Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

Messrs. Loesser & Loesser

Arthur worked in the Japanese intelligence dept.
brother Frank married Lynn Blankenbaker Garland (no relation ? - not sure) and started working on a musical version of Schulberg's Senor Discretion Himself

Judy Garland was a Gumm, where did the Garland come from ?

[amateur51]

Messrs. Loesser & Loesser

Arthur worked in the Japanese intelligence dept.
brother Frank married Lynn Blankenbaker Garland (no relation ? - not sure) and started working on a musical version of Schulberg's Senor Discretion Himself

Judy Garland was a Gumm, where did the Garland come from ?

You got all the necessaries mercs - I've blued them to act as the coleslaw

Could you give us a mmmmodest M please, mercs?

[mercia]

I've blued them to act as the coleslaw

how considerate, nay clever



M connecting

the Misses Heilbron & Ferrani and a Krasner commission

[amateur51]

Marie Heilbron was the first Manon in Massenet’s opera

Cesira Ferrani was the first Manon in Manon Lescaut by Puccini

Louis Krasner commissioned the violin concerto by Alban Berdg which was dedicated “to the memory of an angel“, which was a reference to Alma Mahler’s & Walter Gropius’ daughter, Manon Gropius who died in her late teens from polio.

[mercia]

well may you big grin - well done

can your answer be the slaw ?

looks like it's your tern agen

[amateur51]

For the sake of coleslaw ...

marie heilbron was the first manon in massenet’s opera

cesira ferrani was the first manon in manon lescaut by puccini

louis krasner commissioned the violin concerto by alban berdg which was dedicated “to the memory of an angel“, which was a reference to alma mahler’s & walter gropius’ daughter, manon gropius who died in her late teens from polio.

Meanwhile ...

What N links Johanna, Josephine and Friederike in 1876?

[Resurrection Man]

Nibelungen?

[amateur51]

Nibelungen?

Very close, RM - there are three of them appearing finally

[Resurrection Man]

Norns!

[amateur51]

Norns!

Johanna Jachmann-Wagner, Josephine Schefsky and Friederike Grün sang the three norns in the first Götterdämmerung in 1876

O go on, giss an O

[Resurrection Man]

An O to link a music festival, a clarinetist and a New York opera.

[Resurrection Man]

A French music festival

[Flay]

A French music festival

That doen't help me. I was wondering about Simone Osborne. Very pretty.... (Sean Osborn being the clarinettist)

One or two Ts in clarinettist?

[Resurrection Man]

And the opera was written in New York

and the clarinetist is Swedish

[Nick Armstrong]

A French music festival

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