Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

Poulenc 4 Motets opus 152

Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël (Mixed chorus): "O magnum mysterium" (1952); "Quem vidistis pastores?" (1951); "Videntes stellam" (1951); "Hodie Christus natus est" (1952)

[Anna]

Poulenc 4 Motets opus 152

Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël (Mixed chorus): "O magnum mysterium" (1952); "Quem vidistis pastores?" (1951); "Videntes stellam" (1951); "Hodie Christus natus est" (1952)

God Bless Mercia!

[Flay]

Poulenc 4 Motets opus 152

Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël (Mixed chorus): "O magnum mysterium" (1952); "Quem vidistis pastores?" (1951); "Videntes stellam" (1951); "Hodie Christus natus est" (1952)

I feel a right Poulenker

[Nick Armstrong]

Poulenc 4 Motets opus 152

[I]Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël (Mixed chorus): "O magnum mysterium" (1952); "Quem vidistis pastores?" (1951); "Videntes stellam " (1951)

It came upon a mercia clear

Take it away, maestro...

[amateur51]

Don't you wiggle your ears at me young man in such a rude manner!!
I do not know the answer, but, can I guess, it starts with P?

Most things do these days, it seems to me - one of the downsides of getting older

[cloughie]

Pastern
Pastis
Pastrami
Pastor Manders

(after an ill-advised second glass of chartreuse vieillissement exceptionellement prolongé... )

<hiccup>

Past ... caring ...


<< snooze>>

I've often thought that some Francophile down here should start a distillery and produce Cornish Pastis - then I suppose it would be uneconomic because Gideon would put in a swingeing Pastis Tax!

[mercia]

sorry, Q eludes me


an R who had been a "forger" and jazz violinist and later replaced Panufnik

[Flay]

Hugo Henry Rheingold

[mercia]

Rheingold

some of the right letters ..... but not necessarily in the right order

well done

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

[Flay]

some of the right letters ..... but not necessarily in the right order

Revenge for your Q jumping! An R is unravelling as I write....

[Flay]

Please find me an S common to a ballet from a Fat Tuesday composer, an 1882 opera from one of five, and a play incidentally linked to the latter.

[Nick Armstrong]

I've often thought that some Francophile down here should start a distillery and produce Cornish Pastis - then I suppose it would be uneconomic because Gideon would put in a swingeing Pastis Tax!

I don't feel that gag got the credit it deserves!

Made me chuckle

[mercia]

a ballet from a Fat Tuesday composer

do we call Stravinsky a Fat Tuesday composer because Petrushka is set at Shrovetide ?

no, probably not

I think our 1882 opera may be Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden

[Flay]

I think our 1882 opera may be Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden

So do I.

But there is another name fo that festive Fat Tuesday...

[Flay]

I should add that the title for the Fat one is as a singe word.