Alphabet associations - I

[Don Petter]

That'll do it!

You're right!

It was quite enough for me to confuse Hermione Gingold with Yvonne Arnaud.

(Damn! There's another 'Y' I can't use now ...)

[Norfolk Born]

Feeling in particularly mischievous mood, Ofca???

Mischievous - moi? Not particularly.
EDIT: Well, maybe just a bit.
RE-EDIT: Well, fairly.
DE-EDIT: No, maybe 'just a bit' is right after all.

[Nick Armstrong]

Isaac Albeniz springs to mind - but I'm stumped for Yorkshire, Middlesex, or Saxon Isaacs...

He does not spring to your mind in vain. Very much the Catalonian connection... But Isaac is not the "I" concerned. Probably a little late now. More in the morning folks, sorry to have left the shop unattended this evening.

[mercia]

just read something funny about Albeniz

"In 1880 he went to Budapest to study with Liszt only to discover that Liszt was in Weimar"

[Nick Armstrong]

just read something funny about Albeniz

"In 1880 he went to Budapest to study with Liszt only to discover that Liszt was in Weimar"

that is very funny.

Pity the "I" in question isn't "idiot"....


PS Talking of idiots, did you know that French Président Nicolas Sarkozy's ex-wife Cécilia was Albéniz's great grand-daughter?

[Nick Armstrong]

Tumbleweed time again. Anyone want clues???

[Norfolk Born]

Is it something to do with the International Brigade? Albeniz wrote something, Walton contributed to an exhibition, and Berlin-, i.e. Saxony-born Alexander Goehr's in there somewhere...
(EDIT) Moeran's name has just cropped up in connection with his symphony and the IB. He was born in Heston (Middlesex).
I once met a former International Brigade commander, by the way.
(EDIT) Having re-read your question, I guess it's unlikely that anybody who died in the 19th century would have had any connection with the International Brigade.

[Nick Armstrong]

Is it something to do with the International Brigade? Albeniz wrote something, Walton contributed to an exhibition, and Berlin-, i.e. Saxony-born Alexander Goehr's in there somewhere...
(EDIT) Moeran's name has just cropped up in connection with his symphony and the IB. He was born in Heston (Middlesex).
I once met a former International Brigade commander, by the way.
(EDIT) Having re-read your question, I guess it's unlikely that anybody who died in the 19th century would have had any connection with the International Brigade.

No that's a dead end I'm afraid.

Would it help if I narrowed it down from regions to towns? So in order, the gentlemen concerned are from London, Leipzig and Bradford. The "I" in question is musical (but can also be poetic).

[subcontrabass]

No that's a dead end I'm afraid.

Would it help if I narrowed it down from regions to towns? So in order, the gentlemen concerned are from London, Leipzig and Bradford. The "I" in question is musical (but can also be poetic).

I can get an Idyll for Wagner (born Leipzig, "Siegfried Idyll") and Delius (born Bradford, "Idyll de Printemps").

[Nick Armstrong]

I can get an Idyll for Wagner (born Leipzig, "Siegfried Idyll") and Delius (born Bradford, "Idyll de Printemps").

And you get two s. Idyll indeed. Any more for any more?

[subcontrabass]

And you get two s. Idyll indeed. Any more for any more?

Digging around in Grove suggests Henry Balfour Gardiner (born London, "A Berkshire Idyll").

[rubbernecker]

Digging around in Grove suggests Henry Balfour Gardiner (born London, "A Berkshire Idyll").

...and George Butterworth, also born in London, is another possibility. As has been pointed out, Moeran was Middlesex-born, but I don't think he wrote any Idylls. Surprising really, as every other b*gger seems to have done

[Nick Armstrong]

...and George Butterworth, also born in London, is another possibility. As has been pointed out, Moeran was Middlesex-born, but I don't think he wrote any Idylls. Surprising really, as every other b*gger seems to have done

Balfour Gardiner and Butterworth would both do, indeed. It was Butterworth I was thinking of. Are there really many other Middlesex-born b*ggers who wrote Idylls??? I challenge you to name two others.

And Albeniz was the Catalan: the second of his Catalan Scenes for Orchestra was "Idylle - Andante quasi allegro"

That's enough Idylls (Ed.)

Anyway I hope subcontrabass is planning his/her "J" question.

[subcontrabass]

Anyway I hope subcontrabass is planning his "J" question.

What Jwas uniquely linked to a German composer, and was also linked to a Scottish department store, and (according to his father) also linked to a Gloucestershire doctor?

[mercia]

anything to do with Brahms?