Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Sorry not to have responded earlier. I have just got back from a Human Rights Day event.

I had got Louisville, but I was puzzled over the Ibert, as there IS a Bacchanal linked with Louisville - 6th movement of Museum Pieces by Philip Rhodes, inspired by a Flemish painting of that name in the J P Speed Art Museum in Louisville which commisioned the work.

I'm sorry about the confusion, and very well worked out - maybe the Rhodes piece is what has confused the various people writing CD booklets and the like. Also sorry to have snatched M from you... But I'm sure you won't be long before you set us another poser.

I've been catching up with podcast versions of Music Matters on recent travels - one included a feature about the Louisville Orchestra, and its fascinating golden era of commissions after the war. I'd always wondered why Ibert had included the name of the town in his piece which is on my CD references above. Sad that the Louisville filed for bankruptcy in recent years.

[subcontrabass]

I'm sorry about the confusion, and very well worked out - maybe the Rhodes piece is what has confused the various people writing CD booklets and the like. Also sorry to have snatched M from you... But I'm sure you won't be long before you set us another poser.

I was trying to give an opportunity for someone else to set a question, as I have set too many in the last week or so.

[Nick Armstrong]

I was trying to give an opportunity for someone else to set a question, as I have set too many in the last week or so.

they're teasers!

Have a crack at my modest little M

[mercia]

it's like Shostakovich and Prokofiev doing a Sabre Dance of the Seven Veils together in a Paris whore-house

I bow to your superior knowledge of what that would be like

[Nick Armstrong]

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I bow to your superior knowledge of what that would be like

Would a clue be in order, concerning M?

You're looking for a word that is part of the title of a piece of music (in elements 1 & 2 - different titles, 2 being much longer than 1, but each including the common "M" word) and of a book and a film (in the case of element 3).

[mercia]

well I can find a film starring Jeanne and Jean-Paul based on a book by Marguerite and the M word leads to a work by Handel but not particularly to Shostakovich.

[antongould]

As we all know you are a better man than I am GD

[mercia]

eh? what?

[Norfolk Born]

Anything to do with Maximilian?

[antongould]

eh? what?

Badly quoted Kipling and I can never spell Gunga Din - still struggling with this one from the Legal Eagle - which part of the Eurozone is he in at present? I find it hard keeping up!

[mercia]

the M word leads to a work by Handel but not particularly to Shostakovich

I tell a lie. Shostakovich opus 40a is a Moderato for cello. The film Moderato Cantabile and L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato by Handel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Allegro,_il_Penseroso_ed_il_Moderato

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moderato_cantabile_(film)

[antongould]

See Kipling was, as always, correct!

[mercia]

It was "Din! Din! Din!
You limping lump o' brick-dust, Gunga Din!
Hi! slippy hitherao!
Water, get it! Panee lao!
You squidgy-nosed old idol, Gunga Din!

[antongould]

Indeed and I only ever knew the last line.........

I think in the meantime you'd better get your brain N'gaged

[greenilex]

Feeble first attempt follows:

What N connects
a trio member's breakthrough
John's wandering eye
the stage-struck sister of genius?