Alphabet associations - I

[antongould]

As my daughters would say you are on fire! For the 3rd Bacharch, Brubeck and Glass were all his students!

[subcontrabass]

As my daughters would say you are on fire! For the 3rd Bacharch, Brubeck and Glass were all his students!

That takes us to Milhaud.

[antongould]

And his XIth symphony - Y to you!

[Norfolk Born]

Sorry to be so dense, but I don't really follow the trails that lead from the 'W' and 'X' questions to the respective answers.
What W links three cowpats? Wenlock
Which X links All Men Are Brothers etc? 11th (not 10th) symphonies.
Still, sbc and Anton seem to be on the same wavelength and having fun.

[subcontrabass]

And his XIth symphony - Y to you!

What Y links Rule Britannia, Pyramus and Thisbe, and Semele

[Norfolk Born]

Has none of them been performed in Yarm, Yalta, Yarmouth, Yerevan or Yokohama on a Thursday in October on which the maximum temperature did not exceed 7.5 degrees Celsius?
Alternatively: have they all been posted on Youtube on a Thursday in October when the minimum temperature did not fall below 7.5 degrees Celsius?

[Anna]

Has none of them been performed in Yarm, Yalta, Yarmouth, Yerevan or Yokohama on a Thursday in October on which the maximum temperature did not exceed 7.5 degrees Celsius?
Alternatively: have they all been posted on Youtube on a Thursday in October when the minimum temperature did not fall below 7.5 degrees Celsius?

Well, I was about to post Ovid, when suddenly, I realised it wasn't spelt like that!! Unless you come from Bristol.

[mercia]

What Y links Rule Britannia, Pyramus and Thisbe, and Semele

well they are almost linked by the Year 1745

[subcontrabass]

well they are almost linked by the Year 1745

We are looking for a closer relationship than that.

[Norfolk Born]

Arent we all, ducky! I had heard a rumour that this thread had shown signs of becoming a tad more approachable, but, not for the first time, rumour been done gone gottit wrong. I shall resume my proper station in life and leave you clever folk to your cerebral contortions.

[mercia]

What Y links Rule Britannia, Pyramus and Thisbe, and Semele

Is the link the singer Esther Young?

related by marriage to Arne and sang at the premiere of Handel's Semele


oops just discovered she was married to Frederick Lampe who wrote the opera P & T

[subcontrabass]

Is the link the singer Esther Young?

related by marriage to Arne and sang at the premiere of Handel's Semele


oops just discovered she was married to Frederick Lampe who wrote the opera P & T

She was not married to Frederick Lampe. Otherwise very much on the right track.

[mercia]

She was not married to Frederick Lampe. Otherwise very much on the right track.

beg your pardon, he was her brother-in-law

[subcontrabass]

beg your pardon, he was her brother-in-law

It seems as if you have got most of the links. What I was looking for was just "Young". Spelling things out we have three singing sisters:

Cecilia Young, married Thomas Arne, composer of Rule Britannia

Isabella Young, married to John Frederick Lampe, the composer of Pyramus and Thisbe. She also created the role of Thisbe in this work.

Esther Young, married to Charles Jones, appeared in first performance of Semele (singing the roles of Juno and Ino)


I think mercia/hercule should give us a Z (or an A if he insists that Z is too hard).

[mercia]

oh well

what Z links

- Bolton Rowe
- Aesculapius Carboy
- Fulham Light Opera

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