Alphabet associations - I

[Tapiola]

Fish, presumably Taps?

Large quantities of such brain food are the only explanation of your feat in the matterberg of Atterberg. I'd never heard of the beggar, let alone knowing how many symphonies he wrote.

I have a feeling that, fuelled by the omega-3 from a few cod fillets, we are going to get a monumental "B"

Too kind, Caliban. However: a) I am not a great fish lover, unless the blighter comes in a shell; and b) apologies for a potentially very unmonumental "B".

[mercia]

What B connects Stravinsky's Petrushka, Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin and Ives' Variations on 'America' ?

a wild guess that I can't really flesh out, is it Boston?

[Tapiola]

Sorry mercia, not Boston. The B is a musical thing, as opposed to a person, place or musical work.

[Nick Armstrong]

I am not a great fish lover, unless the blighter comes in a shell

I very much agree!

[amateur51]

okey, dokey
I'm not clever enough for X Y Z so

A

a composer, the nephew of a creator of soil classification, one of his nine symphonies was as the result of a competition (hence it's monetary subtitle?), his violin concerto was premiered by a "temperamental" Australian violinist

The violinist is Alma Moodie who sounds to have been quite a player but I don't get any sense from wiki about why she might be described as 'a "temperamental" Australian violinist' - can either mercia or Taps help please??

[mercia]

"temperamental"

sorry, my pathetic play on words Moodie/Moody/Temperamental ................. sort of

[Tapiola]

G'day, ams, me old cobber! By "temperamental" I assumed it was mercia's pun on the fiddler's surname. Bonzah!

[schooner of ]

[amateur51]

sorry, my pathetic play on words Moodie/Moody/Temperamental ................. sort of

Brilliant, mercia! ;ok:

What a chump am I!

[mercia]

The B is a musical thing

not Boston but perhaps bitonality, which occurs in those three works

[Tapiola]

B for Bingo, mercia. Great stuff. Interestingly, Hindemith denied (in the mid 1930s) the existence of the concept despite having written explicitly bitonal works years previously.

Let's C what you can come up with for the next letter.

[mercia]

I think I'm in danger of monopolising things here, so I shall buzz off after this C


C

a composer who resurrected Vivaldi (with an American poet), came from a family of several (male) cellists, wrote tributes to Paganini and Scarlatti and was a one-time conductor of an American orchestra

[vinteuil]

I think I'm in danger of monopolising things here, so I shall buzz off after this C


C

a composer who resurrected Vivaldi (with an American poet), came from a family of several (male) cellists, wrote tributes to Paganini and Scarlatti and was a one-time conductor of an American orchestra

... might this be Alfredo Casella?

[Tapiola]

... might this be Alfredo Casella?

Perhaps a case of "close, but no cigar".

[mercia]

Alfredo Casella

that's the chap, well done
Paganiniana, Scarlattiana, Boston Pops Orchestra etc. etc. (Pound was the poet involved in Vivaldi Week)

over to you

[Nick Armstrong]

Perhaps a case of "close, but no cigar".

Smokin'...!

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