Alphabet associations - I

[antongould]

a muley or maol is some sort of ewe according to wiki

Oh dear the way I was taught it on my grandfather's knee it was yowes!

[antongould]

.....excellent and we are off and running - the other composer is also English

[mercia]

beg pardon, the second movement of Michael Tippett's first piano sonata is a set of variations on the folk-song Ca the yowes to the knowes

was this the chamber work then?

[mercia]

What M links 2 composers - one with a chamber work that was just a little sheepish and the other who played piano on a Sinfonia recording of a Paul Simon "classic". Also we have a judge appointed to the Bench by Ronnie Reagan! All musical to varying degrees.

just bringing this forward to remind myself

[antongould]

Yes it was the chamber work

[antongould]

Yes it was the chamber work

And apologies for my incorrect terminology.

[mercia]

well I guess piano music is chamber music for all I know

I'm afraid I wouldn't know a Paul Simon classic from a Paul Simon non-classic so I shall retire now

[Norfolk Born]

well I guess piano music is chamber music for all I know

I'm afraid I wouldn't know a Paul Simon classic from a Paul Simon non-classic so I shall retire now

I abandoned all hope some time ago as far as this question is concerned - it couldn't QUITE compete with the tennis.

[rubbernecker]

I've just dropped in and can't work out where we are on this, however I think Michael Nyman was the pianist on the Portsmouth Sinfonia's recording of Bridge Over Troubled Water - so another Michael?

[antongould]

Yes another Michael and the judge is not a Michael but the M relates to his musical past.

[antongould]

Having almost succeeded in grinding the AA to a halt - I shall give the 3rd answer - Judge Stephen S Trott who as a youth was a member of the Highwaymen who got to No.1 with Michael (row the Boat ashore). I shall now slink off and impersonate a dead yowe - I would say Mercia who got from yowe to Tippett should possibly rise to the N.

[rubbernecker]

Don't feel too disheartened Anton, it was just a bit too hard even for us tough nuts!

[mercia]

oops, waiting for me?
I might have got the last Michael eventually perhaps with more clues. I gave up too quickly.

an N to connect

- Canadian Carnival overture
- Cello Sonata G minor
- Froissart overture

[antongould]

Because you chased the dead sheep so hard I have been trying are we in the land of the number?

[mercia]

Because you chased the dead sheep so hard I have been trying are we in the land of the number?

indeed, counting sheep, how many are there?