Alphabet associations - I

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'm snookered.

[amateur51]

I'm snookered.

Oh I was hoping you'd be more wired than snookered.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

OK: so not Jimmy White (the snooker virtuoso, for whom "white" might also be adjectival), Steve White (the Drum virtuoso with The Jam and Lennie White, the Drum virtuoso with Chick Corea) and Peter White (the "smooth jazz guitarist" - thank you Wiki: I was thinking of the R4 broadcaster), then?

[amateur51]

OK: so not Jimmy White (the snooker virtuoso, for whom "white" might also be adjectival), Steve White (the Drum virtuoso with The Jam and Lennie White, the Drum virtuoso with Chick Corea) and Peter White (the "smooth jazz guitarist" - thank you Wiki: I was thinking of the R4 broadcaster), then?

Whoa big fella! You've decided to ignore the clue about being in the right direction? And I'll let slip that the 'Steve+Lennie+W' is very musical

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Oh stupid me!
Steve(n) Sondheim and Lennie Bernstein collaborated on the Musical West Side Story.
The "direction" West.

I don't know Jimmy West (is he the tinned salmon chap? Another Musical: "Salmon chanted Evening"?) or Peter West (a newsreader on ITV years ago?)

[amateur51]

Oh stupid me!
Steve(n) Sondheim and Lennie Bernstein collaborated on the Musical West Side Story.
The "direction" West.

I don't know Jimmy West (is he the tinned salmon chap? Another Musical: "Salmon chanted Evening"?) or Peter West (a newsreader on ITV years ago?)

You gottit, fhg! West it is ... now I gave you a 'wired' clue too, which related to Jimmy; and Peter West was the Cricket, Rugby and Come Dancing (there's musical!)Correspondent of The Times and BBC TV for yonks

So now concentrate on Jimmy and 'wired'

[Nick Armstrong]

So now concentrate on Jimmy and 'wired'

Perhaps a murky murderous connection: a pair of Wests, Fred and Dominic who played Fred and who was also a star of "Wired" which I've never seen but was his character called Jimmy?

[amateur51]

Perhaps a murky murderous connection: a pair of Wests, Fred and Dominic who played Fred and who was also a star of "Wired" which I've never seen but was his character called Jimmy?

One hundred-and-eighty Calibbean, me ol' banana!!

I feel that the next letter belongs to fhb as he did get the West answer first plus Steve and most of Peter

[Nick Armstrong]

I feel that the next letter belongs to fhb as he did get the West answer first plus Steve and most of Peter

Very much so! Let us have it, Ferne! X, Y, Z or A....???

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I would never have got the Wired connection, though.
Excellent puzzle, Am51, I fear this one isn't nearly as good:

What X is shared by
A seismic Symphonist
A mediterranean Symphonist
and a Mariachi Symphonist?

... answer not musical.

[Don Petter]

Ain't got no X, but Alan Hovhaness' Symphony No. 50 is titled Mount St Helens, which was pretty seismic?

[Norfolk Born]

..he also wrote a concerto for xylophone...but the answer is not musical...

[Don Petter]

..he also wrote a concerto for xylophone...but the answer is not musical...

Could be it, then?

[Norfolk Born]

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Curses! Because I've only recently started to "join in", I should've checked the earlier entries. My answer is, in fact, the same as Caliban's last Christmas: Xavier.
Franz Xavier Richter (the seismic Symphonist, whose works, appropriately enough are full of Scale passages)
Xavier Montsalvatge (who wrote a Sinfonia Mediterrano early in his career)
Robert Xavier Rodriguez (whose Sinfonia a la Mariachi uses Mexican "street" Music).

Apologies: I suffer the forfeit and suggest that Caliban take over the next letter: he did get the Wired/Jimmy/West connection, after all.


(Liked the Xylophone joke, too, DP!)