Alphabet associations - I

[vinteuil]

Well if Wiki is to be believed:

wiki is not always to be trusted.

I prefer OED : "Rollmops - a rolled fillet of herring, flavoured with sliced onions, spices, etc., and pickled in brine. Sometimes erroneously treated as a plural."

[Anna]

My mother made marvellous rollmops and even thinking about them makes me fancy one! Quite partial to schnapps, but a long time since I had the pleasure.
Just watched episode 5, Oh Martin - what have you done!
Sorry, shall look at ferney's B.

[mercia]

An Iraqi success led to Music lessons; no Robinsons, but a Scottish White Lady with the help of a Scribe.
Which B?

well this looks like Francois-Adrien Boieldieu
Le calife de Bagdad, 1800, La dame blanche, after Scott, libretto Scribe, 1825

but at the moment I can't include Music lessons or Robinsons

Boiel doesn't mean barley does it ?

[Nick Armstrong]

well this looks like Francois-Adrien Boieldieu
Robinsons

F-ABulosa: he wrote an operetta called The Swiss Family....

Seems like a nice boy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boieldieu.jpg

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

well this looks like Francois-Adrien Boieldieu

Le calife de Bagdad, 1800,

La dame blanche, after Scott, libretto Scribe, 1825

but at the moment I can't include Music lessons or Robinsons

The Music lessons may be just a story in the composer's life. As for "Robinson", Boieldieu wrote another Opera comique with a title that has "Robinson" associations.

Boiel doesn't mean barley does it ?

It'd be lovely if it did; but, to my admittedly limited knowledge, it doesn't.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

F-ABulosa: he wrote an operetta called The Swiss Family....

That's the chappie!

[Nick Armstrong]

My mother made marvellous rollmops and even thinking about them makes me fancy one! Quite partial to schnapps, but a long time since I had the pleasure.
Just watched episode 5, Oh Martin - what have you done!

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?652-Alphabet-associations&p=158918#post158918

[Anna]

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...918#post158918

And, I'm really sad about Anja ....... so I guess when you said previous did August ........? You meant ............ and Saga? Oh No!! I do like her chat up lines

Sorry, to stay on topic re Robinsons and barley. Beer drinkers will be glad that all this wet weather has resulted in bumper malting barley harvest and beer will be cheaper!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

According to WIKI:

"Le calife de Bagdad" ... was first performed at the Opéra-Comique, Paris on 16 September 1800 and soon became highly popular throughout Europe. It was Boieldieu's first major triumph. One member of the audience who was less impressed was the noted composer Luigi Cherubini who reproached Boieldieu, "Aren't you ashamed of such a great success, and doing so little to deserve it?" Boieldieu immediately applied to Cherubini for lessons in compositional techniques.

Honourable mention of Calife-an in dispatches, but the lion's share to mercs, here. Is there a "Mercian Sea" - sounds like there should be - but ther will, I hope, be a mercian C.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Beer drinkers will be glad that all this wet weather has resulted in bumper malting barley harvest and beer will be cheaper!

[vinteuil]

Seems like a nice boy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boieldieu.jpg

ah, by a painter I like very much -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Léopold_Boilly

[mercia]

The Music lessons may be just a story in the composer's life.

ah - under wiki on the success of Le caliph ..........

One member of the audience who was less impressed was the noted composer Luigi Cherubini who reproached Boieldieu, "Aren't you ashamed of such a great success, and doing so little to deserve it?" Boieldieu immediately applied to Cherubini for lessons in compositional techniques

oh well, I eventually caught up

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

C you soon!

[Nick Armstrong]

And, I'm really sad about Anja ....... so I guess when you said previous did August ........? You meant ............ and Saga? Oh No!! I do like her chat up lines

Like "How is your scrotum?" Try it down the butchers, Anna! (Answer: fresh in today love!)

[mercia]

a mercian C.

dashing through the alphabet


C

Adolphe, Hector and Joe [Green] getting all piratical