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“Drop the Needle” Winners for 3.9-10.11

Despite the weird delay this Wednesday, the results are in! As always, thanks much to all of you who participated in this week’s “Drop the Needle” competition. Despite some very good effort, no one got piece and composer correct! This week’s piece was the Dirge from Part II of Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 “The Age of Anxiety.”

Here’s the whole thing for you to enjoy:

(If you don’t have a copy, you can pick one up at . The one I have’s even on sale! :-)

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.

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“Drop the Needle” Winners - or not - for 3.3.11

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 .

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.

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“Drop the Needle” Winners for 2.23.11

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 .)

The selected winner of the free CD thanks to Delos Productions is:

Elaine Fine

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.

The others who got everything correct are:

Thanks again to everyone who participated. I hope you like the new tradition in partnership with Delos the last Wednesday of each month.

If you have ideas for pieces you think would be particularly difficult for people to guess, please let me know.

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“Drop the Needle” Winners for 2.9.11

The results are in! As always, thanks much to all of you who participated in this week’s “Drop the Needle” competition. This week just three, participants got everything correct, including the name of the the piece which was the fourth movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Opus 135, the String Quartet No. 16 in F Major.

Here’s the whole thing for you to enjoy:

(If you don’t have a copy of this great work, you can pick one up here at )

The winners are:

Congratulations and thanks again to everyone who participated. If you have ideas for pieces you think would be particularly difficult for people to guess, please let me know.

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“Drop the Needle” Winners for 2.2.11

The results are in! As always, thanks much to all of you who participated in this week’s “Drop the Needle” competition. This week just three, participants got everything correct, including the name of the the piece which was the Messa da Requiem: Lux Aeternaby Giuseppe Verdi.

Here’s the whole thing for you to enjoy:

(If you don’t have a copy you can pick one up at )

The winners are:

Congratulations and thanks again to everyone who participated. If you have ideas for pieces you think would be particularly difficult for people to guess, please let me know.

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“Drop the Needle” Winners for 1.26.11

This time, 4 participants got everything correct, including the name of the the piece which was Uma Camponeza Cantadeira, the second movement of Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Suite Floral. Here’s the whole thing for you to enjoy, recently recorded in arrangement by the Brazilian Guitar Quartet:

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“Drop the Needle” Winners for 1.19.11

The results are in! As always, thanks much to all of you who participated in this week’s “Drop the Needle” competition. The levels of particpation this week were really impressive. Please keep sharing the weekly Drop the Needle posts with your friends. Next week there will be an additional wrinkle to the contest that I think you’ll find quite exciting.

This time, 14 participants got everything correct, including the name of the the piece which was Chichester Psalms, Movement I by Leonard Bernstein. Here’s the whole thing for you to enjoy:

Movement II
Movement III

(If you don’t have a copy, you can pick one up at )

The winners are:

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“Drop the Needle” Winners for 1.12.11

Well, as I’m sure a number of you noticed yesterday evening, there was a technical (possibly manual) glitch in the Drop the Needle system and the correct answer was mistakenly posted in lieu of the 60 second clip. I’m terribly sorry about that. But I’m also sure that not everyone saw the answer and I know quite a few of you had submitted your responses well before the goof up.

So…the results are in! As always, thanks much to all of you who participated in this week’s “Drop the Needle” competition. This week, nine participants got everything correct, including the name of the the piece which was Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, Movement III, Allegretto no troppo, Allegro molto vivace by Felix Mendelssohn.

Here’s the whole thing for you to enjoy: