Alphabet associations - I

[vinteuil]

MICHAEL COLLINS PERSSE the teacher by any chance ?

... 'fraid not!

[Anna]

Anna in action
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...rimean_War.jpg

Is that Caliban lying in bed reaching out to me in extremis? Bless!!
(I'll look at latest puzzle but it won't be until much later)

[subcontrabass]

... a gentle C for tea-time :

one, the Prince of Wales's teacher, was more English than he sounded; another doubled Ralph Vaughan Williams but couldn't always be heard; and the last was a Muscovite Wagnerian

Looks like three Coopers:

Joseph Cooper (c. 1570 – 1626, who renamed himself Giovanni Coprario)

Joseph Elliott Needham Cooper, OBE (7 October 1912 – 4 August 2001), who arranged RVW's Piano Concerto as a Concerto for Two Pianos

Emil Albertovich Cooper, who conducted the first performance of The Ring at the Russian Imperial Opera, Moscow, in 1910

[Nick Armstrong]

Looks like three Coopers:

Joseph Cooper (c. 1570 – 1626, who renamed himself Giovanni Coprario)

Joseph Elliott Needham Cooper, OBE (7 October 1912 – 4 August 2001), who arranged RVW's Piano Concerto as a Concerto for Two Pianos

Emil Albertovich Cooper, who conducted the first performance of The Ring at the Russian Imperial Opera, Moscow, in 1910

Amazing!

PS: What's the "couldn't always be heard" bit?

[Anna]

Amazing!
PS: What's the "couldn't always be heard" bit?

I was, briefly, on another path, but assume Subcontra is correct but, the could not be heard, could, I guess be heard. OK, here's the thing here. Get into the mind set, like, possibly, a publisher?

[mercia]

PS: What's the "couldn't always be heard" bit?

I should imagine the dummy keyboard on his [Joseph Cooper's] TV programme "Face the Music"

[cloughie]

Amazing!

PS: What's the "couldn't always be heard" bit?

Joseph Cooper's Dummy Keyboard?

[Nick Armstrong]

I should imagine the dummy keyboard on his [Joseph Cooper's] TV programme "Face the Music"

OHHH - that Joseph Cooper...


Of course

[Northender]

I must confess, those coopers had me over a barrel.

[Nick Armstrong]

I must confess, those coopers had me over a barrel.

What's that scraping noise I hear....?

[vinteuil]

... sorry I'm late (tea rather dragged on... ) but congratulations to subcontra, right in each and every pertick'ler*...

we await an scb delight!

EDIT -

* altho' I think Coprario was a John rather than a Joseph...

[subcontrabass]

A D to link:

(1) an arrangement of Haydn

(2) a commission by Lloyd Webber

(3) a Finnish composer and his brother

[Flay]

Has this thread been Diverted?

[subcontrabass]

Has this thread been Diverted?

You seem to be on the right road.

[subcontrabass]

EDIT -

* altho' I think Coprario was a John rather than a Joseph...

Sorry - typo on my part.