Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

The first musical railway journey to Mantua was a prank for Zak

is that Piotr Zak ? I think we may be in Act 3 of Rigoletto

[Flay]

is that Piotr Zak ? I think we may be in Act 3 of Rigoletto

I think we may well be...

[amateur51]

I think we may well be...

Good job I ascertained the correct Mantua, eh mercs? Knew it would come in handy

[Flay]

Oh and yes, it is Piotr Zak. There's a story to be told.

Any tellers?

[Anna]

Oh and yes, it is Piotr Zak. There's a story to be told.

Any tellers?

I've just just logged in, firstly, why did Ams abandon his career in dentistry? That's intriguing.
Anyway, it appears Piotr (or Pjotr) Zak is the name of a fictional Polish composer whose alleged composition Mobile for Tape and Percussion was broadcast twice on the BBC Third Programme on 5 June 1961 in a performance supposedly played by 'Claude Tessier' and 'Anton Schmidt

Which is interesting but nothing to do with Rigoletto. But I thought I'd mention it.

[mercia]

Mobile

..... and I think the railway music may be by Alkan

[Flay]

I've just just logged in, firstly, why did Ams abandon his career in dentistry? That's intriguing.
Anyway, it appears Piotr (or Pjotr) Zak is the name of a fictional Polish composer whose alleged composition Mobile for Tape and Percussion was broadcast twice on the BBC Third Programme on 5 June 1961 in a performance supposedly played by 'Claude Tessier' and 'Anton Schmidt

Which is interesting but nothing to do with Rigoletto. But I thought I'd mention it.

Yes, and the hoax was perpetrated by Hans Keller.

Now did I see an M somewhere there?

[Flay]

..... and I think the railway music may be by Alkan

You posted as I was writing my reply to Anna. Yes, you have the M!

[vinteuil]

Piotr (or Pjotr) Zak is the name of a fictional Polish composer whose alleged composition Mobile for Tape and Percussion

.

Which is interesting but nothing to do with Rigoletto. .

... surely there's a "..... mobile" somewhere in Rigoletto?

[mercia]

you have the M!

well done Anna brilliant

[Flay]

well done Anna brilliant

You are a chancer, mercs!

Shall I provide the salad as I am out soon?

Mobile for Tape and Percussion by the fictitious Piotr Zak
La Donne è Mobile
Le chemin de fer by Alkan is "frequently cited as the first musical representation of a railway. It is a perpetuum Mobile composition at an extremely fast tempo".

It would be Nice to have an Anna puzzle

[Anna]

It would be Nice to have an Anna puzzle

Not tonight Josephine!! I really haven't had time to play lately, but I must say I got Jehovah whilst the lot of you were flayling about!
Perhaps at the weekend I might play in earnest!

[mercia]

I better step-up, uninspired


N connecting

Brno cathedral, a prologue, A Study in Scarlet

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

N connecting
Brno cathedral, a prologue, A Study in Scarlet

"We must hurry, Watson; an hour and more has passed since the setting of this clue, and I want to go to the Hallé's concert to hear Wilma Norman-Neruda, the famous violinist. Did you know that her father, Josef Neruda was organist at Brno cathedral, and that, when her brother the 'cellist Franz-Xavier Neruda dies (by my calculation, about forty years from now), Carl Neilsen will write a Prologue in his memory?"
"You dirty rat, Holmes," replied Watson, "Play it again, Sam."

(From a first draft of Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet.)

[vinteuil]

"You dirty rat *, Holmes," replied Watson,

* we presume: "the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared."