Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

T .... a bearded lady

any progress with this, raked or otherwise ?

Yes thanks to that nudge - Baba the Turk the bearded lady, a character in Stravinsky's "Rake's Progress".

Your #28525 suggests the importance of the T-T-T-urkish aspect, but in limited time available at the mo I can't see the link to 'Marienleben' (which I'd never heard of till just now) or

Rilke's Life of the Virgin Mary

or

(French) good food

[mercia]

Baba the Turk the bearded lady, a character in Stravinsky's "Rake's Progress".

Turkish isn't important, I was simply correcting anton who said she was a French bearded lady

so Baba the Turk in Rake's Progress, Hindemith's Marienleben (revised version), and whatever the French for "good food" is (Bernstein song cycle)

a (female) performer at the first performances of these works

[Nick Armstrong]

Turkish isn't important, I was simply correcting anton who said she was a French bearded lady

so Baba the Turk in Rake's Progress, Hindemith's Marienleben (revised version), and whatever the French for "good food" is (Bernstein song cycle)

a (female) performer at the first performances of these works

Ah well I know (look! no google!) Jennie Tourel played Baba the Turk in the first performance of Rake, and was a friend of Lenny's so chances are she sang anything he wrote (though I can't think of the relevant song cycle) and I guess she sang or premièred the Hindemith songs...

So: Tourel ?

[Anna]

So, it's La Bonne Cuisine? Well done Cali, I have laboured and got nowhere with this.

[mercia]

Jennie Tourel played Baba the Turk in the first performance of Rake

ah, so you knew all along, very impressive

yes, wiki says Tourel premiered Bernstein's La Bonne Cuisine [hope that means what I thought it did], the revised Marienleben and Baba in The Rake

[Flay]

So, it's La Bonne Cuisine? Well done Cali, I have laboured and got nowhere with this.

I had grown a beard thinking about it....

[Nick Armstrong]

I had grown a beard thinking about it....

Get a grip woman!!!

[Nick Armstrong]

ah, so you knew all along, very impressive

yes, wiki says Tourel premiered Bernstein's La Bonne Cuisine [hope that means what I thought it did], the revised Marienleben and Baba in The Rake

Oh Lord... in about 30 mins I have to be offline till the end of the evening. Might someone very kindly take the next one off my hands?

Anna - would you be prepared to relieve me?

It would be great to have an Anna question after all your helpful hints and nudges over the last few traversals of the alphabet !

PS I had never even heard of LB's 'La Bonne Cuisine' - strange.

[Nick Armstrong]

I'll take that as a "No" then, Anna!

Ummm... ok then. Give me a little while....

[Nick Armstrong]

This is becoming rather a familiar format for AA questions but I can't think of anything more original at this hour:

A U linking three very musical gentlemen: Cecil, Ernest and Sir Arthur

[Roslynmuse]

This is becoming rather a familiar format for AA questions but I can't think of anything more original at this hour:

A U linking three very musical gentlemen: Cecil, Ernest and Sir Arthur

I'm thinking Utopia but I'd have to think harder to find a Cecil or Ernest link!

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm thinking Utopia but I'd have to think harder to find a Cecil or Ernest link!

No Rossy, nice try - but I think you may have the wrong Sir Arthur too...

[Roslynmuse]

No Rossy, nice try - but I think you may have the wrong Sir Arthur too...

Should I be more Blissful?

[Nick Armstrong]

Should I be more Blissful?

Nor him neither...

[Roslynmuse]

Nor him neither...

Conan Doyle, Quiller-Couch...