brilliant is not an adequate word for your deductive powers Mr Norfolk 
tally-ho!!
tally-ho!!
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You're very kind ....but google did a lot of the work!
Which J links: 2nd place in the Eurovision Song Contest; a posthumous Grammy Award; and a Rhodesian-born pianist?Comment
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I reckon that's Johnson as in Teddy Johnson (second place in Eurovision 1959 with wife Pearl Carr with Sing Little Birdy); blues legend Robert Johnson; and doyen of lied accompanists Graham JohnsonOriginally posted by Norfolk Born View PostComment
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enter am firing on many cylinders!Comment
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Originally posted by amateur51 View Post Johnson is it, although I was thinking of Bryan Johnson, who came second with 'Looking High, High, High'. In any case, the K is unquestionably yours!
(Robert Johnson was awarded a Grammy in 1990. Graham Johnson was born in Bulawayo)Comment
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Cheers Ofca!Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post Johnson is it, although I was thinking of Bryan Johnson, who came second with 'Looking High, High, High'. In any case, the K is unquestionably yours!
(Robert Johnson was awarded a Grammy in 1990. Graham Johnson was born in Bulawayo)
A K to connect
The Soviet secret police
Chekhov
Gliere and
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I think the answer is Knipper.Originally posted by amateur51 View PostCheers Ofca!
A K to connect
The Soviet secret police
Chekhov
Gliere and
Stanislavsky
The answer is musical
Lev Knipper, a composer who was taught by Glière, was the nephew of Chekhov's wife Olga who had been an actress in Stanislavski's Moscow Art School. He had rows with Shostakovich, but it became clear subsequently that he was an agent of the NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB..."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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ahh, Knipper of the Yardski!Comment
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Originally posted by amateur51 View PostFantabulosa!
Gissa L Caliban
What L connects Byrd, Handel, Mozart, Honegger and Stravinsky (plus others, I wouldn't be surprised)"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Or (K)nipper of HMV label fame?Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
Would that be Knipper Read, Ronnie Bigg's old mate?
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I seem to have slowed things down with thatOriginally posted by Caliban View Post
What L connects Byrd, Handel, Mozart, Honegger and Stravinsky (plus others, I wouldn't be surprised)
Arthur and Igor are slightly more tricky. Imagine I'd only included the first 3 chaps in the question..."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Lamentation(e)(s)?Comment
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No mercia, in fact I did Lamentations last time I had an "L" !Originally posted by mercia View Post
You're sort of in the right ball-park, but at the wrong end of the pitch...
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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