Alphabet associations - I

[Anna]

Ams, according to Amazon's page it it available via LoveFilm. Trouble is with LF you don't get what's on top of your list, but I find them very good and you can take a payment holiday at any time. Yes, I remember that final interview with Melvyn Bragg as well

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stand-Up-Nigel-Barton-DVD/dp/B0007ZD6YA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310126266&sr=8-1

[Dave2002]

I'm lost in this, but I think Nigel Butterley is the toasty composer. Meditations of Thomas Traherne (1968).

[Dave2002]

Not too tough (compared to some of yours! ) It's a composer, 2 tv dramas, a composer and a performer sort of turned composer. I'll be offline now until approx 11.45

I beg to differ. Do you do cryptic crosswords by any chance?

[Anna]

I'm lost in this, but I think Nigel Butterley is the toasty composer. Meditations of Thomas Traherne (1968).

Yes, Nigel Butterley (hence reference to toast upon which you spread - Utterly Butterly of course! <groan at awful pun emoticon>

So, anton originally got the name Nigel + Kennedy, Ams got the Potter reference, you've got Mr. Butterley, that just leaves the electrifying two act Opera but as Anton got the vital word 'Nigel' I think, on balance, he gets the 'O' (if Lady Gould will let him play?)

[vinteuil]

Yes, Nigel Butterley (hence reference to toast upon which you spread - Utterly Butterly of course! <groan at awful pun emoticon>

So, anton originally got the name Nigel + Kennedy, Ams got the Potter reference, you've got Mr. Butterley, that just leaves the electrifying two act Opera but as Anton got the vital word 'Nigel' I think, on balance, he gets the 'O' (if Lady Gould will let him play?)

... for completeness' sake - Nigel Osborne, The Electrification of the Soviet Union.

(libretto by one of my old tutors )

[Anna]

... for completeness' sake - Nigel Osborne, The Electrification of the Soviet Union.

(libretto by one of my old tutors )

Yes! And I have used that Osborne before, when I set 'Union' as the puzzle. So, how does that leave the scoring now?

Libretto my one of your old tutors? Oh, please tell all vinteuil! And, are you also a famous librettist?

[vinteuil]

vinteuil! And, are you also a famous librettist?

good lord no! me, I'm a retired obscure cultural bureaucrat and academic manqué, now just a gentleman of leisure...

[antongould]

but as Anton got the vital word 'Nigel' I think, on balance, he gets the 'O' (if Lady Gould will let him play?)

The weekend, by the widely accepted Lady Gould definition, has not quite started yet ......but if you can wait a while!

[Anna]

good lord no! me, I'm a retired obscure cultural bureaucrat and academic manqué, now just a gentleman of leisure...

Non, Non, Non, mon cher vinteuil, pas manqué, c'est tout simplement que vos talents n'ont pas été reconnus!!! (Excuse my French!)

[antongould]

A bit out of practice so don't know if this is too hard or too easy

Which O hopefully connects

David Rizzio
The Skatalites
Sacred and Secular Lieder

all musical to varying degrees

[Anna]

Looks good anton, Mary Queen of Scots meets Ska? I'm looking forward to the result of this Pet!

[antongould]

It was all set to test your outstanding linguistic ability Anna

[Dave2002]

Perhaps Opie?

No, it can't be that. Not all the Opies are musical!

[antongould]

Sadly not Dave - as it's late a clue - your namesake Rizzio its not him but someone who pinched his name

[mercia]

someone who pinched his name

sorry to butt in but I think these may be Oswalds

James Oswald, Scottish composer (1711 - 1769) seems to have published works under the name David Rizzio
a trumpet player with the Skatalites is/was Oswald Baba Brooks
and Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376 - 1445) seems to have written some Geistliche und weltliche lieder, though I can't seem to find much info. about them


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