Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

I was thinking of " .. I am that merry wanderer of the night.
I jest to Oberon and make him smile"

Lovely, ammy However...

The word roaming is important, as mentioned above

[amateur51]

Lovely, ammy However...

The word roaming is important, as mentioned above

Oh I'll leave it to Anna to finish off.

Going off line for quite a while now.

[Northender]

O Mistress Mine, where are you roaming? (And did you happen to see my brain while on your travels?)

[Nick Armstrong]

O Mistress Mine, where are you roaming? (And did you happen to see my brain while on your travels?)

Yes!!!

So three Mistresses

- Quickly (from Henry IV & V - and Verdi etc...)
- Oh --- Mine where are you roaming (sung by Feste in Twelfth Night I think, set by Quilter and Finzi among others)
- --- Nichols's Alman - at least 3 versions by John Dowland.

I thought that would be quite an easy follow-on from Flay's Lasses.... but it proved a headache

Northo, must be the heat.

You worked so hard.. Ammy is offline (he says) and Anna is so modest...

Why don't you restore the grey cells by taking the N, Mr N?

[Northender]

Okily dokily, as Ned Flanders would say...just talk among yourselves for a bit!

[Northender]

OK, 'N'.....
Here's a sort of musical 'medals table':
Austria 6
Italy 2
Israel 1
France 1
Germany 1
Japan 1
Latvia 1
USA 1
(You may answer in the original language or in English)

[Nick Armstrong]

(You may answer in the original language or in English)

Gee, you're all heart!!

[Anna]

and Anna is so modest...

No, not so, but I had to go, phone calls, trying to give impression of efficiency and not wasting time faffing about here.
Blimey, Northo's seems ........ puzzling as where to even start, let alone start brushing up my Latvian!

[subcontrabass]

OK, 'N'.....
Here's a sort of musical 'medals table':
Austria 6
Italy 2
Israel 1
France 1
Germany 1
Japan 1
Latvia 1
USA 1
(You may answer in the original language or in English)

Conductors of Das Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker
(assuming that you missed out India from your list, and included Germany instead)

[vinteuil]

Conductors of Das Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker

... but why isn't there a Nobel Prize for Music?

[Northender]

Conductors of Das Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker
(assuming that you missed out India from your list, and included Germany instead)

I couldn't decide, or work out, which country Kleiber should represent (he's described as 'a German-born Austrian conductor'). The omission of India was uninentional. However, it didn't take you long to work out that this is a list of the countries of birth/adoption of those who have been invited to conduct the New Year's Concert in Vienna. (Full list available on various websites).
Ready for an 'O', if you please!

[Northender]

No, not so, but I had to go, phone calls, trying to give impression of efficiency and not wasting time faffing about here.
Blimey, Northo's seems ........ puzzling as where to even start, let alone start brushing up my Latvian!

Let's face it, Anna, there aren't many tables of this kind - or indeed any other - in which Austria will come top.

[subcontrabass]

An O to link a fiddler, a desert island, and an interlude on another island.

[Nick Armstrong]

An O to link a fiddler, a desert island, and an interlude on another island.

I can't get past OSCAR Shumsky and the Oscars for South Pacific... I can't imagine that's right.

Is the 'fiddler' a classical violinist (or are you being deliberately ambiguous using the word 'fiddler'?)?

[subcontrabass]

I can't get past OSCAR Shumsky and the Oscars for South Pacific... I can't imagine that's right.

Is the 'fiddler' a classical violinist (or are you being deliberately ambiguous using the word 'fiddler'?)?

"fiddler" is the normal term for that link (i.e. a folk fiddler). The second island is a long way south of "Boris Island".