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[LMcD]

I'm not sure what 'reconnections' are, but never mind! I did admittedly start at something of a disadvantage, I suppose, in that 7 of the 16 names were completely unknown to me....

[Lat-Literal]

I'm not sure what 'reconnections' are, but never mind! I did admittedly start at something of a disadvantage, I suppose, in that 7 of the 16 names were completely unknown to me....

Sorry - I meant connections. That has now been changed. The percentage of names unknown to you must surely have fallen since the first four were solved although you will be aware of Respighi. As I explained, those four didn't all need to be known as the answer wasn't musical. Have you been able to look at the three music hints above for the remaining 12? One was Chaka Khan singing "I'm Every Woman". You might find it useful to begin by determining how many of the remaining 12 are or were not men. I would be happy to say yes or no to that answer. You might also wish to decide how many of the remaining 12 are or were French. I would be happy to say yes or no to that answer. This in no ways gives you the answer.

Speaking of separating the Tarzans from the Janes, and the knowns from the unknowns, I knew that I would be forced into uttering the following sentence sometime in my life.

Here's something from Phil Collins:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc3MnoSS5Hw

Good luck!

[Lat-Literal]

Oh dear.

Well, let's put it this way.

Seven of the names are male and five of the names are female.

As far as I am aware, six of the names are of French people.

[Boilk]

Tabakova, Radigue and (Roxanna) Panufnik are female composers who have featured on Hear and Now in the last 3 or 4 years. Eleanor Alberga featured on Woman’s Hour on R4. So if it’s BBC radio-specific it works, but not if it’s H&N specific. So I'm getting warm but probably wrong.

A bonus point to Lat-Literal for the red herring of Panufnik!

[Lat-Literal]

Tabakova, Radigue and (Roxanna) Panufnik are female composers who have featured on Hear and Now in the last 3 or 4 years. Eleanor Alberga featured on Woman’s Hour on R4. So if it’s BBC radio-specific it works, but not if it’s H&N specific. So I'm getting warm but probably wrong.

It isn't radio specific but you do have the right four.

Given that there was a Panufnik senior, yes, that name was there as a point to confuse.

Do you know who the fifth female is?

Then, what might distinguish the four you have listed from her?

You have actually given yourself a big clue in a part of your post.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Do you know who the fifth female is?

Elementary my dear ... ? (Although a couple of months late, perhaps?)

[Lat-Literal]

Top of the Pops - 1976:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMYo4KTzFi4

[Lat-Literal]

Elementary my dear ... ? (Although a couple of months late, perhaps?)

Yes, elementary, you have it, but I'm worried about the latter part of your statement.

Have I bungled it?

I usually do.

(If it turns out to mean what I think it does, pretend I set the board in early summer which, of course, I might have done)

…..ferney, would you like to enlighten us on your thinking? - I'm on tenterhooks now.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Well - a couple of months ago was ...

(But I was being flippant, and not at all ... )

[Lat-Literal]

Well - a couple of months ago was ...

(But I was being flippant, and not at all ... )

That was not quite what I had hoped for.

If it is wrong, blame b----y Google.

But it might not be wrong.

I need to know as in need to know.

This sort of situation if left unaddressed - and I can't help it - tends to bring a new Brexit thread on.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Well, all I meant was that "the fifth female" you referred to in #71 was/might be Augusta Holmes.

[Lat-Literal]

Well, all I meant was that "the fifth female" you referred to in #71 was/might be Augusta Holmes.

That is correct and I knew you knew given that word "elementary".

It wasn't sheer luck, Sherlock.

So we are now back to the question I asked of Boilk but with a name.

What distinguishes the four composers Boilk listed from Augusta Holmes?

I'm still worried about your reference to two months late which I don't understand.

But if it refers to what I sense it might refer to then I would have to tweak the answer slightly - but only slightly.

[Lat-Literal]

Perhaps I ought to provide the answer - Boilk has the names so it is there really - and then we can discuss any error soonest?

No, actually, I have double checked it here and now - I still think I am right and it is all ok; I'm just jittery around the edges.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

We're in Octoba, Lats - two months ago was Augusta!

Rosza, Koechlin, Grainger, and Brun all wrote Music associated with The Jungle Book.

[Lat-Literal]

We're in Octoba, Lats - two months ago was Augusta!

Rosza, Koechlin, Grainger, and Brun all wrote Music associated with The Jungle Book.

Oh, I geddit now.

Excellent.

My board is as robust as I had hoped.

Yes - The Jungle Book. Grainger and Koechlin were both fascinated by it and each wrote music for it. I do have both in my collection. My feeling is that anyone who knows the composers only reasonably well would/should know. Rosza and Bruns - not Brun - wrote the music for the film adaptations; one in the early 1940s and the other in the 1960s.

So these are "Jungle Book composers".

The clips from Elton John (The Lion King), Phil Collins (Tarzan) and Hank Mizell (Jungle Rock - Top of the Pops) all alluded to this section.

We now have two completed lines : the other being "Composers with names including three alphabetically consecutive letters."