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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Yes - The Jungle Book. Grainger and Koechlin were both fascinated by it and wrote music for it.

So - to collect what we've got so far:

Sturton, Respighi, Foerster, Godefroid (names containing consecutive letters of the alphabet)
Tabakova, Panufnik, Radigue, Alberga (women composers)
Grainger, Cakelin, Rosza, Bruns (the Kipling connection )

... which leaves:

Holmes, Varese, Magnard, Durey

... and I'm stuck.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Oh ... unless it's that they're all French?!

[Lat-Literal]

So - to collect what we've got so far:

Sturton, Respighi, Foerster, Godefroid (names containing consecutive letters of the alphabet)
Tabakova, Panufnik, Radigue, Alberga (women composers)
Grainger, Cakelin, Rosza, Brun (the Kipling connection )

... which leaves:

Holmes, Varese, Magnard, Durey

... and I'm stuck.

Oh ... unless it's that they're all French?!

Crumbs.

This is progress.

But "women composers" and "French composers" would each be a bit weak.

It is yes and yes but this is where - as I promised - I get tougher in asking for more specifics.

In the case of the last list, you might wish to trawl back to the Style Council.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I did look at "teachers", the fact that two were taught by Massenet looking promising: but another was "self-taught", and the remaining one at the Schola Cantorum, so ...

[Lat-Literal]

I did look at "teachers", the fact that two were taught by Massenet looking promising: but another was "self-taught", and the remaining one at the Schola Cantorum, so ...

No, no.....as for Chaka Khan, how was she tense in that clip?

(Post 61)

[Lat-Literal]

Jon Anderson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zosfub90uDI

Taking the other ones into account, we are just two music clues away from me giving the two answers to you.

Would you like them now?

[Lat-Literal]

So here courtesy of Sa Ding Ding is one "answer":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Z8gpoF4x8

And here Manu Chao provides a new lead into the other:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6qSBG7_OLM

…..and those are the last of the music clips.

[gradus]

I hope this is not too easy:
What links: Infallible London with a serious child, the Pfalz and biblical anonymity.

[Lat-Literal]

I am going to sign this off now:

Sturton, Respighi, Foerster, Godefroid (Composers with names containing three consecutive letters of the alphabet) (Boilk)
Grainger, Koechlin, Rosza, Bruns (Composers of music for/about The Jungle Book) (Ferney)
Tabakova, Panufnik, Radigue, Alberga (Living women composers, ie women composers who are currently alive)
Holmes, Varese, Magnard, Durey (Parisian composers; more specifically, composers born in Paris)

Other than the jungle music references, we had "I'm Every Woman". How is Chaka Khan tense? She is present tense - "I am" - and also as indicated in word based hints - in the here and now (see also Hear and Now). Sa Ding Ding - "Alive". Augusta Holmes is not alive. Nor does she seem by name to be especially French being of Irish heritage. (That, as with the Panufnik, was a part of the grid which was designed to be a small stumbling block). However, she like Varese, Magnard and Durey, was born in Paris. Style Council - "The Paris Match". That was the early clue which was put up last night. Jon Anderson - "Some Are Born". Manu Chao or Mano Negra for the name of the band - "Paris la Nuit". Those were this afternoon's. My wobble was on Radigue who I knew was born in 1932. I just wondered briefly if unknown to me and indeed to Google she had died in the last couple of months. She has not died.

[Boilk]

Thanks for the solution. With the Sa Ding Ding - "Alive" video, I thought it was a dead vs. alive composers thing. But the Jon Anderson Some Are Born was less clear (and that's a very fine song on a very fine album, although I prefer the sheer vision and trailblazing Prog exotica of his earlier Olias of Sunhillow).

Can put up another wall this evening ... but my brewing teabag beckons right now!

[Lat-Literal]

Thanks for the solution. With the Sa Ding Ding - "Alive" video, I thought it was a dead vs. alive composers thing. But the Jon Anderson Some Are Born was less clear (and that's a very fine song on a very fine album, although I prefer the sheer vision and trailblazing Prog exotica of his earlier Olias of Sunhillow).

Can put up another wall this evening ... but my brewing teabag beckons right now!

Yes - thank you. I deliberately didn't specify at the end which song alluded to which section as that seemed to be just too straightforward. I too am very fond of "Song of Seven". I have been since its release which is a little surprising given my tastes overall. Those are historically such that I have never listened to "Olias of Sunhillow". That is not to say I wouldn't like it.

I have now done an even easier one - mostly names that most people would recognise - but it is your turn.

[Boilk]

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

, we had "I'm Every Woman". How is Chaka Khan tense? She is present tense - "I am"

Ah! Very good.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I hope this is not too easy:
What links: Infallible London with a serious child, the Pfalz and biblical anonymity.

Just reminding ...

"the Pfalz" made me first think of "Wine", so wondered if Berg played a role in this?

[Lat-Literal]

Spring - Debussy, Bax, Dallapiccola, Lutoslawski

Printemps
Spring Fire
Four Poems by Machado - Spring Has Come/La primavera ha venido
Four Children's Songs - Spring

Same number of letters in first name as last name - Petrassi, 8, Gerhard, 7, Enescu, 6, Liszt, 5

Goffredo, 8, Roberto, 7, George, 6, Franz, 5.