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Today's Piano Puzzler

Sep 5, 2016
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This week's contestant is Brandon Baxter from Hastings, Nebraska,  To my surprise, I got the composer style first and pretty quickly -- surprising particularly because it's one of the genres I'm not especially adept at and also there are several composers who overlap for me.  I could hear the hidden song, but just couldn't get it...but then about a minute it, I did.  What surprised me most of all, though, is not so much that the contestant couldn't get the hidden song, but host Fred Child -- who's usually so good at helping out with that -- not only didn't guess it on the first go-round, but didn't either when Bruce Adolphe played it a second time.  Only until Adolphe played it straight through without any composer style getting in the way did Child finally hear it.  And the song is a pretty famous standard from The Great American Songbook.  There's also a whimsical clue in the hidden song which helped make me sure I was right in my guess.

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