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Il Grande Inquisitor
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« Reply #1020 on: 12:33:11, 08-04-2007 »
Very good so far. (I had The Owl and the Pussy Cat for Stravinsky but yours does just fine).

Don't forget that one is an odd one out...might help you with DSCH!
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« Reply #1021 on: 13:00:28, 08-04-2007 »
Shostakovich wrote the music for a children's animated film 'The Tale of a Stupid Mouse' so maybe the theme is 'Cat and Mouse' and Shostakovich is rather appropriately the odd one out, poor man, for being the mouse rather than the cat.

Unless the odd one out is Autoharp's Copland, 'I bought me a car'  Wink
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« Reply #1022 on: 13:12:07, 08-04-2007 »
Quote from: George Garnett on 13:00:28, 08-04-2007

Unless the odd one out is Autoharp's Copland, 'I bought me a car'  Wink

I expect it's got a catalytic converter, George!

Yes, well done to you and autoharp....cats are the connection with DSCH's mouse being the odd one out:


Prokofiev – the cat in ‘Peter and the Wolf’
Shostakovich - The Tale of the Silly Little Mouse
Barber – The Monk and his Cat
Copland – I bought me a cat
Stravinsky - The Owl and the Pussy-cat
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« Reply #1023 on: 23:30:41, 09-04-2007 »
I seem to recall a piano piece by Copland too called Cat and Mouse!
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« Reply #1024 on: 17:56:31, 10-04-2007 »
And a piece by Hovhannes called "Sleeping Cat" - it was one of my Grade 1 piano pieces which is why I remember it!
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« Reply #1025 on: 18:05:07, 10-04-2007 »
Sure it wasn't Sleeping Car ?
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« Reply #1026 on: 18:06:15, 10-04-2007 »
Positive! Grin
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« Reply #1027 on: 18:07:45, 10-04-2007 »
It's just off the Grade 1 syllabus again!
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« Reply #1028 on: 22:01:38, 10-04-2007 »
Are there many pieces that involve swans. I can name three from the top of my head.
Tchaikovsky, Grieg (song), Saint-Saëns.
I think composers found swans inspirational.
Who knows where one can find an inspiration. Even fly can inspire some composers as I recently learn.
Who is going to give us a puzzle this time or are we resting from our efforts?
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« Reply #1029 on: 22:16:51, 10-04-2007 »
t-p, the "big tune" in the last movement of Sibelius' 5th Symphony is supposed to have been inspired by the flight of swans. That is TRULY inspirational!
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« Reply #1030 on: 22:39:55, 10-04-2007 »
Now I remember it, roslynmuse. I don't know Sibelius as well as I should and he did not come to mind right away.
Was Liszt inspired by swans? He was inspired by trees (what is their name?). I can not remember the name of the tree. The name is in French.
But was he inspired by swans?
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« Reply #1031 on: 22:43:52, 10-04-2007 »
There are the Cyprus tree pieces in the third book of Annees de pelerinages.

Off the top of my head I can't think of any swan-related pieces by him!

On a less savoury note, there's the roasted swan solo in Orff's Carmina Burana. (Or should that be 'more savoury'?)

And Schubert's Schwanengesang!!!
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« Reply #1032 on: 22:51:05, 10-04-2007 »
Thank you roslynmuse. How could I forget Schubert? Thank you for Liszt. I remember now they were Cyprus trees. It is the language that is a problem with me (and my memory). I recently had a student playing the piece and I still can not remember the name of the tree.
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« Reply #1033 on: 22:58:32, 10-04-2007 »
A new puzzle, as requested! Connect these four:

Richard Strauss
Johann Strauss II
Saint-Saëns
Bernard Herrmann
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« Reply #1034 on: 23:07:37, 10-04-2007 »
Is there a macabre link:

Bernard Herrmann: Concerto Macabre for piano and orchestra
Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre
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