Crossword and quiz

The first correct solution of our crossword to be picked at random will win a copy of

The Oxford Companion to Music and a runner-up will win Who Knew? Answers to Questions about Classical Music (see www.oup.co.uk). Send answers to:

BBC Music Magazine, Crossword 326/Nov, PO Box 501, Leicester, LE94 0AA to arrive by 1 November 2018 (solution in Jan 2019 issue). ACROSS

1 19-year-old US composer to appear tall (5)

4 Keep fresh at first in Avison’s stamping-ground (9)

9 Sort out odd place for conductor to stand? (7)

10 Rich material starts in old Ravel piece – has Roussel excitedly yelling (7)

11 Gamble about a measure of rhythm (4)

12 19-year-old US composer unusually original in company (10) 14 19-year-old US composer starts to like career, enveloped in success (6)

15 Nearly all of black note played with beautiful tone (3,5)

17 Carrier waves bearing source of classic fugue (8)

19 Very serious, dismissing Wagner’s opening number (6)

22 Unadventurous orchestra not broadcasting widely (10)

23 Composer providing something for orchestral musician to play (4) 26 Bass, gutted, is too upset to see wind players(7)

27 19-year-old US composer strangely wiser about separate finales of Berlioz and Dvorák (7)

28 Opera heroine – mostly silent dame, possibly (9)

29 Wrote music of some renown (5)

DOWN

1 Sources of the hard rock or

Bhangra beat (5)

2 Fool engaged in despairing cry in Christmas song (7)

3 Infrequent part of opera recorded (4)

4 Group of boarders in uplifting piece of Elgar (6)

5 19-year-old US composer in our new arrangement (8)

6 Delius piece to horrify a nameless country (10)

7 Ground one composer finally covered in suite? (7)

8 Source of words Tye set afresh, strangely gloomy (9)

13 Symbols of poverty: half-filled auditoria? (10)

14 Pianist-conductor giving me a ribbon, possibly (9)

16 19-year-old US composer taking stringed instrument (not piano) to Buffalo (8)

18 Victorian producing Christmas song on the radio (7)

20 Phones? These should be arranged to catch a piece by Schubert (7) 21 Ends with the interpretation by Elder, perhaps, for the main item (6) 24 Type of jazz accommodating one chord (5)

25 Writer of musicals displaying some darker notes (4)