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[mercia]

think Christmas Opera.

Amahl and the Night Visitors? ("the classic Christmas opera")

[antongould]

Indeed that's the piece

[mercia]

well I guess the White connection would be the opera The Telephone




(I shall have to drop out of the proceedings now because my laptop is doing strange things. Despite being plugged into the mains the battery isn't charging - do computer batteries only have a certain lifespan?)

[antongould]

Indeed it is - I find computer batteries are a law unto themselves and possibly Dave!

[Dave2002]

Maybe we need Angle to join in and give us another angle - he used to be good at this kind of thing!

[antongould]

mercia before he lost his battery had Menotti and one of the 3 titles thanks to Anthony C White who filed, like Aleander G Bell, a patent for the Telephone...........

[Nick Armstrong]

mercia before he lost his battery had Menotti and one of the 3 titles thanks to Anthony C White who filed, like Aleander G Bell, a patent for the Telephone...........

He also got Amahl didn't he, being the Christmas Opera?

Is the Waugh connection the name Sebastian as in Menotti's ballet and in the Flytes in "Brideshead"?

(I was going to punt for Menotti last night but the 'telephone' reference dissuaded me with thoughts of Marconi... It was late... )

[amateur51]

He also got Amahl didn't he, being the Christmas Opera?

Is the Waugh connection the name Sebastian as in Menotti's ballet and in the Flytes in "Brideshead"?

(I was going to punt for Menotti last night but the 'telephone' reference dissuaded me with thoughts of Marconi... It was late... )

Getting lost here but ... The Telephone, or L'Amour à trois is an English-language comic opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti

[antongould]

Sorry Friends - been distracted - work is such a nuisance!

Yes it is Menotti and Caliban has correctly identified the Waugh connection

The Paul Simon is maybe stretching it a bit but Menotti composed The Saint of Bleecker Street and young Paul composed Bleeker Street

"Fog’s rollin’ off the East River Bank
Like a shroud, it covers Bleecker Street
Fills the alleys where men sleep
Hides the shepherd from the sheep"

which was the culture of my teens unlike you Guys with your Horace and your Ovid!

So the man with no battery - mercia got Menotti
Caliban got Waugh
Dave tried commendably hard and found a different M
Am got lost

So who has the N run?

[Dave2002]

Sorry Friends - been distracted - work is such a nuisance!

Yes it is Menotti and Caliban has correctly identified the Waugh connection

The Paul Simon is maybe stretching it a bit but Menotti composed The Saint of Bleecker Street and young Paul composed Bleeker Street

"Fog’s rollin’ off the East River Bank
Like a shroud, it covers Bleecker Street
Fills the alleys where men sleep
Hides the shepherd from the sheep"

which was the culture of my teens unlike you Guys with your Horace and your Ovid!

So the man with no battery - mercia got Menotti
Caliban got Waugh
Dave tried commendably hard and found a different M
Am got lost

So who has the N run?

Over to you! Isn't it mercia?

[amateur51]

After a few days of hi-speed frivolity this thread has become incredibly slow.

Buck up, you chaps!

Yes YOU!!

[Nick Armstrong]

Caliban got Waugh....

Over to you! Isn't it mercia?

Sorry, been sidetracked by talk of aubergines. Oh, and work...

Yes I think mercia... .It's certainly not me - I just idly googled for about 5 seconds and saw the Waugh connection. I didn't solve it.

[antongould]

mercia has battery problems with his pc I think

[Nick Armstrong]

It's all gone rather quiet round here.

I think I was very slightly in the frame and have thought of an "N" so maybe while mercia continues to wrestle with his battery, I could deploy it?

What N connects (i) a shoemaker (ii) a secret agent and (iii) spirituals involving a Fight ?

[Don Petter]

Nuremberg?