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 on your solutions by referring to Page 55, on which will be found the correct answers. SUNDAY: Which ‘composer toured New Zealand when only twelve years old and acted as accompanist to a family concert party, headed by a famous tenor ballad: singer? MONDAY: Which famous piano piece began its career as a song called "O, Love"? TUESDAY: Which artist served his apprenticeship at photo-press work and engraving, and, while demonstrating some colour work in Stockholm, was "discovered" and induced to adopt a musical career? WEDNESDAY: Which | artist is an ardent mountaineer, who scorns the warm safety of the valleys, preferring
the bracing air upon the heights and, as he climbs, talks all the time? THURSDAY: In which famous orchestra did an Auckland musician play a distinguished role for a number of years? FRIDAY: What musician owes much of his great knowledge to a magnificent orchestrion and huge library of roles he played continuously in his early childhood? SATURDAY: Which piece of music is named after a noisy insect sent to punish two wicked sisters in a fairy opera, who, after the manner of the pair in Cinderella, are jealous of the third sister because she has become the bride of the Tsar? Sarto. |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 44, 26 April 1940, Page 27
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246HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 44, 26 April 1940, Page 27
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