Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

Nicholas Nabokov ?

is Rautavaara the successor to Sibelius ?

[amateur51]

Nicholas Nabokov ?

Nicholas Nabokov wrote opera Rasputin's End (libretto by Stephen Spender) in 1958...?

[Flay]

Nicholas Nabokov ?

is Rautavaara the successor to Sibelius ?

Yup

[Flay]

Nicholas Nabokov wrote opera Rasputin's End (libretto by Stephen Spender) in 1958...?

Yup

[Flay]

We have two dogs here, ammy & mercia fighting over a bone.... Who'll get it?

[mercia]

Who'll get it?

I concede, and ammy is probably taking his siesta

[amateur51]

Einojuhani Rautavaara wrote an opera entitled Rasputin

[Flay]

Einojuhani Rautavaara wrote an opera entitled Rasputin

So he did - it's rather weird...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC4Ig8I_Cbw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=OoXfknud_es

Do you dare to tell me the third Rasputin?

[Flay]

Even weirder when I discover that that Rasputin is by Jay Reise!!!



Try again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oGxjZPbbrk

I prefer the Reise! Shame I didn't know about it when I set the clue We live and learn on AA!

http://jayreise.com/works.php?id=195

[amateur51]

Even weirder when I discover that that Rasputin is by Jay Reise!!!



Try again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oGxjZPbbrk

I prefer the Reise! Shame I didn't know about it when I set the clue We live and learn on AA!

This little bear is confused now, Flay - what am I still searching for??

[Flay]

This little bear is confused now, Flay - what am I still searching for??

Boney....

[amateur51]

Boney....

Surely you can't mean the hit song Rasputin by the popular beat combo known as Boney M?!

**sounds of vints spinning on his chaise-longue**

[amateur51]

My snoozling siesta is a-calling me

I may need to be away for a couple of hours - hope y'all can cope

[Flay]

Surely you can't mean the hit song Rasputin by the popular beat combo known as Boney M?!

**sounds of vints spinning on his chaise-longue**

I am so sorry, but I can!

But did you know that the name for the group was a nickname of the group's creator, the singer-songwriter Frank Farian? He took the pseudonym after watching the Australian detective show Boney (an Australian TV series from 1971 whose title role was Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte).

And do you care?

[Nick Armstrong]

I am so sorry, but I can!

I knew you could. My first thought was Boney M.

Trouble is, it was my last thought too....