Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

brilliant is not an adequate word for your deductive powers Mr Norfolk

tally-ho!!

[Norfolk Born]

You're very kind ....but google did a lot of the work!
Which J links: 2nd place in the Eurovision Song Contest; a posthumous Grammy Award; and a Rhodesian-born pianist?

[amateur51]

You're very kind ....but google did a lot of the work!
Which J links: 2nd place in the Eurovision Song Contest; a posthumous Grammy Award; and a Rhodesian-born pianist?

I reckon that's Johnson as in Teddy Johnson (second place in Eurovision 1959 with wife Pearl Carr with Sing Little Birdy); blues legend Robert Johnson; and doyen of lied accompanists Graham Johnson

[antongould]

enter am firing on many cylinders!

[Norfolk Born]

I reckon that's Johnson as in Teddy Johnson (second place in Eurovision 1959 with wife Pearl Carr with Sing Little Birdy); blues legend Robert Johnson; and doyen of lied accompanists Graham Johnson

Johnson is it, although I was thinking of Bryan Johnson, who came second with 'Looking High, High, High'. In any case, the K is unquestionably yours!
(Robert Johnson was awarded a Grammy in 1990. Graham Johnson was born in Bulawayo)

[amateur51]

Johnson is it, although I was thinking of Bryan Johnson, who came second with 'Looking High, High, High'. In any case, the K is unquestionably yours!
(Robert Johnson was awarded a Grammy in 1990. Graham Johnson was born in Bulawayo)

Cheers Ofca!

A K to connect

The Soviet secret police

Chekhov

Gliere and

Stanislavsky

The answer is musical

[Nick Armstrong]

Cheers Ofca!

A K to connect

The Soviet secret police

Chekhov

Gliere and

Stanislavsky

The answer is musical

I think the answer is Knipper.

Lev Knipper, a composer who was taught by Glière, was the nephew of Chekhov's wife Olga who had been an actress in Stanislavski's Moscow Art School. He had rows with Shostakovich, but it became clear subsequently that he was an agent of the NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB...

[vinteuil]

ahh, Knipper of the Yardski!

[amateur51]

I think the answer is Knipper.

Lev Knipper, a composer who was taught by Glière, was the nephew of Chekhov's wife Olga who had been an actress in Stanislavski's Moscow Art School. He had rows with Shostakovich, but it became clear subsequently that he was an agent of the NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB...

Fantabulosa!

Gissa L Caliban

[amateur51]

ahh, Knipper of the Yardski!

Would that be Knipper Read, Ronnie Bigg's old mate?

[Nick Armstrong]

Fantabulosa!

Gissa L Caliban

What L connects Byrd, Handel, Mozart, Honegger and Stravinsky (plus others, I wouldn't be surprised)

[Norfolk Born]

Would that be Knipper Read, Ronnie Bigg's old mate?

Or (K)nipper of HMV label fame?

[Nick Armstrong]

What L connects Byrd, Handel, Mozart, Honegger and Stravinsky (plus others, I wouldn't be surprised)

I seem to have slowed things down with that

Arthur and Igor are slightly more tricky. Imagine I'd only included the first 3 chaps in the question...

[mercia]

Lamentation(e)(s)?

[Nick Armstrong]

Lamentation(e)(s)?

No mercia, in fact I did Lamentations last time I had an "L" !

You're sort of in the right ball-park, but at the wrong end of the pitch...