Alphabet associations - I

[Flay]

I'm actually in two different States tonight.

[cloughie]

Probably. This nightingale was noted for a record.

Glad you are back from choir practice, cloughie, it was getting lonesome here.

Adelina Patti was not the nightingale that was her contemporary Jenny Lind. However mechanical nightingales were used in Respighi's Pines of Rome. Then mallett - another fine mess, Stanley and the Trail of the Lonesome Pine (Virginia the other state). So that leaves Chicago violinist Rachel Barton Pine. Thanks to your heavy hints I may have cracked - shame you couldn't have got Courtney in there somewhere.

[Flay]

You have indeed cracked it, cloughie! Pine it is

The story of Rachel Barton Pine's accident makes terrifying reading:

On January 16, 1995, Barton Pine was severely injured in a train accident in the suburb of Winnetka, where she taught violin lessons. As she was exiting a Metra commuter train with her violin over her shoulder, the doors closed on the strap to her case, pinning her left shoulder to the train. The doors, which were controlled remotely and had no safety sensors, failed to reopen, and she was dragged 366 feet by the train before being pulled underneath and run over, severing one leg and mangling the other

It's a great credit to her that she continued with her career.

A recent tweet of hers:

What's the most exciting sound in the world? An orchestra warming up!

[Flay]

Lets have a Quintessential cloughie Question...

[cloughie]

Away from computer now for a while so my Question cannot be set - need a subsetter, please.

[Nick Armstrong]

Nobody joined the Q...

I could but not much point, off on a jaunt to France in the morning for a couple of days

Not back yet Quloughie?

[antongould]

Where is My Learned Friend actually domiciled?

[mercia]

filling in uninvited



Q

Paolo, Elisa, Lionello, Franco

[vinteuil]

filling in uninvited



Q

Paolo, Elisa, Lionello, Franco

I think last time we had this Italian foursome it was Paolo, Elisa, Piero, and Franco...

[mercia]

I think last time we had this Italian foursome it was Paolo, Elisa, Piero, and Franco...

oh dear, and was it me that set the question ?

never mind, looking forward to your Q question as a replacement

[Flay]

Q

Paolo, Elisa, Lionello, Franco

I'm not playing just now - working. But here's a nice picture:

Caption competition, anyone?

[Nick Armstrong]

Where is My Learned Friend actually domiciled?

[Nick Armstrong]

oh dear, and was it me that set the question ?

Easily done, mercs!

[amateur51]

Easily done, mercs!

I don't see that it matters really

[vinteuil]

never mind, looking forward to your Q question as a replacement

... am feeling a bit querulous about producing a Q - what about an R?

... an R which might bring together French art nouveau, a silversmith, and troubadors and weavers?