Alphabet associations - I

[antongould]

sadly no but if we expanded Kern to Showboat or is it Show Boat? - I'm never sure which! And the English Lady is the widow of a Lord......

[Anna]

Anna Petrovna Kern was Pushkin's mistress. Just thought I'd chuck that in. Bit of trivia!

[mercia]

Showboat

Wilma Reading ??

[antongould]

Two down and the Facebook Song to Go

[vinteuil]

from Switzerland to Oz
!

... is the Switzerland a land full of the Sound of Music, and is Oz not Australia but rather a far from Kansas land peopled by Wizards?

(if so, I refuse to answer - on aesthetic grounds )

[Nick Armstrong]

Two down and the Facebook Song to Go

Confused here!

[mercia]

not sure that John Dankworth got past a knighthood, if I've understood that bit

[mercia]

sorry, I can't find a Facebook song from Queensland ............... anyone else ......?

[antongould]

This forum should not dwell on Facebook FF could be watching! The Facebook Song by the Australian Voices was composed by Gordon Hamilton of Bribane Queensland.

Wiki "calls" Cleo Laine - Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth DBE but it has been wrong before and will be again.........

Mercia it has to be U or if you would prefer R.

[mercia]

sorry I was being silly, he was Sir John Dankworth (I think)

anyone else got an R question they've been burning to let loose ????

[antongould]

No it's me showing my proletarian roots - so the wife of a Sir is a Lady? Isn't the aristocracy puzzling?

[mercia]

R

one of five, he was inspired by Browning's poem about Wendy Richard, gave his four-year old son something to play with, and has been comprehensively recorded by the Buffalo

[mercia]

I guess I didn't explain my Q answers properly, did I.
Diana Doherty from Queensland went from being Principal Oboe in the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra to the same post in the Sydney Symphony.
and Wilma Reading, also from Queensland, replaced Cleo Laine (Lady Dankworth) in a production of Kern's Show Boat.
so Q = Queensland

a further clue to my R composer
his style of composition was theorised by Peggy Seeger's father

[Norfolk Born]

Malvina Reynolds (little boxes chords)?
There seem to be quite a few composers called Reynolds.

[mercia]

not Malvina or any other Reynolds, I fear

dissonant counterpoint is the theory I was referring to