Pianophilia

3. The R

I've edited my answers so others will have the pleasure of solving the anagrams.

Alpha - now I see why you're called that! Jo - thanks for getting
the ball rolling. I'm sure you knew most of the others too.

Best wishes and merry Christmas, Tim.

PS Does pianomasochist status require some sort of ritual to be
carried out, involving pleasurable self-inflicted pain?

Timtin wrote:Alpha - now I see why you're called that! Jo - thanks for getting
the ball rolling. I'm sure you knew most of the others too.

Best wishes and merry Christmas, Tim.

PS Does pianomasochist status require some sort of ritual to be
carried out, involving pleasurable self-inflicted pain?

Hi Tim, you can choose...1. listen to Opus Clavicembalisticum played backwards, or 2. play the same forwards yourself at 10% of marked speed whilst listening to Wagner's Ring Cycle. Refusal to do either will result in having to provide a quiz every day for a year.

Alpha - that's very thoughful. Please note though that this thread only has a very small
following, and the quizzes themselves only have a very short 'shelf life'.

HHH - if I tried to play that Sorabji at any speed, forwards or backwards, with or without
Wagner's Bicycle Ring sounding simultaneously, the aural pain would probably prove fatal!

Timtin wrote:Map dead halo (7,4)
Vast hot slug (6,5)
Shhh! Enjoy ink porn (4,5,7)
Fend on sexism hell (5,11)
Rho turn jet (4,6)
Well eyes crash (7,6).

I agree with Alpha for 2 and 4-6, but I'm not quite sure why 3 = "The R". Here are my answers, in a different form:

1. O holy night
2. In the bleak midwinter
3. We three kings
4. Hark! THe herald angels sing (music)
5. The donkey carol
6. Hark! THe herald angels sing (text)

Right, Tim?

Jo

Hi Jo,

'The R' is the Reverend John Henry Hopkins.

So the answers in full:-

1. Adolphe Adam (O holy night)
2. Gustav Holst (In the bleak midwinter)
3. John Henry Hopkins (We three kings)
4. Felix Mendelssohn (Hark the herald angels sing)
5. John Rutter (Candlelight carol)
6. Charles Wesley (Come thou long expected Jesus)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christmas_carols

Here are anagrams of some famous first lines of carols.
Hopefully, the clues are all error-free, but not guaranteed.

1. Haggler enthralls skinhead. (4,3,6,6,4)
2. Lost-cause odd-looking geek won. (4,4,9,6,3)
3. No hotel to befit them well. (1,6,4,2,9)
4. Sweet womanish trendies. (3,4,3,7,4)
5. Thinly lighting the son. (6,5,4,5)
6. Slighting lion-hearted deftness. (3,5,4,3,6,3,4)
7. Out loyal chief flame. (1,4,3,2,8)
8. Delicate maturing champion. (2,4,4,1,9,5)
9. Grindingly grim hood men. (3,4,2,5,9)
10.Regret stormy enemy legend. (4,4,8,2,4)

Can you identify them?

To get the ball rolling, here are the answers to the first two:-
1. Hark the herald angels sing
2. Good king Wenceslas looked out
They're quite easy really. Merry Xmas!

And the next two:

3. O little town of Bethlehem
4. See, amid the winter's snow

Merry Christmas to all!

Jo

and
5. Silent night, holy night
7. O come all ye faithful
8. It came upon a midnight clear (Tim ... midnight has 8 letters not 9)

over to you guys for the last three.
best wishes for Christmas to Tim and Jo

Brian