Alphabet associations - I

[Dave2002]

A

Thessalonica

Ansermet

Mahler first

[mercia]

A

Thessalonica

Ansermet

Mahler first

oh, that's a bit easier than your last one. but I won't answer in case anyone else is playing.

[mercia]

Maurice Abravanel was born in Salonika or Thessalonica, lived for a time in the same house as Ernest Ansermet in I guess Lausanne, and according to wiki made the first complete recording of Mahler 1 - 9.

[Dave2002]

Maurice Abravanel was born in Salonika or Thessalonica, lived for a time in the same house as Ernest Ansermet in I guess Lausanne, and according to wiki made the first complete recording of Mahler 1 - 9.

Well done! It's your B now. Maybe we have to have a few easy ones now. Perhaps everyone else is watching tennis.

[mercia]

not sure what counts as easy anymore, anyway ..............

what B connects

- orthopaedics
- singular & serious symphonies
- a Birgit first

?

[amateur51]

not sure what counts as easy anymore, anyway ..............

what B connects

- orthopaedics
- singular & serious symphonies
- a Birgit first

?

Franz Berwald was an orthopaedic surgeon who also wrote music, including a symphony entitled Singuliere.

I'm working on the rest

[mercia]

Franz Berwald

cor, well done ams

[mercia]

hope you're not still working on this
since you have singuliere, by deduction you have serieuse
put Birgit and Estrella together and you've got the last part

and the C question

well done, I'm logging off now

ta-ta

[amateur51]

hope you're not still working on this
since you have singuliere, by deduction you have serieuse
put Birgit and Estrella together and you've got the last part

and the C question

well done, I'm logging off now

ta-ta

An aria from Berwald's opera Estrella de Soria was Birgit Nilsson's first recording in 1947 - cheers for that, mercia

[amateur51]

What C connects

Aladdin

Bob Dylan

Tom Waits

All three clues contain a musical element. The answer beginning with C is not musical

[Dave2002]

Totally lost! Bob Dylan and Tom Waits have had Chats together. There are places like Aladdin Theater where they have performed. That doesn't uncover a musical element for each clue though. Puzzled!

[mercia]

Carl?

[Dave2002]

As in Carl Nielsen? He was musical!

[mercia]

As in Carl Nielsen? He was musical!

yes quite
I've found some vague Carl/Waits and Carl/Dylan connections too but they're a bit tenuous
so I'm more than likely wrong

[amateur51]

Carl Nielsen's Aladdin is right - something about it links with Bob & Tom.

The C is a place - go figure