Alphabet associations - I

[Flay]

I think Farrant sounds good:

Singing in the chorus for Edward VI and Mary Tudor, Farrant became a composer and musician as a Master of the Chapel Royal in Windsor. His compositions included a number of secular consort songs, and dramatic pieces for the Queen to be presented every winter. Unfortunately none of Farrant's plays are extant but some titles through reference have been preserved (Ajax and Ulysses, Quintus Fabius, and King Xerxes).

[Nick Armstrong]

We need Oddball to bounce back.

[Quarky]

We need Oddball to bounce back.

Great detective work mercia and Flay:


"Many of these dramatic songs take the form of elegies or 'death songs',either evoking death as a relief, as in the gentle O Death, rock me asleep [5],or railing against fate like Panthea in Richard Farrant's Ah, alas, you saltsea gods [2] as she prepares to die next to the body of her husbandAbradad. O Jove, from stately throne [20] is from Farrant's play King Xerxes, one of a series of annual entertainments he produced each winter for the Queen from 1567 to 1579, performed by the boys in his charge as Master of the Choristers of the Chapel Royal. Farrant was clearly something of anentrepreneur, for in 1576 he leased a rehearsal room in Blackfriars, London, to prepare for that year's royal entertainment, but was subsequently sued for charging the public to attend these 'private' rehearsals."

There seems some uncertainty about the lament in Xerxes. Naxos states :" The song 'Ah, alas you salt-sea gods' is a traditional dramatic lament from his lost play King Xerxes. "


I think executive decisions are now required. Firstly whether to jump back to W or to continue with Y, and secondly who is going to set the question. Caliban got a long way there, but hedgehog and mercia and Flay made notable contributions.

Well I have a bit of reading to do now about Aeschylus' Persians, so I may be out of action for some time!

[mercia]

'fraid I won't be able to oblige with a question

great X

[Nick Armstrong]

'fraid I won't be able to oblige with a question

great X

Indeed!

I can have a think about a W or a Y, as Flay is perhaps otherwise detained.... Didn't he mention handcuffs....?

[Flay]

Indeed!

I can have a think about a W or a Y, as Flay is perhaps otherwise detained.... Didn't he mention handcuffs....?

The handcuffs were verbal!!! (but no less firm in their grip... )

But please oblige, Caliban. We have guests coming for dinner, there is much to do

[Nick Armstrong]

Unless hedgehog would like to flex his spines in our direction? Doesn't appear to be online though....

[hedgehog]

Please do put up a question Caliban...............I'll do my best to get the Z!

His spines? Well if you insist

[Nick Armstrong]

His spines? Well if you insist

Oh I don't I don't! Forgive an off-duty lawyer, hidebound by the Interpretation Act,
(specifically section 6: Gender
"In any Act, unless the contrary intention appears,
(a) words importing the masculine gender include the feminine;
.....")





Ahem!

A POETICAL SHOVE TO A DEER-HUNTER AND MORE THAN ONE ALIEN....

Of which W might I be thinking?



PS going to have a little siesta... so don't break your necks, people!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A POETICAL SHOVE TO A DEER-HUNTER AND MORE THAN ONE ALIEN....

Of which W might I be thinking?

Someone not as worthy of a CotW as Bernard Herrmann, for example?

[Nick Armstrong]

Someone not as worthy of a CotW as Bernard Herrmann, for example?

You're a spooky so-and-so ferney. Go on then, give it your worst

[Nick Armstrong]

no doubt I am wrong.

You are correct that you are wrong

Enjoy your victory meal

[Anna]

You are correct that you are wrong
Enjoy your victory meal

Actually Duckie, I think William Carlos Williams is a far better answer than yours and all the clues fit! <sticky out tongue emoticon> I've been cooking this tagine for hours and have added dates and my own home preserved Moroccan lemons, it promises to be quite a Victory Feast!
That's it from me until the morrow until or just about midnight ......

[Nick Armstrong]

Anyone fancy picking up the pieces after Anna's post-match rampage through my puzzle?



Bon appétit, me duck

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You're a spooky so-and-so ferney. Go on then, give it your worst

Then:

The Deer-Hunter theme (Cavatina by Stanley Myers) was played by guitarist, John Williams;
The film scores for ET, Third Encounters of the Close Kind, Star Wars and the Christopher Reeve Supermans were all written by John Williams;

... the "poetical shove" is puzzling me - is there a poet called John Williams? (Anna mentions William Carlos, and she might also have cited Welsh-language poet, Waldo?)

EDIT: Capt William Johns wrote the Biggles books ... ?