Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

The second and third suggest Sir John Pritchard, who conducted the premieres of King Priam and The Midsummer Marriage, but I cannot find anything relating to the first.

Whoops, I was looking for an "O".... (Slinks off, embarrassed.... )

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The second and third suggest Sir John Pritchard, who conducted the premieres of King Priam and The Midsummer Marriage, but I cannot find anything relating to the first.

Correct, scb. Notice that "Cross" begins with a capital letter.

[subcontrabass]

Correct, scb. Notice that "Cross" begins with a capital letter.

I did, but I cannot find a work involving St Helen or the Cross that Pritchard premiered.

[Nick Armstrong]

I did, but I cannot find a work involving St Helen or the Cross that Pritchard premiered.

Singer Joan Cross?

EDIT: I was going to say GLORIANA in which she took the leading role at the première with JP conducting, but HM Queen Elizabeth I was hardly an Essex girl...

[greenilex]

Now have a very eggy face as I think I meant not otiose but outre with an acute accent on the final e. It's probably me that's otiose.

Somebody tell me which part of speech or indeed linguistic phenomenon the word "no" comes under? It can be used adjectivally but is really a negative particle, do you think?

I really like "No, John, No", especially the tune. The joke is that John keeps asking her to marry him and getting the brush-off until the last verse, when he demands if she'd prefer to remain single for the rest of her life - "Oh, no John. no John. no John no!"

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Singer Joan Cross?

EDIT: I was going to say GLORIANA in which she took the leading role at the première with JP conducting, but HM Queen Elizabeth I was hardly an Essex girl...

Oh yes she was, Cali!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

So, just to put this to sleep:

The answer is Sir John Pritchard, who conducted the premieres of Britten's Gloriana (the story of Elizabeth I's - originally played by Joan Cross - passion for the Earl of Essex), and both Tippett's Midsummer Marriage (by pun associated with Midsomer Murders) and King Priam (the father of Paris). There is a common link between the two Tippetts in "Troy", but I thought that that was pushing it!

Pritchard was an infuriating conductor: caught on a good day, he was the finest conductor these shores have produced. On a less than good day (and there were a lot of these, sadly) he could be routine and even dull.

So, 2/3 of honours to SCB and 1/3 to Cali. Who's next in the Q?

[subcontrabass]

A short Q to link a Britten opera, a squeezebox, and an organ.

[Flay]

Quintessentially what are you exactly getting at?

[subcontrabass]

Quintessentially what are you exactly getting at?

I think you have got there. Care to elaborate?

[Flay]

Sorry, I cheated. Quint was the only Britten character I could think of. Then I googled the word: -

Peter Quint, a principal character in the novel The Turn of the Screw
A free-bass system for the Accordion invented by Bill Palmer
A type of stop on a pipe organ

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

[Norfolk Born]

Oh, well done, Flay (accordion to my converter, there's a good chance that scb will ask you to organize the next question!)

[subcontrabass]

Sorry, I cheated. Quint was the only Britten character I could think of. Then I googled the word: -

Peter Quint, a principal character in the novel The Turn of the Screw
A free-bass system for the Accordion invented by Bill Palmer
A type of stop on a pipe organ

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

That's the set. Will we have a long or a short R?

[Flay]

Damn it, now I'll have to think about something when I should be doing other things... <doh>

[Nick Armstrong]

Damn it, now I'll have to think about something when I should be doing other things... <doh>

Yay it's Mr Flay!