Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

have we eliminated Frank Wedekind ?

Huho Weisgall opera, The Tenor, after play by Wedekind
the aforesaid Spring Awakening of 1891
Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box, which wikipedia calls the "Lulu plays"


oops, by the time I'd typed all that it had been found
just as well since I don't have a pending question

[subcontrabass]

So ...

Wedekind:

Berg: Lulu;
Weisgall: The Tenor;
Sheik: Spring Awakening

... all Operas/Music Theatre pieces based on plays by Wedekind.

That's the set. Your turn for another of your eXcellent questions.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

have we eliminated Frank Wedekind ?

About five seconds before your post appeared, mercs! I was hoping that, sitting at the bottom of the page as it was, mine might be overlooked; as it is, here, as requested by subby, is one of my eXecrable efforts :

Fold upon fold and from the canyons to the stars this X appears, but not in groups.

[mercia]

neat question if I may say so

a xylorimba features in Messiaen's Des canyons aus etoiles and Boulez's Pli selon pli (fold upon ..) and apparently is replaced by a marimbaphone in Stockhausen's Gruppen despite featuring in the list of instruments (if that makes sense)


information courtesy wakipodia

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

neat question if I may say so

Far be it for me to stop you!

a xylorimba

features in Messiaen's Des canyons aus etoiles

and Boulez's Pli selon pli (fold upon ..)

and apparently is replaced by a marimbaphone in Stockhausen's Gruppen despite featuring in the list of instruments (if that makes sense)

- it's mentioned in the "List of Instruments" at the front of the score, but doesn't actually feature in the piece.

info. courtesy wakipodia

Yup: that's where I got mine from, too! Anybody ever seen a Xylorimba? HUGE things: you could land a small aeroplane on one!

Next puzzle from the Ys* man of the woods at his leisure!

* = other letters are available.

[mercia]

Anybody ever seen a Xylorimba?

not me - was that what Sir Patrick played - probably not



Y connecting

- between an interrupted serenade and Puck's dance
- an "Edward Blue" libretto
- a bronze ballet

[Nick Armstrong]

Hoping to get back in the game... Visitors gone, washing machine running red hot, general collapse on sofas with remnants of Xmas

Impressed at early 2013 appearances for Wedekind and Xylorimba... ... and by the fact that

a xylorimba is replaced by a marimbaphone in Stockhausen's Gruppen despite featuring in the list of instruments

nice titbit.

As for the puzzle...

Y connecting

- between an interrupted serenade and Puck's dance

suggests we are back upon the mythical isle of Ys... Did I not see it fleetingly in one of the previous rounds over the holidays? By the way, it's because La Cathédrale engloutie comes between those 2 pieces in Debussy's 1st book of Préludes...

This fellow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Édouard_Blau wrote the libretto for Lalo's Le Roi d'Ys....

Ah! and this supplies the final element: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ys_(Il_..._Bronzo_album)

[antongould]

Sounds good to me .........no harm in preparing a Z/A

[mercia]

suggests we are back upon the mythical isle of Ys... Did I not see it fleetingly in one of the previous rounds over the holidays? By the way, it's because La Cathédrale engloutie comes between those 2 pieces in Debussy's 1st book of Préludes...

This fellow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Édouard_Blau wrote the libretto for Lalo's Le Roi d'Ys....

Ah! and this supplies the final element: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ys_(Il_..._Bronzo_album)

yes, it's Ys
indeed as recently featured in the Lalo question, worth recycling I thought
well done

have a Z* while I have some ZZZZZZZZZZs


[*or A]

[Nick Armstrong]

have a Z* while I have some ZZZZZZZZZZs

Thanks mercs.

A straightforward Z to ease me back in - linking sons of Dijon, München and Röcken

[amateur51]

Thanks mercs.

A straightforward Z to ease me back in - linking sons of Dijon, München and Röcken

Well, Nietzsche who wrote Thus Spake Zarathustra was born in Röcken; RStrauss who wrote a tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra was born in München; and Rameau who wrote an opera Zoroastre was born in Dijon.

[Nick Armstrong]

Well, Nietzsche who wrote Thus Spake Zarathustra was born in Röcken; RStrauss who wrote a tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra was born in München; and Rameau who wrote an opera Zoroastre was born in Dijon.

Very neatly executed

Let's take it once more from the top. Can we have an A, please

[amateur51]

Very neatly executed

Let's take it once more from the top. Can we have an A, please

An A? The first of 2013, yay!

What about ... What A was born and learned to play the piccolo in Britain’s land of shoes; wrote much music including a few colourful scores; and had an intimate relationship one might almost say with a car with an identical modus vivendi

[antongould]

An A? The first of 2013, yay!

What about ... What A was born and learned to play the piccolo in Britain’s land of shoes; wrote much music including a few colourful scores; and had an intimate relationship one might almost say with a car with an identical modus vivendi

I can match Alwyn to the first two but your A level Latin as always throws me......

[amateur51]

I can match Alwyn to the first two but your A level Latin as always throws me......

forget the Latin anton, and take the previous three words & relate them to Alwyn's biography