Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Aeschylus' Persians ends with Xerxes lamenting the enormity of Persia’s defeat.

Ooops still half-asleep ?

See ##30758 & 30759 supra

[Flay]

Ooops still half-asleep ?

See ##30758 & 30759 supra

Yes, I went back to bed for a long lie.

I think I'll stay in bed all day...

Mrs Flay is cooking and she wants my body in the kitchen

[Nick Armstrong]

Mrs Flay is cooking and she wants my body in the kitchen

Plucked and oven-ready ?

Run if you see a packet of Paxo out and ready!!

[mercia]

Mrs Flay is cooking and she wants my body in the kitchen

are you on one of those extendable long leads that people use to walk their dogs ?

when I was little we had a pet tortoise and to stop him wandering off we drilled a hole in his shell and put him on a tether

[Flay]

No doubt I'll be verbally handcuffed to the sink.

Fifty Shades of Flay

[hedgehog]

Lunch? Xerxes? That'll be a battle of Salamis then!

(coat on, I give up on this one anyway.)

[Flay]

Lunch? Xerxes? That'll be a battle of Salamis then!

(coat on, I give up on this one anyway.)

It took a while for the penny to drop!

[Nick Armstrong]

So to resume... We need just the choral lament to conclude this? It's a musical version of the Xerxes story, with chorus? (But not Handel or G&S). Is it modern i.e. post 1900?

[hedgehog]

Hedgehogs are tenacious and I'm having one final stab with my quill: John Buller Kommos !!!!!!

http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780193354708.do#.URY9bI7nsSE

[Quarky]

So to resume... We need just the choral lament to conclude this? It's a musical version of the Xerxes story, with chorus? (But not Handel or G&S). Is it modern i.e. post 1900?

Apologies Caliban - on further research, and please forgive my lack of knowledge of Classics, you were partly correct in referring to Aeschylus' Persians.

So you are essentially correct in that I am looking for a musical version of the play, but not modern, in fact I think someone lost it.

[Quarky]

Hedgehogs are tenacious and I'm having one final stab with my quill: John Buller Kommos !!!!!!

http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9...o#.URY9bI7nsSE

I thought you were on the right track hedgehog, but not modern, more early, if my terminology is correct.

[Flay]

Hedgehogs are tenacious and I'm having one final stab with my quill: John Buller Kommos !!!!!! [/url]

Very impressive, hoggers. That's a new word for me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kommos_(theatre)

I have been exploring the Persian wars this morning. AA is so educational!

[Flay]

I thought you were on the right track hedgehog, but not modern, more early, if my terminology is correct.

I had been looking at Friedrich Gernsheim's Salamis, but that appears to be written from the Greek perspective (joyous in victory) rather than from the Persian side.

http://erato.uvt.nl/files/imglnks/usimg/2/2b/IMSLP69889-PMLP114653-Gernsheim_op.10_Salamis_vs_Peters.pdf

[mercia]

wiki says that Marios Varvoglis (1934) and Henri Sauget (1940) wrote incidental music to The Persians [not relevant I think]

[Quarky]

Well I'm glad Flay you are also finding it educational. I guess that's the main reason I am indulging in this daft pursuit!

I'm out for most of the rest of this afternoon - whether any more clues are required before I go?

I thought hedgehog was on the brink of cracking it: Has someone set just this part of the play? An English composer?