Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

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

I just appeared having made no inroads on your clue last night.. and thought - Nash - geriatric - Gerontius - Never mind.

O we have a new challenge from mercia...

[Tapiola]

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"

Oxford?

Haydn's Symphony no 92 - nicknamed Oxford
Bob Dylan's song "Oxford Town" is about civil rights activist James Meredith
Percy Scholes "Oxford Companion to Music" (1938)
Stuck on the other clue...

[mercia]

very, very good Mr Tapiola

two alternative words for Romany student?

[rubbernecker]

very, very good Mr Tapiola

two alternative words for Romany student?

Scholar Gipsy - Arnold

I was stuck on the Scholes reference, so well done Taps

[mercia]

Scholar Gipsy - Arnold

with a musical connection?

[Tapiola]

Aah. VW's Oxford Elegy.

[Tapiola]

I also came across this on wiki:

"The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1611) – The only human inhabitant of the mythical island the character Caliban is thought to be named after the word Kaliban meaning black or with blackness in the English Romani language.[6] As the first Romani immigrants arrived in England a century before Shakespear wrote The Tempest, it is thought he may have been influenced by their exotic looks. In this time Romanies in England were targeted for discrimination"

[rubbernecker]

The No. 92 was a bit of a giveaway, there

[mercia]

well done Taps

hear! hear!

well that was short and sweet

P from taps, so to speak

[Tapiola]

Time for a P (all 3 clues are musical):

A poacher turned gamekeeper in 1976, part of a famous flautist and, by the sounds of it, an ancestor of Danny.

[Tapiola]

As an aside, thanks to mercia for reminding me of that superb Scholes book. I dip into it often, as a wonderful source of information and a style of writing no longer seen, alas. It's been described as the greatest single volume music reference work. And he wrote it all by himself. Great puzzle, mercia.

[rubbernecker]

that superb Scholes book. I dip into it often, as a wonderful source of information

As do I; and I don't mind confessing it's provided me with some useful question-setting material for this very thread!

[mercia]

Scholes book

does it still have those drawings or engravings of various composers by ......... (can't remember the artist's name)?

[Nick Armstrong]

I also came across this on wiki:

"The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1611) – The only human inhabitant of the mythical island the character Caliban is thought to be named after the word Kaliban meaning black or with blackness in the English Romani language.[6] As the first Romani immigrants arrived in England a century before Shakespear wrote The Tempest, it is thought he may have been influenced by their exotic looks. In this time Romanies in England were targeted for discrimination"

Most interesting Mr T.

"Light thickens; and the crow
Makes wing to the rooky wood:
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;
While night's black agents to their preys do rouse."

[Tapiola]

does it still have those drawings or engravings of various composers by ......... (can't remember the artist's name)?

My copy is a 1980s edition but I don't have it to hand. Is the artist Batt? Engravings such as Liszt in a train, Beethoven "considers the end" or something as he sits in squalor, Brahms making coffee. Great stuff!