From the archives. This week's contestant is Garrett Fitzgerald from Orono, Maine. I got the hidden song within about six notes, and if you don't get it at all you aren't trying. Shockingly, Mr. Fitzgerald missed it -- and didn't even get it on a second listen. As for the composer style -- I didn't know. I only had one guess, and though wrong, I was surprised that composer Bruce Adolphe said that person I guessed overlapped with the correct answer, and that there were even touches in the pieces. So, though wrong I almost considered giving myself honorable mention. But seeing that I probably should have gotten it right -- and I think others can -- I won't...
Today’s bonus Fun Fact: I’ve actually been to Orono, Maine. It’s the home of the University of Maine, and I visited it on a day off when working on the Stephen King movie Pet Sematary. It was only about 35 miles from our film set in Ellsworth (and about 15 minutes from Bangor, where Stephen lives), and I not only thought it would be interesting to see both, but I wanted to buy a University of Maine Bears baseball cap.
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From the archives, this week's contestant is Sara Tillotson from Tulsa, Oklahoma. As I wrote previously, at first, I was able to pick out the hidden song by focusing on the proper hand which was playing the tune, though eventually it became perfectly clear without that. As for the composer style, I didn't have a clue -- the same as the contestant. To my surprise, my one offbeat guess was bizarrely close. I wouldn't have ever gotten it, though. It's tough. But perhaps you can get the era and type of music.
From the archives. The contestant this week is Curtis Funk of Niskayuna, New York. Even though the hidden song didn’t seem all that well-hidden, I didn’t have a clue what it was, and neither did the contestant -- who was a music teacher. And he couldn’t get it either. (And I got the sense that host Fred Child may not have either.) When pianist Bruce Adolphe finally gave the name, I only vaguely, sort of, kind of recognized the name of the song, but couldn’t have sung any of it. So, this one will be tough for most, I think. Though some may be able to get it, since there are things about it that are well-known. As for the composer style, it’s an area I’m not overly familiar with but I narrowed it to two possibilities – and it was the two possibilities that the contestant guessed. He guessed right, I guessed wrong. So, it was an o-fer for me.
This week's contestant is Brian Hunke from Richmond, Virginia. And it’s actually a new one. The composer style genre is one of those which (for me) could be one of almost half a dozen, and not one I know well. But I actually got it right – which is largely because the composer is one of the few from that genre who I knew better than most of the others. As for the hidden song…well, let’s just say I thought it was wonderfully hidden and didn’t get it. (I did hear a hidden song, it’s just not the one that was hidden.)
This week's contestant is Chuck Romportl from Hopkins, Minnesota. I was able to get the hidden song pretty quickly. The composer style, though, is in that area of which I generally have to toss a coin, and didn't get it. And in fairness, it's pretty tough. To my shock, the contestant actually guessed the composer style right off -- but didn't get the hidden song. Only on a second go-round, where pianist Bruce Adolphe brought the song out more, did he guess correctly.
From the archives. This week's contestant is Benjamin Keating from Monticello, Illinois. I got the hidden song within a few notes, and I think most people should get it soon enough. Oddly, though, the contestant was stumped by it – yet got the composer style right off. In fairness, he acknowledges he’s pretty young, and with a lot of clues does eventually get it. As for the composer style, it didn’t sound like an area in my wheelhouse, though my guess wasn’t terribly wrong. But when I heard the answer, I think I should have gotten it, and some of you may.
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