Alphabet associations - I

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

OH, it was a Lincoln(shire) Po(rtrait)sy!

[Norfolk Born]

They've all narrated Copland's 'Lincoln Portrait'. (I could have included many others, including Vincent Price!).
Please indulge us with an 'M' when you're ready.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"He stood 5 foot 8 in his stockinged feet (slightly less without them) but this is what he said. This is what Ferney said. He said:
May I postpone my "go" for a while, please: I'm out this afternoon and next week I'll be involved in the Huddersfield Festivities.

Mercia and Anton did a lot of the "spadework"; would they mind dreadfully?

[mercia]

an M to connect

a phoenicopterus song, a B minor symphony and Wozzeck

[3rd Viennese School]

Modest?

He named Tchaikovsky symphony no.6 as "Pathetique" . A name Tchaikovsky never actually published!

Dunno the others.

3VS

[3rd Viennese School]

Ferney- you doing this Richard Barrett thing tommorow?

(sorry guys- off topic!)

3VS

[mercia]

Modest?

'fraid not, correct composer though

[antongould]

Is it Manfred man?

[mercia]

Is it Manfred man?

certainly is
care to flesh that out a little?
before I pass on the baton

[antongould]

The long word is seemingly Dr. Google informs related to flamingoes so Petty or even Pretty Flamingo by Manfred Mann. the Manfred Symphony by the aforementioned Tchaikovsky and Wozzeck was an opera by Manfred Gurlitt

[mercia]

splendiferous AG, sorry to make you work

your turn

[antongould]

Which N connects

Electronic music from Canada for the words of Shakespeare and Leonard Cohen
A Dame biographer of a Dame
Pasta in the Christmas hols

All clues musical

[mercia]

howsabout Norma Beecroft
Dame Norma Major on Dame Joan Sutherland
and pasta alla Norma (though I can't find a Christmas reference)

[antongould]

you are correct my friend.

Pasta premiered Norma on 26 December 1831.

So we shall wait 'till the morning.

[mercia]

Pasta premiered Norma on 26 December 1831.

ah, I didn't get the full answer. I had the dish but not Giuditta