Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

O = The Triumphs of Oriana, madrigals collected by Thomas Morley, included:
Michael East : Hence Stars
John Mundy : Lightly she whipped (o’er the Dales) (no wonder Ellis Powell was worried about Jim)
George Marson : The Nymphs and Shepherds Danced
Thomas Tomkins : The Fauns and Satyrs

Perfection, Angel! Thank you for such a meticulous Anna-summary so late!

The only thing I'd add is that in myth, Silenus was the leader of the satyrs. (One has to make these things a little oblique - my first version just said 'stars' and 'satyrs'... copying the puzzle word for word into google led to about 20 results, all highlighting "Oriana" ! Too easy, I thought!)

[Nick Armstrong]

It is well over a year since I set an AA puzzle - not since before we had a summer recess in 2011 - but here goes:

It's extremely good to have you back

a P from which issued :

Poor Hal, old ways and a heart

I'm retiring too. Let us see what the morning shift produce!

Bonne nuit

[Angle]

Not much sign of life yet. Too close an association with Silenus all round last night ?

[antongould]

Here but struggling to P

[Nick Armstrong]

Here also but not yet able to focus on the P...

Sometimes these days AA doesn't move with the helter-skelter speed of early 2011! Hang on in there! There are people out there cogitating furiously!

[mercia]

clue please

is Poor Hal a Shakespeare quote ?

or am I looking for another impecunious Henry ? HAL, Arthur C Clarke computer

old ways - Neil Young album

[Anna]

Stumped. Angle's first said "Hal's Brigade" before he changed it. That only led me to a battle in the Vietnamese War. Good King Hal led nowhere either, nor did Poor Hal ..... so I don't know where to start looking.

[Nick Armstrong]

Stumped. Angle's first said "Hal's Brigade" before he changed it. That only led me to a battle in the Vietnamese War. Good King Hal led nowhere either, nor did Poor Hal ..... so I don't know where to start looking.

Yup me too, been puzzling on and off this afternoon. One of my google searches had as its No 1 result, mercia's post #26781 !!

Second the motion: clue please, Angle!

[Anna]

Not sure how the Neil Young fits, I was vaguely thinking Paul Simon until I realised it was "You can call me Al" not Hal!! But Angle's teasers are usually Strictly Classical. I think I'll have to call it a day and check in a lot later.
(I know Angle is a late riser, do we have to wait for sunset and remove all mirrors?)

[Flay]

Hmm: Blind alleys we should not frequent....: In 1963 Hal Borne composed most of the songs for the infamous first topless mainstream movie Promises! Promises!

[Anna]

<shriek> I have composed, and deleted, three messages about Promises, Promises Thank the Lord I am now offline.

[Nick Armstrong]

<shriek> I have composed, and deleted, three messages about Promises, Promises Thank the Lord I am now offline.

Knee-tremblers, Promises..... There's no pinning Anna down!!

[Angle]

Phew. Back. Sorry to have been so long.

P is a composer and two of the works referred to in the clues are operas.

And pay no attention to "Hal's Brigade" - that was an error. Search instead for a European "Poor Hal".

[mercia]

a-ha!

arme Heinrich

[Flay]

a-ha!

arme Heinrich

Pfiitz! He's gone. Have a heart. Mercia's back to his old ways...

Spit it out, man!