Alphabet associations - I

Collapse
This topic is closed.
X
This is a sticky topic.
X
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
  • subcontrabass
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 2780

    Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
    It is. I have to correct my previous message: the work requested by a soprano features a soprano AND a clarinet.
    The hymn: "Rock of ages"
    Rachmaninoff: The Rock
    Schubert: The Shepherd on the Rock

    (further relevant details on all three in Wikipedia)

    Comment

    • Norfolk Born

      A delightful discovery when compiling the question was that 'Rock of Ages' is the work of a chap called (The Reverend) Toplady.
      Over to scb for an 'S'.

      Comment

      • subcontrabass
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 2780

        An S to link one English singer, sixteen British singers, and a lupine Italian.

        Comment

        • cloughie
          Full Member
          • Dec 2011
          • 21967

          Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
          An S to link one English singer, sixteen British singers, and a lupine Italian.
          A quick Serenade!

          Comment

          • subcontrabass
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 2780

            Originally posted by cloughie View Post
            A quick Serenade!
            Three minutes !!!!

            Details?

            Comment

            • cloughie
              Full Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 21967

              Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
              An S to link one English singer, sixteen British singers, and a lupine Italian.
              1 Singer Serenade Sewing machine
              2 RVW Serenade to music
              3 Wolf Italian Serenade.

              Comment

              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26330

                Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                A quick Serenade!
                Dammit I'd have got that if I'd looked a few minutes earlier!



                PS: just saw your workings, Brian: for 1. I'd have said the Britten 'Serenade' for tenor &c...
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

                Comment

                • subcontrabass
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 2780

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  Dammit I'd have got that if I'd looked a few minutes earlier!



                  PS: just saw your workings, Brian: for 1. I'd have said the Britten 'Serenade' for tenor &c...
                  And you would have been correct.

                  Tea time for cloughie, I think.

                  Comment

                  • Norfolk Born

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    Dammit I'd have got that if I'd looked a few minutes earlier!


                    PS: just saw your workings, Brian: for 1. I'd have said the Britten 'Serenade' for tenor &c...
                    You'll have to watch the old blood pressure, my friend. Remember, you're a year older now!

                    Comment

                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26330

                      Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                      You'll have to watch the old blood pressure, my friend. Remember, you're a year older now!
                      Only 'avin' a larff!!

                      But I don't know, it's old Cloughie - I feel like Don Revie when he's around!
                      "...the isle is full of noises,
                      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

                      Comment

                      • cloughie
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2011
                        • 21967

                        Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                        And you would have been correct.

                        Tea time for cloughie, I think.
                        'fraid I'll be out all afternoon doing a bit of singing. Will someone else provide the T please? Perhaps cali as he would have got the S!

                        Comment

                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26330

                          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                          'fraid I'll be out all afternoon doing a bit of singing. Will someone else provide the T please? Perhaps cali as he would have got the S!
                          Happy to, cloughie! (Having been brought up in Nottingham in the 60s and 70s, you'll understand the potency of your pseudonym!! Why did you choose it? Were / are you a fan?)

                          And what are you singing, out of curiosity?
                          "...the isle is full of noises,
                          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

                          Comment

                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26330

                            So then...

                            A T connects Haydn, Elgar and Rimsky-Korsakov... But the Haydn and the Elgar in question are not the gentlemen you first thought of.

                            "...the isle is full of noises,
                            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

                            Comment

                            • subcontrabass
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 2780

                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              So then...

                              A T connects Haydn, Elgar and Rimsky-Korsakov... But the Haydn and the Elgar in question are not the gentlemen you first thought of.

                              None of them played the trombone.

                              Comment

                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26330

                                Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                                None of them played the trombone.
                                But... ?????

                                Go on, scb, troll in: don't be cryptic!
                                "...the isle is full of noises,
                                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

                                Comment

                                Working...
                                X