Alphabet associations - I

[Flay]

Indeed, no Mozart

Curses, all that wasted time getting myself educated on these works.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Curses, all that wasted time getting myself educated on these works.

Yes; I was wondering about a Mozart/Wagner collaboration, The Fafner Serenade.

[Nick Armstrong]

Stop Faff'n around...



And surely such education is never wasted, Flay?

Reminds me of the retort in "Kind Hears and Coronets"

Sibylla: He is trying to broaden his mind
Louis: Well he has ample room to do so...

[Nick Armstrong]

Clue: a Czech, a Russian and a Frenchman....

[Flay]

And surely such education is never wasted, Flay?

Reminds me of the retort in "Kind Hears and Coronets"

Sibylla: He is trying to broaden his mind
Louis: Well he has ample room to do so...

Cheek!

Education is never wasted. Apart from its entertainment value, this MB (and AA in particular) has been incredibly educational to me: frantically surfing for clues and answers, reading and discovering about music, its creators, patrons and performers. Long may it continue!

Where else would I have heard about Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant Chuckerbutty?

[Nick Armstrong]

Cheek!

Education is never wasted. Apart from its entertainment value, this MB (and AA in particular) has been incredibly educational to me: frantically surfing for clues and answers, reading and discovering about music, its creators, patrons and performers. Long may it continue!

Where else would I have heard about Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant Chuckerbutty?

[Flay]

In fact the whole forum is Fantastic!

[Nick Armstrong]

In fact the whole forum is Fantastic!

Come on then....

[Flay]

In reverse order:

Symphonie Fantastique - penultimate movement - "Marche au supplice" (March to the Scaffold)
Three Fantastic Dances - Shostakovich

And thirdly.... I thought I had found something but have lost the reference...

[Flay]

Perhaps Suk's Fantastic Scherzo, but that's no laughing matter, is it?

[Nick Armstrong]

In reverse order:

Symphonie Fantastique - penultimate movement - "Marche au supplice" (March to the Scaffold)

Three Fantastic Dances - Shostakovich

And thirdly Suk's Fantastic Scherzo*, but that's no laughing matter, is it?

Fantastic, Flay - perfect answer A G please.

In the hands of someone like Charles Mackerras, the Suk can be exhilarating, I think. In ohters' hands, it can be repetitive and certainly no laughing matter...


From Italian scherzo "joke, play", from scherzare "to joke, jest" from Old Italian scherzare, of Germanic origin, from Lombardic *skerzan "to jump merrily, enjoy oneself, jest" from Proto-Germanic *skirtanan (“to hop, jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerǝd- (“to dance, jump”). Akin to Middle High German scherzen "to frolic, jump merrily, hop up and down" (German scherzen "to joke"; Scherz "joke, sport"), Norwegian skjerta "to joke"

[Flay]

Humblest apologies about the

Find me an G please: Erik did, probably Fred & Claude too.

[cloughie]

Humblest apologies about the

Find me an G please: Erik did, probably Fred & Claude too.

anything to do with Gnossiemes or Gymnopedies and are Fred and Claude Delius and Debussy?

[Flay]

Not Delius, no gymnastics, not that diagnosis

[Flay]

Perhaps I should have said Fréd...