Groan's Dictionary of Music and Musicians - Revised Edition

[Serial_Apologist]

Con alma - with Gustav's missus...

Villanella - female suspect

[salymap]

Are you getting mixed up with Cavatina?

I could think of a name for her but it's not nice S-A

[Serial_Apologist]

I could think of a name for her but it's not nice S-A

"Cava" is close to the Latin for "beware" - soooo, how about "Beware Tina"?

Here's one for another poster's favourite quote:

Fortissimo - the Niagara Falls, at last

[notnerb]

moderato: genetically modified fruit

presto - tight0fitting shoes

[Alain Maréchal]

Brustwerk - photographs taken with telephoto lens

[Flay]

Brustwerk - photographs taken with telephoto lens

If you put "Brustwerk" into Google Translate you get "breast factory"

[Alain Maréchal]

Basil Lam, I think, said that although both Bach and Handel applied for the post of successor to Buxtehude they reconsidered when they realised that one of the conditions was marriage to his daughter. "Neither man eventually got his hands on the Brustwerk".

Which raises that old chestnut - could JBS and GFH have met?

[Northender]

Scottish Fantasy: reaching the final stages of any international sports competition.

[Alain Maréchal]

Gran Pausa - second half of concert delayed by audience latecomers.

[Flay]

Antiphonal – a train’s quiet coach

[amateur51]

Imagine the delight of 15 year-old schoolboys who discovered that the new Headmaster Mr Newhouse's name could be translated as Casa Nova - oh how we laughed

[Richard Tarleton]

Basil Lam, I think, said that although both Bach and Handel applied for the post of successor to Buxtehude they reconsidered when they realised that one of the conditions was marriage to his daughter.

"You'll reap the reward of your pluck, my boy, and a very nice girl you'll find her
She may very well pass for forty-three, in the dusk with the light behind her"
(Trial by Jury)