Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

Ieuan Jones - splendid whizz on the right-angled harpy [especially in Majorca]
Dafydd Ieuan - Y Pawb drum-majorette
Ieuan Gwyllt - do-re-me Roberts to his friends

[mercia]

another great question that am'ter really got me going


J linking

a pupil of Paul Hindemith's brother
a member of the Curtis string quartet
a performance of Nielsen 5 in 1971

[Northender]

Are you trying to give us a heart attack?
Jascha Horenstein suffered a heart attack when conducting the Nielsen in 1971, and Jascha Brodksy of the Curtis Quartet died, in his apartment I believe, also of a heart attack.

[mercia]

Jascha Brodksy of the Curtis Quartet died, in his apartment I believe, also of a heart attack.

didn't know that

[cloughie]

didn't know that

Jascha Silberstein - a pupil of Paul Hindemith's brother Rudolph,cellist.

[Northender]

Jascha Silberstein studied with Rudolf Hindemith.
So: the above, plus Jascha Horenstein and Jascha Brodsky?

[Nick Armstrong]

Think piano sans woodwork, raised thru 90 degrees, mercs

Just catching up and feeling I am in a parallel universe where the rules of physics do not apply

I shall read on. No doubt all will be revealed...

[mercia]

Jascha Silberstein studied with Rudolf Hindemith.
So: the above, plus Jascha Horenstein and Jascha Brodsky?

brilliant work there Northover
EDIT - ah, the cluff was there too

kick us into touch with a K ?????

[Northender]

I'll see what I can do....

[Nick Armstrong]

Ah now it gets complicated. John Roberts is the English name of I number 1 who was not a harpist; the second I, Esplenderoso, is the harpist.

Think John Roberts, think development of tonic sol-fa in his home country. And in what part of UK is it traditional for cultural exponents to have a second name for cultural events?

[Nick Armstrong]

how do SuperFurryWhatsits relate to The Thing?

Anyone coming fresh to this thread would, I think, summon the emergency services at this point!

[vinteuil]

Anyone coming fresh to this thread would, I think, summon the emergency services at this point!

... I agree - and certainly when they come to :

Ieuan Jones - splendid whizz on the right-angled harpy [especially in Majorca]
Dafydd Ieuan - Y Pawb drum-majorette
Ieuan Gwyllt - do-re-me Roberts to his friends

[Northender]

A 'K', please to link two works, premiered in 1874 and 1886 respectively, by one composer and a three-part symphonic picture, published in 1892, by a different composer of the same nationality.

[Nick Armstrong]

really got me going

The phrase "glutton for punishment" leaps to mind!!

[Nick Armstrong]

... I agree - and certainly when they come to :

Originally Posted by mercia
Ieuan Jones - splendid whizz on the right-angled harpy [especially in Majorca]
Dafydd Ieuan - Y Pawb drum-majorette
Ieuan Gwyllt - do-re-me Roberts to his friends

Scary stuff.

I think so-fa-la-la Amateur must have had an extra shredded wheat this morning