Alphabet associations - I

[Northender]

Thank you.
An 'R' to connect: A BBC4 biopic from 2008; a 1970 recording of a 1938 concerto; and an organist at a famous German church.

[Anna]

Oh! Fair enough Anna When you have a mo, I for one would like some further particulars of: ]

You want pictures? Feelthy ones? Funeral was ok, was there in a professional capacity, but sad. Diagnosis to death under a year, he was only just 59.

Sorry again but had no idea you were waiting for me. Onwards and Upwards with Northender's latest!

[subcontrabass]

Thank you.
An 'R' to connect: A BBC4 biopic from 2008; a 1970 recording of a 1938 concerto; and an organist at a famous German church.

All I can find is three Richters:

Max Richter: composer of the music for Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me
Sviatoslav Richter: 1970 recording of Britten's Piano Concerto (composed in 1938)
Karl Richter: organist at the Thomaskirche, Leipzig, from 1949 to 1951.

[Northender]

That's all you need to find!
On to 'S' when you're ready!

[subcontrabass]

This S is an operatic first for Williams, a last for Moore, and comes to Tennessee in 1915.

[Nick Armstrong]

This S is an operatic first for Williams, a last for Moore, and comes to Tennessee in 1915.

I think we are talking s-s-s-s-s-streetcars...

The operatic first for T Williams Esq was the setting by Previn of 'Streetcar Named Desire' in the 1990s

The streetcar in Tennessee in 1915 is the one that is depicted

"...raising its iron moan:
stopping, belling and starting" etc

in Barber's 'Knoxville (Tennessee): Summer of 1915'

Can't get the Moore connection yet.

[subcontrabass]

I think we are talking s-s-s-s-s-streetcars...

The operatic first for T Williams Esq was the setting by Previn of 'Streetcar Named Desire' in the 1990s

That was his operatic second.

in Barber's 'Knoxville (Tennessee): Summer of 1915'

Right work for the other Tennessee reference.

[Nick Armstrong]

That was his operatic second.


Right work for the other Tennessee reference.

That was lucky!!

OK it's S-S-S-S-Summer then!

1. 'Summer and Smoke' (never 'eard of it ) was the earlier Williams opera.

2. 'Knoxville: Summer of 1915'


Now, let's see what pops up re: the mysterious Moore....


UPDATE: ah ha...

3. 'The Last Rose of Summer', perchance? By Thomas Moore, used by Flotow in his opera "Martha"....

[subcontrabass]

That was lucky!!

OK it's S-S-S-S-Summer then!

1. 'Summer and Smoke' (never 'eard of it ) was the earlier Williams opera.

2. 'Knoxville: Summer of 1915'


Now, let's see what pops up re: the mysterious Moore....


UPDATE: ah ha...

3. 'The Last Rose of Summer', perchance? By Thomas Moore, used by Flotow in his opera "Martha"....

Full house. Time for T.

[Nick Armstrong]

A T to connect Felix, Jennifer and a multiplex cinema which was familiar in former guise to Hans, Herbert and Wilhelm....

[mercia]

Titania/Tytania

Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night's Dream
Jennifer Vyvyan - Tytania in Britten's MND
Titania-Palast in the Steglitz area of Berlin. Can't find info. as to how long it was a Berlin Phil. venue - ? built as cinema in 1928 ? home of the Berlin Film Festival since 1951 ?

[Northender]

The Berliner Philharmoniker certainly played there in February 1951, giving a series of concerts between the 2nd and the 26th.
(I can't get the link to work, but googling Berliner Philharmoniker Titania Palast Steglitz should take you to the programmes for that month's concerts).

[Nick Armstrong]

Titania/Tytania

Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night's Dream
Jennifer Vyvyan - Tytania in Britten's MND
Titania-Palast in the Steglitz area of Berlin. Can't find info. as to how long it was a Berlin Phil. venue - ? built as cinema in 1928 ? home of the Berlin Film Festival since 1951 ?

Oh I say, well played, Northo!! Royal flush there with the Queen of the Fairies

It was a serious music venue all through the 50s as far as I can see. The Berlin Phil website amazingly has a calendar that goes back that far - here for example is April 1956 http://www.berliner-philharmoniker.d...datum/1956-04/

Hence my references to Knappertsbusch, Furtwängler and von Karajan in the puzzle

All Urs

(Have you had your Wagner-Odyssee to Leeds? )

[Northender]

Congratulations to mercia for getting to the Bottom of the Titania question. (Well, we're only just past Midsummer...)

[mercia]

if northo is up for setting a question I should be only too glad to concede