Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

E for effort

some hard work going on here - it is certainly one of those, I'm just pondering whether if I tell you exactly which one that will give the answer away immediately



ok - it's the Adirondack

[amateur51]

some hard work going on here - it is certainly one of those, I'm just pondering whether if I tell you exactly which one that will give the answer away immediately



ok - it's the Adirondack

Cheers mercs - you know me - even the most searingly obvious clue can often be not the slightest use!

Later: Ooooh there's a place called Marble Falls in the Adirondacks - not one solitary letter u in the whole thing

[mercia]

I'm afraid the only significance of the Adirondacks is that that is where the composer first thought of writing U

what did el-Eizariya used to be called?

put the answer to that in the melting pot (so to speak)

[amateur51]

I'm afraid the only significance of the Adirondacks is that that is where the composer first thought of writing U

what did el-Eizariya used to be called?

put the answer to that in the melting pot (so to speak)

Al-Eizariya used to be called Bethany, innit

[mercia]

Bethany

[amateur51]

Bethany marble is used in urns and there's a band called Urn?

Little Ern: How much is grecian urn?

Eric: thirty bob a week!! - [boom-tssssssh]

[mercia]

is Bethany the name of a tune?

EDIT ......... that might be used in a composition

[Nick Armstrong]

It's fascinating watching this, like a comedy version of Wimbledon

Great work on a great question, ams and mercs

I've no idea about the solution, but ammy hacking his way through the Undergrowth...

[amateur51]

is Bethany the name of a tune?

EDIT ......... that might be used in a composition

Tis the name of the tune for 'Nearer my god to thee' composed by Sarah Flower Adams. It is what the band played as the Titanic sank.

According to wiki:

"A dramatic paraphrase of the hymn tune was written for wind band by the Danish composer, Carl Nielsen. His version includes a musical rendition of the collision between boat and iceberg.[19] The composer Sigfrid Karg-Elert, moved by the Titanic tragedy, wrote six works based on the "Bethany" setting, including an organ fantasia.[20] "Bethany" is also quoted in Charles Ives's fourth symphony.[21] The French organist Joseph Bonnet wrote "In Memoriam – Titanic", the first of his Douze Pièces, Op. 10, based on the tune Horbury. It was published the year after the Titanic sank.[22]

The hymn even made its way briefly onto the operatic stage. The singer Emma Abbott, prompted by "her uncompromising and grotesque puritanism" rewrote La traviata so that Violetta expired singing not Verdi's Addio del passato, but Nearer my God to Thee"

** slumps back in chair, exhausted and utterly defeated**

[amateur51]

It's fascinating watching this, like a comedy version of Wimbledon

New balls please

And a wipe down with an oily rag

[mercia]

"Bethany" is also quoted in Charles Ives's ........... symphony

** slumps back in chair, exhausted and utterly defeated**

you're there (nearly)

sorry about the work involved
people obviously don't cheat like I do. if I was answering this I would put "marble" "Adirondack" and "composer" into a search box and found an answer

[amateur51]

you're there (nearly)

sorry about the work involved
people obviously don't cheat like I do. if I was answering this I would put "marble" "Adirondack" and "composer" into a search box and found an answer

Lawks mercs - am I now looking for a composer beginning with U?

[Nick Armstrong]

Lawks mercs - am I now looking for a composer beginning with U?

Just follow the master, ams! As mercia says, put the words into google and have a look down the results!

Go for it - you deserve it!

Maybe another little bonus question to keep us going?

I think it's rather good to have these 'wild card' questions to tide things over where question setters are unavoidably detained!

Nice one mercs!

[mercia]

no, U is not a composer, but obviously a composer is involved

time for misery ending and a well-deserved lie down/drink/whatever for ammie

the answer is Universe Symphony by Charles Ives, conceived in the Adirondack Mountains, making use of a "slab of marble" in the percussion section and quoting the hymn tune Bethany

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe_Symphony_(Ives)

well what can I say, it passed the time in a not very comfortable way .......... poor ammie
I think the W question will be of a much higher standard (couldn't be lower )

[amateur51]

Believe me, I have Caliban!

"Not a sausinge" as Bluebottle was wont to say

I'll try again - or why don't you leap in? I'm losing the will to live here & I need my nap