Alphabet associations - I

[Anna]

Stuck. Silk hankerchiefs, seems women fought over Liszt's discarded ones .... Roman Carnival, too many composers to mention (or, is it related to a dance?), Blind Man's Bluff, Maxwell-Davies and Bizet. Is this another Cornish conundrum? Stuck. Fast.

[mercia]

sorry, didn't realise anyone was trying to answer it

the handkerchief belongs to a queen

'fraid The Carnival in Rome, The Queen's Lace Handkerchief and Blind Man's Buff all need translating into German

[Nick Armstrong]

sorry, didn't realise anyone was trying to answer it

There's probably dozens of us, chipping away silently.

I think I had a breakthrough, even before you put your last few words up:

Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15, No. 3 "Hasche-Mann" - the third 'Scene from Childhood' is commonly translated as 'Blind Man's Buff'...

PS Is there a song about silk handkerchiefs? And what about 'Carnaval' re the Roman Carnival??

Anyway I have found what could be the theme song of the AA thread:

R Schumann's "To Anna" (Liebes Mädchen! sahst du nicht)...!!!!

[mercia]

Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15, No. 3 "Hasche-Mann" - the third 'Scene from Childhood' is commonly translated as 'Blind Man's Buff'...

a-ha! - that's very interesting

not the composer [or the translation] that's on the card unfortunately, but at least it eliminates one

[Flay]

There's probably dozens of us, chipping away silently.

I think I had a breakthrough, even before you put your last few words up:

Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15, No. 3 "Hasche-Mann" - the third 'Scene from Childhood' is commonly translated as 'Blind Man's Buff'...

And one who has just jumped in here for a quick swim - like our Herr Schumann who offered a silk handkerchief (as he had no money in his dressing gown pocket) to the toll collector on a Rhine bridge on 27th February, 1854, just before throwing himself into the "icy torrent," to be hauled out by fishermen.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=y...humann&f=false

But Flay finds himself all at sea when he views mercia's reply

[Nick Armstrong]

a-ha! - that's very interesting

not the composer [or the translation] that's on the card unfortunately, but at least it eliminates one

Arghghghghghghghghghgh!!!!

[mercia]

an S whose career featured a silk handkerchief, a Roman carnival and blind man's buff

the career also featured a bat

[Anna]

Whoops, I thought it was a cloughie puzzle! Apologies mercia. So, possibly Strauss, not Schumann then? Forgive me if I bow out, I have no German ....

[mercia]

So, possibly Strauss

indeed, a Strauss

[vinteuil]

... sometimes, when I ponder on the denizens of the AA thread I am with Shakespeare -

"O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't! "

And sometimes I am with TS Eliot :

"I had not thought death had undone so many"

[ ... si lunga tratta
di gente, ch' io non averei creduto
che morte tanta n' avesse disfatta."
Inferno III, 55-57. ] ]

[mercia]

indeed, a Strauss

oops, forgot the details


Johann Strauss operettas

Der Karneval in Rom, Blindekuh and Das Spitzentuch der Konigin

rather obscure [like Reznicek symphonies ?]

[Flay]

Das Spitzentuch

What a horrible word! Hawkishly onomatopoeic

[Anna]

What a horrible word! Hawkishly onomatopoeic

Does that not translate into something like cloth you spit into? Not sure, also not sure why mercia has given away the answer!!! Thank the Lord Kleenex was invented!

[Nick Armstrong]

rather obscure [like Reznicek symphonies ?]

[Nick Armstrong]

Not sure, also not sure why mercia has given away the answer!!!

He didn't ! You got it! Come on, Anna! Please make the T !!