Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

so a Hungarian composer's double attempt at, let's say, setting a text, setting a story/legend etc. to music ?

20th century Hungarian ? excuse the questions, it's the only way I know how to play this game

[mercia]

wikipedia says Miklos Rozsa scored Double Indemnity

desperate clutching at straws there perhaps I should start thinking instead

[hedgehog]

20th century Hungarian ?


excuse the questions, it's the only way I know how to play this game

92% 20th century Hungarian.

You are a google fiend mercia, I'm not going to make it too easy for you

[Nick Armstrong]

is the Hungarian a composer ?
if yes, is his double attempt a double concerto perhaps ?

That's what I've been looking for, too

[hedgehog]

That's what I've been looking for, too

Grrrrr let's say he revisited it, did it twice

I have the intuition you've got the right composer, but the wrong piece(s)......

[Nick Armstrong]

It's not Dohnanyi is it?

He did the Variations on a Nursery Rhyme (life from the pram) i.e. the French nursery song "Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman"

And you have to say "Ahhhh" at the dentists'.....

To ingenious / idiotic?

[hedgehog]

AA is very educational. Not only in the music, composer & etc, but also in what oneself thinks as very plain speech is interpreted by another into.........

However...................my preferences in general are for contemporary music (even if it's located in the 20th and not 21st Century) so Dohnanyi is a no no (as opposed to Nono).

Now another helpful clue: The A is a word and present in the title of works by said composers (3) of which 1 (the Hungarian) has revisited it anew......

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

AA is very educational. Not only in the music, composer & etc, but also in what oneself thinks as very plain speech is interpreted by another into.........

However...................my preferences in general are for contemporary music (even if it's located in the 20th and not 21st Century) so Dohnanyi is a no no (as opposed to Nono).

Now another helpful clue: The A is a word and present in the title of works by said composers (3) of which 1 (the Hungarian) has revisited it anew......

So, Kurtag, then?

[Nick Armstrong]

So, Kurtag, then?

Here comes the Kavalry....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Here comes the Kavalry....

Chasing up the wrong ravine, methinks. A whole New Adventure for us all ...

Ligeti?!

[Nick Armstrong]

Now another helpful clue: The A is a word and present in the title of works by said composers (3) of which 1 (the Hungarian) has revisited it anew......

Is the A also a name? Might it indeed be a double A?

Kurtag seems to have revisited Anna Akhmatova twice...

[amateur51]

Music at the dentist wouldn't be Marathon Man, would it?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Is the A also a name? Might it indeed be a double A?

Kurtag seems to have revisited Anna Akhmatova twice...

My initial thought, too; prompted by the opening of Jogger's #31282. But I can't think of any pieces with the word(s) "Anna" or "Akhmatova" that are associated with Dentists or Prams. (There's Tavener's Akhmatova Requiem, but ... )

Whereas "Drilling Adventure"/"Nursery Adventure" might ring a carillon or two for somebody ... ?

[Nick Armstrong]

Music at the dentist wouldn't be Marathon Man, would it?

Been there, got the t-shirt... Music was written by someone with no 'A's attached

[amateur51]

While you're thinking ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8IVJAd_k14