Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

that's OK, go ahead and set your O, we can always double back (or even omit N)

[edashtav]

Pas de Probleme - I'll stick to N, mercia. N will arrive after dinner.

[edashtav]

To link with Mercia's M, you need an N who reflected on Blake, wrote scenes on Swift, and told the story of Egg.

[mercia]

thanks for posting a question ed. Very intriguing, it looks as if it ought to be straightforward, but so far hasn't thrown up any Ns for me

rightly or wrongly I'm assuming N is the surname of one composer who connects the three elements. Egg has given me Menotti and Herbie Hancock. Swift has given me Telemann. There are very many (William) Blake settings, I haven't found an N composer as yet.

I'm assuming this is William Blake and Jonathan Swift, but I could well be mistaken.

[edashtav]

Do carry on with Bill & Jon, Mercia, but, maybe, egg rather than Egg.

Sorry about my slothful start to Saturday, I was abed, not behind our fridge.

[Nick Armstrong]

Just to say Hello... I've been pondering on this but not successfully, so far...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Just to say Hello... I've been pondering on this but not successfully, so far...

Me, too. I'm presuming that our N is a composer?

[edashtav]

Yes, a composer who perhaps thought he'd found heaven on earth only for it to fall from grace.

[edashtav]

Will it help to know that N was/is much associated with Grand Prix ?

[mercia]

I think its something by Fleetwood Mac that is the theme tune of TV Grand Prix (not that I watch)
apparently Maurice Jarre wrote the music for the film Grand Prix (1966)
I think a composer named Gary Noland may have written something based on Blake and Swift, but its hard to find details

[edashtav]

In the world of Grand Prix, (should it be Grands Prix?), those for driving cars are a mere subset, mercia.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Will it help to know that N was/is much associated with Grand Prix ?

Evidently Not.

[mercia]

In the world of Grand Prix, (should it be Grands Prix?), those for driving cars are a mere subset, mercia.

This is a composer who coincidentally has won a motorbike Grand Prix ? Sounds unlikely.
or do we mean there's another Grand Prix sport, televised with a theme tune ? I don't follow sport at all
according to this page there has been no composer winner of the Prix de Rome whose name begins with N

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Prix_de_Rome_for_composition

if this is anything to do with sport, I think you may have to give a clue as to which sport

[Flay]

I doubt if it has anything to do with sport. I suspect that Ed may be referring to a musical prize, possibly French (although the Prix Rossini does not seem to fit)

[Flay]

Will it help to know that N was/is much associated with Grand Prix ?

Hmm.... Allison Norton?

http://www.dancetheatreofbradenton.org/?tag=allison-norton