Alphabet associations - I

[subcontrabass]

indeed a very clever puzzle was K


meanwhile an L to connect

- a Leeds Festival commission
- musical asteroids
- arise Sir Osip

Looks like a Lyudmila (in various spellings):

St Ludmilla by Antonín Dvořák
Various asteroids discovered by Lyudmila Karachkina and named after musicians (such as Piaf)
Osip Petrov, who played Ruslan, a Kievan Knight, in the premiere of Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila

[mercia]

Looks like a Lyudmila (in various spellings):

St Ludmilla by Antonín Dvořák
Various asteroids discovered by Lyudmila Karachkina and named after musicians (such as Piaf)
Osip Petrov, who played Ruslan, a Kievan Knight, in the premiere of Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila

actually my Asteroids was a 1967 electro-acoustic composition by Ludmila Frajt, but I can see that your answer is equally valid
I should have given it a capital A

on we go

[subcontrabass]

And M to link an overture with an unexpected organist, a barber, and some girls.

[Nick Armstrong]

And M to link an overture with an unexpected organist, a barber, and some girls.

Not getting very far with this.

Barber = Seville or Sweeney Todd?

[subcontrabass]

Not getting very far with this.

Barber = Seville or Sweeney Todd?

Sweeney Todd

[subcontrabass]

Additional clue: the overture not only includes a part for organ but also for some even less usual instruments.

[mercia]

Additional clue: the overture not only includes a part for organ but also for some even less usual instruments.

the Grand Grand with vacuum cleaners etc. ?

[subcontrabass]

the Grand Grand with vacuum cleaners etc. ?

[Nick Armstrong]

the Grand Grand with vacuum cleaners etc. ?

I was about to say that!

M for Malcolm? Can't see the Sweeney connection though...

[mercia]

I was about to say that!

oh sorry

[I think his S/Todd ballet featured in a recent question too]

[Nick Armstrong]

oh sorry

[I think his S/Todd ballet featured in a recent question too]

Don't be sorry! Sweep in majestical... Malcolm Arnold wrote a ballet based on S Todd?

[subcontrabass]

I was about to say that!

M for Malcolm? Can't see the Sweeney connection though...

Yes to the M. The girls?

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes to the M. The girls?

MA's score for the 'St Trinians' film/s I suspect

[subcontrabass]

MA's score for the 'St Trinians' film/s I suspect

We seem to have got there:

Malcolm Arnold, composer of:

A Grand, Grand Overture (in the first performance of which I heard somewhere that the organ was played by Dennis Brain FRCO)
The ballet Sweeney Todd
Music for the first four of the St Trinian's films.

The only other recording of Dennis Brain playing the organ appears to be the Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana with the Phiharmonia conducted by Karajan


I will leave the two of you to fight it out for who sets the Next question.

[Nick Armstrong]

I will leave the two of you to fight it out for who sets the Next question.

Mercia?