Alphabet associations - I

[Resurrection Man]

In for a penny....in for a pound!

Song of Joy ? No dice here? Sofas are bourgeois. All connect to X. Who is X

[Northender]

I could tell you, had I not been sworn to s*cr*cy
(Actually, I haven't a clue as yet but am to happy to 'think on' as they say further North).

[Resurrection Man]

Actually I think I've made this one too easy as I've seen a quick way in to the answer that I'd not spotted before.

[Nick Armstrong]

Actually I think I've made this one too easy as I've seen a quick way in to the answer that I'd not spotted before.

Can't find a way in... though I haven't been able to concentrate on it properly.

A clue-ette, perhaps?

[mercia]

in October at Glyndebourne there's an opera called The Yellow Sofa
but I don't see any relevance at the moment
Elizabeth Maconchy wrote an opera called The Sofa
Song of Joy album by Captain & Tennille
the word aleatoric derives from the Latin for dice apparently

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sofas are bourgeois.

Sounds like we're playing the Jeanneretion Game!? (But relevance to X escapes me

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

OH! Am I being particularly dense today!?
Le Corbu was, of course, Xenakis' architect mentor!

[vinteuil]

... the bourgeois sofa is usually a reference to le Corbusier. Don't know if that helps.

EDIT - X-postedwith ferneyhiccough, who's got there...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

EDIT - X-postedwith ferneyhiccough, who's got there...

Have I???!

Well, "no dice" could refer either to Iannis' rejection of Cage's aleatoricism in favour of his more mathematically motivated stochaistic methods - or to Boulez' essay against Cage (Boulez having infamously sneered at Xenakis for having a great intellect but no ear!!!)

Ode to Joy? A translation of one of Xenakis' titles? Alas, I don't have the Latin.

[Resurrection Man]

Oh well done, everyone. The sofa quote was the way in as Google takes you straight to Corbusier.

No dice is right on the money. From the Oxford Dictionary of Music Although he used elecs., most of Xenakis's works employ traditional human forces, but embody his concept of STOCHASTIC music. This mathematical term, as applied to mus., is a theory of probability: that the results of chance will reach a determinate end. In contrast to the ALEATORY processes of CAGE and others, Dice imply chance...ie aleatory. No dice = no chance.

Just the third left...one of his fellow students when he was in Paris perhaps.

[mercia]

there's a Chant de Joie by Honegger

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

there's a Chant de Joie by Honegger

... who taught Xenakis in Paris!

[Resurrection Man]

Spot on. Well done, all. I must try harder next time !

Over to ferneyhoughgeliebte

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Over to ferneyhoughgeliebte

I saw Xenakis briefly on two occasions: at a London Sinfonietta concert in the 1983 (-ish) and on his last visit to Huddersfield, when sadly his Altzheimer's was pretty advanced. Great man, great Musician, I love his description of Beethoven's Seventh as no longer a piece of Music, but a force of Nature.


Galileo Metamorphoses into Lulu. At which Z?

[Anna]

Galileo Metamorphoses into Lulu. At which Z?

You can fly from Zagreb to Galileo airport ..... but where's the Lulu? Are some Bankers involved in this I wonder? Off now btw!