University Challenge

[LMcD]

It was the Smetana String Quartet 'In My Life' - the high-pitched tone representing the onset of his deafness.

[subcontrabass]

Indeed! Not much 'classical' music though. Just the Smetana Ma Vlast SQ, IIRC.

Also Borodin as chemist and composer.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It was the Smetana String Quartet 'In My Life' - the high-pitched tone representing the onset of his deafness.

Also Borodin as chemist and composer.

Indeed - and both questions answered correctly (one per team).

[ardcarp]

Renaissance to serialism and beyond today! Schoenberg, Stockhausen, Boulez. Quite a clever question, relating it to the writings of the outspoken Mr Cardew.

I still prefer virginals in the plural...often referred to as 'a pair of virginals' for some reason.

On the subject of Marat, I'm quite surprised Jeremy allowed a second shot at getting the right answer. Didn't the captain say 'Marais' first?

[Bryn]

Renaissance to serialism and beyond today! Schoenberg, Stockhausen, Boulez. Quite a clever question, relating it to the writings of the outspoken Mr Cardew.

I still prefer virginals in the plural...often referred to as 'a pair of virginals' for some reason.

On the subject of Marat, I'm quite surprised Jeremy allowed a second shot at getting the right answer. Didn't the captain say 'Marais' first?

I didn't watch tonight. Must catch is from the iPlayer.

[Nick Armstrong]

Renaissance to serialism and beyond today! Schoenberg, Stockhausen, Boulez. Quite a clever question, relating it to the writings of the outspoken Mr Cardew.

I still prefer virginals in the plural...often referred to as 'a pair of virginals' for some reason.

So how did you do, ard?

[Bryn]

All the examples easily identifiable with or without the largely irrelevant Cardew link. It would have been more fun to include a clip from, say, Cardew's own The Great Learning or his Treatise, which he also dismissed as rubbish in later years.

[Richard Tarleton]

Renaissance to serialism and beyond today! Schoenberg, Stockhausen, Boulez. Quite a clever question, relating it to the writings of the outspoken Mr Cardew.

I still prefer virginals in the plural...often referred to as 'a pair of virginals' for some reason.

According to Wiki the Vermeer painting is of a Young Woman at a Muselar - an unsatisfactory northern European variant of the virginal[s]

On the subject of Marat, I'm quite surprised Jeremy allowed a second shot at getting the right answer. Didn't the captain say 'Marais' first?

I was very surprised at that.

Stephen Hough a violinist

[ardcarp]

So how did you do, ard?

Modesty forbids me to say.....

[LMcD]

Stephen Hough a violinist [/QUOTE]

Who knows that he gets up to in his spare time......

[Nick Armstrong]

Modesty forbids me to say.....

I muddled Boulez with Messiaen and Schoenberg with Webern

But I did get all the stone-age instruments right!

[Bryn]

I muddled Boulez with Messiaen and Schoenberg with Webern

But I did get all the stone-age instruments right!

What?! You took the Sonatina for Le Merle Noir, and Schoenberg's relatively bloated harmonies for Webern's concision? Time you took to the bench methinks, melud.

[Nick Armstrong]

What?! You took the Sonatina for Le Merle Noir, and Schoenberg's relatively bloated harmonies for Webern's concision? Time you took to the bench methinks, melud.

Sounds as though I should simply send myself to Death Row...

[Dave2002]

I still prefer virginals in the plural...often referred to as 'a pair of virginals' for some reason.

A fairly recent EMS might explain that. Apparently virginals were sometimes coupled together to form a compound instrument.

[vinteuil]

A fairly recent EMS might explain that. Apparently virginals were sometimes coupled together to form a compound instrument.

... and there are some with two separate keyboards side by side.

So analogous with a pair of scissors, a pair of trousers.


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