Today's Piano Puzzler

From the archives.  This week's contestant is Scott Rose from San Antonio, Texas.  It's a wonderful piece, indeed as the contestant describes it, "cruelly beautiful."  I'm actually shocked that I got the composer style.  It's not someone whose work I know well -- though he's very well-known -- and both the contestant and host Fred Child had problem guessing it right off, though were in the right area. As for the hidden song, I didn't have a clue for almost all the entire thing -- it's incredibly, gorgeously well-hidden -- but then towards the end, bingo, I heard it, and was right.  The short version is that this is a fun one.