Alphabet associations - I

[Tapiola]

Bingo! Can you elaborate, OFCACHAP?

[Don Petter]

Unicorn-Kanchana, of course, though I haven't worked out how they all fit in (apart from Bate).

Looks like Berkely's Jane Eyre is on that label, probably the New Avengers soundtrack as well?

[rubbernecker]

Bingo! Can you elaborate, OFCACHAP?

Unicorn record label, Bate, Herrmann... but don't know about Johnson

[Tapiola]

Johnson released his own music on Unicorn-Kanchana also, including music from the New Avengers.

Excellent work all round!

[Don Petter]

'The television composer Laurie Johnson recorded film scores on Unicorn-Kanchana, as well as an album of his own music from The Avengers, The New Avengers and The Professionals.'

[rubbernecker]

Excellent work all round!

A bloody mess, if you ask me. I do NOT want to set V.

[Don Petter]

Funnily enough, I have a V question left over from two alphabet cycles ago(!), but I really think Ofcachap should have it for getting Unicorn. Tapiola's choice, anyway.

[Tapiola]

What do you think, guys? OFCACHAP's go? The answer was really only "Unicorn" though the double-barrelled thing was employed as (in retrospect what could laughingly be deemed) a clarifier.

My alternative "U" was far more suave, honest.

[rubbernecker]

What do you think, guys? OFCACHAP's go? The answer was really only "Unicorn" though the double-barrelled thing was employed as (in retrospect what could laughingly be deemed) a clarifier.

I was completely foxed by the mention of a hyphenated word. And if you'd put Horenstein instead of Bate, it would have been clearer as far as I was concerned! Ofcachap was quickest to the answer and he should set V

[Simon]

Well, apart from knowing the Unda Maris stop and that the Unicorn was a symbol of purity, I'm afraid you might as well all have been posting in Martian for all that I understood. But that is my fault, not yours. I wait patiently in hope ... well in Bakewell, anyway!

[Don Petter]

We await Ofcachap, who is away at the moment, perhaps hatching some devilish retribution.

As usual, it all made fairly straighforward sense in the end, though the hyphen clue might have hindered rather than helped. I was, after that, looking for some pair of words starting upper-, ultra-, under-, upward- or something like that! (Even though I got the -Kanchana once the unicorn emerged.) And it seems the original answer, as conceived, was Unicorn on its own, anyway.

[Norfolk Born]

OK folks, I'll have a go at setting a 'V' question that is neither too cryptic nor too simple.

[Norfolk Born]

What 'V connects a German municipality, a middle-period opera and a 2nd novel?

[rubbernecker]

What 'V connects a German municipality, a middle-period opera and a 2nd novel?

I don't know if you're being deliberately devious, but Werther fits the bill - pronounced, but not spelt, with a V?

[Don Petter]

I was thinking Verdi, with Traviata being middle period and based on La Dame aux Camelias, a novel that Dumas wrote in 1848, and which was only predated by Atala, but that was a play, so La Dame wasn’t really a second novel. No idea yet how the Teutonic connection would fit in, though.