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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:
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:
- @NoahSilverstein
- @EricMahlzeit
- @LizzieVS
- @tonalfreak
- @operaskank
- @EWManley
- @VioPatti
- @manx_maid
- @FOTJS
- @pattyoboe
- @classicalive
- T. Bushard
- K. O’Rourke
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.
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!
Please do NOT respond in the comments section as that will ruin the fun for others, Rather, go here to fill out the entry form.
Good luck!
Welcome to KillingClassicalMusic.com’s “Drop the Needle” Contest! - Updated to 30”
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 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.
Please do NOT respond in the comments section as that will ruin the fun for others, Rather, go here to fill out the entry form.
Good luck!
Welcome to KillingClassicalMusic.com’s “Drop the Needle” Contest!
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.
This 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.
Please do NOT respond in the comments section as that will ruin the fun for others. Rather, go here to fill out the entry form.
Good luck!
“Drop the Needle” Winners for 1.26.11
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, 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:
Welcome to KillingClassicalMusic.com’s “Drop the Needle” Contest! - Updated to 60”
Today is the first day of Delos Productions’ sponsorship of the contest. That means a selected winner will receive a free recording of the piece in question. For more details on that click here.
An important hint: This piece is an arrangement of a work originally written for piano.
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!
Please do NOT respond in the comments section as that will ruin the fun for others, Rather, go here to fill out the entry form.
Good luck!
Welcome to KillingClassicalMusic.com’s “Drop the Needle” Contest! - Updated to 30”
Today is the first day of Delos Productions’ sponsorship of the contest. That means a selected winner will receive a free recording of the piece in question. 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 an arrangement of a work originally written for piano.
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.
Please do NOT respond in the comments section as that will ruin the fun for others, Rather, go here to fill out the entry form.
Good luck!
Welcome to KillingClassicalMusic.com’s “Drop the Needle” Contest!
Today is the first day of Delos Productions’ sponsorship of the contest. That means a selected winner will receive a free recording of the piece in question. 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 an arrangement of a work originally written for piano.
This 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.
Please do NOT respond in the comments section as that will ruin the fun for others. Rather, go here to fill out the entry form.
Good luck!
