Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Caliban -

so very near...

- another gender [EDIT - and another language].
- another piece from that Mussorgsky.
The Rameau is correct.

Hmmm so Which other piece from the Mussorgsky could link in the La Poule???

In a bit of a rush this morning... will ponder but may not be back at all till after lunch so others feel free to have a crack...

[vinteuil]

Well, there’s The Golden Cockerel and Unhatched chicks but I can’t see no heichs nowhere.

doversoul is almost there -

Rimsky Korsakov's Golden Cockerel might get to gether with Rameau's Poule to produce Mussorgsky's Балет невылупившихся птенцов [ballet of the unhatched chicks].

now we need an H for another cock...

[mercia]

my pocket German dictionary says the German for cock is Hahn and apparently there was a Venezuelan/French composer/conductor called Reynaldo Hahn ???????

[vinteuil]

well done mercia!

Yes, Reynaldo Hahn, German/Spanish/Venezuelan/French composer, friend of Proust etc etc.

Well - Caliban started - Doversoul supplied two essential ingredients - mercia got the final bit.

It's a Harry Hill scenario - there's only one way to find out the winner - F I G H T !!!!

I feel Caliban is currently overburdened with work and houseguests - wd Doversoul or Mercia like to take over an' give us an I...

[mercia]

Doversoul

yes please go ahead Dover

[mercia]

friend of Proust

more than just friends according to wikipedia

[doversoul1]

Here I go again (told myself etc…) Now, as for this occasion I really think the winner should be the one who got the H: Calibun who first cracked the egg or mercia who got the yolk out.

Mercia
Here is a Hahn. May not be a typical performance (Warning: contains countertenor) from about 1:40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCAHz1kDq1I

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[vinteuil]

doversoul -

thanks very much for the Jaroussky clip - I'm not always a fan of his, but I did like this take on À Chloris ...


There's a good budget price Hyperion/Helios CD of Songs by Reynaldo Hahn ["Chansons Grises"], with Martyn Hill tenor and Graham Johnson piano.

[mercia]

is it me then?

an I to connect

- the 29th President
- a triptych inside a triptych
- a book dedicated to Mrs Chausson

[Angle]

Nicely, Mercia.

This has a Peninsular connection, methinks

[mercia]

from the Latin paene insula

good morning angular

[Angle]

'morning, Mercia, Lovely day again.

IBERIA

1 Warren Harding was the 29th US President. He was a graduate of Iberia College, Ohio.
2 Iberia by Debussy contains the triptych within a triptych
3 Albeniz dedicated Book 1 of Iberia to Mme Ernest Chausson

Owzat ?

[mercia]

Owzat ?

index-finger raised. a hat-trick. congratulations.
is the Mersey in full-flow? where does it start I wonder?

[Angle]

In the Pennines somewhere near Stockport.

"The modern accepted start of the Mersey is at the confluence of the Tame and Goyt, in central Stockport, Greater Manchester. However, older definitions, and many older maps, place its start a few miles up the Goyt; for example the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica states "It is formed by the junction of the Goyt and the Etherow a short distance below Marple in Cheshire on the first-named stream." The 1784 John Stockdale map shows the River Mersey extending to Mottram, and forming the boundary between Cheshire and Derbyshire."

Don't think I have ever been up the Goyt!




What musical J is

an unmusical Hochdeutsch iota,
an Iberian letter,
and musically is a dance linking Glinka, Liszt and Saint Saens ?

[mercia]

Don't think I have ever been up the Goyt!

not something one would easily forget, I'm sure