HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 56, 19 July 1940, Page 13

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

ERE are seven questions, one for each day of the coming week, and béaring 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 operatic composer was the youngest of the 21 children of an old French army officer? MONDAY: Which famous love song was dedicated by its composer to his cousin, a fine singer, whom he subsequently married, and who later brought his songs European fame? TUESDAY: Which famous composerentertainer’s first venture was as one of a pair of black-faced minstrelbuskers at Punchestown Races — an enterprise that yielded them fourpence each? WEDNESDAY: Which artist once journeyed backwards and forwards each week from his home in Stockholm to Copenhagen, where he was a Professor in the Royal Conservatorium of Music? THURSDAY: A composer was once handed an ode to a lady on her birthday, and at her request he went straight to the piano and composed an immortal melody in a few minutes. Who was the composer, and what was the song? FRIDAY: One piece of music depicts the legend of an Eastern princess who enticed young travellers into her castle by the waving of an inviting scarf. At the height of a night’s feasting and dancing, tiring of each fresh lover, she stabbed him and had his body thrown into the mountain torrent. Who was she? SATURDAY: Which pianist-composer-entertainer is able to memorise a piece of music perfectly after the first hearing?