Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

Surely the symphonies' names must be the S, rather than the composers'???

I thought that at first but I haven't been able to find three fourth symphonies with identical S subtitles/nicknames

[amateur51]

Tell you what, cloughie - give us the answer and we'll work the clues out from there...

That's better!

[cloughie]

well Schumann and Schuman fit the American/German and fourth symphonies components, though William Schuman wrote more than 4 so I don't quite understand the significance of number 4

is there another composer Schuman{n} ?

No but if you count up W Schuman Sym 4 and Robert Schumann's two versions of his No4 then you have 3 4ths. Bingo T up Mercia.

[mercia]

Robert Schumann's two versions of his No4

ah! I wasn't aware of that

how clever

I wonder if either of our newcomers Thropple or Oddb would like to set a question ??? Thropple mentioned Schumann before me

[Nick Armstrong]

No but if you count up W Schuman Sym 4 and Robert Schumann's two versions of his No4 then you have 3 4ths. Bingo T up Mercia.

(Transparently simple when you know the answer!)

Well done mercs!!!

Good idea about Throppers, I'd forgotten he' twigged that. Loves a number puzzle, old Throppers - q.v. his new string quartet thread!!

[amateur51]

No but if you count up W Schuman Sym 4 and Robert Schumann's two versions of his No4 then you have 3 4ths. Bingo T up Mercia.

I heard the lesser-known version of Schumann symphony no 4 at the Royal Academy of Music a few months ago - it came as a dreadful shock because I hadn't realised how different some of it was & I found myself rumty-tumpting when no such music was issuing forth from the orchestra. What a fool I felt

Well done mercia and cloughie!

[Nick Armstrong]

What a fool I felt

Did you get his number?

Sorry... just feeling lightheaded with relief that someone solved cloughie's killer S

[amateur51]

Did you get his number?

Sorry... just feeling lightheaded with relief that someone solved cloughie's killer S

[Thropplenoggin]

Thanks, Mercia. Very sporting of you. A T from the Big T...

I may need a short while to think of something, as a greenhorned tenderfoot in this arcane sporting arena.

EDIT

A T to link Queen Mary, the Masons and two alto recorders.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Thanks, Mercia. Very sporting of you. A T from the Big T...

I may need a short while to think of something, as a greenhorned tenderfoot in this arcane sporting arena.

Oh, I dunno; this sentence reads like one of cloughie's puzzles!

[Quarky]

Thanks, Mercia. Very sporting of you. A T from the Big T...


A T to link Queen Mary, the Masons and two alto recorders.

Nearly missed that puzzle!

Is Nahum Tate anywhere in the right vicinity?

[Thropplenoggin]

Nearly missed that puzzle!

Is Nahum Tate anywhere in the right vicinity?

[cloughie]

I heard the lesser-known version of Schumann symphony no 4 at the Royal Academy of Music a few months ago - it came as a dreadful shock because I hadn't realised how different some of it was & I found myself rumty-tumpting when no such music was issuing forth from the orchestra. What a fool I felt

Well done mercia and cloughie!

Ammy whenever I hear the 1841 version I feel it such a dab lifeless offering compared to the 1851 version. JEG's set gives the opportunity to hear both, but I'll settle for Furtwangler's 1851 anytime.

[cloughie]

Thames?

[Thropplenoggin]

Thames?

No.

I expect the inaugural Thropplenoggin conundrum will prove a most impenetrable nut to crack.