Alphabet associations - I

[edashtav]

Hoorah! The Libretto is from the book with the same name by the Nigerian writer Wola Soyinka. Ms León also conducts.

The rest should not be too hard!

Well, Milhaud composed 2 catalogues for voice & ensemble, one dealt with agricultural implements, t'other was a Catalogue de Fleurs. Movt. 4 was Jacinthes which is French, je pense, for Hyacinths.

[hedgehog]

Well, Milhaud composed 2 catalogues for voice & ensemble, one dealt with agricultural implements, t'other was a Catalogue de Fleurs. Movt. 4 was Jacinthes which is French, je pense, for Hyacinths.

Spot on edashtav Would you care to google for a singer named Hyacinth? Comes from Trinidad to be precise, career in the UK...

[edashtav]

Spot on edashtav Would you care to google for a singer named Hyacinth? Comes from Trinidad to be precise, career in the UK...

As I have no idea, I feel that googling would be unfair, so I'll leave completion to the more widely informed.

It's curious that the French have a grip on musical catalogues and les Bandar-Log!

[mercia]

well I'm not informed, let alone widely, but there appears to be a mezzo named Hyacinth Nicholls

http://www.mezzo-soprano.org.uk/

p.s. googling is fair and highly recommended

[hedgehog]

well I'm not informed, let alone widely, but there appears to be a mezzo named Hyacinth Nicholls

http://www.mezzo-soprano.org.uk/

p.s. googling is not only fair but also essential, unavoidable and widespread

Yes - has anybody heard this singer? She seems to have won a number of prizes etc, perhaps not a star but a pretty good singer?

I do like to know at least one of the parts to a quiz so to have a really good hunch and then will google to affirm if needs be.

Not iniquitous at all mercia!

[mercia]

Yes - has anybody heard this singer? She seems to have won a number of prizes etc, perhaps not a star but a pretty good singer?

'fraid I don't know her

I was going to ask edash if he would like to set a question, but I guess that's rather unfair


an I to easily connect

Count Tomsky, Pierre Nougaro, Anton Bedlevich, and Osip Petrov

[Flay]

I've an idea perhaps...

[Nick Armstrong]

I've an idea

Lead us out of darkness o great one

[mercia]

I've an

well done

[Flay]

Lead us out of darkness o great one

[Flay]

well done

Well it looks like it is Ivan the Terrible:

Osip Petrov premiered Ivan in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Maid of Pskov in 1873

In 1898 Rimsky-Korsakov's The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga was premiered. It is about a naughty married woman who has a fling with Prince Yuriy Ivanovich Tokmakov (premiered by Anton Bedlevich) who it seems turned out to be Ivan the Terrible. When her hubby returned he demanded to know where the baby had come from. Her spinster sister kindly claimed it was hers. Was that an illegitimate claim?

In 1951 Pierre Nougaro performed Ivan in the very late premiere of Bizet's Ivan IV (written around 1862/3).

But as for Count Tomsky.... well he's a character in Tchaik's The Queen of Spades. Premiered by Ivan Melnikovin 1980. Nothing terrible there....

[mercia]

well done, lots of Ivans, not necessarily the same one. terribly good. Actually I think I had Anton Bedlevich down as the first Ivan Khovansky in Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina and Osip Petrov as the first Ivan Susanin in Glinka's A Life for the Tsar. multiple answers.

a jolly J would be ......... jolly

[mercia]

Premiered by Ivan Melnikovin 1980.

or even 1890

[Flay]

or even 1890

How terrible...

Just for me, please associate a blade, a crown and gymnastics

[mercia]

a certain well known Czech orchestral work was written for a 1920's gymnastics festival