Alphabet associations - I

[rubbernecker]

Not so hasty, my dear Anna. Dave has correctly identified the 'rags' reference, but the answer is not actually Joplin...

[Anna]

Not so hasty, my dear Anna. Dave has correctly identified the 'rags' reference, but the answer is not actually Joplin...

Oh, I see. Joplin Memorial Service is it? Nudge, Nudge. Well, Lord Sugar and whether Tom will get the boot (or preferably Mouthy Melody) has my attention, my dear Rubbers.

[rubbernecker]

Oh, I see. Joplin Memorial Service is it? Nudge, Nudge.

Err... I'm not sure what you mean, but it's Scott not Janis who is relevant here.

[vinteuil]

Joshua Rifkin
Joshua Bell
Joshua Memorial Park???

[rubbernecker]

Joshua Rifkin
Joshua Bell
Joshua Memorial Park???

First and second correct

For the third you're looking for a singer: think Ophelia

[vinteuil]

Rosemary....

[rubbernecker]

Rosemary....

Joshua Rifkin, conductor of Bach and one of the first to record Scott Joplin's piano works, Joshua Bell and Rosemary Joshua.

Well done Vinteuil. Not sure how many Ks there are left to dredge up, but I have no doubt you're the man to do it!

[vinteuil]

what K connects : -

. Frank Zappa, Björk, and Klinghoffer

. 1969-1989

. Dave Brubeck; also Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young?

[mercia]

[COLOR="#800080"]. 1969-1989

Kent Opera in existence (wiki)

[vinteuil]

Kent Opera in existence (wiki)

... I shall clearly have to work harder to make my clues wiki-proof...

[amateur51]

... I shall clearly have to work harder to make my clues wiki-proof...

Please don't, vint

It's only wiki that gives me a sniff of an answer most times

[vinteuil]

It's only wiki that gives me a sniff of an answer most times

OK - mercia identified the second lemma - anyone goin' to try for the first and third lemmata?

. Frank Zappa, Björk, and Klinghoffer

. 1969-1989

. Dave Brubeck; also Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young?

[rubbernecker]

OK - mercia identified the second lemma - anyone goin' to try for the first and third lemmata?

. Frank Zappa, Björk, and Klinghoffer

. 1969-1989

. Dave Brubeck; also Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young?

Kent Nagano is connected to those (and that) appearing in the first lemma

[vinteuil]

Kent Nagano is connected to those (and that) appearing in the first lemma

Yes indeedy! thank you -

One of Kent Nagano's early performances was of Frank Zappa orchestral pieces with the LSO; he performed Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire with Björk at Verbier; and he gave the first performance of The Death of Klinghoffer ...

[rubbernecker]

And the Kent State Massacre of 1970 inspired Brubeck's Cantata Truth is Fallen and Neil Young's Ohio