Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

................. but before I disappear, is it harmonium?

[rubbernecker]

................. but before I disappear, is it harmonium?

Oh, Mercia. You are just too good at this.

Yes, but can you explain why?

[mercia]

er, well the thing I'm not quite sure about is the Scottish sitting room unless that's a reference to harmonium-playing Ivor Cutler
the wild nights is John Adams's Harmonium, setting Emily Dickinson words
and Rossini called the Messe Solennelle, which features a harmonium, the last of his "sins of old age"

[rubbernecker]

er, well the thing I'm not quite sure about is the Scottish sitting room unless that's a reference to harmonium-playing Ivor Cutler
the wild nights is John Adams's Harmonium, setting Emily Dickinson words
and Rossini called the Messe Solennelle, which features a harmonium, the last of his "sins of old age"

Brilliant, all three absolutely on the nail. I put 'Scottish' rather than 'Scotch' as googling would have taken you in even more unseemly haste to Cutler's iconic 'Life in a Scotch Sitting-Room'.

You really excelled yourself on that one, Merce. Now you can give another one in the I for old rubbers

(....except now I'll be absenting myself until tomorrow evening)

[mercia]

another supremely elegant question from Mr Rubber ( I thought scotch was only a drink)


an I connecting

- what's left of steel
- a symphony modelled on Beethoven op 111
- DSCH v. 20th Century Fox

[antongould]

Any old Iron?

[mercia]

great stuff

care to give details? then I must go

[antongould]

Dimitri v 20th Century Fox centred on the film the Iron Curtain
Prokofiev based his 2nd Symphony on Beethoven Opus 111
....and does Iron and Steel make Iron left of steel?

[mercia]

Dimitri v 20th Century Fox centred on the film the Iron Curtain
Prokofiev based his 2nd Symphony on Beethoven Opus 111
....and does Iron and Steel make Iron left of steel?

yes apparently Prokofiev called his 2nd a work of iron and steel
the other work I was thinking of was Mosolov's Iron Foundry which was to be part of a bigger work Steel
great stuff, Anton, J for you
cheerio

[antongould]

I should have a J in the morning if that's OK.

[antongould]

What J hopefully connects musically

The last, so far, symphony of a Finn
Came with Star Dawn in 1983
Came towards the end for Schubert?

[Dave2002]

Don't get this - see http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/...0Leif&cat=main so 244?

Star Dawn is Hovhaness, slightly jazzy perhaps.

[antongould]

Yes and he wrote lots of symphonies sometimes, it would seem more than one in a year!

[Dave2002]

Seems a bit like Round Britain Quiz - I never figure those questions. Looked at Schubert - can't make sense of that!

S's latest AFAIK is 244, though there have been others this year.

[antongould]

Did I say the Finn was S?