Alphabet associations

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Cheers Vinty!

Forget football, are we talking about Loughran?

... err, "Good for a bet"?

[mercia]

"Good for a bet"?

Angus Loughran ?? - "sports pundit"
wikipedia says Angus is the son of James - is that correct ??

[cloughie]

Angus Loughran ?? - "sports pundit"
wikipedia says Angus is the son of James - is that correct ??

OK so in full 1 2 3

[mercia]

i wouldn't have got Angus without the "grafting" of others
great question

[cloughie]

i wouldn't have got Angus without the "grafting" of others
great question

We've go Ferney getting Loughran, Merc getting Angus (aka Statto), can we have a tidy up of the other clues please?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Well, thanks to Vinty, I got the pun "loch ran" (for the celtic water), mercs got Angus (of whom I'd previously never) for the Bet.
I presumed everything led to James, the principal conductor of the Hallé. But that was in the '70s, not the "late '60s", so I'm stumped at the Sheffield reference.

[Tapiola]

Welcome back, Taps

Have you had a chance to read Elizabeth Wilson's Shostakovich book? I got a very positive impression of her from the recent Rostropovich documentary on telly & I've been thinking about getting her book ever since. She was a witness to some extraordinary times and people

Cheers, ams

Regrettably I have not delved even superficially into this book as yet. I received it on Tuesday, quite out of the blue. Being a shallow type, I immediately went for the photographs and have skimmed the index and its extensive list of personalia - a cast o' thousands! The book does indeed seem to have been very well received.

[cloughie]

Well, thanks to Vinty, I got the pun "loch ran" (for the celtic water), mercs got Angus (of whom I'd previously never) for the Bet.
I presumed everything led to James, the principal conductor of the Hallé. But that was in the '70s, not the "late '60s", so I'm stumped at the Sheffield reference.

All correct. My memory and the dates may have misled you, but not drastically. Loughran was HO conductor from 1970 or so but before did conduct the orchestra - The Sheffield Philharmonic Concerts had the Halle as its resident orch for many years. I actually first saw JL at Sheffield conducting the Munich Phil deputising for Kempe - His Brahms 1 was a cracker! The other interesting competitor for the Halle post Barbirolli was Arvid Jansons (his son seems to have done not too badly with the baton) whom I was lucky enough to see conducting the Leningrad Phil at Sheffield.

Seems combined AA brains go there. We need a M please - toss the dice and decide whom!

[Caliban]

Arvid Jansons (his son seems to have done not too badly with the baton) whom I was lucky enough to see conducting the Leningrad Phil at Sheffield

I was lucky enough to see that combination in Leningrad when I was there in December 1982. Unforgettable. Rachmaninov's 2nd Symphony then, what were they playing when you saw them?

[cloughie]

I was lucky enough to see that combination in Leningrad when I was there in December 1982. Unforgettable. Rachmaninov's 2nd Symphony then, what were they playing when you saw them?

Tchaik 4 - one of my favourite symphonies (as is indeed Rach 2) - a good edge of seats rapid finale.