Alphabet associations - I

[BetweenTheStaves]

Well there is the tree Aspen, even a Finnish Aspen, and they have those all over Finlandia or Karelia but I'm sure that's not it.

Or this for 3 The very first commercially available recording of The Velvet Underground, an instrumental track called "Loop" given away with Aspen Magazine, ???

[rubbernecker]

Or this for 3 The very first commercially available recording of The Velvet Underground, an instrumental track called "Loop" given away with Aspen Magazine, ???

What more can you tell us about this magazine?

[Don Petter]

What more can you tell us about this magazine?

At a guess, it came in a posh box, and only lasted six years?

[rubbernecker]

At a guess, it came in a posh box, and only lasted six years?

10 issues to be exact, published between 1965 -71. A multimedia publication, including films and flexidiscs, and the vanguard of the US modern art movement at the time.

Someone nail the Sibelius link, please

[subcontrabass]

10 issues to be exact, published between 1965 -71. A multimedia publication, including films and flexidiscs, and the vanguard of the US modern art movement at the time.

Someone nail the Sibelius link, please

Op 75 No 3

[rubbernecker]

Op 75 No 3

Correct, scb. I used to play this piece when I was at school.
And here is someone else playing it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lemyhNCb4AM

[rubbernecker]

Well, that was all rather messy, a bit like the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. Although Don got the Aspen Summer School first, I think the laurels should go to Simon for suspecting there was a summer school/festival connection despite my wicked and deliberate attempt at obfuscation!

[Don Petter]

Well, that was all rather messy, a bit like the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. Although Don got the Aspen Summer School first, I think the laurels should go to Simon for suspecting there was a summer school/festival connection despite my wicked and deliberate attempt at obfuscation!

Fine by me. As usual I seem to come along on someone else's coat tails once the initial nut has been cracked. Anyway Simon will probably give us a beautifully symmetrical circular conundrum.

[Nick Armstrong]

Well, that was all rather messy, a bit like the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. Although Don got the Aspen Summer School first, I think the laurels should go to Simon for suspecting there was a summer school/festival connection despite my wicked and deliberate attempt at obfuscation!

I sat it out, it was doing my head in.

[Don Petter]

I sat it out, it was doing my head in.

Simon is always trying to make us keep it simpler, so there is hope in the next round?

[Nick Armstrong]

I sat it out, it was doing my head in.

Just in a lazy frame of mind today I think... I've been enjoying the more idle amusements of the "really annoying pieces" thread I started this afternoon

Rubbernecker, you must have a few musical phantoms to exorcise, surely???? Do join in over there!

[Simon]

Simon is always trying to make us keep it simpler, so there is hope in the next round?

Well, I'd have a job to make it more complicated, innit?

Sorry r/n - no offence intended! Interesting it was.

I don't think I deserve it, really. But its' a while since I did one so yes, give me time and I'll have a go at pitching at the level I think we should aim for.

[rubbernecker]

Just in a lazy frame of mind today I think... I've been enjoying the more idle amusements of the "really annoying pieces" thread I started this afternoon

Rubbernecker, you must have a few musical phantoms to exorcise, surely???? Do join in over there!

I am all exorcised out, thank you Caliban. On the subject of keeping things simple, I would rather work hard at something and fail than to reap easy pickings. It's just the way I am. It's probably why I prefer to listen to Radio 3 rather than Classic FM, although it's becoming increasingly hard to tell the difference...

[Nick Armstrong]

I am all exorcised out, thank you Caliban. On the subject of keeping things simple, I would rather work hard at something and fail than to reap easy pickings. It's just the way I am. It's probably why I prefer to listen to Radio 3 rather than Classic FM, although it's becoming increasingly hard to tell the difference...

I agree, if one's in the right mood it's much more interesting. I can't see the interest of the other 'musical associations' thread... !

I had hoped you might come over and put the boot into Liszt to back me up...

[Simon]

Ok - this isn't it, because I can't get one right at the moment from my brain - I'm in a complicated mood and anyway I'm off out in 30 minutes and must shower.

But here's one to keep you going that came to me quite quickly. I think it's tough, and it calls for lateral thinking, but once you see it I think you'll appreciate it.

What outstandingly important musical B comes from the following, and why:

Excellently ordered letters will aid many who kindly look.