Alphabet associations - I

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

an E to connect

the English Channel at Eastbourne, a set of nearly 50 piano pieces and an easy piece for "Miss E E"

Esquisse

Debussy La Mer: Trois Esquisses Symphonique competed at the Grand Hotel, BN20
Alkan 48 Esquisses
Elagar Violin Piece Esquisse Facile

[mercia]

Duruf(f)le

<doh> if only I'd noticed that I would have left the question to you

[mercia]

Esquisse

Debussy La Mer: Trois Esquisses Symphonique competed at the Grand Hotel, BN20
Alkan 48 Esquisses
Elagar Violin Piece Esquisse Facile

excellent, excellent, glad that's out of the way (48 or 49 ?) Elagar, I like that

a f-f-f-flippin' F for you

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"Elagar"?

Which F is a Cheltenham composer who links

Byron & Southey
Phedre
Lucky Jim

?

[mercia]

Which F is a Cheltenham composer who links

Byron & Southey
Phedre
Lucky Jim

?

a neat & clever question, if I may be so bold .......... which I don't really want to answer
so my clue to anyone else is Southey's wife's maiden name

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

[amateur51]

a neat & clever question, if I may be so bold .......... which I don't really want to answer
so my clue to anyone else is Southey's wife's maiden name

Cheers, mercia!

So that's your Peter Racine Fricker ....

Racine wrote Phedre (scuse absent accent)

Lucky Jim ...??

[Anna]

Cheers, mercia!

So that's your Peter Racine Fricker ....

Racine wrote Phedre (scuse absent accent)

Lucky Jim ...??

Didn't he abandon the P. Racine Fricker to go and get drunk down the pub?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ammy:
Anna:

... and Byron?

[mercia]

I won't tell you how many google pages I looked through looking for an F composer born in Cheltenham

I'm afraid I'm not familiar with Lucky Jim - what's that reference ??

can't get the Byron, Coleridge married another Fricker didn't he?

[vinteuil]

Coleridge married another Fricker didn't he?

As far as I recall, Southey and Coleridge married the Fricker sisters, as part of the Utopian - "Pantisocracy" - project (Susquehanna?) to settle in America. Which marriage - for Coleridge - turned out to have been not a very clever idea.

[Anna]

I won't tell you how many google pages I looked through looking for an F composer born in Cheltenham

So did I mercia, I don't get the Cheltenham bit at all.

[mercia]

I don't get the Cheltenham bit at all.

our Mr Fricker directed (if that's the word) the Cheltenham Festival one (or several) year(s)

[Anna]

our Mr Fricker directed (if that's the word) the Cheltenham Festival one (or several) year(s)

It was 2 years, 84/86 I think I was misreading the question and looking for birth or residency mercia.

[subcontrabass]

So did I mercia, I don't get the Cheltenham bit at all.

Peter Racine Fricker was president of the Cheltenham International Festival 1984-6.