Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

N:

What links Sondheim, The BBC Concert Orchestra and a Queen?

please sir, please sir, is it Night, please sir?

A little N music
Friday N is Music N
Queen of the N

[Dave2002]

mercia

Well done. Obviously the mind was set off on nocturnal ramblings following moon.

You have the O.

[mercia]

the mind was set off on nocturnal ramblings following moon

indeed, 'fraid I can't continue in the same vein. morning by-the-way. bit obscure this, googling probably required.

an O to connect

the LSO (no not that LSO), Ardbeg whisky and May 11th

[Tapiola]

Morning mercia. This O is proving quite fiendish, but I am prepared to hazard a guess:

Osmo

Osmo Tapio Raikala, Finnish composer of "Ardbeg: The Ultimate Piece for Orchestra"
Osmo Kaila, chess grandmaster: born May 11, 1916
Osmo Vanska, Conductor Laureate of LSO (Lahti Symphony Orchestra)

??

With many thanks to Wiki...

[mercia]

Osmo

well done, sorry it was a bit weird
May 11th is the Finnish nameday for all Osmos (apparently)

P-P-P-pick up a P

[Tapiola]

Cheers mercia. I was unaware of the Finnish significance of May 11

Great clues though - really got the brain cells working.

Time for a P:

What P connects specific works by, inter alia, Josquin, Saint-Saens and Jimi Hendrix.

[Nick Armstrong]

sorry it was a bit weird

I thought it was very good, borderline fiendish - bamboozled me in a pleasant way and gave me a hankering for a big splash of Ardbeg in a nice heavy glass...

[Tapiola]

What P connects specific works by, inter alia, Josquin, Saint-Saens and Jimi Hendrix.

or, indeed, works by Bartok, Maxwell Davies and Beethoven...

[Tapiola]

Is all of this too oblique, by any chance? Would citing some specific works be of benefit at this point?

[mercia]

Would citing some specific works be of benefit at this point?

might be. I have been working on it, on-and-off, honest. so far I think I've got Prince and Pentecost. make us sweat a bit longer.

[Tapiola]

make us sweat a bit longer.

Sorry mercia, neither prince nor pentecost.

[mercia]

is the connecting P word in the titles of the works or somehow in the works?

not sure I know what I mean by that .................... you may do though

[Tapiola]

The connecting P is not in the title of any of the works, but is a characteristic of all of these works. All of the works are very well known.

[mercia]

parody?
paraphrase?

[Tapiola]

Ooh mercia, you are good.

Can you expand upon parody?