Alphabet associations - I

[Northender]

One of those answers which (if correct) confirms my initial impression that I had 0% chance of getting this one!

You spoke my thought (to coin a phrase)!
Perhaps somebody else will use it again a few thousand rounds from now, so we'd better lock it in the old database.

[amateur51]

Shall we round off this cycle with a Masonic (according to some) Z to link Handel and Rameau?

Zoroastro?

From Handel's Orlando and Rameau's Zoroastre

[subcontrabass]

Zoroastro?

From Handel's Orlando and Rameau's Zoroastre

That's the one. Can you start us on another round?

[amateur51]

That's the one. Can you start us on another round?

Cheers scb. I'll have a go.

Gimme a mo'

[amateur51]

What A links Segovia with a prize donated by Nilsson and finally a choral work by Handel

[Flay]

What A links Segovia with a prize donated by Nilsson and finally a choral work by Handel

Wow, head spinning. Could this be Andrés Segovia? (But I cannot link Andrés with the Birgit Nilsson prize, nor with GFH)

[amateur51]

Wow, head spinning. Could this be Andrés Segovia? (But I cannot link Andrés with the Birgit Nilsson prize, nor with GFH)

Who mentioned Andrés Segovia?

Who mentioned the Birgit Nilsson prize??

Silvery clues for you there

[Flay]

Who mentioned Andrés Segovia?

Who mentioned the Birgit Nilsson prize??

Silvery clues for you there

That's interesting - both Segovia and Nilsson won the Léonie Sonning Music Prize

[Flay]

Britten won it in 1968

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Silvery clues for you there

Argentina?

[mercia]

p'raps Kristina Nilsson

[amateur51]

Argentina?

Silvery surname rather than a country, ferney

[amateur51]

p'raps Kristina Nilsson

yup!

[Northender]

Nancy Argenta?

[Northender]

..won the Nilsson prize in 1931