Brian, only nos.6 and 10 left to do now.
If this helps, neither is Sorabji, and in fact one of them could be
no.5's sparring partner whilst the other one rocks troublesomely!
Timtin wrote:Brian, only nos.6 and 10 left to do now.
If this helps, neither is Sorabji, and in fact one of them could be
no.5's sparring partner whilst the other one rocks troublesomely!
I must be getting old, it took all of 10 minutes to work out No.6 William Smith Rockstro.
Only one to go with a helluva lot of letters I see!
regards
Brian
PS and only two minutes for No. 10, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry...Oh, boy "I was glad" when I realised that
Very good - although 6 and 10 are the other way round, strictly speaking.
(Strangely, the Parry question obviously proved to be the trickiest despite
the word Schubert's containing the word Hubert.)
Watch this space for some more pain coming soon.....
Here's another little quiz. Basically, just unscramble the anagrams
to get to the answers.
Because it's considerably trickier than the last one, here's a hefty
clue to what links all 6 composers: pseudonyms.
In two cases, the unscrambled anagrams yield the infrequently-used
pseudonyms of well-known composers. In the other four cases, they
yield the birth names of composers who are much better known by
their pseudonyms.
1. Gawk, Mrs. (1,1,5),
2. Blinded Roy jealous (4,6,7),
3. No ham - grievance enthralls (7-8,8),
4. Stain darker folk (5,10),
5. Jobs whiz to Grace (5,10),
6. Idealess brainier oil (6,7,6).
All I need is the famous full name of each composer.
Enjoy!
This is a novel and nasty way to waste a few hours young Timothy.
No. 1 is easy as is number 6
1. G. W. Marks sometimes referred to as Johannes Brahms I believe (perhaps he should have continued using it)
6. Israel Isidore Baline is Irving Berlin and a definite improvement
Come on Jo and Rob, don't leave them all to me I need help here
Brian
No.5 was found through logical breakdown of names and I arrived at Jacob Gershowitz who appears to be better known as George Gershwin, glad he changed it to something more tin pan alley.
I'm impressed - none of those you've got are at all easy!
(The merits of the other three have been subject to quite
a bit of debate on PP over recent weeks.)
Here's are some extra clues to each of the other 3:-
2. British, advocated by Mr.Hinton, and his famous name is (9,8,7).
3. Frenchman, liked by everyone (apparently) except me, and his famous name is (7-8, 5).
4. British, loved by me, and his famous name is (7,8,8).
Timtin wrote:Here's are some extra clues to each of the other 3:-
2. British, advocated by Mr.Hinton, and his famous name is (9,8,7).
3. Frenchman, liked by everyone (apparently) except me, and his famous name is (7-8, 5).
4. British, loved by me, and his famous name is (7,8,8).
Thanks for the clues Tim, now two of them are far too easy, though one still remains.
No. 2 is of course Leon Dudley aka Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
No. 4 is of course Karel Drofnatski better known as Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, better known to his friends as John Stanford from whom I have a letter to Sir Adrian Boult about planning at the Proms and requesting some lesser played English (Stanford of course) repertoire.
regards
Brian
and last but not least No.3 is of course (how could I have missed this one) Charles-Valentin Alkan better known to musicologists as Charles-Valentin Morhange, and a very big favourite of mine since 1968.
thanks for a pretty hard quiz Tim
regards
Brian
