Alphabet associations - I

[Tapiola]

[I]"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."

Please sir, Mr Caliban's frightening me again.

[mercia]

Batt?

yes!, that sounds right. Those drawings made a great impression on me when I was young.

[Tapiola]

And me. My copy was a present from my dear old mother, when I was mid teens.

[rubbernecker]

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

I'm struggling with the first element, but Jean-Pierre Rampal and Pierre de la Rue.

In 1976 Pierre Boulez founded the Ensemble InterContemporain and also conducted the Bayreuth festival centenary production of the Ring - a curious dichotomy of enfant terrible and custodian?

[Nick Armstrong]

Engravings such as Liszt in a train, ... Brahms making coffee.

Hope Liszt bought a one way ticket. Or rather I wish he had...

[mercia]

I'm on a recruitment drive

http://www.lisztsoc.org.uk/

[Tapiola]

I'm struggling with the first element, but Jean-Pierre Rampal and Pierre de la Rue.

In 1976 Pierre Boulez founded the Ensemble InterContemporain and also conducted the Bayreuth festival centenary production of the Ring - a curious dichotomy of enfant terrible and custodian?

rubbers,

Excellent work. Correct on all counts.

The "poacher turned gamekeeper" refers to Boulez's 1950s pontifications about burning down the opera houses; Wolfgang Wagner, in a manoeuvre of utter genius, invited PB to conduct the Bayreuth Centenary Ring in 1976, an invitation which PB accepted.

The Q is all yours...

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm on a recruitment drive

http://www.lisztsoc.org.uk/

You are toying with me, mercia!!!

Meantime, rubbers is on fire today (wondered what the odd smell was).

[Tapiola]

I'm on a recruitment drive

http://www.lisztsoc.org.uk/

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm on a recruitment drive

http://www.lisztsoc.org.uk/

Sir, sir, Mr Mercia and Mr Tapiola are being beastly to me again!!!!

[rubbernecker]

The Q is all yours...

Why do I always get the effing Q?
A: 'Cos I always answer the sodding P

Quest, quicksilver... I'm running out of inspiration, here. Veuillez patienter... A Q will eventually form

[rubbernecker]

What Q links:
- Schoenberg's American successor;
- an early 20th century English musical;
- an American singer/activist;
- a work for small orchestra by a noted diarist?

[mercia]

congratulations on even being able to set a question

I have Schoenberg's successor at UCLA being Lukas Foss whose family was advised by the Quakers to change their name from Fuchs on arrival from Europe in 1937
A 1910 musical with music by Monckton called The Quaker Girl, lyrics by Ross and Greenbank
Joan Baez being a Quaker
and the diarist Ned Rorem writing A Quaker Reader for chamber orchestra

[Nick Armstrong]

congratulations on even being able to set a question

I have Schoenberg's successor at UCLA being Lukas Foss whose family was advised by the Quakers to change their name from Fuchs on arrival from Europe in 1937
A 1910 musical with music by Monckton called The Quaker Girl, lyrics by Ross and Greenbank
Joan Baez being a Quaker
and the diarist Ned Rorem writing A Quaker Reader for chamber orchestra

I'm open-mouthed in admiration...

[rubbernecker]

congratulations on even being able to set a question

I have Schoenberg's successor at UCLA being Lukas Foss whose family was advised by the Quakers to change their name from Fuchs on arrival from Europe in 1937
A 1910 musical with music by Monckton called The Quaker Girl, lyrics by Ross and Greenbank
Joan Baez being a Quaker
and the diarist Ned Rorem writing A Quaker Reader for chamber orchestra

Staggering detective work, Hercule. You don't mind if I call you that, do you?

Absolutely spot-on in every detail

Your R, unquestionably.