Alphabet associations - I

[vinteuil]

Can you recommend 'a life' of said person, vints?

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"Life and Loves of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse"by Jessica Douglas-Home sounds as if it might be a good start...

https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/12/21/reviews/971221.21goreaut.html

[amateur51]

"Life and Loves of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse"by Jessica Douglas-Home sounds as if it might be a good start...

https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/12/...21goreaut.html

Thanking you!

Any rello of the late lamented Baillie Vass, lately of the Hirsel, I wonder

[antongould]

... ah, but was her life as interesting as that of Violet Gordon Woodhouse???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Gordon-Woodhouse

Oh my goodness "......The household finances improved after Gordon's sisters were murdered by their butler...." what a remarkable life indeed!

[Nick Armstrong]

Malcolm Sargent 'heir to a fortune derived from Beecham's Pills' (Wiki);

Am I missing something....?

[antongould]

Is it Moritz or is Moritz part thereof?

[amateur51]

Is it Moritz or is Moritz part thereof?

I've seen some fishing expeditions in my time, anton

I've give you Mo

[amateur51]

Am I missing something....?

I doubt it Caliban, but Norths most certainly is - care to join the dots for us?

[Northender]

Davitt Moroney - no, he's not of a pre-GM generation.

[amateur51]

Davit Moroney?

'Fraid it's not on the card, Norths

[amateur51]

Davitt Moroney - no, he's not of a pre-GM generation.

You're looking for a woman harpsichordist, Polish/French

[Northender]

Manda Mandowksa?

[amateur51]

Manda Mandowksa?

YAY Norths!

Our M taught her!

[Nick Armstrong]

Manda Mandowksa?

I increasingly feel like I'm entering a parallel universe when I come here...

[amateur51]

I increasingly feel like I'm entering a parallel universe when I come here...

I'm humouring Norths past his Malcolm Sargent fetish, Caliban

[Nick Armstrong]

Cheers anton - hard luck, Norths! - a matter of timing only

What M links a career kept moving by a patent medicine, a harpsichord pioneer, and pianistic sparks

Tommy Beecham and Wanda Landowska were pupils of Moritz Moszkowski who wrote Étincelles, Op. 36, No. 6 (Sparks) for solo piano