Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Shostakovich 1st, F min.
Vivaldi 4 Seasons.

Yes to Vivaldi, close with DSCH1... It's F major I was after. Think for which teenager, rather than by which teenager...

[mercia]

Haydn Dream Quartet

[Anna]

Because toot-toot Anna knows me too well

It is F major

Ooh, I say!! I got it right! Would the teenager be by our favourite composer, Tchaikovsky?

[mercia]

Shostakovich Piano Conc. 2 for Maxim

[Nick Armstrong]

Yup to both mercia!

But G for you Anna!

What was the Field prog like?

PS To pull it together for ease of reference:

Beethoven's Pastoral (and particularly its last movement, the Shepherd's Song of Thanksgiving after the storm), Haydn's "Dream" Quartet No. 40, Op. 50, No. 5, Shostakovich's 2nd Piano Concerto (for his 19 year old son Maxim) and "Autumn" from the Four Seasons, are all in F major

[Anna]

Yup to both mercia! But G for you Anna! What was the Field prog like?

No, not G for me, I only got the Pastoral, just a lucky guess, mercia has it (I will be offline shortly until late tomorrow) Sid Field programme was ok, not great, but I hadn't heard of him and no surviving footage to speak of so all heresay. Programme on later with Michael Grade about music hall, repeat, seen it, that's more interesting I think.

[mercia]

why don't we wait till Anna returns
we haven't had a lovely Anna question for such a long time


as many as are of that opinion say "aye", to the contrary "noe" .. I think the ayes have it, the ayes have it ...............order! order!

[antongould]

seems like a plan stan

[amateur51]

No, not G for me, I only got the Pastoral, just a lucky guess, mercia has it (I will be offline shortly until late tomorrow) Sid Field programme was ok, not great, but I hadn't heard of him and no surviving footage to speak of so all heresay. Programme on later with Michael Grade about music hall, repeat, seen it, that's more interesting I think.

I'll get to see the Sid Field programme a bit later but I offer up this slice of a Bob Monkhouse programme which contains a valuable glimpse of his style. Apols if it was used in the programme ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpO80p8fW3s&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL9BF38D1CADF71848

[Nick Armstrong]

why don't we wait till Anna returns
we haven't had a lovely Anna question for such a long time


as many as are of that opinion say "aye", to the contrary "noe" .. I think the ayes have it, the ayes have it ...............order! order!

Aye'm inclined to agree. Anna went to the heart of the matter by rumbling the "F".

[Anna]

Are you sure it's me? I was just playing around, it's a long time since I had one of those special Toot-Toot moments with Caliban behind the engine shed!

It's a long time since I set one and I'll be offline in a minute until sometime after lunch, so here we go with something rather hastily cobbled together:

A tri-part puzzle, leading to one G word

I could put it in a nutshell
But perhaps we should walk in a certain manner while urging others to run while his headgear is right
Railways and Victorian Valhalla with a much loved poet

[mercia]

well I can find a G to cover "in a nutshell" and "walk in a certain manner"
and a different G for "Victorian Valhalla"
but that's all so far
great question though

[Nick Armstrong]

Are you sure it's me? I was just playing around, it's a long time since I had one of those special Toot-Toot moments with Caliban behind the engine shed!

It's a long time since I set one and I'll be offline in a minute until sometime after lunch, so here we go with something rather hastily cobbled together:

A tri-part puzzle, leading to one G word

I could put it in a nutshell
But perhaps we should walk in a certain manner while urging others to run while his headgear is right
Railways and Victorian Valhalla with a much loved poet

Love it!

No idea of the answer, but love it !!

[Anna]

well I can find a G to cover "in a nutshell" and "walk in a certain manner"
and a different G for "Victorian Valhalla"
but that's all so far
great question though

Aha! The nutshell, taken at face value, is a bit of a red herring, look inside!
The Railways or Valhalla, well go and ask Karl Marx or Joan Hunter Dunn.

It's tri-part but the trio lead to one G word, shared by the three.

[mercia]

so Percy Grainger is a red herring
but Highgate Cemetery and John Betjeman are not
I think