Alphabet associations - I

[Norfolk Born]

Back Valley Oproar (whoever he was) also wrote a 'Carissima'. (Just tidying up again!)

[Angle]

Columbia, perhaps?

Columbia made the first recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto
Columbia is an American University
Columbia also issued Vera Lynn's Keep Smilin Through but I don't get the back-alley ref.

[Angle]

We've all been beavering away and I have been barking up the wrong tree after rejecting Carissima because, as mercia couldn't, I couldn't find a connection with Lynn alma mater.

Right chaps, I leave you to it. Have to be off.

[rubbernecker]

Apologies for absence, that damned nuisance, work....

Carissima is correct

An alma mater can be the song as well as the place, and Carissima is Hamilton's AM;
It was the first of Elgar's compositions to be recorded;
It is a spoof aria written by Arthur A. Penn (who also wrote Smilin' Through) for Back Alley Oproar, one of those cherished Merrie Melodies. See here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dG3QJX2VyI&feature=fvsr

I make that Mercia 2, and Ofca 1. So D to Mercia, I guess...

[mercia]

erm, thanks

D

Sali + friend walk to the pub, Niels & Erik compete for love, there are variations near the Ancholme and a Scarborough boy helps out

[rubbernecker]

Looks like it's just you and me playing, Merce...

Delius

A Village Romeo and Juliet
Fennimore and Gerda
Brigg Fair (variations on the folksong)
Eric Fenby

[Tapiola]

I'm still here guys - just baffled...

(I must admit, Delius is one of my blind spots.)

[rubbernecker]

I must admit, Delius is one of my blind spots.

I know what you mean, Taps. I am very partial to A Song of Summer and the Cello Concerto and fairly lukewarm about the rest.

[mercia]

cor, well done Rubbers
thought I might have to give a clue
oh me of little faith

and all this time I didn't realise that The Paradise Garden was a hostelry

[rubbernecker]

all this time I didn't realise that The Paradise Garden was a hostelry

It's now a lap dancing club in King's Cross

E on its way...

[Norfolk Born]

Has mercia got 'E' yet? (I bet rubbernecker's got his 'F' ready anyway)

[Tapiola]

Talking of Paradise, I failed miserably in my Lenten vow to read Dante's 3rd part of the Commedia. I made it to about halfway through and then other things took over. Although very interesting in its conception of the celestial spheres and those who inhabit them, I think I found two beautiful lines in 18 Cantos...

[mercia]

can I hear murmurs from the back of the class?

[Norfolk Born]

can I hear murmurs from the back of the class?

More like gasps of admiration at the way you two can read each other's mind and set, and answer, questions so quickly. I look forward to logging on again at around 17.00 hours BST in time for rubbernecker's latest update as one of you polishes off the next 'Z'.

[Nick Armstrong]

(I must admit, Delius is one of my blind spots.)

Taps - me too! Him and that Liszt bloke