Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

speak for oneself
oh - you were

I care about Symphonies too....

And your idea of counting backwards from 100 to 99 is extremely shrewd !!!!

[mercia]

the only one "only just in double digits" in E-flat major is No 11

oh, I was thinking [obscurely] that 99 could be "only just in double digits" if you work backwards from Haydn 100
cross-posted

[Anna]

99 Balloons?

[mercia]

I hope I'm not leading us all up a blind alley
could "96 miles to Bakersfield" be a satnav message ?
better still "99 miles to San Francisco" by April Matson ?
how's the soccer ?

[Northender]

99 Red Balloons by Nena (UK No. 1 for 3 weeks, originally a German protest song).
Haydn's Symphony No. 99 (the last 'double-digit' symphony, followed immediately by the 'Military')
The other song has been recorded by, among others, Albert Hammond and Johnny Mathis, and they are 99 miles from....

[Northender]

Back after the second half (of the Rostropovitch - Euro 2012 if you want to )

[mercia]

99 miles from....

........ LA

thanks for all the clues. great question
I'm signing off now ............. I guess we're not in a hurry for another question

[Nick Armstrong]

I hope I'm not leading us all up a blind alley

On the contrary, mercia, as so often you are leading us towards the light

[cloughie]

On the contrary, mercia, as so often you are leading us towards the light

That northenders clues are a bit cryptic don't you think, Cali, why's he make them so difficult?

[Nick Armstrong]

That northenders clues are a bit cryptic don't you think, Cali, why's he make them so difficult?

They are! But do not think I am ever criticising anyone who sets nice testing puzzles, Cloughie! Any grumble that may occasionally emanate from Caliban's lair is born of frustration at his own stupidity!

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm signing off now ............. I guess we're not in a hurry for another question

I wonder if mercia would mind if I set a nice easy O to tide us over... I suspect he wouldn't

A Saturday night O bringing together Arnold, Max and Georges

[Northender]

That northenders clues are a bit cryptic don't you think, Cali, why's he make them so difficult?

Cryptic - moi?
I'm not sure whether I need to summarize, but for the record:
Nena had a No. 1 UK hit with '99 Red Balloons'
A Californian satnav might tell you you were '99 Miles From L.A.'
Haydn's Symphony No. 99 is in E flat Major.

[Nick Armstrong]

Cryptic - moi?

En effet....! I don't think that your puzzles e.g. that N, tend to be cryptic, do they? Just tricky With the nice sleight of hand for which I fell but mercia didn't, of the 'double digit' misdirection

I watched that Rostro doc last night. Good isn't it? Clever how they knitted the archive film with no soundtrack, with the radio recording of the same concert, to produce that record of the concert with Britten conducting. Nice to see my avatar in the audience applauding afterwards too!

[Northender]

I thought there was something familiar about your avatar - I should have recognized him from the spectacles! There can't be that many pictures of DSCH in such an apparently jovial mood - or had he just come off second-best in a drinking contest with Slava perhaps? I, too, was very taken with the sequence towards the end featuring the Britten - what a wonderful find the film was, and what a wonderful use to make of it.

[Nick Armstrong]

I thought there was something familiar about your avatar - I should have recognized him from the spectacles! There can't be that many pictures of DSCH in such an apparently jovial mood - or had he just come off second-best in a drinking contest with Slava perhaps? I, too, was very taken with the sequence towards the end featuring the Britten - what a wonderful find the film was, and what a wonderful use to make of it.

This is another nice one, with BB: