Alphabet associations - I

[Flay]

a certain well known Czech orchestral work was written for a 1920's gymnastics festival

Yes indeed....?

[hedgehog]

I don't mind setting a K mercia

So Janacek's Sinfonietta was used for a gymnastics festival - was it the same one for his Music for club-swinging exercises?

But I still don't see an obvious link with blade and crown, perhaps others can?

[subcontrabass]

I don't mind setting a K mercia

So Janacek's Sinfonietta was used for a gymnastics festival - was it the same one for his Music for club-swinging exercises?

But I still don't see an obvious link with blade and crown, perhaps others can?

I have found "blade" as in "Knife-Edge" and "crown" as in "Crown Court".

[Flay]

I have found "blade" as in "Knife-Edge" and "crown" as in "Crown Court".

Terribly sorry for the delay. Local area broadband has crashed so I have had to wait until I could get out to find a 3G signal. It's pretty poor around here

Yes Subby. ELP just about killed the Sinphonietta opening theme in their Knife Edge LP. Another theme was used in the series Crown Court.

Who wants to Kill the next letter?

[hedgehog]

Kill the next letter?

Here's a Knockout

A K to connect Arabian nights, 17 nectarines (or bottles of champagne) and a white donkey.

[Flay]

...a white donkey.

Ibert perhaps? That takes me back: Le petit âne blanc - all those daunting sharps.

[hedgehog]

Ibert perhaps? That takes me back: Le petit âne blanc - all those daunting sharps.

We're onto K, Flay so not Ibert.

Way in is Arabian nights, the other two probably have to be googled - the K is not a composer!

[mercia]

i don't know if "knockout" was an extra clue, but googling has found me a music venue in Safed (not sure where that is) called The Khan White Donkey - and I can think of a pugilist named Khan

????

[hedgehog]

i don't know if "knockout" was an extra clue, but googling has found me a music venue in Safed (not sure where that is) called The Khan White Donkey - and I can think of a pugilist named Khan

????

mercia ! You are way way off! No knock out was not a clue. Arabian nights....1001 nights.......to who?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Arabian nights....1001 nights.......to who?

Korsakoff????

[Flay]

We're onto K, Flay so not Ibert.

I didn't mean it as the answer... I was wondering if there was a connection, that's all.

1001 nights.......to who?

Rimsky, of Koursakov! (Ravel & Gustav Mahler - yeah, but don't forget Fats Waller... )

[hedgehog]

Korsakoff????

No the other one.

[Flay]

No the other one.

Oh, you mean Sarah Brightman's Harem and Arabian Nights?

[hedgehog]

Oh, you mean Sarah Brightman's Harem and Arabian Nights?

In your dreams

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

In your dreams

That's not a dream