Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

oh, am I done? - well done me - great angular question
wasn't sure who sang I'll walk beside you ........... Webster Booth ?????

X connecting please

William Ratcliff, Hands off the Queen and Five Black Songs

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

wasn't sure who sang I'll walk beside you ........... Webster Booth ?????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRjTuAEqnh0

[Nick Armstrong]

What happened to Caliban's hat ?

I bought a new one for the purpose...

[Nick Armstrong]

Hands off the Queen

[vinteuil]

I bought a new one for the purpose...

... I am trying to remember - there is a short story - but is it PG Wodehouse or AP Herbert? - in which the hero is seen wearing a cabbage on his head for a week - it of course transpires that he had promised to eat his hat...

[Nick Armstrong]

Hands off the Queen

William Ratcliff

Astonishing what one learns here. César Cui wrote an opera with that title - seems utterly improbable! Likewise, that Mascagni did so too ("Guglielmo Ratcliff" )

Can't see any X involved with either though

[Nick Armstrong]

... I am trying to remember - there is a short story - but is it PG Wodehouse or AP Herbert? - in which the hero is seen wearing a cabbage on his head for a week - it of course transpires that he had promised to eat his hat...

Sounds like a Misleading Case to me....

[AuntDaisy]

Xavier - Leroux / Boisselot / Montsalvatge ???

Sorry, all new to me.

But the internet (that source of dodgy info) provided:
Xavier Leroux -> William Ratcliff, libretto by Louis de Gramont after Heinrich Heine, 1906 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Leroux)
Xavier Boisselot -> Ne touchez pas à la reine (Hands Off the Queen) is an opéra comique in three acts by French (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_touc...C3%A0_la_reine)
Montsalvatge Xavier -> Five Black Songs for Soprano and Orchestra. 1945 (http://classical-music-online.net/en/production/29905)

[AuntDaisy]

Thanks Caliban, your Hedgeh + og image made me laugh as well. [http://imgur.com/Lldoq]

[mercia]

Xavier - Leroux / Boisselot / Montsalvatge

very good, well done and a very warm welcome to the Daisy
yes, unknown to me too - that's the trouble with X
Leroux - William Ratcliff / Boisselot - Hands off the Queen / Montsalvatge - 5 Black Songs


would you care to bowl us a Y, Z or A question ?????

[AuntDaisy]

Rats - hoist by my own petard!
Can I have a while to think?

[mercia]

Rats - hoist by my own petard!
Can I have a while to think?

yes I know, it's the punishment for answering correctly
take as long as you like (as far as I'm concerned)

[Nick Armstrong]

Xavier - Leroux / Boisselot / Montsalvatge ??? Sorry, all new to me.

No apology required...! I for one am in awe having tried and failed to use said 'internet' to solve this...

...and equally delighted at the magnificence of your arrival !

Take all the time you need, would be my advice!!

Thanks Caliban, your Hedgeh + og image made me laugh as well.

Don't mention it!

[Angle]

Well done AD and welcome to a friendly room - they don't eat people in here.

Really looking forward to the puzzle but I shall not be answering it, I think, because I am away from home until tomorrow and on Friday I am off a funeral in Great Missenden, hoping that the clear sky lasts until I get home again.

ADB Angle

[AuntDaisy]

Thank you for the warm welcome.

How about:
Lounovice / EMS choice (22/05/2005) / dropsy ?