Alphabet associations - I

[antongould]

... if you avoid the "search" facility in the top red line - and instead go to the AA thread and there use the "search thread" box - you will find there have been eleven (and after this entry probably twelve... ) entries showing which have "accordion" in them - and then it's quite easy to go to the one you want.

I've always said it vints - you are a genius - many thanks. Should help me play by the rules/laws.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I went to the première of "Gawain"

Me, too! I bumped into David Hockney (quite literally, I was reading the programme book, he was chatting to others and we collided). I remember thinking to myself, "He's cool; he's used to Californian generosity of spirit, don't embarrass yourself and him by saying something idiotic." So I was horrified to hear, coming from my own mouth, a sound like a whooppee cushion vaguely articulating the class expression "Whoops-a-daisy!" He didn't look impressed.

[Nick Armstrong]

I've always said it vints - you are a genius - many thanks. Should help me play by the rules/laws.

Yes thanks vinsanto I was about to post that I've never really understood the search facility either, and then along comes out scholarly saviour

As to rules / laws - I think it was established early on that no one minds duplications, on the metaphorical basis that there are many ways to skin a cat.

[Nick Armstrong]

Me, too! I bumped into David Hockney (quite literally, I was reading the programme book, he was chatting to others and we collided). I remember thinking to myself, "He's cool; he's used to Californian generosity of spirit, don't embarrass yourself and him by saying something idiotic." So I was horrified to hear, coming from my own mouth, a sound like a whooppee cushion vaguely articulating the class expression "Whoops-a-daisy!" He didn't look impressed.

Many's the time I've heard Dave recount that story! So it was you!!



I once had the same experience with Harold Pinter. He didn't just look not impressed, rather that I was something he had omitted to scrape off his shoe. Didn't say much though. Typical

[Nick Armstrong]

Please find the concertante link between this B and a starry canticle, some extreme Wagner and an apparently noisy piece by a centenarian...

[subcontrabass]

Please find the concertante link between this B and a starry canticle, some extreme Wagner and an apparently noisy piece by a centenarian...

Bongo ???

[amateur51]

... if you avoid the "search" facility in the top red line - and instead go to the AA thread and there use the "search thread" box - you will find there have been eleven (and after this entry probably twelve... ) entries showing which have "accordion" in them - and then it's quite easy to go to the one you want.

Blimey vints, this is a revelation!!

I bet even the proprietor didn't know about this - fab!

[Nick Armstrong]

Bongo ???

No but I'd love to know why you thought it might be!

Because I'm sure you weren't just guessing, scb...

[amateur51]

No but I'd love to know why you thought it might be!

Because I'm sure you weren't just guessing, scb...

Yes the very thought of {scb + guess} does not compute, Captain

[subcontrabass]

No but I'd love to know why you thought it might be!

Because I'm sure you weren't just guessing, scb...

Started with Tintinnabulation, composed by Elliott Carter in his 100th year. Then found other things that seemed to fit the other clues (e.g. Wagner Carrilho playing bongos on X-factor).

[Nick Armstrong]

Started with Tintinnabulation, composed by Elliott Carter in his 100th year. Then found other things that seemed to fit the other clues (e.g. Wagner Carrilho playing bongos on X-factor).

Brill ! You are right about Carter, of course: comfortably a centenarian now though he wasn't quite when he wrote the piece you're looking for.

[subcontrabass]

Brill ! You are right about Carter, of course: comfortably a centenarian now though he wasn't quite when he wrote the piece you're looking for.

Soundings ? (written for Barenboim)

also Barenboim premiered Astral Canticle by Augusta Read Thomas, and was the first to conduct Wagner in Israel.

[Nick Armstrong]

Soundings ? (written for Barenboim)

also Barenboim premiered Astral Canticle by Augusta Read Thomas, and was the first to conduct Wagner in Israel.

Oh you're good, scb, you're very good

Yes: Soundings and Astral Canticle were both dedicated to our B, Mr Barenboim, Mr Topical of the past week.

But for the third element: wrong Wagner

You're after a third piece dedicated to DB

[subcontrabass]

Oh you're good, scb, you're very good

Yes: Soundings and Astral Canticle were both dedicated to our B, Mr Barenboim, Mr Topical of the past week.

But for the third element: wrong Wagner

You're after a third piece dedicated to DB

A bit more hunting produces Melinda Wagner: Piano Concerto: Extremity of Sky

[Nick Armstrong]

Three out of three

Yes, three concertante pieces dedicated to Barenboim:

Astral Canticle - Augusta Read Thomas
Extremity of Sky - Melinda Wagner
Soundings - Elliott Carter

Your turn to go to C