Alphabet associations - I

[vinteuil]

...
To use your words, "a rather splendid luncheon" awaits. And then a complicated afternoon. But I'll be dreaming of a C...

(popping out between courses) - so a nice easy one -

what C variously might lie behind a composer of melancholy humour, a "multi-talented" fiddle player whose activities extend from divan to dawn to breakfast, and a composer who might have been an orphan or childless?

[Nick Armstrong]

a nice easy one

(popping out between courses)

Full details, please, vinrouge: courses, vintages etc. etc. and location

[Norfolk Born]

Do you not find it almost laughably simple? It's all I can do to stop myself jumping in with the answer and spoiling everybody else's fun. If you REALLY are having trouble solving it, try this: www.theanswerdoesntinvolveABBAsongs.org.

[rubbernecker]

It's all I can do to stop myself jumping in with the answer and spoiling everybody else's fun.

You know what? You're almost as annoying as that Ofcachap chap...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

(popping out between courses)

SO embarrassing when this happens, isn't it?!

- so a nice easy one -

what C variously might lie behind a composer of melancholy humour, a "multi-talented" fiddle player whose activities extend from divan to dawn to breakfast, and a composer who might have been an orphan or childless?

Getting on for seven hours later, Could I request a Clue, please?

[Nick Armstrong]

SO embarrassing when this happens, isn't it?!

Now that was a nice easy one... !

I would be pitifully grateful for a clue.

Is the melancholy composer Dowland?

[vinteuil]

ok, a clue or three: all three people share variants of a name beginning with C -

the 'melancholy humour' was a single if varied piece by the composer [not Dowland... ]

the multi-talented person - quite a lot of us here think we hear too much of her...

the orphan or childless composer was a man.

[Norfolk Born]

You know what? You're almost as annoying as that Ofcachap chap...

I'll make sure to tell him when I next see him.

[mercia]

the multi-talented person - quite a lot of us here think we hear too much of her...

Clemency B-H ??

[vinteuil]

Clemency B-H ??

Yes! - the violinist who has toured with the West-Eastern Divan, co-founder of the Aurora Orchestra, and presenter on Breakfast...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemency_Burton-Hill

so the other two C s might be ... ?

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes! - the violinist who has toured with the West-Eastern Divan, co-founder of the Aurora Orchestra

One of those things you either knew or you didn't....

I didn't...

[mercia]

I suppose Clementi could be one, but I have no idea why
ditto Clement Jannequin

[vinteuil]

I suppose Clementi could be one, but I have no idea why

Clementi is one - think of a darkly humorous work he composed?

[vinteuil]

ditto Clement Jannequin

not Jannequin. Why did I say orphan or childless - what was he not ?

[mercia]

not Jannequin. Why did I say orphan or childless - what was he not ?

presumably either not an orphan or not childless
but with only wikipedia to help me I couldn't say which