From the archives. We have a new Piano Puzzler with contestant Kate Lamberton of Hanover, PA. I didn’t have a clue with the composer style, though I was surprised that my only guess was in the right genre and nationality. However, I did get the hidden song pretty quickly.
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From the archives. This week’s contestant is Tejas Srinivasan from Middlebury, Vermont. I didn’t get either part, but it’s a fun one. I thought I had a few different guesses with the hidden song, but each time it went off in a different direction. I think I could have possibly gotten the composer style, but I was too focused on working out the hidden song that, in the end, I just made a stab and was wrong.
We have a new one today. This week's contestant is Margaret Chan from Carmel, New York. I found the hidden song pretty easy (no, make that very easy), though the contestant was stumped. And it seemed like host Fred Child may have even been a bit stumped, which surprised me, though I suspect he may have just been staying quiet without helping – though he usually helps. The composer style was one that I tend to overlap with a bunch of possibilities, and I guessed wrong. But at the last moment, when Bruce Adolphe gave a hint at nationality, I made a second guess and at least was right on the follow-up.
From the archives, this week's contestant is Dan Larkin, from Windsor, California. As I wrote previously, "The hidden song should be very easy to guess, I think, and probably pretty early on. There were three composers I thought it might be in the style of. I had one in mind, but changed -- and it was the contestant's guess, as well, but it wasn't that. It also wasn't one of the other two. So, I was wrong. But I should have gotten it. And I think others have a good chance of getting it."
From the archives. This week's contestant is Richard Baum from Houston, Texas. On the positive side, I was able to get the composer style. On the other side of the coin, I had trouble with the hidden song, and I think most people will. However, I'm almost ready to give myself a win on it, or at the very least bonus points. I guessed the composer of the hidden song, and even had a strong feeling of its source (and was right) -- and though I couldn't think of the song's proper name, my thought was, "It sort of sounds like that song whose title is something like..." And that's what it was.
It's not a totally unknown song -- and its composer is renowned, and so is the encompassing work. But this isn't one of the better-known tunes.
We have a new one today. This week's contestant is Jim Weeg of Cedar Falls, Iowa. In an odd way, I almost got the full puzzle. I did get the composer style, which is not as often the case. And my guess for the hidden song (which I thought was likely wrong) was the same as the contestant’s – and we were indeed both wrong. Even on a second listening, where composer Bruce Adolphe slowed things down and pulled the song out more, neither I or the contestant still had a clue. Amazingly and impressively, host Fred Childe was able to hear it on second play (though it even took him that slowed-down version). It’s beautifully done, but really tough.
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