Alphabet associations

[rubbernecker]

I saw the I-I hint before I saw the I clue and I guessed

What a wily opportunist, you are!

And an equally swift setter, too...

[amateur51]

I saw the I-I hint before I saw the I clue and I guessed

Bravo Angle!

A great relief all round - much praise is due

[rubbernecker]

What J is a work by

an English composer of five symphonies,
a European composer perhaps best-known for his study in locomotion,
an seasonal Italian composer whose contemporaries thought of him rather as a violinist.

Judith

Parry
Honegger
Vivaldi - Juditha Triumphans?

[Angle]

You're a bit of the fast side tonight, Rubbernecker.

The K is yours whether or not you say more about the second composer and the basis of the clue.

Now I have to eat!

[rubbernecker]

You're a bit of the fast side tonight, Rubbernecker.

The K is yours whether or not you say more about the second composer and the basis of the clue.

Now I have to eat!

Well, we've already had Pacific 231 as a previous answer, as well as much huffing and chuffing between Anna and Caliban, so we are all familiar with the lure of the locomotive ...

I need to don L for Lycra, Don, before cycling home and turning my attentions to K. Please amuse yourselves until 10pm or thereabouts.

[amateur51]

Parry!! :doh:

http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddi...up_his_fa.html

[Angle]

Thanks for that interesting snippet, Am51.

I do not Lebrecht Lebrecht very much and these days, pay little attention to his mouthings. His is always the negative face except when approaching self-advertisement. There must be better spokespeople, who actually like music.

But it is Friday evening. The week's work is done and it is almost ten, the time when Rubbernecker is due.

[rubbernecker]

And here we are:

What K connects a songwriting pioneer, a pair of Nuremberg brothers, a door and a 1981 musical?

[antongould]

Could the door have a capital D?

[amateur51]

Could the door have a capital D?

Very good, anton

Go for it, my son!