Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

so nothing to do with Wagner's father-in-law (him again) being called lazybones once (or more than once)

[rubbernecker]

so nothing to do with Wagner's father-in-law (him again) being called lazybones once (or more than once)

No, but keep going...

[mercia]

keep going...

sorry i've now hit the buffers

[rubbernecker]

sorry i've now hit the buffers

Focus on the younger generation

[mercia]

well Siegfried Wagner (if i'm staying with Wagner) wrote a symphonic poem, Gluck (with umlaut)

if I knew what the German for lazybones was, that might (perhaps) help

Wahnfried-Idyll (1918)

[Nick Armstrong]

well Siegfried Wagner (if i'm staying with Wagner) wrote a symphonic poem, Gluck (with umlaut)

if I knew what the German for lazybones was, that might (perhaps) help

Wahnfried-Idyll (1918)

Sounds as if you should be preparing an X, mercia

[rubbernecker]

well Siegfried Wagner (if i'm staying with Wagner) wrote a symphonic poem, Gluck (with umlaut)

if I knew what the German for lazybones was, that might (perhaps) help

Wahnfried-Idyll (1918)

Well, you're as good as there. Der Bärenhäuter was Siegfried Wagner's first opera, after the Grimm fairytale, which translates variously as the Man in the Bearskin or Lazybones. The idyll was of course the Siegfried Idyll with father Richard penned as a present to his wife after she had given birth to Siegfried.

Siegfried Wagner was the answer.

Can I offer you the choice of X, Y or Z?

[mercia]

oh .... I see

the scales have dropped from my eyes, or whatever that expression is

[mercia]

Can I offer you the choice of X, Y or Z?

could someone remind me which Ys we've had

[rubbernecker]

could someone remind me which Ys we've had

Y Ysaye, Yo Yo Ma, Yellow (2), Yves, Yolanda, Young

[mercia]

was it worth the wait I wonder

Y

a new one from Sir Michael, a feline one from Al, a cycle from Mrs Hensel and Dmitri's eternal memory

[rubbernecker]

A happy, new beginning of the alphabet awaits...

[Angle]

possibly connected with Temirkanov ?

[mercia]

possibly connected with Temirkanov ?

in one element, yes (if we're thinking the same thing!)

[Angle]

I think I have the Sir Michael clue and the Dmitri, the latter of which is something to do with a conductor who died in 2002.

Of the feline and Hensel connections, I have as yet not a clue.

But what a lovely day it has been. My trip under the sun and into the city centre, which was heaving with race-goers in all their splendour, was spoiled only by the failure, of our two Waterstone shops, to have any stock related the world of classical music.

If they don't have it, they can't sell it.