Alphabet associations

[Caliban]

Apparently H and X got on like a house not on fire...

i.e. like an intact Le Corbusier creation. Im still happily browsing his Parisian edifices. Wouldn't like to live in one though. Cold.

[Tapiola]

old Xenakis doesn't appear to have got on with quite a lot of people

Indeed! He apparently said - and I liberally paraphrase - that Honegger was a bit of an old fart, Milhaud was kindly but not on his wavelength and he had most respect for Messiaen who recognised his gifts, admitted there was little he (Messiaen) could teach him and advised him to plough his own furrow.

A great puzzle, ams.

I am left with a problematic Y...

[Tapiola]

i.e. like an intact Le Corbusier creation. Im still happily browsing his Parisian edifices. Wouldn't like to live in one though. Cold.

Yes, there are those who blame silly old Corbs for hi-rises becoming the breeding ground for malcontent, poverty, crime, social dissolution...

[amateur51]

I am left with a problematic Y...

You can move straight on to A if neither Y or Z fill your imagination with clues, Taps

[mercia]

spreadeagled in the weeds at the side of the information highway...

what a way with words old calorgas has

[amateur51]

what a way with words old calorgas has

[Caliban]

[Tapiola]

You can move straight on to A if neither Y or Z fill your imagination with clues, Taps

Little imagination here, ams though I will go straight to A if I may:

Which miniscule A links an English river, the soubriquet of a 1980s pop band frontman and a subtitled symphony by Kalevi Aho?

[Tapiola]

Aah, silence denotes industry, perhaps?

Nearly time for me to buzz off. Laters peeps

[Norfolk Born]

Ant?
(River Ant, Adam Ant, Aho's Insect Symphony)