Alphabet associations - I

[Anna]

In the Minster at the moment. The choir are rehearsing part of Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praise "I waited"

Oh lucky you Flay! Are you having a romantic weekend away? You got me confused earlier with your posting, I thought you meant you had messed up your clue and would repost so I didn't persue further (not that I was getting anywhere with it)

[Flay]

Oh lucky you Flay! Are you having a romantic weekend away? You got me confused earlier with your posting, I thought you meant you had messed up your clue and would repost so I didn't persue further (not that I was getting anywhere with it)

No, just a day in York, it's only 40 minutes from home. I had confused myself! (It comes with trying to post without Mrs Flay noticing ) Now we are waiting for the Ressurection...

[mercia]

I guess that's Pavane pour un infante defunte which usually seems to get translated Pavan for a dead infanta, wikipedia goes for pavane for a dead princess

I suppose it doesn't matter since wiki says Ravel said "that title has nothing to do with the composition. I simply liked the sound of those words and I put them there, c'est tout".

[Anna]

No, just a day in York, it's only 40 minutes from home. I had confused myself! (It comes with trying to post without Mrs Flay noticing ) Now we are waiting for the Ressurection...

Gosh, I found myself in York not so long ago, having alighted from a train from Darlington and with time to kill until I boarded the train to Blackburn ..... if only I had known you were a mere 40 mins away ....
So, not having gone down the path that RM has trodden, obviously it's pavane pour une infante défunte for one of them and well done to him for cracking it, I had absolutely no idea of the answer.
edit: crossed with mercia. I always used to read the title as a 'defunct infant' sort of a bit Pythonesque, like 'dead parrot' sketch. Oh dear, I think I shall go now...

[mercia]

Go on, have a good cry.

is there a Lachrimae Pavan by Dowland ?

[Nick Armstrong]

Now we are waiting for the Ressurection...

Mahler in t'Minster??

[Nick Armstrong]

is there a Lachrimae Pavan by Dowland ?

I believe there is

[Flay]

I believe there is

Yes there is! One more to go...

Oh Anna, so close yet so far! Will it always be thus?

[Resurrection Man]

My apologies...just dipped out of Parsifal. Faure ? For the third pavane...the first being the dance and Mercia's Pavane.

I would like to dip back...will try to set a Q (or are we allowed to skip to R?) later on this evening.

Rather fine Parsifal.

[Flay]

[QUOTE=Flay;267947]

Fancy a courtly dance, your Majesty? .[/Q

This refers to a particular work.

[Nick Armstrong]

My apologies...just dipped out of Parsifal. Faure ? For the third pavane...the first being the dance and Mercia's Pavane.

I would like to dip back...will try to set a Q (or are we allowed to skip to R?) later on this evening.

Rather fine Parsifal.

It is a good Parsifal, but I'm not sure I can cope with the whole thing this evening!

Don't think Fauré's involved...

Surely it's the Pavan from Britten's 'Courtly Dances' from Gloriana, which is the first element... (Pavane pour une Infante Défunte second, Dowland's Lachrimae Pavane third)

[mercia]

Gibbons ? Bull ?

[Flay]

No, Caliban has it!

[Anna]

No, Caliban has it!

Oh, b&lll&x, I was being polite and lady like and waiting for RM but Caliban, goal-poacher extraordinaire, decides to get in there!
Tush and Pish!

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh, b&lll&x, I was being polite and lady like and waiting for RM but Caliban, goal-poacher extraordinaire, decides to get in there!
Tush and Pish!

But the Q or R is indubitably RM's.... I acknowledge an opportunistic toe-poke.

Good evening, Anna, by the way!