Alphabet Associations - III

[LMcD]

Jaqueline du Pre is the musician who died from disease, and the other musician died at the age of 41. Progress, but that's your lot for now.

Kirsty MacColl > cello solo in Fairy Tale of New York?

[crb11]

Kirsty MacColl is also correct, but you're looking for a different C for the connection.

[LMcD]

Kirsty MacColl is also correct, but you're looking for a different C for the connection.

Jaqueline du Pre and Kirsty MacColl both went to school in Croydon.
Fairfield Hall/Jascha Horenstein in July 1970 for the Mahler?

[crb11]

Bingo! Well done. (I also went to school in Croydon and played in the Fairfield Halls a few times.)

[LMcD]

Bingo! Well done. (I also went to school in Croydon and played in the Fairfield Halls a few times.)

We used to live in Coulson, and have happy memories of classical and non-classical musical events at the Fairfield Hall.

Here's my 'D'

Musical nobility from Richmond, Christchurch and Hatfield.

[vinteuil]

Musical nobility from Richmond, Christchurch and Hatfield.

... just to confirm : Christchurch not Christ Church?

[crb11]

Dame Janet Baker was born in Hatfield (Yorkshire) which feels like a useful lead, but I can't find either of the other two if so.

[AuntDaisy]

Dame Janet Baker was born in Hatfield (Yorkshire) which feels like a useful lead, but I can't find either of the other two if so.

A possible peach of an answer...
Dame Nellie M was born in Richmond, Victoria.

[vinteuil]

... and Dame Joan Hammond was born in Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand

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[LMcD]

... and Dame Joan Hammond was born in Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand

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Well done - a three-way tie.
Over to ... well, you choose!

[vinteuil]

Well done - a three-way tie.
Over to ... well, you choose!

... if no one else is jumping, I think I can rustle up an E later today?

Incidentally, a small pedantic reproach to the clue-setter here : I don't think a 'damehood' or 'knighthood' confers nobility - the 'nobility' (if such a set still exists) is surely restricted to the peerage - your barons, viscounts, earls, marquesses, and other dooks and dutchesses...

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[LMcD]

... if no one else is jumping, I think I can rustle up an E later today?

Incidentally, a small pedantic reproach to the clue-setter here : I don't think a 'damehood' or 'knighthood' confers nobility - the 'nobility' (if such a set still exists) is surely restricted to the peerage - your barons, viscounts, earls, marquesses, and other dooks and dutchesses...

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I double-checked to confirm that the ladies concerned had been ennobled.

[vinteuil]

I double-checked to confirm that the ladies concerned had been ennobled.

... well, they are Dames - but none of them I think are peeresses? So to that extent, they have been honoured, but not ennobled

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