Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

places called Langham in Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk (apparently)

Langham Place in London, home of the BBC (I think)
Langham Hotel

EDIT - Langham Place features in Eric Coates's London Again Suite

[antongould]

places called Langham in Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk (apparently)

Langham Place in London, home of the BBC (I think)
Langham Hotel

EDIT - Langham Place features in Eric Coates's London Again Suite

It's in a Hall in Langham Place that the first happened then Harrogate.......

[mercia]

a Hall in Langham Place

ah, that would be The Queen's Hall then

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

EDIT - Langham Place features in Eric Coates's London Again Suite

Hmm. Didn't somebody carry her home in "two carrier bags" through the Streets of London, according to Mr McTell?

[antongould]

Hmm. Didn't somebody carry her home in "two carrier bags" through the Streets of London, according to Mr McTell?

Indeed they did

But Coates isn't in this coleslaw

[Nick Armstrong]

It's in a Hall in Langham Place that the first happened....

Ah! Only yesterday, waiting at the red lights a block or two south of there, I was gazing balefully at the ghastly 60/70s block that's on the site of the Queen's Hall, and imagining who had played in there, and strolled across the road to the Hotel... Rachmaninov, Elgar...

[mercia]

oh very good FHG, I would never have got that

just found out that a version of VW's London Symphony had a premiere at Queen's Hall and a second performance in Harrogate under Julian Clifford

[Nick Armstrong]

Hmm. Didn't somebody carry her home in "two carrier bags" through the Streets of London, according to Mr McTell?

Awfully good, Mr Ferney

[antongould]

ah, that would be The Queen's Hall then

Indeed and so we have London and need two strands of Coleslaw ........

[antongould]

oh very good FHG, I would never have got that

just found out that a version of VW's London Symphony had a premiere at Queen's Hall and a second performance in Harrogate under Julian Clifford

Correct and that leaves us with a disputed number of symphonies from a symphonist.....

[Nick Armstrong]

Correct and that leaves us with a disputed number of symphonies from a symphonist.....

The clue that rendered futile my feverish googling last night!

[mercia]

thinking aloud

I'm sure we're not talking about Haydn with this disputed number of symphonies

EDIT - sudden thought, could it be the London Bach ?

no

[antongould]

thinking aloud

I'm sure we're not talking about Haydn with this disputed number of symphonies

EDIT - sudden thought, could it be the London Bach ?

no

Sudden thoughts are best 'tis indeed J C

[cloughie]

thinking aloud

I'm sure we're not talking about Haydn with this disputed number of symphonies

EDIT - sudden thought, could it be the London Bach ?

no

J C Bach symphonies 48 ok, 43 dodgy!

[antongould]

Wiki says J C wrote 91 symphonies but feels on 43 Grove is Baching up the wrong tree.

M' not sure if FHG or mercs has the M?