Alphabet associations - I

[Angle]

This M
- heightens the tension in a grave digging scene
- is one of a trilogy written by a noted Bohemian
- is one by a composer whose aim was to join the declamatory art with the art of music

[rubbernecker]

This M
- heightens the tension in a grave digging scene
- is one of a trilogy written by a noted Bohemian
- is one by a composer whose aim was to join the declamatory art with the art of music

Melodrama?

- music underneath the spoken dialogue in Fidelio;
- Georg Benda's Medea, Ariadne and Almansor;
- Richard Strauss's setting of Tennyson's Enoch Arden

[Angle]

Indeed, rubbernecker, MELODRAMA and you are right about Fidelio but not about the other two elements. Not the composers I had in mind.

Second element : was famous for his use of melodrama in his music. Think of a Piano Diary.
Third element : a French writer who undertook his own musical education

[rubbernecker]

Indeed, rubbernecker, MELODRAMA and you are right about Fidelio but not about the other two elements. Not the composers I had in mind.

Second element : was famous for his use of melodrama in his music. Think of a Piano Diary.
Third element : a French writer who undertook his own musical education

- Fibich: Hippodamia ?
- I can't get the Frenchman, sounds like he's up Vinteuil's or Caliban's street...

[Nick Armstrong]

- I can't get the Frenchman, sounds like he's up Vinteuil's or Caliban's street...

Touching vote of confidence, thanks!

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Pygmalion ?

[Angle]

Fibich correct.

http://www.radio.cz/en/section/music/zdenek-fibich-the-master-of-the-melodrama

Now all we need is the writer of the first full scale melodrama



N comes next and it will be all yours.

[Angle]

Yes, Rousseau is the man.

I am feeling rather tired - and so early - so might as well go to bed soon so shall n ot be around to see the unveiling of N but it should probably go to rubbernecker for his tenacity, though your last-minute input, Caliban, was enlivening.

BTW _ I couldn't get a French Fancy today. Alack, alas.

[rubbernecker]

I am feeling rather tired - and so early - so might as well go to bed soon so shall not be around to see the unveiling of N but it should probably go to rubbernecker for his tenacity, though your last-minute input, Caliban, was enlivening.

Enlivening, indeed. I knew Caliban would crack the French connection. And an interesting conundrum, Don. Hope you sleep well. Incase there are any night owls, I'll unveil N before I turn in too.

What N connects a facade-inspired group formed in 1964, one chosen to portray the old man, and one who left for LA to form another group in 1968?

[mercia]

Nash Ensemble (1964)
Graham Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash ( + Young)

? Ogden Nash - "Portrait of the artist as a prematurely old man"

[rubbernecker]

Very good, Mercia, two out of three. Can anyone get the middle element?

[mercia]

Heddle Nash?

Dr Manette in Benjamin's Tale of Two Cities?

Title role in Faust?

[rubbernecker]

Heddle Nash?

Chosen by Elgar to sing the title role of Gerontius at a performance conducted by the composer in 1931.

To fill in the rest of the gaps: The Nash Ensemble took their name from the Nash terraces surrounding the Royal Academy of Music and Graham Nash left the Hollies in 1968

Time to move on to Mercia's O ..

[Nick Armstrong]

Heddle Nash?

Dr Manette in Benjamin's Tale of Two Cities?

Title role in Faust?

Gerontius?

EDIT (after rubbers jumps my gun): You couldn't have waited a minute more to let me have my little crumb of glory, rubbers... You had to shove your oar in...

I am cross-posted to oblivion and hope for better things from O...

[mercia]

I was forgetting that Gerontius is old

an O please to connect

- a Romany student
- number 92 (no, not a bus)
- Dylan on Meredith
- Percy's 1938 "friend"

[rubbernecker]

[COLOR="blue"]Gerontius?

EDIT (after rubbers jumps my gun): You couldn't have waited a minute more to let me have my little crumb of glory, rubbers... You had to shove your oar in... :winkey

Sorry. There, there... To be honest, I didn't think anyone else was around. Gerontius literally means old man.