour piano
Bartok - 8 on Hungarian Peasant songs opus 20

but there are probably others

[mercia]

8 minutes.

slow by some standards


J connecting

Bob's psidium, Marigny Ferdie, a scholarly concerto

[Nick Armstrong]

Yesterday she looked at the computer and quizzed me: "who's Anna? She seems to be on a lot when you're on your Radio 3."

[rubbernecker]

Yesterday she looked at the computer and quizzed me: "who's Anna? She seems to be on a lot when you're on your Radio 3."

My wife doesn't understand me...

These are all-too familiar phrases, the favourites in the Rubbers household being: "You are obsessed", "Put it away", "I'm dishing up, NOW" and (having previously allayed any suspicions on this front) "So when are we going to meet Anna?"

[Tapiola]

Funnily enough Ammy, I was very recently castigated for allowing the term 'coloured' through in a sympathetic report about racial prejudice, mostly towards blacks and asians. During my carpetting I was told that 'black' was the correct word to use to describe all these racial groups, and that 'coloured' was no longer acceptable. Twenty years ago, it was exactly the opposite. O tempora, o mores....

I was at a conference recently on ethnic diversity, when one of the invited speakers, an American professor, took exception to the phrase BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) stating that such people should - as it was in the States and in Canada - be referred to as members of the "Global Majority". PC to the point of meaninglessness, in my opinion.

Well done mercs, btw. I was thinking "Images"...

[Nick Armstrong]

Huh?? You are misleading yourself: it was lower case black, upper case Venus. I could have uppercased parlour, but that would have made it too easy.

I can't get past the wrestler called Black Venus.

Quite right, rubbers, apologies... it was Flay's gloss that misled me!!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

These are all-too familiar phrases, the favourites in the Rubbers household being: "You are obsessed", "Put it away", "I'm dishing up, NOW" and (having previously allayed any suspicions on this front) "So when are we going to meet Anna?"

You think you've got problems?! My beloved gazed over my shoulder one afternoon and spake:
"That Ferneyhoughgeliebte character's full of himself, isn't he!"

I've put a lock on the door since.