Alphabet associations - I

[Angle]

Wife of Henry Wood was Olga Ouroussoff in whose memory Elgar write THE RIVER in 1909.

Good round, mercia.

Hm, and I wasn't going to get involved this evening

S is almost formulated.

[mercia]

Wife of Henry Wood was Olga Ouroussoff in whose memory Elgar write THE RIVER in 1909.

S is almost formulated.

very well done and thank you
I don't know how many people are playing tonight
I shall be logging off shortly as well

[Angle]

Which or what S was

- one of the ancient faith, orthodox, who eventually came to grief with all the rest of them?
- a countess with something shameful to hide?
- betrothed to a man quite accustomed to getting into a lather?

[Nick Armstrong]

very well done and thank you
I don't know how many people are playing tonight
I shall be logging off shortly as well

I was about to dive into R when work took a turn for the urgent ... Sorry to have deserted the ship abruptly. Hope for some time this evening to have a kick around with the impending S. Correction, freshly-delivered S...

[Norfolk Born]

Saint Susanna Orthodox and Susanna's Secret for the first two?

[Norfolk Born]

..and Shakespeare's daughter Susanna (who married Mr. Hall) for the third?

[Nick Armstrong]

Which or what S was

- one of the ancient faith, orthodox, who eventually came to grief with all the rest of them?
- a countess with something shameful to hide?
- betrothed to a man quite accustomed to getting into a lather?

Hmmmmmmm

S for stumped...

EDIT: had been so long puzzling that I hadn't refreshed the page and seen Ofca's promising essays... Why would Mr Hall get in a lather, Ofca?

[Norfolk Born]

That's a very good question, on which I shall now proceed to ponder....

[Angle]

My reply, some time ago, seems to have evaporated. WQhere can it have gone ?

Susanna, yes but which one is which.

We need works and composers.

I thought there was some dispute about Shakespeare having a daughter of any name so I have not included her. No Mr Hall comes not into this at all.

Think again, but think works.

[Angle]

Need further clues?

[Angle]

Which or what S was

- one of the ancient faith, orthodox, who eventually came to grief with all the rest of them? She is a modest creation.
- a countess with something shameful to hide? Peculiarly, her creator has canine connections.
- betrothed to a man quite accustomed to getting into a lather? He is most likely to create a lather for business purposes?

I hope that is all of help.

[Norfolk Born]

Susanna's Secret (she smoked) was written by Wolf-Ferrari.
And the 'modest' Susanna might be the schismatic from Mussorgsky's Khovanscshchina, I suppose.
Is there a Susanna in Sweeney Todd?

[Angle]

True. Now the other two

[Norfolk Born]

Which other two? What/which is true?
EDIT:
I'm confused as to how far we've got with this one, and it's already past my bedtime, so I'll leave it to others to sort it all out and grab the honour of setting 'T'.

[Angle]

Susanna's Secret (she smoked) was written by Wolf-Ferrari.
And the 'modest' Susanna might be the schismatic from Mussorgsky's Khovanscshchina, I suppose.

are both correct.

Just the lather one to go.