Alphabet associations - I

[antongould]

Well, there's a fifth text that I haven't included because it would give the game away. You might find it useful to think of Ralph Richardson?

Antartica?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Antartica?

Sorry - abruptly called away last night and an early start this morning. I have to go out early this morning and may be some time, but I think you've got it if you want to continue to a B. I'll supply the frozen coleslaw later, but now I need to warm up my oates.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I meant Porridge! Off out now - back at about six-ish.

[antongould]

I am assuming we are in the land of RVW or Spennymoor ......

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I am assuming we are in the land of RVW or Spennymoor ......

- the former.

EDIT: The coleslaw - the four texts are those that head the first four movements of the Sinfonia Antartica. On the first recording (Boult with the LPO/Decca) they were read by Sir Ralph Richardson. The last movement is prefaced by an excerpt from the last entry in Scott's diary.

[antongould]

To Be Bold a one for the long winter evening.........

In the Bleak Midwinter
Bard with Orchestra
Lionheart

[Flay]

To Be Bold a one for the long winter evening.........

In the Bleak Midwinter
Bard with Orchestra
Lionheart

There was a time when people would panic if an hour had passed without a contribution. <sigh> Never mind, AA shall live still!

Geoffrey Bush wrote a Christmas Cantata
Of course Kate Bush wrote Lionheart

A bard... hmm... Sibelius...Stanford? I cannot see a shrubby link.

Am I Beating about the Bush?

[Nick Armstrong]

We have been remiss, haven't we. Nice one Flay. For various reasons I have lacked the necessary elbow-room in the Space-Time Continuum to Associate freely

[Anna]

I haven't looked in for ages either, haven't got time to play at the mo but I think Flay could be right because Kate Bush had 50 Words for Snow (link for Bleak Midwinter possibly?)

[antongould]

That is brilliant Flay but sadly incorrect we are after a place........

[mercia]

is this Sibelius's The Bard ? or some other Shakespearean orchestral work ?

I don't find any B places particularly associated with Holst, Darke or Rossetti

[Flay]

Lionheart: could this relate to Handel's Riccardo Primo, or to Richard Cœur-de-lion by André Grétry? The only B I can see is Belgium for the latter.

[antongould]

Lionheart: could this relate to Handel's Riccardo Primo, or to Richard Cœur-de-lion by André Grétry? The only B I can see is Belgium for the latter.

no going down the pop route with Lionheart was the way to go but not to Kate..........

[Flay]

no going down the pop route with Lionheart was the way to go but not to Kate..........

That is brilliant Flay but sadly incorrect we are after a place........

I am desperately trying to fit Barnsley into the solution. The band Saxon is from Barnsley. Their 16th studio album was called Lionheart.

How am I doing so far, Anton?

Nothing to do but wait
Since the solution
Is beyond life -
Beyond dissolution.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I am desperately trying to fit Barnsley into the solution..

Ooh! I think you've got it, Flay. The Bard of Barnsley is Ian McMillan and there is an "Ian McMillan Orchestra":

http://www.theianmcmillanorchestra.com/