Alphabet associations - I

[Simon]

Alas, little daffodil, I cannot. Just because I started the thread doesn't mean I automatically know all the answers! In fact, I have known few of them and been mightily impressed with the erudition of others, including thee.

Choral & organ music, Mozart and some pre-20thC piano stuff. That's about it for me, really. x

[Norfolk Born]

Acting on Simon's 2 out of 3 principle, I offer as an answer Roger Quilter. He set Tennyson's 'Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal, Now The White' and wrote music for 'Where The Rainbow Ends' (crock of gold). I'll have to sleep on the horticultural element of your question.

[Anna]

Correct! It's Roger Quilter. The gardening element comes in handy when dealing with leaves or could describe a dissolute young man! But you can go straight on to an R if you want.

[Norfolk Born]

Well I never - he wrote a suite called 'The Rake'. The things one learns on this thread, eh? Just finalizing the wording of 'R' - back shortly!

[Norfolk Born]

Which R occurs twice in the title of three different songs, the words to which were written by people (all chaps, if that helps) born respectively:
(a) a few miles from a Scottish resort, (b) in Brooklyn and (c) in a town in Massachusetts that sounds as if it should be in Essex? Of the three, only (b) is still with us.

[Nick Armstrong]

Well done, Ofca... I thought about Quilter, but couldn't make the clues fit the name. Didn't occur to me to look at compositions of his

R sounds do-able with some thought! i shall try not to use google...

[antongould]

Is it Red and Classics by Burns, Diamond and Woods?

[Norfolk Born]

Indeed it is! Perhaps you would like to elucidate on behalf of our friends and then set a 'S' question.
I'm off to a concert now, then its back home with a takeaway to accompany a recording of the Calcutta Cup match.

[antongould]

I'll probably get it wrong now but

(My Love is like) A Red Red Rose by the Robert Burns
Red Red Wine by Neil Diamond
and
When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin(?) by Harry Woods

How long do the rules allow me to come back with an S?

[Nick Armstrong]

Is it Red and Classics by Burns, Diamond and Woods?

Got there before me! Coolly done! Great to see the Red glint of fresh blood on this thread!! Do stick around anton - and first of all, looking forward to your "S"

[Anna]

How long do the rules allow me to come back with an S?

Hello anton! No time limit, whenever you are ready (there is a rugby match on shortly!) And, echoing Caliban, nice to see someone new joining in.

[antongould]

Wish Lady Gould would allow me to watch the rugby - as a newcomer I'll probably "pitch" it all wrong but here goes

Which operatic S is linked by deaths of famous men in, with ever decreasing accuracy

1) 1469
2) 56/57 BC
3) sometime in the 3rd century BC?

[Anna]

That sounds lovely and cryptic! No, I don't have a clue at the moment (Six Nations takes priority here!) so don't get excited. Sometimes, just thought I would mention this, sundry matters such as wine tasting at the CoOp and cocktails whilst watching Corrie also come high on the agenda! An answer/guess is sometimes a long time coming.

[subcontrabass]

Wish Lady Gould would allow me to watch the rugby - as a newcomer I'll probably "pitch" it all wrong but here goes

Which operatic S is linked by deaths of famous men in, with ever decreasing accuracy

1) 1469
2) 56/57 BC
3) sometime in the 3rd century BC?

Looks like Roger Sessions (operas Montezuma and The Trial of Lucullus, plus Idyll of Theocritus). (Montezuma died 1469, Lucullus died 56/57 BC, Theocritus died 3rd Century BC).

[antongould]

Indeed well done look forward to T with you