Alphabet associations - I

[Anna]

Forget about Michael Jackson, just concentrate on my favourite Antipodean composer. I'm off now.

[Angle]

Well, a shot in the dark which I prepared much earlier but now have the confidence to fire:

Peter Sculthorpe wrote four pieces called Sun Music, at least one of which was choreographed by Robert Helpmann who breathed over my shoulder during an Australian Ballet performance in the Royal Court Theare, Liverpool, during the Commonwealth Arts Festival in 1966. How's that for a memory?

I have no idea about the MJ clue.

Goodnight all, at 01.42.

[Angle]

Earth Song, Jackson
Earth Cry, Sculthorpe

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[Anna]

Earth Song, Jackson
Earth Cry, Sculthorpe?

Angle, my apologies. I cobbled the question together in a hurry and, although not liking MJ had some distant memory that he recorded Earth Cry whereas on checking late last night I found it was in fact Earth Song! Yes, the ballet is Sun Music and how interesting that you've seen it.

Just the final part now, a commission that wasn't ready for an important occasion (in fact they had to make do with something by Sergei)

[Dave2002]

Someone else can finish this, but it's another of those Rites pieces - not quite the Rite of Spring.

[Anna]

Angle, having got 2 out of 3, now seems unwilling to finish this off but he has the T. Shall I post the last answer and let him set the next question?

[Dave2002]

Angle can have the T.

The last part of the Sculthorpe question is Rites of Passage - which was intended for the opening of the Sydney Opera house, but not finished in time. A work by Prokofiev was performed instead.

I would not have had a clue about Michael Jackson, and as it happens, I didn't!

[Anna]

Absolutely correct Dave, it should have been premiered at the opening of the Opera House in 1973 but was not performed until 1974. I think Angle's offline but we look foward to a Teasing T.

Edit: For the benefit of Dave and doversoul, the newest to this thread, list of answers so far, up to and including latest round

