The BBC Music Magazine PRIZE CROSSWORD NO. 367
The first correct solution of our crossword picked at random will win a copy of
The Oxford Companion to Music.a runner-up will win Who Knew? Answers to Questions about Classical Music (see oup.co.uk). Send answers to: BBC Music Magazine, Crossword 367/Xmas,
PO Box 501, Leicester, LE94 0AA to arrive by 22 Dec 2021 (solution in Mar 2022 issue).
ACROSS
1 Contemporary of 20 exercises
with effort involving contralto (7)
5 British composer was entertaining
third of extended family (7)
9 A symphony by Bizet has
peculiar charm (5)
10 Saw OK performing by secure
harpsichordist (9)
11 Company rejected support, accommodating two tenors and a chamber group (7)
12 Song and dance in these days (6) 14 Prepare to travel to next venue, perhaps about to appear with group (6)
16 Interval music at recent plays (8) 19 Extract of Mozart is ticklish
regarding interpretative skill (8) 20 Both sides of House beginning to
like composer of 29 (6) 22 Australian in market for
arranger of 29 (6)
24 All but imprisoned after importing
one piano of indifferent quality (7) 27 Provided quiet songs to soothe
one engaged in sleeping? (9) 28 Slow tone the attraction before
end of recital (5)
29 Oratorio is recalled in shame,
unfortunately (7)
30 Very old vocation, ending in
minstrelsy, using the voice (7)
DOWN
1 Mechanical instrument sadly again
poor – little new inside (5,5) 2 Publicity work not wanted for
arranger of 29 (5)
3 Suspicion about role taken by Bill
in Russian ballet (9)
4 Woman’s cuddling ailing arranger
of 29 (6)
5 No strings attached to this
group’s performances! (4,4) 6 Sound of bell enveloping King,
an enemy of Peer Gynt (5)
7 Gave example of popular
arrangement of descant (9)
8 Irish music critic was upset about
overture from Haydn (4)
13 He left money to host party for
Jerry Herman musical (5,5)
15 A sculptor reimagined character
in Tippett opera (9)
17 I perform, turning up in C sharp, possibly, following emotional music (9)
18 Marlene Fischer-dieskau? (8) 21 Composer, as it happens, mostly
will accept activity (6)
23 Violin appearing in dream
at intervals (5)
25 Collection of bells about right
– a real gem (5)
26 First-class mass with piano to
the fore (4)
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