Only Connect

[LMcD]

The second row is what you might call 'non-classical'.

[Boilk]

So my earlier consideration but dismissal of Leonard Cohen was premature?

[LMcD]

It was!

[Boilk]

[LMcD]

I don't think I ever said that everybody in my wall was a composer, although the great majority are...
A couple more clues:
Operas
RIP
(Did I mention that you've still to find the right Arthur?)

[LMcD]

George Michael is correct. He and Leonard Cohen and two others all .....?
Line 1 is correct. They all attended a music conservatory from a very young age: BB was 9, VB 9, GG 10 and LB 6.
Line 3 is correct. They all won the Prix de Rome for composition.
The 'telly music' is in line 4 and the 'departures' in line 2.

[Flay]

George Martin and David Bowie departed the Earth in 2016 with the others

[LMcD]

Correct - David Bowie, George Martin, George Michael and Leonard Cohen all died in 2016.
Which just leaves the operas composed for performance on TV by Bohuslav Martinu, Benjamin Britten and 2 other 'Brits' - Malcolm and Arthur.

[Flay]

Malcolm Arnold The Open Window
Arthur Bliss Tobias and the Angel

[LMcD]

[Flay]

I feel bad for swooping in at the last moment once most of the work has been done. This is like AA ony much more complex - certainly to set the puzzle. Well done!

[Boilk]

Thank you LMcD, some wide-ranging connections there.

[Boilk]

Here is new wall, already resolved. So what are the conections?

[LMcD]

Thank you to everyone who played along. I didn't want to make things TOO complicated - it's difficult to know precisely how to pitch these things.
For the record:
The first 4 all entered music conservatories aged 10 or younger.
The TV operas were:
Martinu - The Marriage OR What Men Live By
Arnold - The Open Window
Bliss - Tobias and the Angel
Britten - Owen Wingrave (which, according to Humphrey Carpenter, the composer HATED....)

[Flay]

Line D rings a bell

Liszt - La Cloche Sonne
Franck - Les Cloches du soir
Saxton - The Ring of Eternity
Wagner - ??? I'm flummoxed