Alphabet associations - I

[Angle]

I suspect a scarring of the mind

[Nick Armstrong]

my pocket German dictionary says the German for cock is Hahn

There are so many options for whimsical comment there, that I shall content myself with: congratulations mercia... I would never have got to that

[mercia]

so many options for whimsical comment there

don't let me stop you

wotcha Hahn doesn't have quite the right ring to it

[Nick Armstrong]

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.

This seems to be deleted to my surprise: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Souvenirs-Ve.../dp/B000002ZHB

EDIT: superseded by this Helios release: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Souvenirs-Ve.../dp/B000A7XJPQ

If you can find a download somewhere, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson singing Hahn's "Songs in Venetian Dialect" is one of the gems of recorded music - try and find him singing 'La Barcheta'... it's absolutely ravishing

EDIT: 'La Barcheta' is available on the Hyperion website: http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc...CDH55217&vw=dc I would suggest that you will never spend a better 40p than the 40p they are asking for the download of that track.

Just listened to 'Sopra l'acqua', the first of the 6, as well - wonderful stuff for another 40p

AR-J was the teacher of a friend of mine - so damned sad that he became ill and died so early.... (Big West Ham fan, for trivia-philes) [/COLOR]

[Dave2002]

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 ?

Jota maybe.

[vinteuil]

There are so many options for whimsical comment there...

... and, ho! the chortlement at the appointment of Chris Huhne [Huhn =chicken]....

[Angle]

No-one biting?

[Dave2002]

Angle

I thought I'd already bit?

Folies d'Espagne-Jota Aragonesa Liszt

Jota aragonesa, for orchestra in A major, Op. 64-Saint-Saëns

Jota aragonesa (overture by Glinka)

Dave

[Angle]

So far, so good, Dave but what about.elements 1 and 2?

[mercia]

10th letter of the Spanish & Portuguese alphabets, or has someone said that

[Dave2002]

mercia

I thought that was obvious, and also jota is High German for iota. I'm not fighting though - too busy to do much with another one now.

[mercia]

too busy

me too

[Angle]

I tried respond at 6.30 but my mobile connection would not transmit. Sorry about that
The rules give David the pleasure of setting the K.

[Dave2002]

OK - but it might be a while. Really urgent work to do today, so might not get round to it till this evening. Let's see how it goes.

[Dave2002]

OK - now on a short break. These may be obscure, but see how you go.

K.

A French city links this solo piece.

Rainbows from 1976

Singapore music school