A Ave Verum, Argo, Aspen, A (440hz), Alwyn, Amadeus, Adams, African, Antheil, Adam, Aaron, Albrecht, Arms, AGM, Albeniz, Armenia, Alphabet, Arthur, Anna (2), Auber
B Britten (2), Beach, B flat, Ball/Barber/Bilk, Bechstein, Bayreuth, Burgon, Boulanger, Bernstein, Bar, Bert, Bartholemew, Bosanquet, Bluebird, Blow, Barbirolli, Ball, Benjamin, Blackbird
C Columbus, Clytemnestra, Copland, Cockaigne, Crumb, Children, Cathedral, Calisto, Curzon, Coronation, Clarinet, Cantata, Catherine, Cypress, Cherry, Carissima, Cherkassky, Cantelli, Clambake, Crown
D DG, Doric, Dragon, Demon, Draeseke, Dolly, Dark, Dances, Delibes, Don, Death, Dowland, Diomede, Desafinado, Diamond, Delius, Dmitri, Duparc, Dorati, Dohnanyi
E Enigma, Elisabeth, Eric, Ellis, Ellington, Erich, Eccles, Eclogue, ‘E’, Elgar, Enharmonic, Ennio, Ernest, Echo, Etoiles, Ebony, Eight, Elemental, Erwin, Enrico
F Fugue, Fritz, Florence, Ferguson, Fuchs, Fermata, Feux Follets, Fauré, Frankfurt, Fandango, Five, Fancy, Four, Ferrier, Faust, Fountain, Feldman, Faith, Fleming
G Gloria, Gomez, Gabrieli, Gioconda, Goossens, Gayaneh, Gnome, Grace, Georg, Gerusalemme, Gaspard, Glass, Goat (Capriccio), Granados, Grofe, Galliard, Garanča, Goldberg, Glinka, Goldschmitt
H Hirondelle, Henri, Harold, Hammer, Harty, Henze, Hahn, Harriet, Harry, Holiday, Howard, Horn, Half, Herring, Hugo, Herbert, Hymn, Halevy, Hanslick, Harmonium
I Indian, Invicta, Ian, Iphigenia, Imperial, Inches, Igor, Idyll, Ives, Indes, Irving, Ibert, Innocence, Ippolitov-Ivanov, Istomen, Ice, Introduction, Iris, Imogen, Iron
J Joseph, Juilliard, Jacob, Jacques, Joplin, Jerusalem, Jeremiah, Jenner, Jordan, Jupiter, Jeune, Jones/Jonas, Jacquet, Judith, Jenny, Jeux, Järvi, Janissary, Johnny, Journey
K Kapellmeister, Kuijken, Kronos, Kreutzer, Koeln, Karl, Knight, Kullervo, King, Korngold, Kinder, Kostelanetz, Kraus, Krieger, Kellogg, Kallinikov, Klangfarbenmelodie, Ketner, Kaddish, Kiss
L Lvov, Lancashire, Lyadov, Landi, Lincoln, Litany, Lombardy, Liverpool, Lucerne, Lyric, Lorelei, Lamb, Leonora, Low, Largo, Lutoslawski, Litolff, London, Llangollen, Lilac
M Malibran, Malcolm, Merrie, Martinu, Miller, Metronome, Missa Luba, Mark, Marian, Monothematic, Mandarin, Melodrama, Mountain, Mazeppa, Medtner, Menotti, Mompou, Marion, Michael, Messiaen
N Neville Cardus, Nielsen (2), Neptune, Nono, Nyman, Newcastle, Nevers, Naples, Nocturne, Night, Nash, Nixon, Nelson, Nordheim, Navarra, New, Norwich, Nineteen, Nocturnal
O Orff, Ondine, Orlando, Orpheus, Orange, Oliver, Oramo, Open, Orson, Offenbach, Ophicleide, Oxford, Ockeghem, O, Oberon, Odour, Oedipus, Otto, Oriel, Oboe
P Philip, Petrassi, Papa, Pacific 231, Passacaglia, Padstow, Polignac, Primrose, Pigs, Plantagenet, Peter, Pierre, Palindrome, Piper, Pizzetti, Patience, Penny, Penelope, Prague, Persephone
Q Quodlibet, Qualiton, Quartets, Quincy, Quint, Quasthoff, Quilter, Quicksilver, Queen, Quest, Quaker, Quattro, Quartettsatz, Quasi
R Reimann, Romania, Rim, Rawsthorne, Rhapsody, Roman, Ripieno, Red Red, Roy, Rhythm, Ricci, River, Rock, Robert, Reich, Rankl, Racine, Rimbaud, Riddle, Razumovsky
S Serpent, Staatskapelle, Stravinsky, Solveig, Schnittke, Shellfish, Sackbut, Sessions, Scott, Silver, Striggio, Susanna, Salomon, Soler, Serenade, Simon, Shostakovitch, Surprise, Shuffle, Sculthorpe
T Tamburlaine, Tales, Trittico, Tippett, Thomas, Twins, Turandot, Tango, Trio, Time/Tempo, Tasso, TV documentaries, Taneyev, Twinkle, Tatiana, Trousers, Turina, Tempest, Tombeau,
U Umberto, Under, Unicorn, University, Ukelele/Unda Maris, Underground, Utopia, Unknown, Ursuleac, Uptown, Unstern, Ullman, Uber, Uncle, Uchida, Ulster, Unger, Union
V Viola da Gamba, Vasary, Venusberg, Venice (2), Vanishing Bridegroom, Victor, Vanity, Viola, Velvet, Voltaire, Village, Vera, Violet, Vinteuil, Villa Lobos, Vision(s), Vassily
W Waldtaube, Weill, Walkure, Winter, Wilhelm, Walton/Weller/White, Walter (3), Wenlock, Williams, S Wagner, Whale, Witold, Wells, Wolf, Witch, Wind
X Xaver, Xylophone, Xenia, X (double sharp), Composers ending in X, Xanadu, Xi, Xerxes, Xenakis
Y Ysaye, Yo Yo Ma, Yellow (2), Yves, Yolanda, Young, Yung, Year, Youth, Yes, York, Yevgeny
Z Zeffirelli, Zimmermann (2), Zappa, Zamiel, Zero (2), Zoo, Zemlinsky, Zarzuela, Zoroaster, Zoltan

[Dave2002]

Thanks for the extensive answer list. There should be a way of keeping this in focus. An example of where forums don't quite work I think - something which wikis do better perhaps.

[Angle]

Apologies to everyone.. I did not think that T was mine and I have been away from home overnight, in Kirkby Lonsdale. I am afraid it could be Friday morning before I post a T puzzle so if anyone else is willing to do it, I am happy to hand over.

[Angle]

Here it is, earlier than I expected:

If the Greeks were probably Pythagorean, Bach's well and Chopin's likely to be equal what might the T be ?

[Dave2002]

Here it is, earlier than I expected:

If the Greeks were probably Pythagorean, Bach's well and Chopin's likely to be equal what might the T be ?

That might put me in a good temper, perhaps.

[Anna]

Angle, I was worried about you, I thought Sculthorpe may have made you go into Dreamtime and wander down the Docks playing the didgeridoo to passing matelots!!

Bach was the well tempered clavier.
Pythagorus had a theorum about tuning, was that called tempered tuning?
Chopin liked Bach a lot

Probably totally wrong and it's so perishing cold here, under 10 (49) degrees I am off under the duvet to keep warm.

[Angle]

Now that was what I call an easy one, Anna. It was intentionally so, so that I can have a lie-in tomorrow.

Only one problem: that is not why I included Chopin. Any idea?

IN any case, please set a U at your leisure.

PS Not cold in Liverpool.

[mercia]

Chopin

I guess this is referring to the opus 28 Preludes being in all the major and minor keys like Bach's "48" but in a different order (circle of fifths rather than chromatic). I must admit tuning and temperament are rather a closed book to me. The Chopin were commissioned by a piano manufacturer but equal temperament had been around a long time by then (? is that right), so I don't understand the significance of them being in all keys, no doubt all will be explained.