Alphabet associations - I

[Flay]

I see what you mean When was that until? [Edit - you just edited yourself: you dunno. Was it fairly recently?]

[mercia]

Was it fairly recently?

at least 2 or 3 months back - I think I stopped on Z, but wouldn't swear to it

[Flay]

at least 2 or 3 months back - I think I stopped on Z, but wouldn't swear to it

I bet you did a lot of swearing, judging by the list!

[Nick Armstrong]

Gosh, I'm going to Paris on Friday for the weekend. I'll keep my eyes open for you. Are you staying at the George V too?

No... Back to London this evening...

But for now, am standing by Chopin's tomb in Pere Lachaise cemetary, place beloved of AAers. All Saints Day very atmospheric here! Greetings!

[Anna]

But for now, am standing by Chopin's tomb in Pere Lachaise cemetary, place beloved of AAers. All Saints Day very atmospheric here! Greetings!

You may well be in Père Lachaise Cemetery but I reckon it's Jim Morrison's grave, not Chopin's you're next to!

Gosh, I'm going to Paris on Friday for the weekend. I'll keep my eyes open for you. Are you staying at the George V too?

Are you really staying at the George V? Have you won the Lottery? If so, can you lend me a fiver?

[Northender]

...or Jean-Jacques-Regis de Cambaceres...

[vinteuil]

...or Jean-Jacques-Regis de Cambaceres...

And, for those whose recollections of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era have become a little hazy :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Jacques_Régis_de_Cambacérès

[Anna]

If the above is an answer to Flay's An operatic T to link two children of Tuscany and a child of Holstein I'm afraid I've got lost in the gay, lesbian, transgendered, clues the last postings have thrown up!
Obviously others are more worldy-wise than I and I leave it to them to solve.
Offline now. Confused and no further forward I shall relax and check in later.

[Flay]

No it isn't anything to do with that! It's 2 composers who were born in Tuscany

[Flay]

It's 3 composers in total.

[Nick Armstrong]

where's calabash when I need him

Currently back in London and chortling at your captions to the b&w photo

Haven't caught up yet to see which letter is current...

[Nick Armstrong]

An operatic T to link two children of Tuscany and a child of Holstein.

Stating the blinking obvious perhaps, Tuscany's operatic offspring were Puccini (Lucca) and Mascagni (Livorno)... Only T that comes to mind is Torre (del Lago) where Puccini lived and Mascagni conducted. But the Holstein connection is eluding me and I think Torre is unlikely to be right...

[Flay]

Puccini

[antongould]

Turandot?

[Nick Armstrong]

Puccini

Oh... we're talking about Busoni as well aren't we? I see he was a Tuscan too.

So is it Turandot - they both wrote operas entitled that - with the lad from Holstein being Carl Maria von Weber who wrote incidental music for Turandot, being a play based on the same story (themes used by Hindemith in his Symphonic Metamorphosis...)