Alphabet associations - I

[doversoul1]

Kreutzer Sonata

[rubbernecker]

Your assumption is correct.

Thank you for the subtle spelling correction

[rubbernecker]

Kreutzer Sonata

Correct, DS. As it was an easy question, for full marks you will need to explain how the third word of the clue relates to the answer.

[doversoul1]

Oh, I didn’t think. Can I pass the next question to someone else? I jumped in forgetting the rule. I shan’t do it again.

[ed] Beethoven’s violin sonata dedicating to Kreutzer, which inspired Tolstoy. Janacek gave the title to his string quartet No.1

[rubbernecker]

Oh, I didn’t think. Can I pass the next question to someone else? I jumped in forgetting the rule. I shan’t do it again.

Hang on, DS! You haven't broken any rules, you can give your reasoning afterwards. I'm just going to be a bit pernickety and and ask for a fourth element in addition to the identification of the three works

[doversoul1]

The rule I had forgotten was that you (I) would have to set the next question (I only like answering questions )

[rubbernecker]

The rule I had forgotten was that you (I) would have to set the next question (I only like answering questions )

Unfortunately it doesn't work like that. You answer, you set. It's a shame you say you don't want to set the next question as we could sure do with some fresh faces around here! I suppose in this case I could release you from your obligation and award it to the person who completes the answer...

[Nick Armstrong]

Unfortunately it doesn't work like that. You answer, you set. It's a shame you say you don't want to set the next question as we could sure do with some fresh faces around here! I suppose in this case I could release you from your obligation and award it to the person who completes the answer...

As so often when I can complete crosswords that others have largely completed, might the answer lie in the loaded verb 'sounds'...? as in suonare.... hence 'sonata' ... ??

[rubbernecker]

Well done, Caliban. But it seems Doversoul has now snitched the baton once again and given us an L

[Nick Armstrong]

Well done, Caliban. But it seems Doversoul has now snitched the baton once again and given us an L

Yes eyes down for a stageful of countertenors.

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh, I do apologise a hundred times for messing things up. Caliban, ignore my L and please go ahead.

Not at all, my little afterthought was totally undeserving! Yours looks like a perfectly good question to which I am applying my mind. Very good to have a new brain engaged here.

[doversoul1]

Back on the track. My apology.

[rubbernecker]

Doversoul, you now appear to have deleted your L question

EDIT: As I recall, Doversoul's question was: what L connects a pope, flourishing art and a stage full of countertenors?

[doversoul1]

I have. I messed the thing up so much that I thought it would be better if Caliban took up the L. Think before you jump indeed…

Oh, this time lag!! Yes, that was how my question was.

[Nick Armstrong]

So, to resume: we are focussing on doversoul's excellent question:
What L connects a pope, flourishing art and a stage full of countertenors?
Very good question - ungooglable and teasing! I am flummoxed for the moment...