Alphabet associations - I

[hedgehog]

A laborious task for this H: a mass dedication, an opera and last seen defeating a 3 bodied monster, not a 3 cornered hat.

[amateur51]

[COLOR="#0000FF"] Oh vindetable knows everything, he's just so reticent and modest!

With so much to be modest about








I know it's an oldy but you don't often get the chance to use it

[amateur51]

A laborious task for this H: a mass dedication, an opera and last seen defeating a 3 bodied monster, not a 3 cornered hat.

A laborious task might be a link to Hercules?

Hercules is an opera by Handel

Hercules' 12th Labour was to kill the three-headed Chimaera "The Chimaera was a three-headed fire-breathing monster, part lion, part snake, and part goat. Hercules seemed to have a lot of experience dealing with this family: he killed Orthus, when he stole the cattle of Geryon, and strangled the Nemean Lion. "

Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae is a setting of the Ordinary of the Mass composed by Josquin des Pre

[amateur51]

If it turns out that I'm right, I have an I prepared and ready to roll

But now I'm off to my bed - sleep well y'all zzzzzzzzzz

[Nick Armstrong]

Hercules ... [&c &c]

Looks good, ammy - but what's all that about a three-cornered hat?!

[hedgehog]

A laborious task might be a link to Hercules?

Hercules is an opera by Handel

Hercules' 12th Labour was to kill the three-headed Chimaera "The Chimaera was a three-headed fire-breathing monster, part lion, part snake, and part goat. Hercules seemed to have a lot of experience dealing with this family: he killed Orthus, when he stole the cattle of Geryon, and strangled the Nemean Lion. "

Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae is a setting of the Ordinary of the Mass composed by Josquin des Pre

Yes! Except for:

Looks good, ammy - but what's all that about a three-cornered hat?!

Geryon was a three bodied (not headed) giant slain by Hercules and to be found in a work ("last seen") by a composer (who liked 3 cornered hats )

Being?

[mercia]

I can't find the relevant work but I see that de Falla was born in Cadiz (Gadir), in legend founded by Hercules (after that slaying)

EDIT - is the work called Atlantida ?

[hedgehog]

I can't find the relevant work but I see that de Falla was born in Cadiz (Gadir), in legend founded by Hercules (after that slaying)

EDIT - is the work called Atlantida ?

Spot on Mercia, from wiki:

"Also in Granada, Falla began work on the large-scale orchestral cantata Atlántida (Atlantis), based on the Catalan text L'Atlántida by Jacint Verdaguer. Falla considered Atlántida to be the most important of all his works; posterity has not agreed with this verdict, and performances of the piece have been extremely rare. Verdaguer's text gives a mythological account of how the submersion of Atlantis created the Atlantic ocean, thus separating Spain and Latin America, and how later the Spanish discovery of America reunited what had always belonged together."


One of the movements in De Falla's scenic cantata is on Hercules slaying Geryon. (there is a recording on the Naxos listening library)

Combined with Handel's Hercules and Josquin's Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae we have a 3 headed Hercules!

Awaiting Ams51 to initiate his question!

[amateur51]

Many thanks hodge - nice puzzle (well I would say that, innit )

I wrote a musical with Jerome Kern, his career going down hill after Alf’s lodger and he was in jug over some dodgy rationing. What I is this?

[Nick Armstrong]

I wrote a musical with Jerome Kern

By Jove, quiet here today ain't it?

My only thought has been Ira Gershwin, who corresponds to the above but I can't make fit with the other elements...

[Anna]

My first thought too was Ira Gershwin, but then I remembered that Ivor Novello had dodgy dealings re rationing, but did he collaborate with Kern?
No time to wonder, have to whizz off now, probably wrong

[hedgehog]

Ivor Novello had dodgy dealings re rationing, but did he collaborate with Kern?
No time to wonder, have to whizz off now, probably wrong

Yes he did and no you're not Time for a J from Anna, though it's for Ams to say!

[amateur51]

My first thought too was Ira Gershwin, but then I remembered that Ivor Novello had dodgy dealings re rationing, but did he collaborate with Kern?
No time to wonder, have to whizz off now, probably wrong

Have greater courage, Anna - Ivor Novello collaborated with JK for certain. What about the rest?

[amateur51]

Yes he did and no you're not Time for a J from Anna, though it's for Ams to say!

Yes she's got two parts there - any thoughts on his career going downhill after Alf's lodger, hodge? Anyone?

[hedgehog]

I have to admit, my first thought was Novello (except I thought his first name was Ivan - no idea he was Welsh!!!!!! real name David Ivor Davies ), but that was purely a gut reaction.

Further research yields that he played in two silent movies directed by "Alf" Hitchcock: The Lodger and Downhill, both in 1927, but I don't read anywhere about his demise, he seems to have done fairly well thereafter until his death, but Anna definitely knows more on the subject - await her return?