Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

Age of Consent - Peter Sculthorpe - WADHAM College :phew: I'd forgotten that Mr anton likes Oxbridge college questions

[antongould]

Age of Consent - Peter Sculthorpe - WADHAM College :phew: I'd forgotten that Mr anton likes Oxbridge college questions

Only the carrot bit of coleslaw to go mercs .......

[mercia]

..... have to go out now ... and I've forgotten what's left ....

[antongould]

..... have to go out now ... and I've forgotten what's left ....

Yes it's Fenwicks for me - but I think it's the Jane / Honey man .......

[cloughie]

Yes it's Fenwicks for me - but I think it's the Jane / Honey man .......

Alan Tudor Blaikley was at Wadham

[antongould]

Alan Tudor Blaikley was at Wadham

He was indeed Cloughers ... We have it all - I shall spread the coleslaw when I have something better than an iPhone . I think it is down to mercs to choose his letter .....

[antongould]

All three of the following attended Wadham College Oxford

Tommy Beecham who arranged The Faithful Shepherd
Peter Sculthorpe who composed the scores for Age of Consent and Under Stress
Alan Blaikley who composed Have I The Right and the BBC Miss Marple theme music ....

To mercs x/y/z/a .......

[mercia]

thank you for doing the honours with the side-dish, probably my job

Y oh Y oh Y to link the composers of these

- Weapons of Mass Distortion (2003)
- Call of the Carolina Parakeet (2005)
- Venexiana (1985)

[antongould]

thank you for doing the honours with the side-dish, probably my job

Y oh Y oh Y to link the composers of these

- Weapons of Mass Distortion (2003)
- Call of the Carolina Parakeet (2005)
- Venexiana (1985)

Excellent mercs I may be gone a while but I am sure Rumpole will have the odd sorte as he signs the practice bonus cheques ....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Good puzzle, anton: hope your absence is in order to enjoy splendid activities with splendid people.


Meanwhile, mercs' has got me baffled - mesuspecteth punnings and word-plays ... ???

[antongould]

Good puzzle, anton: hope your absence is in order to enjoy splendid activities with splendid people.


Meanwhile, mercs' has got me baffled - mesuspecteth punnings and word-plays ... ???

Cheers indeed it is ferney - if mercs has you baffled I don't fancy my chances ...

[mercia]

mesuspecteth punnings and word-plays ... ???

none of that - straightforward three composers of those works, those composers connected to a ........ place ..... which should hopefully give it away

Y is the letter

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

none of that - straightforward three composers of those works, those composers connected to a ........ place ..... which should hopefully give it away
Y is the letter

Ah! So not so much "word plays" as "Mystery plays"? (And not in the Miss Marple sense?)

[mercia]

Ah! So not so much "word plays" as "Mystery plays"? (And not in the Miss Marple sense?)

quite so

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Struggling with La Venexiana (other than wondering if it has something to do with the York Early Music Festival of 1985?) - but

John Godfrey studied Composition at the University of York, and wrote Call of the Carolina Parakeet for the Crash Ensemble in 2005.

Martin Wesley-Smith, likewhere educated, wrote Weapons of Mass Distortion in 2003.