Alphabet associations - I

[Norfolk Born]

Bravo, Anna

Are you going to go all the way and finish it off?

EDIT: Sorry, that should have been Brava, I think...

Would that make the Rossini The Thieving Magpie?

[amateur51]

I enjoyed it more than the book, to tell the truth.

Ah colour and movement, colour and movement! ...

[Norfolk Born]

Might the spiritual be 'Steal away....'?

[Norfolk Born]

The score of Michael Berkeley's opera 'Jane Eyre' was stolen. But it was his father who took Nelson as a subject.

[Nick Armstrong]

Clemence Poesy is also much more beautiful than Lady Mary (if we are discussing success of productions purely on good looks!)

She's amazing isn't she?

(I have a real problem with the flat, dull voice and delivery of the person who plays Mary in Downton... I don't want to be disobliging about her looks, but the voice kills any allure)

[rubbernecker]

The score of Michael Berkeley's opera 'Jane Eyre' was stolen. But it was his father who took Nelson as a subject.

No, it's not Berkeley, NB, but you're spot on with The Thieving Magpie and Steal Away...

The Nelson is Oliver Nelson, jazz saxophonist/arranger and composer of the classic 'Stolen Moments' which will be familiar to our jazz brethren messageboarders.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blues-Abstract-Truth-Oliver-Nelson/dp/B000VS6OXS/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1327315860&sr=1-1

I must depart henceforth, so I'll leave it to you and Anna to tussle over L.

[Anna]

(I have a real problem with the flat, dull voice and delivery of the person who plays Mary in Downton... I don't want to be disobliging about her looks, but the voice kills any allure)

Totally agree, totally wooden. I also had an increasing problem with Downton's scripts! Birdsong got good review in the Guardian and Telegraph gives it 4 stars http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...ne-review.html

I must depart henceforth, so I'll leave it to you and Anna to tussle over L.

No, it's Norfy who got it all (I had to abandon it and go and do something useful!)

[Norfolk Born]

Working on an 'L'....

[Norfolk Born]

Where might two singers and a composer keep, or have kept, their savings?

[amateur51]

Where might two singers and a composer keep, or have kept, their savings?

Lloyd's Bank?

Robert Lloyd
Marie Lloyd
George Lloyd

[amateur51]

Blimey!

Anyone for a seance?

[Norfolk Born]

Not sure of the significance of this message, but the previous one was spot on. Congratuations - the 'M' is yours.

[amateur51]

Not sure of the significance of this message, but the previous one was spot on. Congratuations - the 'M' is yours.

I was indicating that I was feeling rather alone in the apparently spirit world of AA, Norfs

What M links a Toscanini protegé whose son developed a famous string style with a Paris-based composer and a Latin-American strummer and plucker?

[Norfolk Born]

I was indicating that I was feeling rather alone in the apparently spirit world of AA, Norfs

What M links a Toscanini protegé whose son developed a famous string style with a Paris-based composer and a Latin-American strummer and plucker?

We do apologize for the delay in replying to your previous message. Your custom IS important to us, and we DO value your contributions. Unfortunately, your dedicated online interlocutor decided to fix himself some lunch and then turned on his wireless apparatus for a most excellent concert by the Takacs Quartet

[amateur51]

We do apologize for the delay in replying to your previous message. Your custom IS important to us, and we DO value your contributions. Unfortunately, your dedicated online interlocutor decided to fix himself some lunch and then turned on his wireless apparatus for a most excellent concert by the Takacs Quartet

Twas a cracking concert I thought, Norfs - I went to a perfomance of Antonin's 'American' quartet locally last evening, so I was 'in the mood'