Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Just a minute!!!

The C appears to be an Asteroid or St Andrew??????

.... and "Hadrian" ... ????????????????????????????????????

I'm glad you said that... Calling in quick before supper in Paris, I'm perplexe: I get the asteroid link but what's Hadrian got to do with the prix du poisson?

keep up

Much easier to do that - esp in these quick-fire ding-dongs - where one of the protagonists just pulls the three solutions clearly together at the end, pour encourager les autres!!

[mercia]

pulls the three solutions clearly together

the answer was Cavaradossi, the name of an asteroid, number 8945

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

and more importantly the name of a character in Puccini's opera Tosca, which said opera takes place in the environs of three real places in Rome namely the church of Sant'Andrea della Valle (the Andrew link), the Palazzo Farnese, and the Castel Sant'Angelo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%27Andrea_della_Valle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castel_Sant%27Angelo

which last location was initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for himself and his family

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

I do hope that is all clear

[Flay]

Thank you for your indulgence.


What E embraces (in order):
- Roman and Sicilian;
- the ruins of Carthage and a centre of Sufism;
- the confluence of Rodrigo and Tarrega.

Here I am in Penultima Thule (Inverness) with limited Internet access. Could this be something to do with Engravings?

[mercia]

- the confluence of Rodrigo and Tarrega

is this a confluence in the sense of a shared location e.g. Valencia or the shared title of a musical work ?
does this confluence begin with the letter E ? is this the composer Rodrigo or another Rodrigo ?
I assume we're referring to the composer Tarrega, rather than the village.
is the use of the word confluence a hint that it has some connection to rivers ?

[Nick Armstrong]

the answer was Cavaradossi, the name of an asteroid, number 8945

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

and more importantly the name of a character in Puccini's opera Tosca, which said opera takes place in the environs of three real places in Rome namely the church of Sant'Andrea della Valle (the Andrew link), the Palazzo Farnese, and the Castel Sant'Angelo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%27Andrea_della_Valle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castel_Sant%27Angelo

which last location was initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for himself and his family

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

I do hope that is all clear

Crystal, mercia, many thanks!

Rubbers's E is as clear as mud to me, in contrast

[mercia]

- the ruins of Carthage and a centre of Sufism

do these have any musical connections, e.g. Les Troyens or Dido & Aeneas ?

[mercia]

- Roman and Sicilian

anything to do with vespers ?

[rubbernecker]

is this a confluence in the sense of a shared location e.g. Valencia

You're off and running, now Mercs.

All the other suggestions, including Flay's Engravings, are wrong

[mercia]

I think I'm going to need a further clue, Valencia hasn't helped at all and the rest of the question seems too wide to pinpoint anything in particular
I have noted that the elements are in a specific order with Valencia (or something to do with Valencia) last, perhaps suggesting a person moving from one place to another (???)

[rubbernecker]

I think I'm going to need a further clue, Valencia hasn't helped at all and the rest of the question seems too wide to pinpoint anything in particular
I have noted that the elements are in a specific order with Valencia (or something to do with Valencia) last, perhaps suggesting a person moving from one place to another (???)

Oh, you are good

The answer is a musical work.

[mercia]

I don't know if anyone else is currently working on this, who would like to set a question, the E work is by Jacques Ibert

[Nick Armstrong]

I don't know if anyone else is currently working on this, who would like to set a question, the E work is by Jacques Ibert

Oh, nice work mercia! Rubbers the scamp doing a cryptical version of the first part of my I some months back: http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...5949#post45949

Double dummy me for not twigging.

I'll take F off your hands if you like mercia, but all the are for you...

[Anna]

I don't know if anyone else is currently working on this, who would like to set a question, the E work is by Jacques Ibert

I was on a different trail ....... can you post your workings please mercia?
edit: <doh> just followed Caliban's link and - blow me! I solved it last time! Mega brain fade here I fear .....

[mercia]

I'll take F off your hands

[rubbernecker]

I don't know if anyone else is currently working on this, who would like to set a question, the E work is by Jacques Ibert

Well done Mercs, Escales indeed. We await the globetrotting Caliban's F...