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« Reply #4410 on: 19:10:43, 24-04-2008 » |
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As we await either a solution or a clue from Alistair, here's one to be going on with. Connect these four composers in this common word link:
Bax
Prokofiev
Tchaikovsky
Haydn Wood
Well, to start the ball rolling, I suppose the obvious starting points are Roses and Picardy (although I should know by now that the inquisition specialises in the unexpected). So ... Haydn Wood - Roses of Picardy Tchaikovsky - Rose Adagio from the Sleeping Beauty Bax - Of a rose I sing a song Prokofiev -  |
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« Reply #4411 on: 19:17:07, 24-04-2008 » |
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Roses of Picardy would seem a good place to start, wouldn't it? ...but it's not, I'm afraid! 
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« Reply #4412 on: 20:02:58, 24-04-2008 » |
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Fantasy?
Bax Fantasy Trio
Wood Fantasy Concerto
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy
Prokofiev er, dunno
and were you going to have Waxman and Sarasate?
Tommo
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« Reply #4413 on: 21:18:12, 24-04-2008 » |
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Shall I give the game away, then?...
I'll follow up a clue if I can, Alistair...  Right. Er - where to start?... Schönberg: not a musical work composed by him Carter: a musical work composed by him Knussen: not a musical work composed by him. I'm trying not to give too much away, but at least that's something... |
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« Reply #4414 on: 22:06:33, 24-04-2008 » |
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Fantasy?
Bax Fantasy Trio
Wood Fantasy Concerto
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy
Prokofiev er, dunno
and were you going to have Waxman and Sarasate?
Tommo
Tommo, it's not fantasies, I'm afraid. The Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky require a bit of digging, but are rather well known. Let's add another Russian... Bax Prokofiev Tchaikovsky Haydn Wood Rimsky-Korsakov Alistair, it there a Boston link? Schoenberg taught there, at the Malkin Conservatory; Carter write a 'Boston Concerto' in 2002, which was conducted by Oliver Knussen. Any good? |
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« Reply #4415 on: 22:12:19, 24-04-2008 » |
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Hmm, Rimsky Korsakov .... knowing that the connection is sometimes topical, this wouldn't have anything to do with this weekend's Russian Easter, would it?
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« Reply #4416 on: 06:14:01, 25-04-2008 » |
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You know what PW, I wasnt thinking on those lines. More of folk/fairy tales, etc. That would conjur up something there!!
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« Reply #4417 on: 07:05:38, 25-04-2008 » |
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It's neither an Easter connection, nor one to do with fairy tales.
Bax
Prokofiev
Tchaikovsky
Haydn Wood
Rimsky-Korsakov
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« Reply #4418 on: 22:19:33, 25-04-2008 » |
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It's neither an Easter connection, nor one to do with fairy tales.
Bax
Prokofiev
Tchaikovsky
Haydn Wood
Rimsky-Korsakov
Now, after a bit of digging, I discover that Haydn Wood wrote A May Day Overture. Which suggests .... Bax - On a May Evening Prokofiev - Tchaikovsky - May from The Seasons Haydn Wood - A May Day Overture Rimsky Korsakov - May Night |
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« Reply #4419 on: 09:23:50, 26-04-2008 » |
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 Well spotted, pw! The Prokofiev is the Intermezzo from his War and Peace Suite, titled May Night, which is the music from the opening scene of the opera, as Natasha is overheard from her balcony by Andrey. An alternative for the Bax would be his Morning Song (Maytime in Sussex). |
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« Reply #4420 on: 12:06:45, 26-04-2008 » |
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Right then, let's try this convoluted puzzle.
Find the connection and the odd one out, and then find as many works as you can that represent the connection....
Tallis
Faure
Neilsen
Leo Sowerby
Robin Walker
Schubert
Jonathan Harvey
Have fun!
Tommo
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« Reply #4421 on: 12:54:01, 26-04-2008 » |
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Good afternoon all and thanks, Tommo, for posting a new puzzle.
Now, I have a connection, I have an odd one out, but I'm not convinced it's necessarily correct...are they all compositions linked by the sun, with Robin Walker's 'Staring Moon' being the odd one out?
Tallis - Euge Caeli Porta: Well done, O gate of heaven, who now opened, leads into the world the Light of Truth, the very Sun of Justice, clothed in flesh.
Fauré - La chanson d'Eve, Op. 95: no 7, Veilles-tu ma senteur de soleil?
Nielsen – Helios Overture
Leo Sowerby - The Canticle of the Sun
Robin Walker - 3 Nursery Rhymes to texts by Thomas Pitfield, for reciter, recorder & piano: Staring Moon
Schubert - An die Sonne
Jonathan Harvey - Soleil Noir
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« Reply #4422 on: 14:08:07, 26-04-2008 » |
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Goodness! Well you can have marks for finding out a connection, but it isn't the one I'm after!
Have another go...
Tommo
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« Reply #4423 on: 18:10:45, 26-04-2008 » |
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If you need a clue, you are not looking for a single word connection......
Tommo
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« Reply #4424 on: 19:03:18, 27-04-2008 » |
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All right, another clue. Pay attention to the number of composers you are trying to link.
Tommo
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