Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

'Walter, Walter, lead me to the altar'.

ah yes, nothing at all to do with Sally

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVRK0xxwgqw

[Norfolk Born]

It's still your X, (or Y, or Z or A), mercia - I just did a bit of tidying up.

[Angle]

Keep going Mercia. Well done. And the next letter is?

[mercia]

oh sorry Angle, didn't mean to deprive you of your well-earned ......

a Z please to connect

- a Viennese musical clock
- Pest + Buda X 50
- 50km due east of Bratislava
- Pavo types

[Tapiola]

Morning All,

A rare flash of inspiration (and an even rarer non-Google): Zoltan (Kodaly)?

The Viennese Musical Clock from Hary Janos;
Psalmus Hungaricus, written for 50th anniversary of the union of Buda and Pest;
Peacock Variations (Pavo);

Erm...

Was he born 50 miles east of Bratislava?

[mercia]

brilliant work Taps

the last one refers to another work

[Tapiola]

Dances of Galanta - 50 km east of Bratislava.

I take back my earlier comment about not having to Google...

[mercia]

a full-house

bravissimo

[Tapiola]

Great clues, mercia

[Tapiola]

Time for A:

What A links spaghetti, a work by Ligeti and a little star?

[Tapiola]

Time for A:

What A links spaghetti, a work by Ligeti and a little star?

Perhaps I should say that 2 of the clues are musical, and the answer is not.

[Angle]

ABCDEFG
HIJK
LMNOP
QRS
TUV
WX
Y and Z

ALFABETO is better known as ALPHABET spaghetti
One of Ligeti's Nonsense songs is "ALPHABET"
Our nursery ALPHABET song is to the tune of "Twinkle, twinkle, Little Star"

[Tapiola]

Go to the top of the class, young Angle. A+



Let's B havin' you...

[Tapiola]

Perhaps for the benefit of Caliban, rubbers and maybe one or two others, I should stipulate that Ligeti is the second greatest Hungarian composer ever to walk the earth

[Norfolk Born]

Perhaps for the benefit of Caliban, rubbers and maybe one or two others, I should stipulate that Ligeti is the second greatest Hungarian composer ever to walk the earth

Nice to know that Leo Weiner has deservedly regained the Number 1 spot. With Kodaly presumably at No. 3?