The results are in! As always, thanks much to all of you who participated in this week’s “Drop the Needle” competition. This week is unprecendented. No one got everything correct! Looks like I finally found a week spot, as you all have been quite impressive in your ability to identify works from short clips. In any case, it looks like I’ll have to do more choral works. This week’s piece was Sir John Tavener’s Hymn to the Mother of God.
Here’s the whole thing for you to enjoy:
Since you all had so much trouble with this one, let me point you to recordings of Tavener’s music that you can pick up at
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Thanks again to everyone who participated and gave it your best shot. If you have ideas for pieces you think would be particularly difficult for people to guess, please let me know.
Welcome to KillingClassicalMusic.com’s “Drop the Needle” Contest! - Updated to 60”
Here is the final installment of today’s drop the needle competition. It’s a full 60 seconds long. If you don’t get it now…well, then you’ll have to check back tomorrow to find out what it is and hear the whole thing, because this is all you’re getting today!
Welcome to KillingClassicalMusic.com’s “Drop the Needle” Contest! - Updated to 30”
Here is the second installment of today’s drop the needle competition. It’s just 30 seconds long. If you don’t get it now, you’ll get a 60 second clip later.
Welcome to KillingClassicalMusic.com’s “Drop the Needle” Contest!
Here is the first installment of today’s drop the needle competition. It’s just 10 seconds long. If you don’t get it now, you’ll get a 30 second clip later, and later still you’ll get a 60 second clip.
This short was submitted by David Bowers - who keeps the Blogthoven blogs here and here - as accompaniment to my previous post about keeping classical music insular through overblown etiquette. It’s worth spending a few minutes to watch, particularly given the context of the early applauder in London.
What do you think? Where is the line here? In all honesty I agree aesthetically with what Tom Service had to say about destroying the silence after a piece. Yet, I still had a strong counter perspective. How is it with you? Where is that etiquette line? Or does it even exist? Please share your thoughts in the comments section below.
The Guardian’s Tom Service was upset at the end of a recent concert and the LA Times thought it worth posting a poll to see whether or not readers agree that some concert goers should be fined for their “misbehavior.” Just the headlines for these posts get off to a bad start.
So what was the offense? An audience member began expressing his appreciation for the performance before Service would have liked him to. In other words, an audience member really liked the performance - so much so that he burst with enthusiasm at the first reasonably appropriate moment. In Service’s mind, it would have been better had this jubilant listener been put to sleep by the performance.
And Service is not alone. Apparently a majority of people who took the LA Times poll support Service’s idea that people who express their appreciation for a performance should be fined. And it’s a vast majority when you include the people who think it may be OK (or that an “early clapper/shouter should be banned”). Here’s the poll immediately after I submitted a response:
The results are in! As always, thanks much to all of you who participated in this week’s “Drop the Needle” competition. The level of particpation this week was great. Please keep sharing the weekly Drop the Needle posts with your friends.
This time, 14 participants got everything correct, including the name of the the piece which was Vissi d’Arte, from Giacomo Puccini’s opera Tosca. Please enjoy the whole thing with the audio player above. This is a freshly release recording from Delos Production. As you know, on randomly selected winner will receive a free copy of this hard-to-get new disc.
(If you didn’t win the CD, you can order a copy of this brand new release at
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As a result of her finely tuned ears (and random selection), Elaine will receive a complimentary copy of the newly released album that contains this track and more.
Welcome to KillingClassicalMusic.com’s “Drop the Needle” Contest! - Updated to 60”
It’s the last Wednesday of the month and that means Drop the Needle gets serious. Today’s winner will receive a complimentary copy of the recording in question courtesy Delos Productions. For more details on that click here. And remember, if you get the right answer from the shorter clips, you’ll have a better chance of being selected as the final winner.
An important hint: This piece is from a major new recording, and I expect the winner will have to give as much detail as possible as to the name of the work, etc.
Here is the final installment of today’s drop the needle competition. It’s a full 60 seconds long. If you don’t get it now…well, then you’ll have to check back tomorrow to find out what it is and hear the whole thing, because this is all you’re getting today!
