Alphabet associations - I

[Tapiola]

Gaspard, by Rene Benjamin (1915)
Gaspard de la Nuit
Gaspard le Roux?? (harpsichordist) (actually not sure of this last one)

[rubbernecker]

Gaspard, by Rene Benjamin (1915)
Gaspard de la Nuit
Gaspard le Roux?? (harpsichordist) (actually not sure of this last one)

Good grief. Forget the lawyers, I'd forgotten what brains inhabit this thread. Yes, well done Taps, a full-house. (A roux is used to thicken a sauce).

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes, well done Taps, a full-house. (A roux is used to thicken a sauce).

Four minutes!! What was the record?

Blinding.

[Tapiola]

(A roux is used to thicken a sauce).

Aah, that makes sense! Gaspard de la Nuit is one of my favourite works. And Gaspard was also the name of a brother of the great great uncle who met Saint Saens. Associations aplenty.

I shall think of an H....

[Tapiola]

As tribute to rubbers' last question:

What H connects a popular composer born in 1915, a Vivaldi-inspired harpsichordist and something of the night?

[rubbernecker]

As tribute to rubbers' last question:

What H connects a popular composer born in 1915, a Vivaldi-inspired harpsichordist and something of the night?

Unfortunately I can't repay the tribute by offering a clean sweep, but I think this could be Howard.

Howard Beach is the harpsichordist with the group Red Priest, after Vivaldi;
Bart Howard wrote a number of standards inc. Fly Me To the Moon;
But the third ? I don't think it is the dreadful Howard Goodall who would never write anything about darkness, nor the more-redeemable Howard Hanson, possibly Howard Skempton? Perhaps not a composer, Howard Shelley? Shelley and the night? Nah...

[Nick Armstrong]

As tribute to rubbers' last question:

What H connects a popular composer born in 1915, a Vivaldi-inspired harpsichordist and something of the night?

Oooh, elegant!

As for the answer...

EDIT: Yes I found Bart Howard, but as I'd never heard of him, I dismissed him

As for the night: Howard Shore? He wrote the music for the somewhat nocturnal Silence of the Lambs, the Lord of the Rings trilogy... oh and Scorcese's 'comedy' After Hours - that was about a night in New York...???

EDIT 2: apparently not

[Tapiola]

I think this could be Howard.

Howard Beach is the harpsichordist with the group Red Priest, after Vivaldi;
Bart Howard wrote a number of standards inc. Fly Me To the Moon;
But the third ? I don't think it is the dreadful Howard Goodall who would never write anything about darkness, nor the more-redeemable Howard Hanson, possibly Howard Skempton? Perhaps not a composer, Howard Shelley? Shelley and the night? Nah...

Very nice work, rubbernecker. You are almost there. The 3rd Howard is not a composer, nor a musician of any kind.

Clue: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

[rubbernecker]

Very nice work, rubbernecker. You are almost there. The 3rd Howard is not a composer, nor a musician of any kind.

Clue: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Bloody politicians... Michael, of course.

[Nick Armstrong]

Bloody politicians... Michael, of course.

Dammit - that was the first thing I thought of faced with rubbers's G... Promptly forgot it

I still think that Howard Shore fits too, thanks to his After Hours score...

[Tapiola]

Bingo. And here he is.

Congratulations again rubbers!

I awaits...

[Tapiola]

Dammit - that was the first thing I thought of faced with rubbers's G... Promptly forgot it

I still think that Howard Shore fits too, thanks to After Hours score...

Yes indeed.

Amazingly enough, Michael Howard was also the first thing that sprang to my mind when rubbers set the G.

[rubbernecker]

What I links a composer born in Russia (not Germany) with another who sounds perfectly content, and a London-based musical director? (All three died in the latter half of the last century)

[Angle]

"(not Germany)" sounds very like Berlin to me and that leads to an I born in Russia in 1888 who lived to be a 101, I believe.

[rubbernecker]

"(not Germany)" sounds very like Berlin to me and that leads to an I born in Russia in 1888 who lived to be a 101, I believe.

Are you going to capitalise on your century, Angle?