Alphabet associations - I

[Flay]

No, try again. The Fireworks reference is probably the easiest. An unusual instrument...

But when I Google it the S is not mentioned in Wiki. But I feel sure I recall its original usage. Please don't hiss at me for this.

[Northender]

Hiss .... serpent? I guess the very nice place might be Paradise.

[Flay]

Hiss .... serpent? I guess the very nice place might be Paradise.

Serpent it is . But the very nice place is more physical, matronly.... As #25748/9

[Northender]

...Bax > Tamara K > J.M. Barrie 'The Truth About the Russian Dancers' > Serpent Dance.

[Northender]

Handel aria 'A Serpent In My Bosom'

[Flay]

Handel aria 'A Serpent In My Bosom'

Excellent - "A Serpent, in my Bosom Warm'd" was the name I had for the aria from Saul.

Bax - Serpent Dance (for piano)

The Serpent Dance has a somewhat convoluted history. It is the middle movement of a set of excerpts from incidental music Bax composed for a production of J. M. Barrie's play The Truth about the Russian Dancers. Diaghilev's legendary Ballet Russes took London by storm in the early part of the century, and audiences were particularly smitten with the ballerina Tamara Karsavina. Bax's own admiration for her led to his participation in the 1920 Barrie project, in which the ballerina played a lead role. The pieces were later arranged for piano solo and dedicated to Reginald Paul, a Royal Academy of Music professor. Some of the material was recycled from a 1911 Bax ballet called Tamara (which was never performed).

And I believe Handel added Serpents as an option in the score for the Firework Music.

Time for a T, or shall we wait until morning?

[Resurrection Man]

An excellent clue !

[mercia]

Rhymes with Gollum

what does ?


just been reading about the serpent - wikipedia says the contrabass version is called an anaconda and the soprano is a worm
[and ophicleide means "keyed serpent"] - now you know

[Flay]

what does ?

Bosom! Well, sort of

I didn't want incorrect terminology bouncing in.

[Flay]

just been reading about the serpent - wikipedia says the contrabass version is called an anaconda and the soprano is a worm
[and ophicleide means "keyed serpent"] - now you know

We learn so much on here!

A more apt name for the soprano would have been an asp.

[Northender]

T will be served shortly. I, too, thought Flay's 'S' was excellent.

[Northender]

A 'T', please, linking works composed by four Russians and a Ukrainian, starting in 1950-51 and ending in 1997.

[mercia]

Triptych ?

are all the works called the T word ?

[mercia]

further thoughts - is it the word twenty-four ?

Shostakovich Preludes & Fugues 1950-51
Kapustin (Ukraine) - 1997 - opus 82 - 24 Preludes & Fugues
Rakov 1961 - 24 Children's Pieces in all keys
Shchedrin 1964/1970 - 24 Preludes & Fugues
Weinberg 1968 (for 'cello) - 24 Preludes
Tsintsadze 1971 - 24 Preludes

[Northender]

The word is indeed Twenty-four!
Shostakovitch, Shchedrin and Kapustin all feature in my list. They wrote sets of Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues, as did the two you're missing, whose contributions date from 1990 and 1994.