Alphabet associations - I

[Flay]

given the direction of the A question, perhaps we should know what we're looking for now

You mean Breton?

[mercia]

You mean Breton?

or even Brittany [is that the same thing ? ]


............... a well-known moneylender in literature .... ?

[Flay]

Moneylender = Le prêteur et sa femme =



= Quentin Massys =

[mercia]

Moneylender = Le prêteur et sa femme

is that Shakespeare ?

[Flay]

is that Shakespeare ?

No, just a bit of fun!

Have to nip out now.

[mercia]

Ropartz connection to Brittany ?

[Flay]

Ropartz connection to Brittany ?

Wiki says:

Ropartz was associated with the Breton cultural renaissance of the era, setting to music the words of Breton writers such as Anatole Le Braz and Charles Le Goffic. He also supported Breton regional autonomy, joining the Breton Regionalist Union in 1898.

Now I really must get to Asda...

[mercia]

Ropartz connection to Brittany ?

Ropartz was born in Guingamp, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany

[cloughie]

fraid that one's lost on me, Mr cluff

feel free to explain

Just a play on words - Borodin did write orchestral works.

[Nick Armstrong]

Qu Xiao-song

Thursday had to be a virtually AA-free day, and if Odders is looking in: re the above, I think I missed how the above related to your clue "Kipling is confounded by this one". Can you soothe my puzzled brain?

[Nick Armstrong]

or even Brittany [is that the same thing ? ]

Breton is the adjective referring to things and people from Brittany... or have I misunderstood?

Coming new to this and not sure which are answers... Have we only got Ropartz so far?

............... a well-known moneylender in literature .... ?

is that Shakespeare ?

Shylock? Fauré wrote incidental music called that, and he began his career in Rennes, Brittany, after school in Paris and before returning to the Madeleine etc...

Any good?

[mercia]

Any good?

very good, so Faure employed in Brittany, Ropartz born in Brittany


organistic "evangelical poems" .............. from Brittany ?

[Nick Armstrong]

very good, so Faure employed in Brittany, Ropartz born in Brittany


organistic "evangelical poems" .............. from Brittany ?

Ah! I'd forgotten Jean Langlais was from north-east of Rennes


I have a godson in Rennes, and he and his bro (and their dad) are singing in Fauré's Requiem in April in their school chapel, I can't wait

[mercia]

Ah! I'd forgotten Jean Langlais was from north-east of Rennes

jolly good

Guy Ropartz - Guingamp - Un soir sur les chaumes
Jean Langlais - La Fontenelle - Poemes evangeliques
Faure - employed Rennes - Shylock opus 57

I do hope C will be a French region

[Nick Armstrong]

Nice to have a Breton question to start the weekend

I should be back in an hour or so with a C unless Flay has bought one in Asda for us?