Alphabet associations - I

[vinteuil]

(see above for my workings/twiddlings)

Excellent ( or "well good", as da yoof have it). Now go on and Delight us...

[rubbernecker]

A D to connect:
- a female French concert pianist;
- an American orchestral work from 1983;
- a 1920s musical made into a film in the same decade.

[Nick Armstrong]

... four minutes; not bad, not bad at all...

would you like to explain your workings to Caliban minor? - who's finding it hard to keep up*

[* as the bishop said to the actress]

Far too busy on the composer lookalikes thread!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The 1920s Musical: was it filmed as a Musical, or as a silent film? (the Musical version following a few years after that?)

[rubbernecker]

The 1920s Musical: was it filmed as a Musical, or as a silent film? (the Musical version following a few years after that?)

No, it was actually filmed with sound in two-tone technicolor, although only a black and white print survived.

[Anna]

Got to be, The Desert Song? Only joking, a gay friend of mine used to constantly watch it!

[rubbernecker]

Got to be, The Desert Song? Only joking, a gay friend of mine used to constantly watch it!

Well done, Anna. The film had to be re-made because of the supposedly lewd and overtly gay references.

Now that you've burst the dam, I suspect the other clues will follow in a welcome torrent

[Flay]

Got to be, The Desert Song? Only joking, a gay friend of mine used to constantly watch it!

I thik you might be quite close Anna. Don't Desert us now. You might have struck a reich vein

[Flay]

<< Reich's The Desert Music, was written in 1983 for chorus and orchestra, with a text by American poet William Carlos Williams. It was considered a milestone work because it incorporated many of Reich's earlier techniques while being distinctly new.>>

[amateur51]

Got to be, The Desert Song? Only joking, a gay friend of mine used to constantly watch it!

I see that one of the songs is entitled "I'll be a Buoyant Girl" which if sung hurriedly might suggest elements of hermaphrodism

[Anna]

Well done, Anna. The film had to be re-made because of the supposedly lewd and overtly gay references.

Which is why my friend loved it! Oh, I knew the third, I've forgotten it now.

[rubbernecker]

<< Reich's The Desert Music, was written in 1983 for chorus and orchestra, with a text by American poet William Carlos Williams. It was considered a milestone work because it incorporated many of Reich's earlier techniques while being distinctly new.>>

Indeed so. And Tilson Thomas was the first to record it. One of the few worthwhile things he has done, imho.

So who is the pianist? She's living and relatively young.

[Norfolk Born]

Claire Désert?

[amateur51]

Indeed so. And Tilson Thomas was the first to record it. One of the few worthwhile things he has done, imho.

So who is the pianist? She's living and relatively young.

Sue Perkins?

[Flay]

Jacques Loussier was the castaway on Desert Island Discs on Sun 27 Sep 1987

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p009mlbl