Alphabet associations - I

[vinteuil]

Trouser role/travesti?

Trousers it is....


Arabella's family are on their uppers and cannot afford to keep both children as daughters- so her sister Zdenka has to be brought up in trousers as the boy Zdenko

Giulio Cesare is a 'trouser role' for the soprano

R Hollingworth's 'Comic Faces of Giovanni Croce' features... "Poor Luckless Pantaloon"...

... Tapiola gets a well deserved U ...

[Tapiola]

I think I need a lie down after that, vinteuil. I would never have got that but for the extra clues, and mercia's help.

Time for a U.

Kenneth and Jack, among others, were on their Tod.

What is the connecting U?

EDIT: All 3 clues are musical, as is the answer.

[vinteuil]

Kenneth and Jack (among others) were soloists?

[Tapiola]

Kenneth and Jack (among others) were soloists?

Not soloists, vinteuil.

Perhaps I should clarify by saying that the answer per se is NOT musical, but when combined with another word, IS.

[vinteuil]

then it's Jack Thompson and Kenneth Montgomery and the Ulster Orch - also Tod Handley...

[rubbernecker]

then it's Jack Thompson and Kenneth Montgomery and the Ulster Orch - also Tod Handley...

... and there was I looking for a Scottish connection with Kenneth Leighton and James MacMillan!

Looks like it's V for Vinteuil

[Tapiola]

Nice work, vint. Ulster it is. Tod smiled at me once as we were crossing at traffic lights in opposite directions. I only realised who he was once it was too late to double back and have a word, so I missed my chance to tell him how much I admired his work.

V for vinteuil...

[vinteuil]

what V connects -

The 'Good Friday Music' from Parsifal and the Prelude to Lohengrin
a sonata and a quartet by Franck
a sonata for piano and violin by Saint-Saëns

[Nick Armstrong]

Nice work, vint. Ulster it is. Tod smiled at me once as we were crossing at traffic lights in opposite directions. I only realised who he was once it was too late to double back and have a word, so I missed my chance to tell him how much I admired his work.

Sorry Taps - you're a distant second to Anna with that Handley story!

I wonder if her marvellous anecdote passed you by as you were away. Worth seeking out.

[Tapiola]

Sorry Taps - you're a distant second to Anna with that Handley story!

I wonder if her marvellous anecdote passed you by as you were away. Worth seeking out.

Caliban, thanks for the reminder. I do remember reading Anna's great taxi story about Tod, but for some reason had completely overlooked this before posting my own feeble tale. Profound apologies, Anna, for my memory lapse; I blame front lobal malfunction triggered by vestigial thoughts of Low Countries fleshpots and my denial therefrom.

[rubbernecker]

vestigial thoughts of Low Countries fleshpots

Amsterdam, a place of pleasure,
Flesh and pot in equal measure...

Anon

[Tapiola]

[Nick Armstrong]

Amsterdam, a place of pleasure,
Flesh and pot in equal measure...

Anon

Bringing back vivid stag-related memories... .

[Anna]

Been offline, see T and U done and dusted. And I see we have a V and Caliban and rubbers going into transports of delights re Amsterdam fleshpots and stags. I'll have a look at V's V but ......

Second episode of The Apprentice tonight! I like the nerdy one with specs who rides a bike .... (who does he remind me of?) Wish Margaret would come back.

[amateur51]

Bringing back vivid stag-related memories... .

Oh dear!

Stag but not doe?

You get a better bang for your buck there, I s'pose