Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Hmm, a clue?

No, I have been thinking about it. Now I'll sleep,on it!

Twas not a clue... but thank you for restoring the entente cordiale...

(That was )

Have a good night

[mercia]

They smashed up a prison, singing as the sun rose...

Ethel [Smyth] ??



off-topic have you seen this article caliban ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20900835

[antongould]

Ethel [Smyth] ??



off-topic have you seen this article caliban ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20900835

Would Dame E bash it up with a toothbrush? But then there was the Wreckers(?) .........

[Nick Armstrong]

Ethel [Smyth] ??



off-topic have you seen this article caliban ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20900835

Ethel is your woman, mercs Do please elaborate and then proceed!

And I hadn't seen that - shall read with interest, many thanks indeed! I see the new TV 'Blandings' series starts on Sunday.

[Nick Armstrong]

Would Dame E bash it up with a toothbrush? But then there was the Wreckers(?) .........

A toothbrush?

[mercia]

Ethel Smyth

The Wreckers
Songs of Sunrise (1910) (including The March of the Women)
The Prison (1929-30) - cantata



I think anton may be alluding to the Dame's conducting with a toothbrush, when in Holloway, on the occasion of a visit by Beecham (according to wiki)

[mercia]

a pale imitation of a caliban-style question



F

dancing on the seashore, some ladies of the night find a punctuation mark in a floral clock

[Nick Armstrong]

Ethel Smyth

The Wreckers
Songs of Sunrise (1910) (including The March of the Women)
The Prison (1929-30) - cantata



I think anton may be alluding to the Dame's conducting with a toothbrush, when in Holloway, on the occasion of a visit by Beecham (according to wiki)

Top-hole !

Didn't know about the toothbrush anecdote!

[Nick Armstrong]

a pale imitation of a caliban-style question

F

dancing on the seashore, some ladies of the night find a punctuation mark in a floral clock

I didn't know I had a style!

I think I know this one but as I am disappearing for an hour or two I shall desist for the moment, apologies...

[cloughie]

a pale imitation of a caliban-style question



F

dancing on the seashore, some ladies of the night find a punctuation mark in a floral clock

Jean Francaix wrote l'Apostrophe, Les demoiselles de la nuit et L'insectarium 4.Les talitres (the sandhoppers)

[mercia]

Jean Francaix wrote l'Apostrophe, Les demoiselles de la nuit et L'insectarium 4.Les talitres (the sandhoppers)

ah, very good the cluff

I didn't know about sandhoppers [just as good], I was thinking more of a shore-based ballet

how about the floral clock ?

[Nick Armstrong]

how about the floral clock ?

A lovely piece: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcynfWkLxEA

[mercia]

indeed a lovely piece which I didn't recognise until half-way through and the bit that must have been used as a theme tune for something

Jean Francaix

Beach (1933) - ballet
Les demoiselles de la nuit (1948), ballet
L'apostrophe (1940), a musical comedy
L'horloge de flore (1959), for oboe and orchestra


who's next ?

[cloughie]

indeed a lovely piece which I didn't recognise until half-way through and the bit that must have been used as a theme tune for something

Jean Francaix

Beach (1933) - ballet
Les demoiselles de la nuit (1948), ballet
L'apostrophe (1940), a musical comedy
L'horloge de flore (1959), for oboe and orchestra


who's next ?

Overdue for a reasonably priced reissue!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Works-for-Oboe/dp/B00004SNK8/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1357639662&sr=1-3

[antongould]

Ethel Smyth

The Wreckers
Songs of Sunrise (1910) (including The March of the Women)
The Prison (1929-30) - cantata



I think anton may be alluding to the Dame's conducting with a toothbrush, when in Holloway, on the occasion of a visit by Beecham (according to wiki)

I was indeed......