Alphabet associations - I

[Flay]

I presume this is a reference to the great Don Cherry?
I think I am having an ultra-blonde day but I honestly don't get where Fingal is in Brahms

Gesang aus Fingal for female voices, 2 horns, and harp, Op.17 - Brahms

[amateur51]

Thanking you all for your considerable patience, I return blinking in the dwindling daylight as a result of my annual diabetes eyetest with the eyedrops

What D started in South America, moved on to North America, then to Scandinavia and then back where it started

[Anna]

<Doh> emoticon, what am I like? (memo to self: Please Read Things With Utmost Concentration, Skimming is a Most Unhealthy Habit!) Sorry. I notice that someone locally has had their first grandchild and posted notice in the paper about it. The babe will be christened Ossian. There's odd, thought I, and just this morning I was thinking about Fingal! Tis true, life imitates coincidences.

[antongould]

Thanking you all for your considerable patience, I return blinking in the dwindling daylight as a result of my annual diabetes eyetest with the eyedrops

What D started in South America, moved on to North America, then to Scandinavia and then back where it started

Gustavo Dudamel can't be an it can he?

[amateur51]

Gustavo Dudamel can't be an it can he?

What on earth makes you suggest that, anton?

[Nick Armstrong]

What on earth makes you suggest that, anton?

He's got a System, I think.....

[amateur51]

He's got a System, I think.....

he could be onto something then

[antongould]

What on earth makes you suggest that, anton?

Simon Bolivar YO
LA Phil
Gothenburg Phil


And ever onward

[Nick Armstrong]

And ever onward

One is reminded of the final line of 'The Great Gatsby'.

Perhaps F. Scott was an AA-er manqué...

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"

(One of the great last lines ever, imho)

[antongould]

One is reminded of the final line of 'The Great Gatsby'.

Perhaps F. Scott was an AA-er manqué...

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"

(One of the great last lines ever, imho)

It is indeed My Learned Friend.

[amateur51]

Simon Bolivar YO
LA Phil
Gothenburg Phil


And ever onward

Absolutely spot on, anton except .. .. the return where the orchestra which he now leads is called the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar; the youth orchestra is now called the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra

Eee by gum

[antongould]

Absolutely spot on, anton except .. ;yikes: .. the return where the orchestra which he now leads is called the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar; the youth orchestra is now called the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra

Eee by gum

The last time I correctly cleared all 3 of Anna's fences was in 2009!

An E to bring together

Robert Mark
Birmingham and
Bartholomew.

[Flay]

....Our poor clients / patients....

I wasn't working today. More stressful than that. PM coming over....

[Nick Armstrong]

I wasn't working today. More stressful than that. PM coming over....

Bon courage, mon brave!

[Flay]

An E to bring together

Robert Mark
Birmingham and
Bartholomew.

I assume that's Sir Robert Mark, GBE, QPM, former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and not the drummer/percussionist?