University Challenge

[MrGongGong]

It wasn't a quiz question about one of the most significant artistic movements of the last 100 years (of which musical minimalism is a part, but which also includes literature, painting, sculpture) - it was a question requiring the competitors to identify a work from a brief clip of music. Obviously some of us considered the work too obscure, the question too difficult, for UC, others don't. I'm grateful to fernie for the point about GCSE music and age demographic, perhaps it wasn't quite as obscure as I thought.

Unless you are doing the pedantic linguistics nonsense that so many in here seem to enjoy
It WAS a question about "one of the most significant artistic movements of the last 100 years" in the form of a clip of well known music.

Like this would be a question about painting

Who is the artist?



Hardly "obscure" IMV

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Suzy Klein?

[MrGongGong]

Suzy Klein?

[Bryn]

Suzy Klein?

Nah. It's a clip from a Jarman movie turned through 90 degrees.

[Richard Tarleton]

Yve's had enough of this discussion

[Serial_Apologist]

Suzy Klein?

Conservative Party electioneering rosette makers?

[Richard Tarleton]

Difficult piano music....Caliban will have enjoyed the Rachmaninov, but not the Liszt

A bit weighted towards maths and science I thought, Imperial took full advantage.

Michael Rosen was mentioned as an alumnus of Reading - he gained an MA in children's literature there aged around 46, but actually studied at Oxford (Wadham College). I remember him reporting wittily on Union debates for Isis in the late 60s. I last spotted him in Waterstones at the Angel, Islington, a few years back

[teamsaint]

Difficult piano music....Caliban will have enjoyed the Rachmaninov, but not the Liszt

A bit weighted towards maths and science I thought, Imperial took full advantage.

Michael Rosen was mentioned as an alumnus of Reading - he gained an MA in children's literature there aged around 46, but actually studied at Oxford (Wadham College). I remember him reporting wittily on Union debates for Isis in the late 60s. I last spotted him in Waterstones at the Angel, Islington, a few years back

thank goodness. What a relief.

[Richard Tarleton]

thank goodness. What a relief.

I was just surprised they chose to mention him, that's all. There must be loads of Reading graduates they could have mentioned. My niece, for a start

[teamsaint]

I was just surprised they chose to mention him, that's all. There must be loads of Reading graduates they could have mentioned. My niece, for a start

and one of the presenters of Essential Classics.
( Though I think that may have been Postgrad also).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Alumni_of_the_University_of_Reading

[ardcarp]

A bit weighted towards maths and science I thought

Unbelievably so.

[subcontrabass]

28th September: students' knowledge of classical music matched by Paxman's pronunciation of "Kodaly".

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

28th September: students' knowledge of classical music matched by Paxman's pronunciation of "Kodaly".

Yes - made him sound like a teddy bear!

[french frank]

28th September: students' knowledge of classical music matched by Paxman's pronunciation of "Kodaly".

Kodaily or Kodahly? (You say Kodaily, and I say … )

[ardcarp]

Paxo's knowledge of music is obviously iffy. Wide-of-the-mark answers don't get the snide put-downs (e.g. Britten ?? ) as you would with stuff he knows about. Doesn't know much science or maths either.

Warwick's chairman was a bit of a polymath though wasn't he?