Alphabet associations - I

[subcontrabass]

It is. I have to correct my previous message: the work requested by a soprano features a soprano AND a clarinet.

The hymn: "Rock of ages"
Rachmaninoff: The Rock
Schubert: The Shepherd on the Rock

(further relevant details on all three in Wikipedia)

[Norfolk Born]

A delightful discovery when compiling the question was that 'Rock of Ages' is the work of a chap called (The Reverend) Toplady.
Over to scb for an 'S'.

[subcontrabass]

An S to link one English singer, sixteen British singers, and a lupine Italian.

[cloughie]

An S to link one English singer, sixteen British singers, and a lupine Italian.

A quick Serenade!

[subcontrabass]

A quick Serenade!

Three minutes !!!!

Details?

[cloughie]

An S to link one English singer, sixteen British singers, and a lupine Italian.

1 Singer Serenade Sewing machine
2 RVW Serenade to music
3 Wolf Italian Serenade.

[Nick Armstrong]

A quick Serenade!

Dammit I'd have got that if I'd looked a few minutes earlier!



PS: just saw your workings, Brian: for 1. I'd have said the Britten 'Serenade' for tenor &c...

[subcontrabass]

Dammit I'd have got that if I'd looked a few minutes earlier!



PS: just saw your workings, Brian: for 1. I'd have said the Britten 'Serenade' for tenor &c...

And you would have been correct.

Tea time for cloughie, I think.

[Norfolk Born]

Dammit I'd have got that if I'd looked a few minutes earlier!


PS: just saw your workings, Brian: for 1. I'd have said the Britten 'Serenade' for tenor &c...

You'll have to watch the old blood pressure, my friend. Remember, you're a year older now!

[Nick Armstrong]

You'll have to watch the old blood pressure, my friend. Remember, you're a year older now!

Only 'avin' a larff!!

But I don't know, it's old Cloughie - I feel like Don Revie when he's around!

[cloughie]

And you would have been correct.

Tea time for cloughie, I think.

'fraid I'll be out all afternoon doing a bit of singing. Will someone else provide the T please? Perhaps cali as he would have got the S!

[Nick Armstrong]

'fraid I'll be out all afternoon doing a bit of singing. Will someone else provide the T please? Perhaps cali as he would have got the S!

Happy to, cloughie! (Having been brought up in Nottingham in the 60s and 70s, you'll understand the potency of your pseudonym!! Why did you choose it? Were / are you a fan?)

And what are you singing, out of curiosity?

[Nick Armstrong]

So then...

A T connects Haydn, Elgar and Rimsky-Korsakov... But the Haydn and the Elgar in question are not the gentlemen you first thought of.

[subcontrabass]

So then...

A T connects Haydn, Elgar and Rimsky-Korsakov... But the Haydn and the Elgar in question are not the gentlemen you first thought of.

None of them played the trombone.

[Nick Armstrong]

None of them played the trombone.

But... ?????

Go on, scb, troll in: don't be cryptic!