The BBC Music Magazine PRIZE CROSSWORD NO. 358
The first correct solution of our crossword picked at random will win a copy of The Oxford Companion to Music. A runnerup will win Who Knew? Answers to Questions about Classical Music (see www.oup.co.uk). Send answers to: BBC Music Magazine, Crossword 358/April, PO Box 501, Leicester, LE94 0AA to arrive by 15 April 2021 (solution in July issue).
ACROSS
1 Dance company, following dance, set out schemes to hold second (7,6) 10 Dance we stop dancing after end of event (3-4)
11 Character in The Fiery Angel, not in Handel opera (7)
12 US composer heading away from cheap bars (4)
13 Hungarian conductor with no time for individual performances (4)
14 String player in sextet getting drink (not cold) (5)
16 A moderately quiet requirement for band? (3)
18 One not entirely smart in tone, dodgy – not what you want of an audience (11)
19 Dutch composer to stop and write British popular music (11)
22 Some charm abundant in subject of scherzo (3)
24 Piano is accommodating exercises for wind instrument (5)
25 A contribution to Figaro, lead character in opera (4)
26 One foremost figure in work by 15 (4) 29 Supplementary player in a lot of opera, I fancy (7)
30 Someone from Havana returned, taking care of Verdi opera (7)
31 Opera star: fellow managed company alongside composer (6,7)
DOWN
2 Make amends with a musical sound (5)
3 Stringed instrument, following which is a wind instrument (4)
4 Cheers mechanical instrument putting out a new work by Sibelius (7) 5 Pragmatic regarding where the best performers are to be found? (7) 6 Composer dressed up in navy skirts (10)
7 Large brass instrument, one I hump awkwardly around university (9) 8 Some of the zeal it takes to mount Verdi opera (6)
9 A funny guy getting sent up in Birtwistle opera (6)
15 Collaborator of Prokofiev almost set to interrupt scientist (10)
17 Colourful musician treating rats like children? (4,5)
19 French nobleman accepting standard French composer (6)
20 Piece of music also containing line for character in two operas (7)
21 Arnold rearranged ordinary
Handel opera (7)
23 Stringed instruments requiring pluck stop a lot of banter (6)
27 Like a choir, very linked to immediate area, but not initially large (5)
28 Award enshrining old woodwind player (4)