Alphabet associations - I

[Flay]

Just checking - is the fictional Island of Bali Ha'i from O & H's South Pacific the second answer?

"Bali Ha'i" is sung by Bloody Mary to Lt. Joseph Cable. It is the name of a fictional island with two volcanoes where Cable meets Bloody Mary's daughter, Liat. It is to be sung mysteriously, as Bloody Mary is trying to entrance Cable into coming to the island, which is off limits to American service personnel.

[mercia]

Personally I don't think pre or post dating should really come into it - it's hard enough to think of clues at all!

sorry, I just picked up on the "but then" in the question which suggested to me some sort of chronological order

I now realise that it is the Rachmaninov Isle of the Dead of 1908 we are talking about - I think Debussy's L'Isle Joyeuse has been discounted

- great question - still no idea of the rest

[mercia]

is there an opera called Isle of Bliss ?

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2005/June05/Rosenberg_Isle_PSCD722.htm

[hedgehog]

Just checking - is the fictional Island of Bali Ha'i from O & H's South Pacific the second answer?

No.

"with two fires burning on it in the South Pacific"

[Flay]

I'm struggling. Arthur Bliss was on Desert Island Discs in 1972

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/01fb5284

[hedgehog]

Two fires as in fire number 1 and fire number 2.

Island, Isle, île, they'll all do!

[Flay]

Two fires as in fire number 1 and fire number 2

Now I find myself researching submarines and motor torpedo boats!

[hedgehog]

is there an opera called Isle of Bliss ?

http://www.musicweb-international.co...le_PSCD722.htm

Sorry Mercia, I missed your post. That link won't open for me, it just keeps stalling on it. I can still answer your question though. Assuming that there is an opera with that title, then I can say "right title, wrong composer".

[hedgehog]

Now I find myself researching submarines and motor torpedo boats!

Île is in the title. The South Pacific bit is just a snippet of information and is not of primary importance.

[Flay]

"right title, wrong composer".

Einojuhani Rautavaara Isle of Bliss?

[hedgehog]

Einojuhani Rautavaara Isle of Bliss?

Yes. I'm sure Mercia would have come to the same conclusion!

I'll be away for a few hours, I'm sure the rest will soon be solved.

[mercia]

That link won't open for me, it just keeps stalling on it.

oh sorry, it was - Hilding ROSENBERG (1892 – 1985) - Lycksalighetens ö (The Isle of Bliss) (1945) - opera in four acts

[mercia]

Messiaen - Ile de feu I & II

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatre_%C3%A9tudes_de_rythme

[Nick Armstrong]

Phew we are going to need one heck of a bowl of coleslaw after all this, I'm not sure where we are and which suggestions are correct so far...

[Flay]

Yes. I'm sure Mercia would have come to the same conclusion!

I was just giving the old man a helping hand...

Phew we are going to need one heck of a bowl of coleslaw after all this, I'm not sure where we are and which suggestions are correct so far...

Do try to keep up, Caliban my good chap.

And when you do please let me know!

I think mercia will be serving the ploughman's soon... That was an excellent challenge, hedgehog!