Alphabet associations - I

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And are we talking Judith Bingham?

Not in this instance.

(Still trying to work out if duchy and Beano are clues

Not the former - the second is a puny clue, I suppose.

[cloughie]

Not in this instance.


Not the former - the second is a puny clue, I suppose.

...and I always took porter to be stout!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

...and I always took porter to be stout!

- just to clarify: "the second ... puny clue" referred to "Beano" as in Flay's post, not "Porter".

[cloughie]

- just to clarify: "the second ... puny clue" referred to "Beano" as in Flay's post, not "Porter".

If we're having a Beano, then D is not Dandy, but is Porter Cole?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

If we're having a Beano, then D is not Dandy

but is Porter Cole?

[Flay]

Well via a convoluted route I have been up the beanstalk with The Goodies, but am nowhere forward. I've studied Cole Porter to no avail (so far...)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Well via a convoluted route I have been up the beanstalk with The Goodies, but am nowhere forward. I've studied Cole Porter to no avail (so far...)

Cole Porter and "study" should prove very useful. (But, apart from divertiing from the traumas of AA, the Goodies and the Beanstalk will be no use whatsoever! )

[Flay]

And is Bingham Mr Seth perchance? (Not that I can yet link a D...)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And is Bingham Mr Seth perchance? (Not that I can yet link a D...)

He is indeed - and his studies are as useful as Mr Porter's.

[subcontrabass]

He is indeed - and his studies are as useful as Mr Porter's.

Cole Porter and Seth Bingham both studied with Vincent d'Indy.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Cole Porter and Seth Bingham both studied with Vincent d'Indy.

- they did, indeed. Now all that's needed is a "6" from which "3" might have connections also with said professeur ...

[subcontrabass]

- they did, indeed. Now all that's needed is a "6" from which "3" might have connections also with said professeur ...

Three of "Les Six": Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, and Darius Milhaud, also studied with d'Indy.

[vinteuil]

:Now all that's needed is a "6" ..

perhaps not "a six" but "the six", or even...

[ ah, I see the subcontra got there before me ]

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Three of "Les Six": Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, and Darius Milhaud, also studied with d'Indy.

- with vinty mentioned in these patches.

So - to coleslaw-

Vincent d'Indy, who at various times taught the three members of Les Six that subby mentions above, and Cole Porter, and Seth Bingham (no; I hadn't, either!).

Full marks to subby and the opportunity to excercise our brain cells with an E.

[Flay]

D'Indy that's an I