Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Well Berwald is

COTW
Swedish
Compose Sinfonie Naive

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

Anton you pronounced the B word, but the Seer of Shepherd's Bush whipped up a creditable colesaw with his coy

sérieuse, capricieuse, singulière, naïve

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

Indeed - Franz Berwald and his quartet of Symphonies

Symphony No. 1 in G minor (Sinfonie sérieuse) (1842)
Symphony No. 2 in D (Sinfonie capricieuse) (1842)
Symphony No. 3 in C (Sinfonie singulière) (1845)
Symphony No. 4 in E flat (Sinfonie naïve) (1845)

Three of which (not the last, according to the schedules I've seen) are indeed to feature in COTW starting as I write ...

Anton - I think we should head down Du Côté de Shepherd's Bush and ask monsieur v to set the c, what do you reckon?

[vinteuil]

Anton - I think we should head down Du Côté de Shepherd's Bush and ask monsieur v to set the c, what do you reckon?

... if you insist - and anton is willin' :

What C connects

- an idea of the Count of Provence which first saw the light of day in 1783
- a bird that first appeared in Frankfurt in 1860
- a delay caused by the Prussians and the French

[antongould]

Anton you pronounced the B word, but the Seer of Shepherd's Bush whipped up a creditable colesaw with his coy



Indeed - Franz Berwald and his quartet of Symphonies

Symphony No. 1 in G minor (Sinfonie sérieuse) (1842)
Symphony No. 2 in D (Sinfonie capricieuse) (1842)
Symphony No. 3 in C (Sinfonie singulière) (1845)
Symphony No. 4 in E flat (Sinfonie naïve) (1845)

Three of which (not the last, according to the schedules I've seen) are indeed to feature in COTW starting as I write ...

Anton - I think we should head down Du Côté de Shepherd's Bush and ask monsieur v to set the c, what do you reckon?

Indeed a vints question would make 2015 for me - even his excuses to get out of setting questions are pure class .....

[antongould]

Crossed in the ether - thanks very much vints .......

[subcontrabass]

... if you insist - and anton is willin' :

What C connects

- an idea of the Count of Provence which first saw the light of day in 1783
- a bird that first appeared in Frankfurt in 1860
- a delay caused by the Prussians and the French

We seem to have moved south from the Northern Lights and ended up in Cairo.

[vinteuil]

We seem to have moved south from the Northern Lights and ended up in Cairo.

... indeed we have!

- would you care to unpack?

[subcontrabass]

... indeed we have!

- would you care to unpack?

La caravane du Caire - opera-ballet by André Grétry, with libretto based on an idea from the Count of Provence (later Louis XVIII of France) - first performance 1783;
L'oca del Cairo ('The Cairo Goose') - incomplete opera buffa by W A Mozart (K422), started and abandoned in 1783 - first performance 1860;
The first performance of Verdi's Aida took place in Cairo in 1871, and had been delayed as the scenery and costumes were stuck in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.

[vinteuil]

... complete and correct in all pertick'lers.

May we ask the subcontrabass to rise to a diapasonal D ?

[subcontrabass]

... complete and correct in all pertick'lers.

May we ask the subcontrabass to rise to a diapasonal D ?

A D to link Betjeman, Middle Earth, and Caedmon.

[Nick Armstrong]

Exotic stuff... Off into the darkling wilds of rural Cambridgshire now for 36 hours (and in quest en route of Highland Black, as readers of another thread will know) so Happy Games till later in the week...

[cloughie]

A D to link Betjeman, Middle Earth, and Caedmon.

Are we linking Caedmon College,Whitby with Bram Stoker, Betjeman with Hammer and Middle Eart with Mythgard and overall Dracula.

[subcontrabass]

Are we linking Caedmon College,Whitby with Bram Stoker, Betjeman with Hammer and Middle Eart with Mythgard and overall Dracula.

No - no further links required.

[mercia]

DONALD Swann

For the love of Betjeman (1965)
Poems & Songs of Middle Earth (1967)
The Song of Caedmon (1971)


should this be correct would anyone else like to set a puzzle ?

[subcontrabass]

DONALD Swann

For the love of Betjeman (1965)
Poems & Songs of Middle Earth (1967)
The Song of Caedmon (1971)


should this be correct would anyone else like to set a puzzle ?

Correct in all respects.

[antongould]

Correct in all respects.

E by gum ... mercs in your own time ......