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« Reply #1425 on: 09:43:12, 21-03-2008 » |
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A clue for Puzzle 405: click on the smiley to hear the excerpt!
Unfortunately Sendspace is "down" again and gives no response! I never use it for my clips now - it's just too unreliable. Baz |
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« Reply #1426 on: 11:13:11, 21-03-2008 » |
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Good morning all! It is time for a second clue to puzzle 398: it was written in Los Angeles before the last War by an excessively famous Viennese composer. It is in the key of G minor, and besides the chorus and orchestra heard in our extract it calls for a speaker.
Good morning, Mr Grew! Could 398 be Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw? If indeed it be, we see a small problem in its relationship to Member Grew's clue...  |
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« Reply #1427 on: 11:22:19, 21-03-2008 » |
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Good morning all! It is time for a second clue to puzzle 398: it was written in Los Angeles before the last War by an excessively famous Viennese composer. It is in the key of G minor, and besides the chorus and orchestra heard in our extract it calls for a speaker.
Good morning, Mr Grew! Could 398 be Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw? If indeed it be, we see a small problem in its relationship to Member Grew's clue... True. I had hoped for a substitution of 'after' the last war for 'before'... a second attempt has now been posted, which we believe to be correct. |
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« Reply #1428 on: 11:49:40, 21-03-2008 » |
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Puzzle 413 is we think Mozart's String Quartet 19 in C, K465.
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« Reply #1429 on: 13:14:28, 21-03-2008 » |
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We forgot to add a note about puzzle 417. It is a really marvellous and serious work which we discovered only recently, written in 1909 for ladies' chorus and orchestra, lasting as long as thirty minutes, but little known and very rarely performed. Each time we hear it we find more in it and our enjoyment of it increases.
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« Reply #1430 on: 16:02:51, 21-03-2008 » |
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There is no finger-hold for our sense of style. Number 379 has a "sporting" connection - so is it Copland's Boston Symphony? Or Maw's Rugby Symphony? And in number 380 all we hear is rather too much percussion, and that could be almost any modern composer. Not Yun we think; perhaps an Englishman . . . Ah, just seen this (having already posted a clue for no. 379 on the Test thread). No, no. 379 certainly doesn't have a sporting connection. Those comments were in relation to no. 380 - which also doesn't have a sporting connection, but might have been expected to given where its composer lived (and no he was not an Englishman but yes he did live in England, in a famous cricketing location ...). |
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« Reply #1431 on: 16:14:57, 21-03-2008 » |
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(and no he was not an Englishman but yes he did live in England, in a famous cricketing location ...).
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« Reply #1432 on: 16:21:51, 21-03-2008 » |
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So, Twickenham's a famous cricketing location?
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« Reply #1433 on: 16:23:24, 21-03-2008 » |
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Re Puzzle 405 Unfortunately Sendspace is "down" again and gives no response! I never use it for my clips now - it's just too unreliable. I have since improved the link. That is much better is not it? |
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« Reply #1434 on: 16:27:58, 21-03-2008 » |
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So, Twickenham's a famous cricketing location?
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« Reply #1435 on: 16:31:00, 21-03-2008 » |
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Oh  And that ball's not even spherical, which rather undermines my clue! Sorry about that. It's a wonderful piece, though, which I only discovered recently. Astonishingly inventive percussion writing, which is not what I normally expect from mid-20th century British-based composers. The Lutoslawski is rather good too - it helps that it's not quite so full of his usual semitones and tritones ...  |
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« Reply #1436 on: 16:38:24, 21-03-2008 » |
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420 - it is Basil Kalinnikoff's Symphony no. 1 in G minor (movt. 1)
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Thanks for getting that one, Baz! As soon as I heard it I knew I recognised the melody, but couldn't for the life of me 'place' it; all I worked out was that it was from a Russian symphony! |
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« Reply #1437 on: 16:50:25, 21-03-2008 » |
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420 - it is Basil Kalinnikoff's Symphony no. 1 in G minor (movt. 1)
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Thanks for getting that one, Baz! As soon as I heard it I knew I recognised the melody, but couldn't for the life of me 'place' it; all I worked out was that it was from a Russian symphony! Typical 'Romantic' - what better key (in a Symphony in G minor) for a Second Subject than - yes! - B minor.  Baz |
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« Reply #1438 on: 17:44:16, 21-03-2008 » |
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It's a wonderful piece, though, which I only discovered recently. Astonishingly inventive percussion writing, which is not what I normally expect from mid-20th century British-based composers.
The Lutoslawski is rather good too - it helps that it's not quite so full of his usual semitones and tritones. We are tremendously annoyed with ourself in regard to 379 and 380, because as it turns out we possess recordings of them; we should have known them but had simply not listened to them properly or enough. . . . |
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« Reply #1439 on: 21:24:21, 21-03-2008 » |
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(moved to glossary thread)
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