Alphabet associations - I

[Flay]

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

Queen Elizabeth perchance?

[mercia]

Queen Elizabeth perchance?

very good, mine liege
would you care to pad that out betimes

[Flay]

very good, mine liege
would you care to pad that out betimes

Joan Cross – Queen Elizabeth I in the premiere of Britten's Gloriana, 8th June 1953
Isabella Colbran - Queen Elizabeth I in the premiere of Rossini's Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra, 4th October 1815
Adelaide Tosi - Queen Elizabeth I in the premiere of Donizetti's Il Castello di Kenilworth 6 July 1829

That was a clever Question, mercs!

[mercia]

a fulsome and inflaytionary answer
are you raring to go ?

[antongould]

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That was a clever Question, mercs!

Indeed excellent question mercs

[Flay]

a fulsome and inflaytionary answer
are you raring to go ?

Absolutely. There's no Rhotacism here tonight! Give me an Rrrrrrrrrrr: Seekers of Borodin's memory and an act of capital punishemt (OK Yar).

[Northender]

Ravel? He composed a piece for piano 'in the manner of Borodin', and I believe there's a body swinging from a gibbet in the second part of 'Gaspard de La Nuit'.....

[Flay]

Ravel? He composed a piece for piano 'in the manner of Borodin', and I believe there's a body swinging from a gibbet in the third part of 'Gaspard de La Nuit'.....

Nice try, Northo, but not what's on the card. The piece I have in mind was actually dedicated to the memory of Borodin.

[Flay]

Shall I partition the three parts?

Seekers
of Borodin's memory
and an act of capital punishemt (OK Yar).

[Flay]

Is The Seekers causing the problem? How can I get it over?

[mercia]

apologies Mr Flay, I haven't even started looking at your question - how rude is that ?

I'm simultaneouly trying to brush-up my English grammar and listen to Afternoon on 3 - I promise it will have my undivided attention soon

[mercia]

......so far I have dedicated to Borodin: Stenka Radin by Glazunov and Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Festival Overture
I'm guessing that Seekers will be Judith Durham & Co. - OK Yar sort of suggests Babi Yar

update
Stenka Razin is the hero of a popular Russian folk song, Ponizovaya Volnitsa, better known by the words Volga, Volga mat' rodnaya. The words were written by Dmitri Sadovnikov (Дмитрий Николаевич Садовников) in 1883; the music is folk. The song gave the title to the famous Soviet musical comedy Volga-Volga. The melody was used by Tom Springfield in the song "The Carnival Is Over" that placed The Seekers at #1 in 1965 in Australia and the UK. (wikipedia)

is it Radin or Razin

[Flay]

......so far I have dedicated to Borodin: Stenka Radin by Glazunov and Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Festival Overture

I'm guessing that Seekers will be Judith Durham & Co. - OK Yar sort of suggests Babi Yar

more anon .................................

Glazunov but Radin? Try another spelling...
Not Judith, but a song...

[Flay]

....update

I am currently in Asda by the coleslaw counter

[Flay]

We need one other