Alphabet associations - I

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Horatio Parker?

EDIT: Nah! Wasn't "the first" in the USA, there's no unfinished operas, and Hora Novissima wasn't even his first oratorio.

But, apart from that ...

[antongould]

Horatio Parker?

Sadly no

[cloughie]

Is the P the forename or surname?

[antongould]

Surname

[mercia]

very close with Parker, another of his gang
I wonder if he was any relation of Thomas

[antongould]

very close with Parker, another of his gang
I wonder if he was any relation of Thomas

Indeed mercs very close but don't be a pain..........

[antongould]

Fenwicks calls......mercs has the answer but is being coy. Please at an appropriate moment move on.......hope you don't have problems with your Qing process.

[Flay]

[antongould]

Does one require a clue? If so look at the last mercs and my response....

[Anna]

I thought mercs had obliquely cracked it as John Knowles Paine? I think as usual, he is being backwards in coming forward.

[antongould]

I thought mercs had obliquely cracked it as John Knowles Paine? I think as usual, he is being backwards in coming forward.

He is indeed anyone else want to come to the front of the Q?

[mercia]

John Knowles Paine 1839-1906
one of the Boston Six, composed America's first oratorio, St Peter, though I noticed wikipedia also attributed that accolade to someone else [Charles Edward Horn - The Remission of Sin]
America's first music professor at Harvard. opera Azara.

http://harvardmagazine.com/2000/05/john-knowles-paine.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRF93Vc6XSE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_0gSbBVC48

[Flay]

He is indeed anyone else want to come to the front of the Q?

So we have the coleslaw, but no clues for this Quisquilious competition

[antongould]

Go on Flay your thread needs you.....

[mercia]

I had thought of a Q. Shall I post it ? It can be rejected or replaced at will.


a Q connecting Joan Cross, Isabella Colbran and Adelaide Tosi