Alphabet associations - I

[Tapiola]

So far clueless on your "C", Angle

Caliban, what has happened to your avatar? And WHY is he smiling? Shurely shome mishtake.

You saw it here first folks: Shostakovich smiles!!

[Tapiola]

one for higher education
one for countryfolk
one for the godless, perhaps

Each is a piece of music

Who? What? C?

Is it Cantata?

Cantata for 450th Anniversary of Uppsala University (Alfven) [thanks Google]
Peasant Cantata (Bach)
Cantata Profana (Bartok)

[Nick Armstrong]

So far clueless on your "C", Angle

Caliban, what has happened to your avatar? And WHY is he smiling? Shurely shome mishtake.

You saw it here first folks: Shostakovich smiles!!

YES! That's why I changed avatars, it's such a remarkable pic! I think there may be shome truth in your spelling - I think he might be a bit pi**ed... But it's so good to see the lopsided smile

(I think you're on to something with Cantata... it had me stumped...)

[Tapiola]

It certainly is a great picture. And I agree that he looks as if quantities have been taken.

[Nick Armstrong]

It certainly is a great picture. And I agree that he looks as if quantities have been taken.

It's the backward tilt of the hat, I think - apart from the grin...

[Angle]

Good morning, Caliban, though I hardly recognised you. Do these changes occur in cycles?

Well, you were right about Cantata but not about Alfven.

One was written and performed for the 500th Anniversary of Basle University and was by a composer someone much better known than Alfven. It also bore a suitably scholastic title.

[Tapiola]

Aah... Britten's Cantata Academica?

[Tapiola]

It's the backward tilt of the hat, I think - apart from the grin...

The more I look at this picture, the funnier it becomes. It's like one of those drunken photos one takes of oneself and then uploads to Facebook. I say "one" as I am an opter-outer of social networking sites (the product of a degenerate society)

[Tapiola]

May I be preumptious and offer a D?

Something, nothing and untitled. Three works by the same D.

[Angle]

You completed the solution, Tapiola but Caliban got two out of the three. Don't want to be a spoil-sport between you and he so it's really up to the pair of you to decide who sets D.

Oh, you've set it

Now. let me think.

[Tapiola]

Caliban got two out of the three.

Did he? Have I gone mad?

[Angle]

No, he didn't.

I do apologise, Tapiola.

It's all the product of this changing identity and getting up too early.

Sorry about that.

I prostrate myself in a state of abjection, miserable and wretched.

My congratulations are for you and you alone.

[Nick Armstrong]

Did he? Have I gone mad?

It's true, Taps and I now have monochrome avatars of similar dimensions... But Dmitri Dmitrievich didn't sport whiskers like old Ibsen

Apologies for passing confusion. The DSCH pic is just too good not to use!

[Tapiola]

I prostrate myself in a state of abjection, miserable and wretched.

Arise my child.

Thanks for the clarification though, Angle. I briefly thought I had missed a trick thanks to mild alcohol poisoning last night (too much of the Campari. And hefe-weisse. This also explains the maudlin message regarding Dire Straits )

[Tapiola]

It's true, Taps and I now have monochrome avatars of similar dimensions... But Dmitri Dmitrievich didn't sport whiskers like old Ibsen

Apologies for passing confusion. The DSCH pic is just too good not to use!

Yes, the basic similarity is quite apparent. Perhaps I should change mine...