Alphabet associations - I

[Sir Velo]

Novello & Co, who published most of Baronet Elgar's Music.

Correct!

So the connection is...Novello.

Novello's: publishers of Elgar's music inter alia;
Marie Novello: Welsh pianist; performed at The Proms
Ivor Novello: composer of Arc de Triomphe

Mea culpa over my reference to an ennobled composer. I was initially thinking of Berners, and then changed it to Elgar when I wasn't certain of the connection with Novellos, without removing the reference to ennobled. Probably ought to go to Mercia for an "O" in that case.

[mercia]

great question Sir V

unlike this


an O please to connect

Mahler's forest animals, Verdi's fifteenth and an epilogue

[Nick Armstrong]

great question Sir V

Indeed! It was a privilege to be sent up the wrong garden path by your very deft début, Sir !

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

an O please to connect

Mahler's forest animals, Verdi's fifteenth and an epilogue

Hmmm.

Should we look at Mahler's Third Symphony (Third Movement: What the animals in the forest tell me [which follows on from the previous Movement, I talk to the trees])?
"Verdi's fifteenth" opera is Luisa Miller (which I'm sure we've all Wiki-ed. Well, except those of us who already knew this, of course!) Not so simple mesuspects.
RVW any help with the "epilogue"?

[Flay]

Are you having an off day, ferney?

[Flay]

And were you not listening to yesterday's evening concert from the Bridgewater Hall? Tut tut.

[Flay]

OK, it's Offstage:

The Offstage post horn in the 3rd movement of Mahler's 3rd
Four Offstage horns in Verdi's Luisa Miller
Britten's Serenade for T H & Ss with the Offstage horn in the epilogue

Thank you for the kick start, ferney. Sorry I toe-Poked

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Thank you for the kick start, ferney. Sorry I toe-Poked

- following your evening concert clue, I was looking for a lost opera by Verdi based on Oedipus!

I think you're right about the "off day"!

[Flay]

May I assume that my coleslaw was fresh, and that mercs is slumbering?

A P Please from a fortifying vegetable and fifteen songs for a new governor

[mercia]

OK, it's Offstage:

The Offstage post horn in the 3rd movement of Mahler's 3rd
Four Offstage horns in Verdi's Luisa Miller
Britten's Serenade for T H & Ss with the Offstage horn in the epilogue

well done apologies for my absence

[Flay]

May I assume that my coleslaw was fresh, and that mercs is slumbering?

A P Please from a fortifying vegetable and fifteen songs for a new governor

I hope that one of my answers will provide some amusement for Red Nose Day. But it is rather too early for me to be dropping clues.

[Nick Armstrong]

I've only had one thought so far: 'fortifying veg' = spinach = Popeye = pop = songs...

I sense this is going nowhere

[Flay]

I've only had one thought so far: 'fortifying veg' = spinach = Popeye = pop = songs...

I sense this is going nowhere

Oh the innocence of ignorance! You are going somewhere (remember that this is a Flay question ). Spinach is a very promising introduction

[mercia]

spinach has taken me via a composer called Pietro Gnocchi to Suppe's Poet & Peasant [used in a Popeye cartoon] - but it has all stuck in my teeth

is P a composer ?

[amateur51]

spinach has taken me via a composer called Pietro Gnocchi to Suppe's Poet & Peasant [used in a Popeye cartoon]

but it has all stuck in my teeth