Alphabet associations - I

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

didn't know that, but I do now

The link is from one of those Greek myths that occasionally get turned into operas.

a mute Daphne - (sorry this must be like pulling teeth)

"mute" being another word for ...

(Don't worry - I'm not looking down in the mouth!)

[mercia]

Ultimo poema de Stefan Zweig !!! - sorry I've probably just pipped anton there

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ultimo poema de Stefan Zweig !!! - sorry I've probably just pipped anton there

Now we're cooking with gas!

[antongould]

Ultimo poema de Stefan Zweig !!! - sorry I've probably just pipped anton there

Don't be daft mercs I wasn't at the races ..... A Very Zweig effort such as that deserves A reward ....

[mercia]

Ultimo poema de Stefan Zweig

by Henry Jolles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jolles

[mercia]

Strauss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_schweigsame_Frau

"Zweig later collaborated with Joseph Gregor, to provide Strauss with the libretto for one other opera, Daphne"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Zweig

I think the answer might be Zweig - what a lot I've learnt today

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Strauss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_schweigsame_Frau

"Zweig later collaborated with Joseph Gregor, to provide Strauss with the libretto for one other opera, Daphne"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Zweig

I think the answer might be Zweig - what a lot I've learnt today

Correct in all details, mercs (and no charge for the home-learning facilitation )

Stefan Zweig, provided libretti (in whole or part) for Richard Strauss' operas Daphne and The Silent Woman (to the disapproval of Goebbels as Zweig was a Jew) and whose "last poem" was a composition by Henry Jolles.

Ironically (as Zweig had had to leave his homeland after the rise of the Nazis) his works were first published in English under the name "Stephen Branch", to avoid anti-Germanic feelings!

So All the way back to the beginning Again with mercs!

[mercia]

cannot begin to match the intricacy of Zweig

an A to connect works that feature

Sellem, Dr Reischmann, Moppet and Poppet

[Nick Armstrong]

cannot begin to match the intricacy of Zweig

Blimey, I know - Scooby Doo and Die schweigsame Frau I never thought I'd see united...

cannot begin to match the intricacy of Zweig

an A to connect works that feature

Sellem, Dr Reischmann, Moppet and Poppet

I'm just back from a Christmas Party and slightly the worse for Champagne Cocktails so if this is right, the B may have to await the conclusion of my imminent siesta...

The first two are Auden (Rake's Progress and Elegy for Young Lovers respectively) so I suspect old Wystan Hugh is the A in question....


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Ah - thanks Wikipedia: Moppet and Poppet are the cats in Paul Bunyan. Words by W H A for Auden...

[mercia]

Ah - thanks Wikipedia: Moppet and Poppet are the cats in Paul Bunyan. Words by W H A for Auden...

.... so you didn't need wiki for the first two - most impressive - you're a better man than I, Gunga Din. Indeed, old craggy-face Wystan himself



we look forward to the post-siesta B for burp

[Nick Armstrong]

- most impressive -

- most lucky - (I did an essay about Auden and music as part of my A level Auden studies ... The interesting thing is how much I've retained, esp. a huge love of Auden's work).

Anyhoo...

Which B, without being French, could in a Gallic manner be both serious and capricious, as well as singular and naive…?

[antongould]

With my poor F for O level French - I feel I may be struggling ......

[Nick Armstrong]

With my poor F for O level French - I feel I may be struggling ......

Well Anton we are in the realms of the Northern Lights so beloved of our Radio 3 masters... so you'd be better advised to look to Sweden, than shedding tears about your mis-spent youth!

[vinteuil]

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Which B, without being French, could in a Gallic manner be both serious and capricious, as well as singular and naive…?

hmmm - the Sage of Nottingham seems to be nudging us to-wards someone associated with -

sérieuse, capricieuse, singulière, naïve

Can't bear to think who he might mean....

[antongould]

hmmm - the Sage of Nottingham seems to be nudging us to-wards someone associated with -

sérieuse, capricieuse, singulière, naïve

Can't bear to think who he might mean....

Well Berwald is

COTW
Swedish
Compose Sinfonie Naive

And Rumpole is
Always Topical and
Radio 3 'til he d....... ...