Alphabet associations - I

[Lateralthinking1]

Yes, thank you, I will be with you shortly. The question will be set in this box.

And here it is. What R links a drummer who was praised by Bernstein, a country singer who originally played jazz on the saxophone and a classical composer whose most famous work was a lullaby?

[Norfolk Born]

This is a bit Rich, isn't it?

[Lateralthinking1]

Yes, well done. Have you all the necessary components?

[Norfolk Born]

Well ...Buddy Rich met with Bernstein's approval for his reowrking of pieces from 'West Side Story'. Might the C & W singer be Charlie Rich?

[Norfolk Born]

American Lullaby by Gladys Rich

[Norfolk Born]

Charley Rich is the cousin(?) of James Q 'Spider' Rich who wrote 'Yakety Sax'.

[Lateralthinking1]

Yes. Buddy Rich found it very difficult initially to perform West Side Story but he stuck with it and it became virtually his signature piece. It would last between 7 and 15 minutes and was so good that Bernstein said he was most impressed. This was not to say that one of the muppets didn't think he could give him a run for his money. For all of his splendid achievements, Rich is remembered by many as the one who went into drumming battle with Animal.

Charlie Rich originally played the saxophone but was never famous for it. Oddly for a country singer, his hero was Stan Kenton to the extent that he was known at school as Charlie Kenton. Perhaps most famous for the songs "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" and "Behind Closed Doors", his final cd "Pictures and Paintings" was the "jazz" album he always wanted to make. It included Duke Ellington's "Mood Indigo".

Gladys Rich (became Dugan) is an American composer who is known for her American Lullaby about a housemaid. Earlier she had worked as a shop assistant where she met her husband to be, whose first names remarkably were Waldo Emerson. Very little else is known about her life and other compositions. However, she did write a cantata called "The Triumph of Faith" in 1941.

You now have "S".

[Nick Armstrong]

a-ha !!! Paul Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, founder member of Agfa-Gevaert

second son of Felix

A-grade trivia Love it. Almost up there with the Sewell-Warlock

[amateur51]

A-grade trivia Love it. Almost up there with the Sewell-Warlock

Is a Sewell-Warlock like a Labra-doodle?!

[Norfolk Born]

Thank you - I hope you'll soon join us again in our innocent pleasures!
Which 'S' inspired the same composer on three occasions, resulting in the first of four, the fourth of six and the twelfth of thirty-four?

[Nick Armstrong]

Is a Sewell-Warlock like a Labra-doodle?!

I imagine it might be...

The word 'connection' is mysteriously missing from the end of my post.

But it's a great name. Sir Peregrine Sewell-Warlock O.M.

[Nick Armstrong]

Which 'S' inspired the same composer on three occasions, resulting in the first of four, the fourth of six and the twelfth of thirty-four?

Bloody elegant stuff, Norfs!

[Lateralthinking1]

Is it Printemps?

[Nick Armstrong]

Which 'S' inspired the same composer on three occasions, resulting in the first of four, the fourth of six and the twelfth of thirty-four?

Spring and Schumann?

His first of four symphonies is the "Spring"

I dare say the other two clues might refer to piano works or songs... I'm sure "Frühling" crops up a few times

[Nick Armstrong]

Is it Printemps?

Ah ha! Two minds &c. &c.