Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Here's two more clues.

Citrus fruit.

West Side Story.

That's three clues in total since 18.30

Off to the land of nod now....

Oh... so Cinderella isn't a clue...

Hot Gabriel

Citrus fruit

West Side Story.....


.... a Doctor is what we're looking for (just had to look that up... )

I can't link any of those clues with the only Doctors I'd though of...

Doctor Coppelius from Tales of Hoffmann

Dr Marianus from Goethe / Mahler 8...

Another way of putting is that I am totally and utterly stumped

[Nick Armstrong]

No; as you were. "Citrus Fruit" = orange groves; "West Side Story" based on R & J; "opera with long name" - it all seemed to be holding together ...

... but there's no Ryddu "Doctor" in A Village Romeo and Juliet!

He's a byggur old RM ain't he?!

I like it.

This is a question about Doctors! Where the hell's Flay when you need him?

Never a medic around when you need one

[Flay]

! Where the hell's Flay when you need him?

Never a medic around when you need one

Here I am, on a self-imposed exile, just lurking. I haven't a clue about the D!

And I have a busy schedule for the rest of the week, so you're on your own, mates!

[Nick Armstrong]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ryrLyMU3yl...0-h/doctor.gif

Here I am, on a self-imposed exile, just lurking. I haven't a clue about the D!

And I have a busy schedule for the rest of the week, so you're on your own, mates!

Bon courage, Doctor F. And the rest of us!

[cloughie]

Bon courage, Doctor F. And the rest of us!

Has Delius been discounted - Florida Suite, Village R&J, Mass of Life.

[Resurrection Man]

No; as you were. "Citrus Fruit" = orange groves; "West Side Story" based on R & J; "opera with long name" - it all seemed to be holding together ...

... but there's no Ryddu "Doctor" in A Village Romeo and Juliet!

Close...so very very close.

Doctor Faustus appears in the very long title of an opera. Now this is in the alternative name for the opera....the more usual name of which I have already given one of the words to you. The composer who wrote this opera also wrote other operas and some ballet music...................

[mercia]

The composer who wrote this opera also wrote other operas and some ballet music...................

that doesn't narrow down the field enormously

which century did this composer live ? which country ?

is the word in the title you say you have already mentioned Gabriel ? or hot ? or fruit ?

I know - tell us the message number in which that elusive word appears

[mercia]

would it give away the answer if you told us which version of the Faust legend this long-titled opera is based on ?

Mann? Marlowe? Goethe?

wikipedia says Havergal Brian composed a Faust opera, but I've no idea of the title

EDIT - it's just called Faust

is the West Side Story clue telling us that this composer also tackled R & J ? or that the long-titled opera is set in New York ? or something else ?

[Resurrection Man]

Oh... so Cinderella isn't a clue...

......

Are you sure?

[mercia]

<doh>

hot gabriel - Prokofiev Fiery Angel

[Resurrection Man]

would it give away the answer if you told us which version of the Faust legend this long-titled opera is based on ?

Mann? Marlowe? Goethe?

wikipedia says Havergal Brian composed a Faust opera, but I've no idea of the title

EDIT - it's just called Faust

is the West Side Story clue telling us that this composer also tackled R & J ? or that the long-titled opera is set in New York ? or something else ?

Yes!! Perhaps reading one kind of fable is expecting variety initially?

[Resurrection Man]

<doh>

hot gabriel - Prokofiev Fiery Angel

Yes! Well done...our posts crossed.

It is indeed the Fiery Angel or to give it the name that most people know it by...

‘The Fiery Angel; or, a True Story in which is related of the Devil, not once but often appearing in the Image of a Spirit of Light to a Maiden and seducing her to Various and Many Sinful Deeds, of Ungodly Practices of Magic, Alchymy, Astrology, the Cabalistical Sciences and Necromancy, of the Trial of the Said Maiden under the Presidency of His Eminence the Archbishop of Trier, as well as of Encounters and Discourses with the Knight and thrice Doctor Agrippa of Nettesheim, and with Doctor Faustus, composed by an Eyewitness’

[Flay]

...Various and Many Sinful Deeds, of Ungodly Practices of Magic, Alchymy, Astrology, the Cabalistical Sciences and Necromancy...

I thought you had written Calibanistical!

[mercia]

so that was Doctor Faustus as depicted in

Thomas Mann's novel with the syphilitic composer Adrian Leverkuhn
Drury Lane pantomimes called Harlequin Doctor Faustus
and Prokofiev's Fiery Angel based on a Faustian novel by Valery Bryusov


probably not my turn, but an eeeasy E to connect

a grandson of Rugby's Arnold, a successor to Langdon Colborne and "A Tenderfoot in Colorado"


caliban probably won't need to google any of that

[Nick Armstrong]

<doh>

hot gabriel - Prokofiev Fiery Angel

<DOH> indeed!!!



Veritably one of those that when you know the answer, you want to repeatedly!

RM, you must have been wondering 'how are these people not getting it?!'....

Good one, Rezza