Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

I now do you the honour of hopefully solving this. I think we are talking about three conductors named Erich.

Erich Kleiber b.1890, studied in Prague went on to Berlin
Erich Leinsdorf b.1912 studied in Salzburg, ended up in Boston
Erich Kunzel b.1935 started at the Santa Fe opera and ended up conducting the Cincinatti Pops (a bit of a retrograde step if you ask me)

You could have thrown in Erich Schmid of the Tonhalle, Zurich as well, I suppose!

Rubbers you earned yourself a virtual or two... Sadly not real ones today....

Yes in every particular. (Never heard of Erich Schmid)

I think the Pops was kind of an offshoot of the Cincinatti Symphony which he also ran. I'm sure that Erich wept tears of shame for the Pops involvement, all the way to the Cincinatti Bank.

"F" us to within an inch of our lives, rubbers!!

[rubbernecker]

Barely pausing for breath, here...

What F connects a composer born in Bratislava who studied with Copland, a salacious novel and fish fingers?

[Norfolk Born]

Yes, indeed, Happy Birthday Caliban

Best wishes from Sunny Suffolk!

[Nick Armstrong]

Best wishes from Sunny Suffolk!

Thanks so much! And no offence at all about your London remarks...

Incidentally, this thread is now No 2 in no of views on this forum.... The top one seems to be the original Classical Music Associations thread with 18,000-odd views... but it seems to have died the death a month ago. No 3 is Stormy Weather coming up on the rails... (yup - I was holding endlessly on the phone, and clicked through the entire forum to stave off a coma... Fun fun birthday )

I think many look but dare not hasard guesses... Come on all! Have a crack!

[BetweenTheStaves]

Would the composer be Yehoshua Lakner?

The novel 'Fanny Hill' ? But I really don't want to go any further down this line of enquiry and fish-fingers

[rubbernecker]

It's always managed to hold off Stormy Weather, and seems to generate numbers of posts in proportion to the increasing frustration engendered by some of the clues.

It is also a repository of useless facts, occasional brilliant wit and a means of catching up on Coronation Street for those, like me, who aren't bothered to watch it. No wonder it is so popular!

[rubbernecker]

Would the composer be Yehoshua Lakner?

The novel 'Fanny Hill' ? But I really don't want to go any further down this line of enquiry and fish-fingers

No fanny involved, I assure you! The novel is more recent.

And Lakner is absolutely spot-on

[3rd Viennese School]

Is the novel The Famous Five?

And the composer wrote 5 symphonies?

Five Fish Fingers in a Pack.

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[Anna]

Five Fish Fingers in a Pack.?

Are there only 5 fish fingers in a pack? Only novel I can think of is Erica Jong's Fear of Flying but cannot see how it could fit in.

[rubbernecker]

Are there only 5 fish fingers in a pack? Only novel I can think of is Erica Jong's Fear of Flying but cannot see how it could fit in.

I don't think 3VS was being serious, Anna. It's a more recent novel than FoF and written, unsurprisingly, by a bloke.

[BetweenTheStaves]

Would the novel be The Fermata by Nicholson Baker ?

And Lakner wrote Fermaten in 1977

[BetweenTheStaves]

Fermat's Theorem fit in anywhere? Doctor Who uploaded the real proof in The Eleventh Hour and his favourite food is fish fingers.

[rubbernecker]

Would the novel be The Fermata by Nicholson Baker ?

And Lakner wrote Fermaten in 1977

Keep going bts! You just need to go into pub quiz mode for 'fish fingers'...

[Anna]

Keep going bts! You just need to go into pub quiz mode for 'fish fingers'...

Clarence Birdseye invented fishfingers and a fermata is known as a birdseye in musical notation.

[rubbernecker]

Clarence Birdseye invented fishfingers and a fermata is known as a birdseye in musical notation.

Ta-da!

Well done, Anna. You finished it off although bts did the spadework. Fermata is the answer. A symbol lengthening a note or a pause in music.

In the Nicholson Baker novel the protagonist discovers the ability to freeze time, which he uses profitably, not to further the lot of humankind, but to take girls' clothes off.

Not sure whether it's Anna or bts to be our G wiz?