Best composer anagram, ever
mainI was chatting to the composer Helmut Lachenmann, prior to our gig on Sunday night, and in the course of discussing his impressions of Pierre Boulez he came up with the best anagram I have heard for any leading composer:
Pierre Boulez = Berlioz Puree
One reason this is so telling is that Boulez is very fond of using food metaphors. Maybe because he is one.
Whatever, feel free to contribute your own composer anagram in the space below.
Here’s a few more to get you thinking:
Seduce Busy Lad (easy)
Bach Snored Longer (cool)
A nominal oboist (oblique)
Plan a Coda, Ron (painful)
Halmut’s Grave (yeah, he couldn’t spell Helmut)
Late extra:
This just in from Thomas Z Shepard): Sondheim = hedonism
Camille Saint Saens = A Satanic Illness Me
Not an anagram, but I did hear a concert announcement on the radio featuring Morton Subtonic.
Norman- Richard Rodney Bennett and I have about 30 amagrams of composer names. The key is they should all sound plausible and not random words which nobody would ever be called. So- RRB is Edna Trident Hornbryce!
Go on – do some,
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1)Claude Debussy-though it would have been more appropriate had it been James Levine or Leonard Bernstein.
Bach Snored Longer = Arnold Schoenberg
Charles Ives = He’s visceral
In the non-anagram category is the famous Beethoven Symphony No. 3, Erotica. I also saw an announcement for Prokof’ev’s op. 37 as The Flaming Opera.
Anagrams are good. More, please . . .
Raving Sky Riots
Andrew Lloyd Webber -best I can come up with is:
Warbler Beyond Lewd
The other one, not in the category, is Franz Welser Moest, who was ‘affectionately’ refered to as: Frankly worst than most
Elgar also enjoyed a glass of lager and had a nasty glare.
Edward Elgar OM = Large Dead Worm
Edward Elgar KCVO = Ravaged old wreck (sorry!)
Sir Michael Tippett: The artistic pimple