Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Thank you...every day I learn, Mr. Fawlty...

This: fork. This: spoon. This: smack on head....

[subcontrabass]

looks like L J A Lefebure-Wely's opus 116 might fit that - Bolero de Concert

Give or take a few accents that is the one.

[Northender]

Fawlty: 'Eez not rat, eez amster'.
Accent: é = Alt 0233

[subcontrabass]

Summary:

Spanish dance = Bolero (best known from Ravel)

Used by William Vincent Wallace in his opera Maritana.

Chopin: Bolero, Op 19

Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély: Boléro de concert, Op.166


Cloughie got Bolero and Chopin. Mercia followed up with Wallace and Lefébure-Wély. I think Cloughie should give us a C.

[mercia]

I find doing accents on a laptop keyboard extremely tiresome/annoying
I can't find any online information about the bolero in Maritana

[cloughie]

Summary:

Spanish dance = Bolero (best known from Ravel)

Used by William Vincent Wallace in his opera Maritana.

Chopin: Bolero, Op 19

Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély: Boléro de concert, Op.166


Cloughie got Bolero and Chopin. Mercia followed up with Wallace and Lefébure-Wély. I think Cloughie should give us a C.

Using the merc trademark sidestep, I'll let him have this one - I hadn't a clue about Wallace and his peat-bog Wely, so ...

[mercia]

mercia, the Lefebure-Wely is in the general list about various Boleros in wiki (under Art Music on that page)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolero

so it is
I'm sure the C belongs to cloughie, however let's not argue



a C to connect

a (very short) 1959 chamber opera, a ballet premiered in 1937 conducted by the composer and Bunthorne's Bride

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

a C to connect

a (very short) 1959 chamber opera, a ballet premiered in 1937 conducted by the composer and Bunthorne's Bride

Hmm: nobody was Bunthorne's Bride!?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Cards?
Menotti's A Hand of Bridge;
Stravinsky's Jeu de Catres;
G&S's: Solitaire

[mercia]

Cards?
Menotti's A Hand of Bridge;
Stravinsky's Jeu de Catres;
G&S's: Solitaire

well done - glad you saw through that

a devilish D ??

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

well done - glad you saw through that

Just to clarify: Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta is called Patience with the subtitle Bunthorne's Bride.

a devilish D ??

Doh!

Give me a moment ...

[subcontrabass]

Cards?
Menotti's A Hand of Bridge;

I thought Menotti only wrote the words for A Hand of Bridge, with music by Samuel Barber.

[mercia]

I thought Menotti pnly wrote the words for A Hand of Bridge, with music by Samuel Barber.

oops - you're quite right subs.
I failed in my duty there [I could work for the BBC]

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

oops - you're quite right subs.
I failed in my duty there [I could work for the BBC]

My mistake (as I was the one who mentioned Menotti) not yours, mercs.

The devilish D:

One for today (hope that doesn't jar); two for Ms Wilde (or a young piper); three from Honegger.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Darn: have to pop out for emergency provisions*! Back in an hour or so: apologies!


(* = Down to half a bottle of The Balvennie! )