Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

Julian Bream?

[Dave2002]

Yep. You're done.

Thank goodness we didn't have to go this way http://www.nocturnal-music.co.uk/

Or this way http://www.myspace.com/nocturnalemissionsofficial or similar!

Over to you now.

[Dave2002]

I think my only quibble with that question would be that all 3 solutions should have had nocturnal in them. Die Fledermaus is nocturnal only by association if you see what I mean. But maybe I'm wrong about that, since it is quite an obvious connection.

Yes - I accept that. Not quite sure of the rules myself - just finding my way. Do we have fouls with penalties?

[Dave2002]

Also, are there time limits? One per day, one per week, etc?

[Anna]

I think the longest it's taken to solve a question is 48 hours, the quickest around 2 minutes, sometimes when a lot of people are joining in there have been around half a dozen solved in a day. I have to agree with mercia about Fledermaus being an obscure clue as (to me at least) was 'dedicated player' Still, super-sleuth mercia got there in the end!

[mercia]

I'm probably going to break those rules now


an O to connect

a GI with the Philadelphia
dactylic hexameters in 15 books
a "final" work dedicated to Prokofiev


3 pieces of music

[Dave2002]

Maybe Ovid?

[Dave2002]

i feel that Metamorphoses is relevant somehow, but the obvious one, Britten's from 1951, was not dedicated to Prokofiev!

[Dave2002]

Ah ....

Oboe!

[Dave2002]

Poulenc's oboe sonata is dedicated to Prokofiev. One of the movements may be the last piece which Poulenc wrote.

[Dave2002]

John de Lancie - Strauss Oboe concerto , or the piece by Francaix "L'Horloge de Flore". Maybe more. de Lancie was the oboist in the Philadelphia Orchestra, and met Strauss during the war when he was a soldier.

So the most obvious to me - Ormandy - wasn't in there at all!

PS: and if we follow the rules as you've explained them to me it probably has to be the Strauss piece. Not sure now about the Britten - is "oboe" in the title?

[Dave2002]

Mercia

No - hang in there. Now I've got a feel for it I might set a much easier one next time. You might want to hold back if it's too easy, to let others have a go, but it'd be a shame to lose you altogether.

[Dave2002]

P

Rubinstein

Mellifluous rock band

A musical instrument

[antongould]

Any chance of a clue for the lost and lonely?

[Angle]

Lose Mercia? No, no, no.

Here I am, home again after an exhausting week and I find that Mercia is retiring?? To bed ? At this time of day ? With the sun shining and everything going his way ?

As for a clue, AntonG, I have come in as the curtain descends on the O and I await, as I unpack, the P. The blessed P, again, already?