Crossword and quiz

You’ll soon twig the theme of this month’s quiz…

1. Which trees are celebrated in a four-movement tone-poem by Respighi, written in 1924?

2. Whose 1913 orchestral piece The Banks of Green Willow is based on a couple of folk songs heard by the composer several years earlier?

3. And whose cantata Willow-wood lay neglected for decades after its Liverpool premiere in 1909?

4. Completed in 1938, whose chamber concerto Dumbarton Oaks was named after the estate of a wealthy Washington couple?

5. This conductor (above) likes to branch out in many directions. Who is he?

6. Which famous aria from Handel’s 1738 opera Serse is an ode to the plane tree and the shade it provides?

7. In a moment of misguided joy, which eponymous opera character orders her maid to ‘Shake that cherry-tree till ev’ry flower,

White as snow, flutters down’?

8. What tree-related title links an orchestral elegy by Finzi, a solo cello work by Imogen Holst and a Langgaard symphony?

9. Wood from which type of tree is most commonly used to make the necks and scrolls of violins?

10. Name the arborial-sounding politician who, as Welsh secretary in 1993, infamously struggled to sing the Welsh national anthem at a party conference.

See p119 for answers