Alphabet associations - I

[antongould]

I shall be offline in a meeting and then on a bike for a while... so, confidence in my V answer bolstered by the encouragement of Anna, Queen of Coleslaw (Vivaldi should certainly have set her story to music! Opera Buffa? or Romantic Tragedy? ), here to give fellow-puzzlers something to be going on with, is a W:

This second-barrel W links Alkan and some fancy footwork with Boléro and Louis XIV's confessor

You can't be giving it some Wely can you?

[Nick Armstrong]

You can't be giving it some Wely can you?

Oh I say, anton... A casual stroll to the crease... a look around the field... and then he elegantly lofts one into the Pavilion.

Care to talk us through it?

[mercia]

great question from Cackban

[Nick Armstrong]

great question from Cackban

What we need now is for wor anton to make good on his opening flourish!

[antongould]

Sorry for the delay and yes great question
Lefebure-Wely

Alkan was a dedicatee of an organ piece of his that required speedy footwork
He composed Bolero de Concert
And ended up in an allotment or the like named after Louis XIV's man

I got a poor F in French O Level

[Nick Armstrong]

Sorry for the delay and yes great question
Lefebure-Wely

Alkan was a dedicatee of an organ piece of his that required speedy footwork
He composed Bolero de Concert
And ended up in an allotment or the like named after Louis XIV's man

I got a poor F in French O Level

Bravo antonio!

Almost there... in fact it's Lefébure-Wély who was the dedicatee of the "12 études pour les pieds seulement" (12 Studies for organ pedals alone) by Alkan.

And the allotment in qu. was of course the Père Lachaise cemetary, named after the confessor aforesaid..

Now you get a poor X, Y or Z at AA-Level (I suppose we might allow you to take an A-grade instead... )

[antongould]

Sorry for the slip Prof.


A hopefully dead simple Y to connect

Foss
Hofmeyr and
Vacchi

[Flay]

A hopefully dead simple Y to connect

Foss
Hofmeyr and
Vacchi

You've really killed us with this one, Anton. Dead - is that a clue??

There's the 37,000 year old Hofmeyr skull - I'd say that's pretty well dead. But I can't find a significant musical connection. Forgive me but can I assume that the spelling is correct?

[vinteuil]

A hopefully dead simple Y to connect

Foss
Hofmeyr and
Vacchi

... dare we assume the Foss is Lukas and the Vacchi is Fabio ??

[Nick Armstrong]

... dare we assume... the Vacchi is Fabio ??

If it is Sergio, my friends in Rome are his offspring (/in-law): http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ser...w=1024&bih=587

[vinteuil]

If it is Sergio, my friends in Rome are his offspring (/in-law): http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ser...w=1024&bih=587

... well, from the pictures - what very interesting friends you have *, o Caliban !

[ * and I'm not merely referring to the coitus a tergo in the picture in line fourteen, quoique... ]

[antongould]

... dare we assume the Foss is Lukas and the Vacchi is Fabio ??

Sorry been working yes we have Lukas, Fabio and Hendrik and a good few more........

[Flay]

So its William Butler Yeats - I had him for Fabio Vacchi

[antongould]

Indeed Flay well done indeed

[Flay]

Fabio Vacchi - Ballade (1978) for soprano and chamber orchestra, text of William Butler Yeats
Hendrik Hofmeyr - The Land of Heart's Desire (1-act chamber opera, libretto by the composer, after William Butler Yeats)
Lukas Foss - For Cornelia, song for voice and piano (1955); text by William Butler Yeats