Alphabet associations - I

[vinteuil]

And I claim the prize for Never, Ever, Ever, Having Seen The Sound of Music!! ::

... I share that prize with Anna!

[Nick Armstrong]

What F are we talking about?

Yes, what the F are we talking about??!

... I share that prize with Anna!

Me too, only seen bits, usually when an aunt is watching it at Christmas. Ditto Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz, Dr Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia u.s.w.....

[Anna]

Yes, what the F are we talking about??!

We are trying to find an F to link Violet and her menage a cinq in Sussex with The Sound of Music and some Italians! Simples!

[vinteuil]

Yes, what the F are we talking about??!

mercia's #12089 answers it - does he want to come forward and claim the prize by providing the details?

[mercia]

some Italians

specifically Puccini's horticultural quartet

[mercia]

does he want to

no, he doesn't, cos he has other things to do I'm afraid

[Nick Armstrong]

specifically Puccini's horticultural quartet

Is it as "simples" as Flower? Edelweiss, Chrysathemums... and another one? Oh ... Violet *doh*

[vinteuil]

Is it as "simples" as Flower? Edelweiss, Chrysathemums... and another one? Oh ... Violet *doh*

and with one bound...

yes, calamares, just so.
And you get to gi'e us a G

[Anna]

Before we Go forth with Caliban, what exactly is the Puccini Chrysanthemums? A detailed answer is helpful for everyone I think

[vinteuil]

Before we Go forth with Caliban, what exactly is the Puccinni Chrysanthemums? A detailed answer is helpful for everyone I think

a string quartet by Puccini: Crisantemi ( 1890, "Alla memoria di Amadeo di Savoia Duca d'Aosta"). Chrysanthemums are the flower for funerals and mourning in Italy; this piece was composed in memory of the brother of King Umberto (a useful U for AA - but I've used it before (and with crisantemi, I think... ))

[Nick Armstrong]

Before we Go forth with Caliban, what exactly is the Puccinni Chrysanthemums? A detailed answer is helpful for everyone I think

Crisantemi (String Quartet, 1890, "Alla memoria di Amadeo di Savoia Duca d'Aosta") is Puccini's only (or only reasonably well-known) chamber music piece It's a moving or slightly soupy (depending on your taste) elegy

A G connects a picaresque Spaniard, a musical Minister and what sounds like a radio-only revolution.

[vinteuil]

Amadeo di Savoia Duca d'Aosta

... who was a nasty piece of work.

Anna - if you like Trivia - you might like the Trivia connected with him on the wiki page...

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

[Anna]

Oh thanks vints, that trivia is really funny/tragic! And, I didn't know about Chrysanthemums and mourning in Italy, I thought that was in China. Learn something new every day! No time to look at the G at the moment.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A G connects a picaresque Spaniard, a musical Minister and what sounds like a radio-only revolution.

This is a puzzler:

Guzman?
Mateo Aleman's Guzman de Aleman is an early Picaresque novel
Nicolas Eyzaguirre Guzman was a Chilean Minister of Finance who previously had been part of the folk group "Aquelle"
... but the Radio-only revolution doesn't "fit", apart from a young journalist, Jackie Guzman, who is keen to use as much modern technology for her reporting as she can?


Unless it's the G-string on a Violin?

[Norfolk Born]

fhg: I find it comforting that your research led you up exactly the same blind alley as I ended up in. I had no more luck with a picaresque character called Girés (or was it Gimés?). Is The Minister a poitician or a churchman, do you think?