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We have a new one this week. The contestant is David Harris from Farmer City, Illinois. I didn’t have a clue with the hidden song, and it’s very well-known. I’d say it was very well-hidden, too, but the contestant got it right away. But even when pianist-composer Bruce Adolph played the piece again, I could barely hear it, except for a few notes. And I had no idea what the composer style was, since the music wasn’t the style I most known the composer for. You may do better.
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From the archive. The contestants are Lynda and Doug Miller from Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. If you don’t get the hidden song, you’re not trying. I’d even say that it you don’t get it within three seconds you need a refresher course. As for the composer style, it came down to two possibilities – though I had three in mind, but eliminated one whose works I don’t know quite well enough to guess -- and actually, there it should have been a fourth person, who foolishly I didn’t think of. And I missed it, because it was that “third” who I just didn't know well-enough and so eliminated.
From the archives. Today's contestant is William White from Portland, Oregon. I got the hidden song pretty quickly, though it may not be terribly familiar to everyone, but it's not an unknown song. As for the composer style, it's one of those I just toss coins in the air and guess -- though as the contestant was analyzing how he came to his guess, his words suggested another composer to me, so I switched moments before he made his guess...and that was it.
From the archives. This week's contestant is Rob Scheinberg from Hoboken, New Jersey. The good news is that I got the composer style pretty quickly. It's someone that I often toss-up with one other composer, but I guessed the right one here. But I didn't have a clue with the hidden song. However, on the second pass, oddly enough I did think I had an idea of the composer of the hidden song, and was at least right about that. And when host Fred Child gave his first clue I immediately got it. That doesn't count, but it gives me tiny comfort.
From the archives. The contestant today is Brent Sverdloff from Rhinebeck, New York. I was able to get the hidden song pretty quickly, and I think most people will, too. As the for the composer style, it came down to two people -- very different from one another. It seemed a touch unlike one of them, so I went out on a limb and guessed the person I didn't know well specifically because the piece was more "moody" than I associate with the other composer. And was wrong. It was that other composer.
We have a new one this week. The contestant is Danusha Goska from Paterson, New Jersey. The hidden song sounded familiar early on, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Though soon enough it became clear, and I got it. And (huzzah!) I also got the composer style. It was between three for me, and the one I thought it was didn’t sound to me quintessential, so I was uncertain. But I stuck with it, and was right.
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