Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

so much so that your chums can't even finish it off

Great point, well made, mercs! I was nowhere with your question!!

[mercia]

well I'm sure someone will tidy it off
I must go now
night all

[Norfolk Born]

E

- Prendergast's final solo
- no. 38
- Crocodiles
- Willibald's last
- Flosst, mein heiland (umlaut on o)

ö (Alt + 0246) Ö (Alt + 0214)
Can somebody please tell me which parts of 'E' still lack an answer? Thanks!

[Norfolk Born]

Recitative 38 of the J S Bach's Christmas Oratorio contains an 'Echo Aria'.

[mercia]

ö (Alt + 0246) Ö (Alt + 0214)

that doesn't work on my laptop keyboard, but thanks anyway

[mercia]

Recitative 38 of the J S Bach's Christmas Oratorio contains an 'Echo Aria'.

correct

that was the final element
nobody's actually said what the John Barry connection was, but I'm not bothered
rubbers wanted someone else to set F (I think)

am51?

[Norfolk Born]

John Barry Eternal Echoes - a kind of 'concept album', I think.
I'm happy for amateur 51 to set 'F'.

[Norfolk Born]

I have to log off now until approximately 10.00 a.m. As amateur51 did most of the work in solving 'E', I think he should set 'F', otherwise I could concoct something later on.

[Nick Armstrong]

I must say I don't yet fully understand the solution

The question had 5 elements:

E

- Prendergast's final solo
- no. 38
- Crocodiles
- Willibald's last
- Flosst, mein heiland (umlaut on o)

Rubbers laconically tosses in four answers rather unhelpfully without explaining them all clearly

Echo
John Barry
Haydn Echo Symphony
Echo and the Bunnymen

I'll let someone else finish it off and set F. Far too EASY, dear Mercia!

Am51 then more helpfully explains elements 2, 3 & 4 of the question:

Haydn symphony no 38 The Echo
Crocodiles is first album of Echo & The Bunny Men
Christoph Willibald Gluck's last original opera is Echo et Narcisse

Then Ofca provides the 38 - the Bach Aria... or perhaps that's element 5 and the "38" connection is a red herring. Yes I think that must be it...

So by elimination, the Prendergast element is the John Barry thing. So what's that about then? Doesn't mean anything to me...
EDIT: I just looked up and Prendergast is his last name. but why the Echo reference??

Do please explain! And I agree, Am51 definitely gets to set "F"!

EDIT: Whilst typing the above, Ofca has come in with the explanation for the Barry bit...

[amateur51]

A fine Good Friday morning to you all!

What F connects:

A bank manager in 1930s Cumbria?

An author dubbed 'the Scottish Jane Austen'?

Wigmore Hall?

Mercia'll have this polished off in a trice, no doubt

Edit: cheers to Caliban & Ofca for further fillings in which arrived as I was compiling the 'F'.

Apols if I seemed a bit 'asty

[mercia]

just replying to #4985

mmm ....... I see what you mean

the 38 in the question refered to Haydn Symphony 38, The Echo
Flosst mein heiland is the "Echo aria" from the Christmas Oratorio, but as far as I know doesn't have a 38 connection



morning all

re: #4986, mercia is going to make a big effort to get away from his computer today. Apparently the weather is going to take a nose-dive on Tuesday.

happy solving <big smiley>

[Nick Armstrong]

A fine Good Friday morning to you all!

What F connects:

A bank manager in 1930s Cumbria?

An author dubbed 'the Scottish Jane Austen'?

Wigmore Hall?

Mercia'll have this polished off in a trice, no doubt

Edit: cheers to Caliban & Ofca for further fillings in which arrived as I was compiling the 'F'.

Apols if I seemed a bit 'asty

Not at all, Am51 - nice prompt F!

Kathleen Ferrier's husband was a Cumbrian bank manager...

And I see that one Susan Ferrier was branded as the Scottish Jane Austen.

As for 3, the only thing I can think of comes back to Ferrier - the Ferrier Song competition happens at the Wigmore Hall.

Mercia - I'm just working out what I will feel if the weather does change next week, and "The Wedding" next Friday takes place under torrential rain.... I confess to sneaking feelings of Schadenfreude... Does that make me a bad person??

[amateur51]

Not at all, Am51 - nice prompt F!

Kathleen Ferrier's husband was a Cumbrian bank manager...

And I see that one Susan Ferrier was branded as the Scottish Jane Austen.

As for 3, the only thing I can think of comes back to Ferrier - the Ferrier Song competition happens at the Wigmore Hall.

Mercia - I'm just working out what I will feel if the weather does change next week, and "The Wedding" next Friday takes place under torrential rain.... I confess to sneaking feelings of Schadenfreude... Does that make me a bad person??

You got it all correct, Caliban! Bravo!

I'll share your Schadenfreude if I may, Caliban - just steer clear of the riot police

Now for a 'G' ...

[Norfolk Born]

Apols if I seemed a bit 'asty

As the great Bernard Cribbins said:
'You know the trouble with Fred? E's too 'asty...you never get nowhere if you're too 'asty'.

[Norfolk Born]

I'm just working out what I will feel if the weather does change next week, and "The Wedding" next Friday takes place under torrential rain.... I confess to sneaking feelings of Schadenfreude... Does that make me a bad person??

Certainly not in my book! I may actually be working on The Day (but only so as to get paid for a particular job at the beginning of May rather than the beginning of June).