Alphabet associations - I

[hedgehog]

Western Wind/ Westron Wynde mix & match really. Stravinsky used the text in his cantata, it's not clear if Taverner was referring to any extant melody of Westron Wynde in his Western Wind mass. Tye & Sheppard wrote masses based on Taverner's cantus firmus.

I'll not "point the finger" at anyone for an XYZA: If anyone wants to put a question up feel free, otherwise tomorrow I'll do the honours (now that's a threat that should get someone moving )

[mercia]

an X to connect

Caffarelli, Giovanni Zonca, and Eugene Perry

[amateur51]

<doh> Drat, I've caught a dose of ammy-itis!

I have many -itises - to which in particular do you refer?

[Flay]

I have many -itises - to which in particular do you refer?

Alpahbetitis!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUw8bEhxhLg

[amateur51]

Alpahbetitis!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUw8bEhxhLg

How do you say that in Swedish?

[Flay]

How do you say that in Swedish?

Best said after imbibing a good few drams of Bunnahabhain

Caffarelli was one of the rare documented cases of a child so enamoured of singing that he asked to be castrated.

[Nick Armstrong]

an X to connect

Caffarelli, Giovanni Zonca, and Eugene Perry

We're back with our old friend King Xerxes I think!

All three are singers who took the role in various operas...

The first in Handel's opera - the title rôle having been written for him
The second in J. C. Bach's 'Temistocle'
The third in the well known 1993 opera 'Esther' by Weisgall

[mercia]

We're back with our old friend King Xerxes I think!

indeed, for the umpteenth time
the premieres performers. Weisgall's fifteen minutes of fame ................. on the AA thread

your turn

[Flay]

We're back with our old friend King Xerxes I think!

We're all faffing on the sidelines and Cali dashes straight down the middle and scores!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPC6Yv3BPVY

'Temistocle'

That's what Caffarelli was missing

[Nick Armstrong]

We're all faffing on the sidelines and Cali dashes straight down the middle and scores!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPC6Yv3BPVY

That's what Caffarelli was missing

Cracking goal that, I remember where I was when watching that!

So onwards and upwards...

Where are "Les neiges d'antan" united with Ecstasy, Friendship and a Serenade, thanks to a Y?

[mercia]

oh that's too easy-y

[amateur51]

oh that's too easy-y

He'll want the answer in Swedish, of course

[mercia]

in Swedish

?

not Belgian ?

[cloughie]

?

not Belgian ?

Sounds like the beginning of a music hall joke!

[Nick Armstrong]

?
not Belgian ?

Sounds like the beginning of a music hall joke!

I know a rather vulgar limerick which starts
"There was a young lady from Bruges...:
and ends
"Mon Dieu! Après moi, le déluge!"
I'll leave you to fill in the gaps...

Meantime - yes, mercia - Belgian! Definitely