Alphabet associations - I

[Northender]

I hope you lot aren't loitering within tent
(That's not a further clue - I would hope the amendment to my original question (# 23204) would have put you in the picture by now - that could well be a further clue...)

[Flay]

"Without warning" sounds like a flash mob - as on another recent post. But they don't usually go on that long...

[Flay]

Sorry, I can't get the significance of the dates. Somebody will get it.

Must mow the lawn now while the sun shines.

[mercia]

well June 21 to September 21 in any year is roughly from the summer solstice to the autumn equinox so what some consider to be summer
can't remember what happened last year - riots in August I think
a summer picture
a picture of summer
not the dates of the proms
summer riots in the form of a double quintet

[Flay]

All very well, but weren't we on an O???

[mercia]

the orful summer of 2011
did it rain ?

[Northender]

Try preceding (or do I mean prefixing) 'Summer' (or indeed 'Last Summer') with an adverb meaning 'without warning'.

[mercia]

Suddenly Last Summer, a play (then film) by Tennessee Williams
I shall look for some connected quintets

[Northender]

The film should lead you to Mr O.
EDIT:
I have to go out for an hour or so, but have every confidence you'll have come up with all the details by then!

[mercia]

well well, a Hollywood film with British music, that's a bit unusual isn't it. maybe not.
I'm rather busy too but I'm sure the answer will be reached within the hour.

[Nick Armstrong]

Mr O.

Catching up after a slow start to Saturday (no change there then )

Mr O connected with the film of "Suddenly Last Summer"... and a load of bizarre chamber music...

Mission accepted.

<commences feverish googling>

[Nick Armstrong]

It transpires that the score for the film was written by the strangely named Buxton Daeblitz Orr (he sounds like an anagram), born Glasgow 18 April 1924

He seems to have written various music for wind ensembles, but I can't find the combinations listed. Should I keep looking?

There seem to be various other composers in various genres by the name of Orr.

UPDATE:

As you were, old Buxton wrote A Caledonian Suite (1980) for Brass Band (also for Tentet); and Tournament for ten solo brass (1985)

And, indeed, Sonata per Dieci (1967) for Double Wind Quintet

And Highland Complaintes and Fancies (1976) for Double Reeds Trio

I think that's the lot?



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[Flay]

Absolutely brilliant, Calibs! I return from the garden to find it solved, with eloquence!

Mrs Flay is working today. Must nip out to shops, should have done it this morning but too distracted. Bread needed

[Northender]

Caliban - Indeed! As Arthur English (who, I'm sure, you're FAR too young to remember or have even heard of, used to say: 'That's Yer Lot!'.
I think you've satisfied the Welsh lady's requirements , so could we have a 'P' please, Bob? (I know your name's probably not Bob, and you may never have rented a DVD from Blockbuster, but it might raise a smile among any fans of the late Mr Holness).

[amateur51]

Caliban - Indeed! As Arthur English (who, I'm sure, you're FAR too young to remember or have even heard of, used to say: 'That's Yer Lot!'.
I think you've satisfied the Welsh lady's requirements , so could we have a 'P' please, Bob? (I know your name's probably not Bob, and you may never have rented a DVD from Blockbuster, but it might raise a smile among any fans of the late Mr Holness).

Calibs is quite old enough to remember Arthur English as Mr Harman and Mrs Slocum en banter in Are You Being Served, I'm sure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVR7MVWG_Wc