This is the ninth thread of the European Crossword Travel/Geography/Culture game. It is a continuation of this thread:

http://www.fodors.com/forums/pgMessa...p;tid=34524664

Here are the rules of the game (for new comers) [I've just pasted the rules from the start of the previous thread.]:
1) Whoever guesses the word correctly gets to build on THAT word to make the new word. In cases of multiple correct answers, whoever posts first is the winner and gets to choose the next word.

2) Make sure all the words are travel related somehow. Your word could be a person, a place, an event, an object.

3) State what letter you're building on from the previous word.

4) State the position of that letter in your new word.

5) State how many letters in the new word.

6) Give us a good clue!

7) Again, all words should be travel-related.

yk will give us the next clue.

I guess I'm up next.

This piece of organ music (3 words: 10,2,7) with an American theme was written by this American composer (7,4). It was later rearranged by another composer to become an orchestral piece.
Anyhow, the music piece in question was most likely inspired/influenced by this German composer (last name 5) who composed an organ piece based on the British anthem.

Name:
Organ music piece (3 words: 10,2,7; with "a" as 1st letter of last word)
American composer (7,4; "a" 3rd letter of first name)
German composer (last name 5)

Hopefully this isn't too difficult. I will be heading out of town later today for the weekend, and without internet access (gasp!). I'll try to check in the thread if I can find an internet cafe, but hope one of you will figure it out. Just carry on without my confirmation!

I did look at it but I don't have any obvious ideas. I may have to give this thread a rest with the trip planning -- and my bosses have been asking me "What're you working on lately?" I don't think that I can tell them about the Fodor's European game thread.

Enjoy your break. Where're you going?

Oh, maybe I do have a guess. I think the American composer is Charles Ives.

Ok, a Google search did the rest.

Variations on America and Rinck.

http://www.loudounsymphony.org/notes/ives-america

I'm not that familiar with Ives or his music, but did know that he had a career as an insurance agent (?). Bernstein also gave a series of lectures called "The Unanswered Question," which is the title of an Ives piece.

If no one gets this, I may just let it sit for a few days. Or feel free to replace it with something else.

Clue: This film (4 words (English), 4, 4, 2, 9) is regarded as somewhat groundbreaking. There's not much a plot, which consists basically of three characters arguing and interacting with one another. The three characters have no "official" names. They're customarily identified by three letters. Give the three letters (one letter for each character).

The director (5, 7) also directed another film (3 words, 9, 3, 5). I believe that it was in turn based on a novel by this rather famous novelist (10, 5). But if not, she at least collaborated on the screenplay. (Hint: Another novel of hers was turned into a movie in the 1990s.)

1. Film (4 words, 2nd letter of 1st word = "a&quot
2. The three characters (three letters)
3. The director
4. Film #2
5. The novelist

I did mean to offer a hint on Film #2, but I forgot. It alludes to a couple of cataclysmic events (both within the plot and in the title).

Just checking in. Looks like you (111op) figured out the answers to my clue.

I'm back in Philadelphia for the weekend.

Well, have lots of fun. You can think about this clue if you've nothing else better to do.

I didn't know that Ives had a connection with the organ at all. Pretty interesting.

Last Year at Marienbad directed by Alain Resnais and eminently forgettable.

I don'tknow the other answers,but I'l see whatI can do.

Harzer

Script by Alain Robbe-Grillet.

The characters are X,M and A.

harzer

Hiroshima mon Amour.

harzer

Marguerite Dumas

harzer

Yes! But one minor thing, it's Duras.

You get the next clue, harzer, and I need to get back to planning the first part of my trip.

I didn't get that movie at all, frankly, but found this review by Ebert very amusing (it's a link from imdb.com):

http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_...arien1118.html

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This part is especially funny:

``I'll explain it all for you,'' promised Gunther Marx, a professor of German at the U. of I. We were sitting over coffee in the student union, late on that rainy night in Urbana. (He would die young; his son Frederick would be one of the makers of ``Hoop Dreams.'') ``It is a working out of the anthropological archetypes of Claude Levi-Strauss. You have the lover, the loved one and the authority figure. The movie proposes that the lovers had an affair, that they didn't, that they met before, that they didn't, that the authority figure knew it, that he didn't, that he killed her, that he didn't. Any questions?''

By the way, the other Duras novel turned into a movie is supposedly partly autobiographical -- it's "The Lover."

As far as "Hiroshima Mon Amour" is concerned, it's supposedly very good in terms of learning French -- the dialogue occasionally consists of repeatedly the same sentences in basically the past, present and future tenses.

This town (4,3) is known locally as "Srpska Atina".

It was heavily bombed by NATO in the Kosovo War of 1999.

You are to tell me what you would find here at 21, Suboticka St: two words, 9,10 with the second letter of the first word intersecting with the fourth of Duras.

Harzer

The town= Novi Sad

Re what's at that specific address, I have to partly guess because Google didn't come up with any info in any language that i can read. How about Gambrinus Restaurant?

I'm pretty sure about Novi Sad, and I know there's a Gambrinus at that address, but I'm not sure about "restaurant." However, if I don't post a new clue on the weekend, it may be a long time before I can. So here's a new puzzle for someone to solve. (If it turns out my answer was partly wrong, you'll end up having two puzzles to solve, maybe.)

Three clues:

(1) Vikings conquered and settled in this Roman province and, by agreement reached in the early 10th century, were allowed to keep it. 8 letters; 7th is the "i" from Novi.

(2) A replica of a sculpture by this sculptor honors one of their rulers. Letters: 6 and 9. The "n" from Novi is the 5th letter of the sculptor's first name, and the "i" from Gambrinus is the 7th letter of the last name.

(3) The sculpture is in this city. 5 letters. The last letter of this city is the same as the first letter of the province that is the answer to clue #1.

Well done cmt!

Novi Sad and Gambrinus restaurant are correct.

I am trying to figure out your next quaestion and tentatively suggest Hibernia as the former Roman province. But I can't come up with a town ending in 'h' other than Armagh, which has too many letters.

Harzer