Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Stand by - anything can happen in the next five minutes!

What F links an unfinished masterpiece, a book of spells, and an unreliable witness from the commedia dell'arte?

Ah HA! Back to some amateur action

And yet again: Caliban, stumped, slouches back to the pavilion....

Can't find a way into this! Nothing with an F can I find re: Commedia dell'Arte!

[amateur51]

Ah HA! Back to some amateur action

And yet again: Caliban, stumped, slouches back to the pavilion....

Can't find a way into this! Nothing with an F can I find re: Commedia dell'Arte!

Praps a character therefrom, Caliban - used by this F?

[Resurrection Man]

Fool?

Figaro?

[amateur51]

Fool?

Figaro?

'fraid not, RM.

The F is the forename .. of a composer

[amateur51]

I'm off to the Post Office & to do a spot of light shopping so I'll be gone for say an hour and a half

[Resurrection Man]

I'm off to the Post Office & to do a spot of light shopping so I'll be gone for say an hour and a half

Didn't have you down as a candelabra man !

[mercia]

one of [Pagliacci] Leoncavallo's many forenames was Francesco

I did a question about Harlequin, but can't remember which composers were involved

oh yes Ferruccio Busoni was one

[Nick Armstrong]

one of [Pagliacci] Leoncavallo's many forenames was Francesco

I did a question about Harlequin, but can't remember which composers were involved

oh yes Ferruccio Busoni was one

Yes, I was trying to recall that! I think we also had a 'commedia' - Punch'n'Judy question too, didn't we? That gave me pause for thought as there is a crime and a policeman ("witness")...

[mercia]

there is a crime and a policeman ("witness")...

good thinking

I think Punch came into my Harlequin question somehow, if I can find it

[amateur51]

Didn't have you down as a candelabra man !

Ho ho ho!! You been at the PoundLand crackers already, RM?

[amateur51]

good thinking

I think Punch came into my Harlequin question somehow, if I can find it

Okies mercia - you've already given the answer without realising it I think

Re the commedia - keep it Italian, so Harlequin is Arlecchino - anyone write an opera of that name?

[Anna]

Oh, like mercia said, Ferruccio Busoni

[amateur51]

Oh, like mercia said, Ferruccio Busoni

He said it but he didn't say it was the answer, did he? ;erm:

Well it is

Would you like to say why, Anna?

Or mercs?

[amateur51]

I am the middle of slicing some runners whilst listening to JRR (oh, the secrets that we reveal) I am not sure of my meal for a friend who is coming round to wine and dine to the John Wilson orchestra (and we are looking forward to Seth MacFarlane and his velvety chocolate bourban voice, so I am distracted by whether new pots with garlic and rosemary will set off the salmon) but, I will throw caution to the winds and hope someone else picks up the G and say - Faust for a starter!! Edit: this is horribly wrong, as are the runners.

Erm ... we haven't got to the G yet, oh Coleslaw Originator

[mercia]

so it's Ferruccio Busoni ?

opera Doktor Faustus which he intended to be his masterpiece but remained incomplete at his death
opera Arlecchino [Harlequin] - was he an unreliable witness ? don't know

not sure of the book of spells - can't find a conveniently sized list of Busoni's works