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Spine Tinglers: Benjamin Butterfield
I visited Glyndebourne to see my friend David Daniels perform in Peter Seller’s production of this extraordinary oratorio. This duet was staged where the two lovers were bound to two tables in a stark, white chamber surrounded by modern helmeted guards. They were being readied for execution by lethal injection.
Quiz #3 And the winner is…….
Well, there are two winners, really. Due to the feed complications, it only seems right to mention all of the people who wrote in with the correct answer.
Frere Mussel and Jeff Matthews both came up with:
Belshazzar’s Feast by William Walton premiered at Leeds in 1931.
Well done to the both of you.
Here’s a bit of [...]
Quiz #3: Clue Two
The choral extravaganza that is this week’s quiz is extravagantly choral mostly due to its choral extravagance but also because it is chorally extravagant in its extravagance (chorally speaking, that is).
Sorry. Miss Mussel was just taking a little walk down memory lane back to the days when she was starting out as a writer and [...]
Quiz #3: First Clue
Ok folks, we’ve got some choral music on this week.
Here is the first round of clues:
1) The text is in English, so that eliminates all of continental Europe as a possible source except for Gibraltar.
2) The composer failed his BA exam three times but in the end was awarded seven honourary doctorates.
Qu’est-ce que c’est?: Week 3
Good day all. Here’s this week’s quiz.
What’s required is title, composer and date of composition. Clues will be given each day until the end of the week or until someone writes in with the correct answer. The winner will not be announced before Wednesday, so as not to ruin it [...]
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