Jules (Émile Frédéric) Massenet (May 12, 1842 - August 13, 1912) was a French composer best known for his operas.
This is the Meditation from the opera, Thais
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=xzbmkFA-wl8
Carl Otto Nicolai (1810-1849) was a German composer who is probably best-known for his opera, Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor), the overture of which is at:
Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor
Offenbach, Jacques (1819-1880)
German-born French composer and cellist of the Romantic era and one of the originators of the operetta form.
Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman :
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=is0Lb4cj_3c
Henry Purcell (English, 1659 - 1695)
Here's Kirsten Flagstad singing Dido's Lament ("When I am laid in earth") from Purcell's opera, Dido and Aeneas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6ZQACoD1C8&feature=related
Finding a Q was
very difficult.
Roger Quilter (November 1, 1877-September 21, 1953), was an English composer. Quilter composed over 100 songs which added to the canon of the English art song.
This is from Four Songs of the Sea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWsfFsDack0
Richard Rodgers (1902 - 1979)
Here's Brian Stokes Mitchell singing "Some Enchanted Evening", from South Pacific:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_j7FJts2cw
John Phillip Sousa
Stars and Stripes Forever
Washington Post March
Semper Fidelis
El Capitan
The Thunderer
etc
Tchaikovsky, Piotr (1840-1893) Russian composer
Andante Cantabile
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=lG-trIIU6dk&feature=related
Nobuo Uematsu (born March 21, 1959) is a Japanese video game music composer and musician, best known for scoring numerous Final Fantasy titles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed-v-q4Nj94&feature=related
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (1813-1901)
The Va, Pensiero chorus sung in the third act of Nabucco.
(I wish it had English subtitles as it did in the PBS presentation. It has a lovely verse.)
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=4BZSqtqr8Qk
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a highly successful British composer of musical theatre.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=4-L6rEm0rnY
Iannis Xenakis (born 1922)French composer of Greek parentage and Romanian birth.
Part 1 of Eonta
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=sZbRujLEqDw&feature=related
Alexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky (October 14, 1871 - March 15, 1942) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k5G1kF-Ofw&feature=related
Since I started this topic, someone else please start the next one.
Well, since I'm here and I have a thought in my brain ... Let's do:
Things one might find in the sky (with or without pics - and no more than 3 per letter)
Airplanes
dirigible
dogfighter
dove
