Alphabet associations - I

[Flay]

as we all know, Wolfgang visited the Sistine Chapel

Quick, put me out of my misery! (Roughly translated...)

[mercia]

Allegri's Psalm 51, Miserere mei Deus for two choirs, one of four, one of five voices, famously written down from memory by the 14-year old Wolfgang Amadeus and at some stage handed over to Arne's pupil Charles Burney to subsequently publish in England.

[Resurrection Man]

Well done, Mercs

[mercia]

B

Emily Elphinstone, Mr Marrast, the end of a Trilogy

[Nick Armstrong]

Quick, put me out of my misery! (Roughly translated...)

[Northender]

Anything to do with a former PM?

[Resurrection Man]

Berlioz?

[mercia]

Anything to do with a former PM?

not as far as I know
the answer is not Blair [if that's what you were thinking]

[mercia]

Berlioz?

'fraid not

have you discovered who Emily Elphinstone was ?
or Mr Marrast ?

[Northender]

not as far as I know
the answer is not Blair [if that's what you were thinking]

No, I was thinking Balfour (hence Gardiner?), merely because Google led me to an EE family tree in which the name crops up.

[mercia]

Emily Elphinstone

not her full name [as you may have discovered]

she had a piece dedicated to her

[mercia]

Mr Marrast was a conductor

[Flay]

Mr Marrast was a conductor

Not Armand Marrast who revised the libretto for Rossini's Guillaume Tell? (I just popped along for a lunchtime wild goose chase )

[Flay]

And not the lovely-looking Irish actress Emily Elphinstone? Shame!

http://www.irishtheatreonline.com/ita/itaprofile.aspx?1=1&id=2025

[mercia]

Not Armand Marrast

'fraid not

mine was a Walther

am I causing headaches ?? [that's not a clue]