Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Have fun, folks. Off to the Wigmore with inter alia the godson for a concert given by the chap who'll be teaching him violin at his new school in September.

Chausson's 'Concert for violin, piano and string quartet' - love it!

[rubbernecker]

Over to rubbernecker for K: Good luck, r.

So the answer was Jones, Jones and Jonas? Hmmm... not sure how to record that in the archives

[Nick Armstrong]

So the answer was Jones, Jones and Jonas? Hmmm... not sure how to record that in the archives

Maybe as "Welsh solicitors" ?

Must go...!

[rubbernecker]

Actually, blacked out windows is a bit Naff, is it not? How does that go down in Wales?

It is a bit naff, Anna, but that's what the previous owner specced. I've had it almost a year now and the valley boys have yet to have their way with it, so looking good so far. Peep peep!

[Angle]

Try indexing as Jon*s

[rubbernecker]

Which K, born in St Petersburg, married a famous soprano, and commissioned, inter alia, portraits of a President, an author and a journalist?

[mercia]

Andre Kostelanetz
second husband of Lily Pons
commissioned Copland's Lincoln Portrait
Kern's Portrait of Mark Twain
Virgil Thomson's portrait of Dorothy Thompson

[rubbernecker]

Andre Kostelanetz
second husband of Lily Pons
commisioned Copland's Lincoln Portrait
Kern's Portrait of Mark Twain
Virgil Thomson's portrait of Dorothy Thompson

I knew I'd be able to lure you back, Mercia

Well done

Give us L

[Angle]

Excellent, mercia. You popped up out of nowhere to take that one t


L?

[mercia]

lured back to the honeypot
or like a magnet unable to resist

L

- a cantata for a Northampton church
- a choral setting for 3-year-old Simon
- Ethiopian Rag

[Angle]

LAMB

a) Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb, 1943, written for the fiftieth anniversary of the consecration of St Matthew's Church, Northampton.
b) The Lamb by John Taverner, written for his nephew, Simon, on his third birthday in 1982
c) Ethiopian Rag by Joseph Francis Lamb

[mercia]

very comprehensive and neat, too easy for you

what's your angle on M?

[rubbernecker]

They're toppling like ninepins, tonight. Perhaps time to savour a more cryptic M, Don?

[rubbernecker]

b) The Lamb by John Taverner,

Not that I'm picky, but that John is actually spelt Tavener

[Angle]

Quite right, rubbernecker. I always get him wrong.

M soon, I hope