Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

Josef Krips

From 1951-1954 Principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.
1954-1963 - Music Director to the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
1963-1970 - Music Director to the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
1970-1973 - Principal conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
Josef Krips' younger brother Henry Krips was the chief conductor of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in Australia for 23 seasons, 1949-1972.

beautifully presented

[mercia]

The K in question is the wonderful Josef Krips

He was principal conductor of the four orchestras in the first line of the puzzle (the Vienna Symphony being the relevant Viennese one I think - though he also conducted the VPO).

It was his brother Henry, not Josef, who held the same post with the Adelaide SO (I had no idea! )

not bad

[Flay]

beautifully presented

Thank you!

Sorry, Calibs

[mercia]

So J then. She links Jonas, Judith, Esther and a sleepy Odysseus

I think this would be Ms Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1664 - 1729)

http://www.classicalarchives.com/composer/2736.html

who wrote cantatas on the subjects of Jonas, Judith and Esther and Le Sommeil d'Ulisse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquet_de_la_Guerre

[Nick Armstrong]

Thank you!

Sorry, Calibs

[Nick Armstrong]

I think this would be Ms Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1664 - 1729)

http://www.classicalarchives.com/composer/2736.html

who wrote cantatas on the subjects of Jonas, Judith and Esther and Le Sommeil d'Ulisse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquet_de_la_Guerre

I think you would be right!

Better set something nice for your little teacher's pet Flay to solve...

[mercia]

an L who

wrote the tale of a nymph and a sea-god
worked in the service of Anne of Orange and the Duke of Gramont
was stabbed in the back

[Northender]

Just for fun, I googled the first name that came to mind: Lully

[mercia]

Lully

not a million miles/kilometres away [in time and place], but stabbed elsewhere

[Northender]

[QUOTE=mercia;211314]not a million miles/kilometres away, but stabbed elsewhere[/QUOTE]
Geographically or bodywise?

[mercia]

Geographically or bodywise?

not sure where Lully was, but he "stabbed" himself in the foot, didn't he ?

anyway, Lully isn't the answer - my chap died 77 years after Lully

[Nick Armstrong]

an L who

wrote the tale of a nymph and a sea-god
worked in the service of Anne of Orange and the Duke of Gramont
was stabbed in the back

We are dealing with the doomed Jean-Marie Leclair, murdered in Paris in 1764, perhaps at the instigation of his ex-wife, perhaps by his nephew....

From 1738 until 1743 he served three months annually at the Princess of Orange's court, and from 1740 until his death, he served the Duke of Gramont.

His only opera Scylla et Glaucus concerns the characters you mention.

[mercia]

We are dealing with the doomed Jean-Marie Leclair, murdered in Paris in 1764, perhaps at the instigation of his ex-wife, perhaps by his nephew....

From 1738 until 1743 he served three months annually at the Princess of Orange's court, and from 1740 until his death, he served the Duke of Gramont.

His only opera Scylla et Glaucus concerns the characters you mention.

correct of course in all aspects [or even respects]

a lovely creamy Finest coleslaw

[Nick Armstrong]

a lovely creamy Finest coleslaw

Yummy... So there are culinary associations to this M which also connects a 15th century painter with an American fighter-bomber.

[mercia]

an American fighter-bomber.

I tink that would be a Thunderbolt P-47

if that helps anyone