Alphabet associations - I

[cloughie]

"Memorial for a dead child" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8d5F5GY4hw

From Youtube:

Thank you cloughie, I have learned something today

Unless I've missed it the only missing bit now is the bells which relates to one of his works.

Louis Vierne from Poitiers, was almost blind, hence darkness, Death - two works Epitaph and Stele pour un enfant defunt and the nature of his own demise at the organ and Carillon de Westminster was my bells reference.

a W dreckly from someone please, the Odds maybe or Flay.

[Flay]

Unless I've missed it the only missing bit now is the bells which relates to one of his works.

The Bells Of Hinckley. Also Poème des cloches funèbres, La Cloche fêlée

Looks like it might be me then

Mind you Calibs contributed too.... (fêlé! )

[Nick Armstrong]

Wossapp'nin?

I have a W

A military wedding in Roman Gothic church?

[Flay]

Wossapp'nin?

Nothing much.... I had an unexpectedly busy evening, thanks for doing a W

[mercia]

I think this may be an appropriate follow-on from Vierne
namely

Charles-Marie Widor organ works

Marche Nuptiale opus 64, Symphonie Gothique opus 70, Symphonie Romane opus 73

not sure about military though

[Nick Armstrong]

I think this may be an appropriate follow-on from Vierne
namely

Charles-Marie Widor organ works

Marche Nuptiale opus 64, Symphonie Gothique opus 70, Symphonie Romane opus 73

not sure about military though

Precisely!!

And see the red words for t'military link!

An X, my dear mercs, or what you will

[mercia]

or what you will

Z connecting

a dwarf, a mermaid and a chalk circle

[Flay]

Z connecting

a dwarf, a mermaid and a chalk circle

Alexander von ZZZ-Zemlinsky!

Der Zwerg (The Dwarf), an opera.
Die Seejungfrau (The Little Mermaid), a symphonic fantasy.
Kreidekreis (Chalk Circle), another opera

Poor guy, he courted Alma Schindler, his composition student who apparently felt "a great deal of pressure from close friends and family to end the relationship. They were primarily concerned with Zemlinsky's lack of an international reputation and by an unappealing physical appearance." She married Mahler instead.

[mercia]

ZZZ-Z

don't fall asleep

well done

a slight look of the Charles Hawtreys in this photo

http://radioscreamer.com/search/artist.php?name=Alexander%20von%20Zemlinsky

........... probably already mentioned on the lookalike thread

[Quarky]

Hang on! What happened to X??. Must insist on due procedures being followed!

An X - going for a song?

[mercia]

What happened to X??.

sorry, couldn't think of one


[haven't they all been done ? ]

[Quarky]

An X - going for a song?

I doubt whether this one has!

[Nick Armstrong]

What happened to X??. Must insist on due procedures being followed!

We sort of have a loose "rule" that when it gets to X, Y & Z, the setter can elect to do any of them or pass direct to A, because of the relative paucity of options. However, great for winkling one out.

Is this one clue or are there the usual 3 elements compacted within your pithy question?

[Quarky]

Thanks Caliban for explaining the finer points.

Just a single clue, as I thought of it on the spur of the moment.

But I can add further clues if necessary.

Sorry to stretch your minds unnecessarily.

[mercia]

nothing [I expect] to do with that old TV programme which used Respighi's The Birds as a theme tune ?

thought not