HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
ERE are seven questions, one for each day of the coming week, and bearing on some item in one or other of that day’s programmes which appear in this issue of The Listener. You can check up your solutions by referring to page 55, on which will be found the correct answers.
SUNDAY: Which vocalist began as an amateur when she was a corset saleswoman in a. small town department store in Ohio? MONDAY: Which pianist played in Paris the thirty-two sonatas af Beethoven from memory in six recitals within a fortnight? TUESDAY: Which composition is based on a sumptuous and historic " house party" given to Queen Elizabeth by the Earl of Leicester in 1575? WEDNESDAY: What is the name of the composer who hides behind the boiléd shirt of a famous baritone, and which is his most famous song? THURSDAY: Which famous composition was specially written for a concert in aid of the Serbian wounded in the Turko-Serbian War of 1876? FRIDAY: In which operetta was the. principal male character created by the composer’s only brother Fred, ’way back in ’75? SATURDAY: Which popular singer studied architecture and matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 41, 5 April 1940, Page 27
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200HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 41, 5 April 1940, Page 27
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