A ray of light, slightly curved

And, the 4th question in the Paschimi Shastreeya Sangeet theme week

A, is the first opera by B.

A

B

A is loosely based on the various facets of life of an über-famous 19th-20th century icon –  X.

a popular ‘cola-wars’ ad, shows X in a dilemma over which beverage is to be chosen, as one of the tracks from A is playing in the background.

B is a very prominent 20th century composer, still very much alive, known for a style of composing, which involves repeating a small amount of music over and over and over and, well you get the point.

Give me B, and A.

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Cracked by panda and Chandrakant

Answer:

 

From Russia, with Dove

A slightly funny question for today.

X was this communisty personality,  a major tycoon, art collector, a philanthropist, and as was the norm of commies in U.S those days –  a spy.

commie_thatha

The 2nd picture is the logo of a company Y from the U.S of A, in which X served on the board for a while.

logo

There’s a speculation about a strong connection of this logo to X. [ citation needed ],

but X actually owes it to the strong communist leanings of his dad.

For those regular readers, I’d add that Y’s “monkey business” wares ‘ T’, sell the most in the U.S of A, which is very surprising since most people automatically assume it is ‘D’.

On similar lines of ‘Cola wars’, this fight between T and its competitors has a punny name, based on T.[ as seen on a popular online news magazine headline, sorry]

Name X and Y. [ and by that I mean, T and D are not necessary ]

Kindly note: This gentleman has enough matters about him to fuel atleast a dozen questions. I’m just putting one. Thank you.

Answer:

Cracked completely by Chandrakant ( nice work ),
and lazily by v0g0n, srikanthnv and Thejas VR.