Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

A rotating Viola Concerto

I tink that would be one of Paul's

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Edit: I had my hair restyled at lunchtime today, now I feel like an Arthur Rackham Pixie!

I hope you find one!

Merc's right: there is a Paul involved.

Two Musical clues and a literary. Answer only ultimately Musical.

[Norfolk Born]

Aha! Paul Hindedmith's 'Der Schwanendreher'?

[Norfolk Born]

... and Stephen Foster's Swanee River ('The Old Folks At Home')? Still working on the Dylan Thomas while PH's swan is done to a turn.

[Norfolk Born]

Are we referring to the recording of Dylan Thomas reading Yeats's 'Leda and the Swan'?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Are we referring to the recording of Dylan Thomas reading Yeats's 'Leda and the Swan'?

Hindemith =
Foster =

... the Thomas is something more homely.


EDIT: And you've got the overall connection, too, of course!

[Norfolk Born]

His birth house in Swansea?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

His birth house in Swansea?

... an ink drawing of which is on my study wall. I can't see it because of the piles of unshelved CDs waiting for me to decorate!

A hat trick, Norf! Over to yours for T.

[Nick Armstrong]

You know, yesterday I was playing with the Swansea idea.. but I couldn't make it relate to anything else. Bravo Norfs! But why is the viola concerto 'rotating'... ah, as you were, just looked it up. Not knowing German, that was my problem

[Norfolk Born]

Thank you, fhg!
Which 'T' links works by composers born in Maryland, Florida and Piedmont? And which of the three shares a further link with a fourth 'T' by a much more famous composer?

[amateur51]

Thank you, fhg!
Which 'T' links works by composers born in Maryland, Florida and Piedmont? And which of the three shares a further link with a fourth 'T' by a much more famous composer?

Struggling a bit here Norfs - should I be looking through a Glass darkly?

[Nick Armstrong]

Struggling a bit here Norfs - should I be looking through a Glass darkly?

Glass is as far as I'd got too...

[amateur51]

And is the Floridian composer a native or Delius?

And is the Piedmont in Italy or in USA?

Damned elusive, this Norfs today

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Glass is as far as I'd got too...

Oh.


So not Zappa for the Maryland composer?

The trouble is that Zappa, Glass and Delius are already "famous" composers, so the fourth "Much more famous" composer would have to be in the Bach/Beethoven-league "name".

[amateur51]

Oh.


So not Zappa for the Maryland composer?

The trouble is that Zappa, Glass and Delius are already "famous" composers, so the fourth "Much more famous" composer would have to be in the Bach/Beethoven-league "name".

Good stuff, ferney! - I think we need m'learned friend Lod Caliban of The Rolls (that's cheese & pickle rather than -Royce ) to fetch him before this Court of Enquiry pronto!