Alphabet associations - I

[Don Petter]

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

I agree - There's no F in Cheltenham.

[mercia]

I was misreading the question and looking for birth or residency mercia.

ah well that's our question setter being clever (& naughty)

[amateur51]

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

Just thank your lucky stars that he didn't stop off in Dunfermline for haddock & chips one day!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Fricker is mentioned in Lucky Jim as representing the younger generation of composers. As Anna said, Jim prefers to go to the pub.
Fricker wasn't born in Cheltenham, but was president of the Music & Literature Festival for (IIRC) four years. (A later holder of this post was Michael Berkeley, who - together with Humphrey Carpenter did many great things for the Festival. One of which was not employing me!)

Both Byron and Southey wrote poems called Vision of Judgement which is Fricker's largest Choral work.

A much neglected composer whose work merits reappraisal and performance, IMO.

So who's next to Go? Ammie? Anna?

[amateur51]

Fricker is mentioned in Lucky Jim as representing the younger generation of composers. As Anna said, Jim prefers to go to the pub.
Fricker wasn't born in Cheltenham, but was president of the Music & Literature Festival for (IIRC) four years. (A later holder of this post was Michael Berkeley, who - together with Humphrey Carpenter did many great things for the Festival. One of which was not employing me!)

Both Byron and Southey wrote poems called Vision of Judgement which is Fricker's largest Choral work.

A much neglected composer whose work merits reappraisal and performance, IMO.

So who's next to Go? Ammie? Anna?

Oh Anna deffo

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Just thank your lucky stars that he didn't stop off in Dunfermline for haddock & chips one day!

That was one clue I left out: I thought it would give the game away too quickly!

[mercia]

I liked that question (well I would wouldn't I)

[Anna]

Oh Anna deffo

Oh No, Ammy, I set one last night, you first mentioned the F-word and we haven't had one from you for ages .... Givvus a Glorious G

[amateur51]

Okely dokely ....

What G links a national musical festival established in 1933; Holst, Britten, Elgar and RVW; and a private printing press

[Nick Armstrong]

Duruf(f)le

I could tell you about the time I had tea with M et Mme Duruflé, but that would be name-dropping...

[mercia]

that would be name-dropping

too late, they're dropped

go on then

[amateur51]

too late, they're dropped

go on then

Was patisserie involved?

[Nick Armstrong]

Just thank your lucky stars that he didn't stop off in Dunfermline for haddock & chips one day!

Perfection, ammy!!!

[Nick Armstrong]

As far as I recall, Southey and Coleridge married the Fricker sisters, as part of the Utopian - "Pantisocracy" - project (Susquehanna?) to settle in America.

Your knowledge of trivia is just so terribly plebeian, vindetable!!!!!!

[Nick Armstrong]

go on then

I lived for a year not far from St Etienne du Mont (vinteuil will know it well too), and Mrs Duruflé had by then taken over from him as organist, her husband being confined to their flat opposite. The King's recording of his Requiem was one of my most treasured cassettes ( that dates it all - as does the fact that MD was still alive, he died only a year or so after).

I plucked up courage after a few visits and got talking to her, and ended up being invited over to meet the great old gentleman and given tea. I had equipped myself with a score of the Requiem which he autographed "en bien sympathique souvenir" to me which is one of my most treasured possessions.