Alphabet associations - I

[Dave2002]

Well, if it is Goodyear as vints suggests, no, I am not getting anywhere at all with that. As it'll soon be nearly 24 hours is a clue in order?

Anna

G is a composer. That should narrow it down.

[Anna]

Hello Anna!!

Hullo Ducky Did you miss me as much as I missed you? Now, there was a post somewhere here from merce asking if I had any good meals in Sussex - now it's gone! Well, yes I had a brill ginger chicken in Seaford after looking at the Kittiwake Colony through a telescope courtesy of RSPB and then, I went up the Devil's Dyke. I cannot comment on that without being ribald. Oh, meeting the chorus of the local G&S Society was fun, some of them are so, like, Nanki-Poo personified but when I mentioned that Patience was my favourite, you could have heard a pin drop. Like, it's far too camp - this, in Brighton?

Anyway, just filling in time as this G puzzle has defeated me

[mercia]

That should narrow it down.

Gounod? Grainger? Gabrieli? Granados? Gorecki? Gerhard? Ginastera? Godowsky? Goehr? Glazunov? Glass? Goldschmidt? German? Gluck? Gossec? Geminiani? Gibbons? Glinka?

[Anna]

Gounod? Grainger? Gabrieli? Granados? Gorecki? Gerhard? Ginastera? Godowsky? Goehr? Glazunov? Glass? Goldschmidt? German? Gluck? Gossec? Geminiani? Gibbons? Glinka?

Well, we have had: Gloria, Gomez, Gabrieli, Gioconda, Goossens, Gayaneh, Gnome, Grace, Georg, Gerusalemme, Gaspard, Glass, Goat (Capriccio), Granados, Grofe, Galliard, Garanča, Goldberg, Glinka, Goldschmitt, Grieg

So, subtract one from t'other and it must be Grainger with his Kangaroo Pouch Machine which is connected by rubber tubes!

[mercia]

oops, how did I miss out Grieg?

[mercia]

so did the G we're looking for compose La Mer?
was/is he a Zen Buddhist?
did/does he live in Karelia?
did he have a penchant for rubber tubing?


one knock for yes, two for no

[Anna]

so did the G we're looking for compose La Mer?
was/is he a Zen Buddhist?
did/does he live in Karelia?
did he have a penchant for rubber tubing?
one knock for yes, two for no

Knock, Knock, who's there?

I dunno! It's a mystery. Seems it should be a John Cage type era composer, doesn't it? Or some obscure Punk groups?

[Dave2002]

Gounod? Grainger? Gabrieli? Granados? Gorecki? Gerhard? Ginastera? Godowsky? Goehr? Glazunov? Glass? Goldschmidt? German? Gluck? Gossec? Geminiani? Gibbons? Glinka?

mercia
Yes, he's certainly in there!

[Dave2002]

so did the G we're looking for compose La Mer?
was/is he a Zen Buddhist?
did/does he live in Karelia?
did he have a penchant for rubber tubing?


one knock for yes, two for no

Yes to 1 and 4. Meditation might also be involved. No to 3.

PS. Knock. Knock Knock. Knock Knock. Knock.

[mercia]

mmmm, well I don't really feel I'm any further forward than I was 24 hours ago, so I think I shall say goodbye

[Dave2002]

mmmm, well I don't really feel I'm any further forward than I was 24 hours ago, so I think I shall say goodbye

That's a pity. I'm sure some of you should be really close. I'm trying to steer you, but maybe it's too much like navigating a ship over the Deep, Deep Sea!

Hint: try the Naxos catalogue.

[rubbernecker]

Hallo peeps. Long time no play.

This is Glazunov is it not? La Mer Op 28 and Karelian Legend.

I'm still grappling with the rubber tubing (as a cyclist this is one of my favourite pastimes)

And Zen...?

EDIT: Meditation Op.32

[Dave2002]

Yes! Now for the rubber tubing!

[rubbernecker]

Yes! Now for the rubber tubing!

Did he use the rubber tube surreptitiously to slurp alcohol from a bottle whilst teaching?

[Dave2002]

Did he use the rubber tube surreptitiously to slurp alcohol from a bottle whilst teaching?

I believe so. Shostakovich and Prokofiev were his pupils, and perhaps Shostakovich at least found that amusing.

Well done! Looks like the H is yours.