Six Degrees of Separation

[MrGongGong]

If anyone's met [1]Alexander Goehr (whose father, [2]Walter, was a pupil of [3]Schoenberg, who was a friend of [4]Mahler, who was taught by [5]Bruckner, who was taught by [6]Simon Sechter, who also taught [7]Schubert, who carried the coffin of [8]Beethoven, who knew [9a]Haydn and [9b]Mozart, who was taught by [10]JC Bach) then they can "separate by eleven degrees" themselves from Johann Sebastian Bach.

And why stop there? Buxtehude, Tunder, Frescobaldi, Luzzaschi, De Rore ...

Now you come to mention it ...... yes
(not really a name dropping contest !) but
Adam Birtwistle and I beat Michael Tippet and friend at croquet once
and so on .............

[Nick Armstrong]

If anyone's met [1]Alexander Goehr (whose father, [2]Walter, was a pupil of [3]Schoenberg, who was a friend of [4]Mahler, who was taught by [5]Bruckner, who was taught by [6]Simon Sechter, who also taught [7]Schubert, who carried the coffin of [8]Beethoven, who knew [9a]Haydn and [9b]Mozart, who was taught by [10]JC Bach) then they can "separate by eleven degrees" themselves from Johann Sebastian Bach.

[Petrushka]

Well now,I once said hello to Michael Kennedy.

As did I, Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 1977.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Now you come to mention it ...... yes
(not really a name dropping contest !) but
Adam Birtwistle and I beat Michael Tippet and friend at croquet once
and so on .............

sals can use the Beecham - Strauss - Mahler branch line, too! This could be the Forum's answer to "Mornington Crescent"!

[Nick Armstrong]

sals can use the Beecham - Strauss - Mahler branch line, too! This could be the Forum's answer to "Mornington Crescent"!

I was thinking the same thing !!!

[MrGongGong]

sals can use the Beecham - Strauss - Mahler branch line, too! This could be the Forum's answer to "Mornington Crescent"!

or even this ?

Mahler to Afrika Bambaataa via La Monte Young

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2006/02/02/underground5.pdf

[Richard Tarleton]

I'm delighted this has taken off as it has, great stuff Petrushka. On the "truly evil" front, I can only get to Hitler (and Himmler ) in 4 - my wife and I spent a day on a large private estate in central Spain (we were birdwatching, not shooting) - our host was a friend of the King and Queen (photos of them together on the wall of the trophy room); Juan Carlos was groomed for the succession by Franco, who of course met Hitler (and welcomed Himmler to Madrid). I thought it highly likely our host had met Franco but was too polite (and enjoying the day too much) to ask.

[MrGongGong]

Surely a "fast track" to evil is winning the ballot for Bayreuth tickets ?


(THAT'S A JOKE , by the way )

[teamsaint]

I hope the regulars on The Choir see this, because there is a fund of good stories and connections there. I seem to remember something recently where one of them knew a choir member of a very great age, who was only one step away from an organist who was born in the eighteenth century. Or something !

[salymap]

I've just remembered Hans Hubert Schonzeler, who worked at the hire library briefly when he first came to Britain with Raphael Kubelik from Australia, Ibelieve. Isn't RK a link with some Czech musicians ?

[Petrushka]

I've just remembered Hans Hubert Schonzeler, who worked at the hire library briefly when he first came to Britain with Raphael Kubelik from Australia, Ibelieve. Isn't RK a link with some Czech musicians ?

Indeed so, via his father, Jan Kubelik

[Serial_Apologist]

I once met Tony Benn - who must have known Attlee. Daryl Runswick the composer is an acquaintance - one of the only people I can think of who has worked with Luciano Berio, John Cage, and Ornette Coleman!

Are relations permitted? William Wordsworth, Arnold Bax and Herbert Howells - all related in one way or another to Yours Truly's family tree.

[Richard Tarleton]

I've just remembered Hans Hubert Schonzeler

And author of a book on Bruckner which I was given for my birthday in 1971....

[Petrushka]

I once met Tony Benn - who must have known Attlee. Daryl Runswick the composer is an acquaintance - one of the only people I can think of who has worked with Luciano Berio, John Cage, and Ornette Coleman!

Are relations permitted? William Wordsworth, Arnold Bax and Herbert Howells - all related in one way or another to Yours Truly's family tree.

I met Tony Benn once. He actually served in the same RAF squadron as my father, though later so they never met. My maternal grandfather knew many of the key figures in the post 1945 Labour and TUC movements due to his work as a union official.

[EdgeleyRob]

Don'tforget your paper link with RVW will you?

Of course Saly,does that count?.

I have a sample of RVW's handwriting thanks to the kindness of a couple of members of this very forum.