Alphabet associations - I

[amateur51]

I think I've been nastily cryptic
Z is a composer, as is Arnold

Z = Zemlinsky who was Arnold Schoenberg's brother-n-law. His opera Es war Einmal... 'Once upopn a time..' was premiered in 1900 and conducted by Mahler.

Zemlinskys Lyric Symphony sets poems by Tagore. As for horticulture, I am lost

[mercia]

horticulture

well done am51
wiki says the Lyric Symphony sets parts of Tagore's The Gardener

[vinteuil]

poems by Tagore. As for horticulture, I am lost

... not lost really - Tagore's pome The Gardener...

[Nick Armstrong]

As for horticulture

Ya can lead a horticulture, but ya can't make her drink....


I'll get me trowel.

[amateur51]

Ya can lead a horticulture, but ya can't make her drink....


I'll get me trowel.

I think Dottie Parker was challenged to pun on 'horticulture: and came up with 'you can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think'

[amateur51]

Oh thanks vints & mercia

What A connects a Japanese dialect for 'idiot'; an asteroid; and the composer of two sonatas for accordion?

[vinteuil]

ahoy! ahem... aha!!

[Nick Armstrong]

I think Dottie Parker was challenged to pun on 'horticulture: and came up with 'you can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think'

Ah it's think is it? That makes more sense

[amateur51]

ahoy! ahem... aha!!

are you going to supply the answer then, vints?

[vinteuil]

are you going to supply the answer then, vints?

... well, it just might be - Aho!

[amateur51]

... well, it just might be - Aho!

No 'might' about it, mon brave .... care to explain??

[Anna]

Ahoj! That's Czech for Hi! Whilst we wait for vints, on the subject of the accordian, Nikolai Chaikin also wrote two sonatas for it. (I like to throw in a bit of trivia now and again)

[vinteuil]

No 'might' about it, mon brave .... care to explain??

well, I woz thinkin of

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevi_Aho

and it is the name of an asteroid - and the Japanese for eejit...

Now for a B ...

At one time or another, Yehudi Menuhin, Thomas Beecham, and Michael Tippett were all much involved with this sixty-three year old...

[amateur51]

Ahoj! That's Czech for Hi! Whilst we wait for vints, on the subject of the accordian, Nikolai Chaikin also wrote two sonatas for it. (I like to throw in a bit of trivia now and again)

Not trivia, more like chippings from the bench of a craftsperson, innit

[amateur51]

Bravo vints!