Alphabet associations - I

[cloughie]

A "Wiki-Quickie":

This C composed Sonatas (including Pyramids and Stars) and Preludes and Fugues, but didn't write them. They're quite well-known, but nobody's ever played them.

Anything to do with M.K.Ciurlionis.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Anything to do with M.K.Ciurlionis.

Absolutely everything!

[Norfolk Born]

Wonder what the programme is.

Clementi Sonata in E Flat Op. 14 no. 3
Debussy Petite Suite
Moszkowski Cortège et Gavotte
Mozart 5 Variations in G K501
Ravel 'Mother Goose' Suite
Richard Rodney Bennett Suite for Skip and Sadie (his cats)
It was a lovey programme beautifully played by Christine Whiffen and John Stafford

[Norfolk Born]

Anything to do with M.K.Ciurlionis.

As this question also appears to embody the correct answer (#15767), I assume we now await a 'D' from cloughie...

[cloughie]

As this question also appears to embody the correct answer (#15767), I assume we now await a 'D' from cloughie...

Would have shouted early but been out all evening - Choir concert.

Your shout Norfy, Ferney was only filling in for you, and after my last one you deserve a rest from me.
Your piano duet recital looked really good, don't know the RRB but I usually like his stuff, and the Debussy, Ravel and Mozart would grace any programme!

[Norfolk Born]

Thanks, cloughie. I'll work on a 'D'...

[Norfolk Born]

Which 'D' links a 1762 opera, a 1946 Oscar-winning film and a 1968 UK chart-topper?

[cloughie]

Which 'D' links a 1762 opera, a 1946 Oscar-winning film and a 1968 UK chart-topper?

Duel?

1762 Giovanni Paisiello: Il duello comico
1946 Duel in the sun
1968 The Story of Bonnie and Clyde with Lester Flatt and the Foggy Mountain ... Dueling Banjos

[Norfolk Born]

Paisiello's 'Il duello' premiered in 1774, and a reworked version entitled 'Il Duello Comico' was first produced in 1782.
'Duel In the Sun' was nominated for 2 Oscars, but won none.
I think you'll find that the duelling banjos feature in 'Deliverance'.

[cloughie]

Dance

1762 Dance of the Blessed Spirits
1946 Apache Dance from Razor's Edge
1968 Dance to the Music - not sure as this was not a chart-topper, peaking at #8

[Norfolk Born]

No dancing is involved.
The opera is English.

[mercia]

a 1762 opera

by Thomas Arne ??

[cloughie]

No dancing is involved.
The opera is English.

Is Arne the compser?

[Norfolk Born]

Thomas Arne is the composer.

[Norfolk Born]

Your'e looking for a word that occurs in the titles of a song in each of the first two cases, and in the third case for a surname adopted by a singer-songwriter. The latter, and his four co-performers, were highly placed in Saturday's 'Pick Of The Pops' on Radio 2.