Alphabet associations - I

[Resurrection Man]

We seem to be all at sea on this one?

[Resurrection Man]

Just popping out for a couple of pints of beer (that's not a clue!) and expect my wife will have a glass of wine or two (but that is!). Will check back in an hour or so.

[amateur51]

Many thanks ..

..a V please to link two Space Shuttles and Stephen Hawking

I didn't know that Stephen Hawking has done a 'weightless' session on a space shuttle

The things you learn while still being totally bamboozled

[mercia]

anything to do with this ???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voyage_(opera)

[amateur51]

anything to do with this ???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voyage_(opera)

Well found, mercs

[Resurrection Man]

Well done, Mercia.

Two of the Space Shuttles were called Discovery and Columbia (which is a derivative of Columbus). The Voyage was all about discovery etc according to Groves and one of the characters The Scientist was rumoured to have been absed on Stephen Hawkins who views the world from his wheelchair.

Over to you for the next one.

[mercia]

oh ! only a guess - I didn't really look into it
and now I have to think of a question
........ may be some time ............

[mercia]

W

Schubert 7, a Tragic Symphony, and piano sonata no. 29 for orchestra

[Flay]

W

Schubert 7, a Tragic Symphony, and piano sonata no. 29 for orchestra

It's not Vinny's outdoor cat is it?

Oops, friend round, pub night, I'm driving

[mercia]

It's not Vinny's outdoor cat is it?

might be, but you'll have to help me out with that

[Resurrection Man]

Would that be Weingartner: Symphony No. 6, Op. 74 in B minor “La Tragica” on CD ...


Beethoven (orch. Weingartner) Sonata No. 29 -

or for his idiomatic arrangement of Franz Schubert's sketches for the Symphony in E major, D. 729. ??

[mercia]

well done RM, got it in three and I can retire

sounds like you're quite familiar with Felix
ah, was that the cat reference ??

X/Y/Z/A ???

ta-ta

[Resurrection Man]

I'm afraid that I have never heard of him or the link to a cat! A lucky strike on Googling Piano Sonata No 29 gave me his name...and then further Googling to confirm it.

I would like to chicken out and jump to A if that is OK with everyone.

And so on that assumption (!), I am after ..

an A to link nine vocalists, Mozart's memory and a pupil of Thomas Arne.

[Flay]

I can get a good A for an Arne pupil which does link to Mozart, but not to his memory. However I cannot link it to nine vocalists. It's too good to spill out as it'll do nicely as a future clue.

Selfish or what?

[mercia]

as we all know, Wolfgang visited the Sistine Chapel